The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-11-07

elicit any sign OF life from the woman. he
made up his mind that she was dead. and
ihereupon he began 70 crawl IN the dlrec-
ton in which he hoped TO find helH After
many hours OF agony he managed to
reach one OF the many houses OF refuge.
A party set out AZ once TO get the vo-
mans body. They found her terribly
hurt but alive. and carried her to the
village. The surgeons hardly expect that
she can recover however. The man vii
escape With his life.
Late last month an official Alpine guide
escorted party UP the Dent Blanche. the
great mountain In the southern part OF
ValaIs II Il i4.3ls feet high, and hum
dreds Of Alpine eranks feel that they can
not be happy until they climb 1t. In this
case, the party had an accident In the
worst stage Of the journey Two of the
men slipped, and, once started. slid like
lightning toward the brink OF a deep rs
sure in the glacier. The guide rushed
down to them and threw himself in front
OF them. This checked their descent. but
he went over and was killed.
Near Bozen. IN the Tyroi. a tailor from
Cries lost his way in the mountains. and.
making a misstep In the darkness. fell
into the dry bed of a mountain stream.
where his body was found many DAYS
afterward. Judge Reming, of Berlin. who
had been reported as missing, was found
dead last week In a mountain gorge
near OberstdOTf. TyrOl lie had Iefs one
OF the refuge stations to ascend the
mountain. and had fallen almost within
sight OF the caretaker At about the same
time the quest for edelweiss demanded
another victim in the person OF a young
salesman in the Hoehiantsch He had
climbed out on a bowlder to pluck the
plant. and his weight loosened the rock.
/; went into the abyss with him He fell
several hundred yards and was dead at
once.
The last victim OF the Gross Gloekner,
IN the Austrian Alps. was a Berlin capt.
taiist. who died on the Scharten Glacier.
in view Of his wife.
Victims l3nried Side by Side.
The Gloss GloclSner has a long list OF
victims for it's own from the first year
when man tried 10 climb it's heights. II
is a wonderfully beautiful mountain, ard
the inhabitants Of the Salzburg region as
sert that it IS the highest mountain in
tue. But Il has the respectable height
OF Il, 800 feet In the little graveyard at
its base-a graveyard almost as famous
as is the mountain--there lie many
strange bedfell0ws. Names with impos-
ing titles, names Of men who were IA
nous IN their day. are carved on wooden
crosses. side by side with the names of
humble guides. The majority of the
wooden crosses are painted blue or red.
A great cross of black marble. which
towers cOmmandingly over the rest.
marks the grave OF the famous mountain
climber, the Margrave Alfred Pallavici-
nj, who was hurled to his death from the
Glockner Wall in 1886. In q niche near
him lies his csmrade. who died with him
-CroTnmelin, an attache of the Dutch
embassy. Near them sleep the two
guides who persisted at the same time.
Another cross Is over the grave Of the
beautiful young daughter OF Gen Won
Sonklar. the famous geographer. She fell
from the Boese Platte~-the Bad Shelf
while trying 20 pick edelweiss.
The catastrophe which cost the lives
OF the Margrave Pallsvicini and his COM
panions was caused By a snow avalanche,
for which both the northwest and the
southwest peaks Of the Glockner are no
toriOus. It overwhelmed them suddenly
and tossed them like snowflakes $500 feet
deep into the Glockner-Kar. vast hole
between the two mountain walls.
The mountain owes its name OF Great
Bell to a wonderful peak which Is shaped
exactly like great bell Of fee. The old
name was "EmperOr's Bell" The story
attached TO il is that once upon a time
IL was the custom of all church bells to
fly out Of their spires in the first week
| in Lent and make a pilgrimage 10 Rome.
But one year the huge bell OF the Salz-
burg Cathedral enjoyed itself too well in
the sunny land Of Italy and did not return
with the other bells. When she did fin
ally start for home she was a-wearied,
and sat down 10 rest on the top of the
mountain. While she was resting all the
church bells began to ring for Easter
morning. As punishment for her delay.
the Salzburg bell was cured on the spot
and changed into snow and ice. and there
she must SIT forever. frowning ard mute
The Wstzmann Mountain. ascent OF
which is forbidden now, so far as the
glacier wall is concerned, is In Berchtes-
gaden, Switzerland II is only perfect
maniac OF a mountain "fex"-as Euro
peans have chTistened the Alpine-mad
climbers-who would dream Of essaying
the task, anyway. From the peak d.
rect to the Koenigsee-the Kings Lake
a wall descends as straight as the wall
OF house, for almost 5000 feet. The
least slip IN crawling along this terrible
place is fatal There are spots along the
wall where one really has TO hold on
with his evelids. Certainly one feels the
nAei for pressing every inch of his body
firmly against the stone face OF the preci-
pice. Just why any man should be crazy
enough to wish to climb this place Is
puzzling But not men alone have done
II. 4 few years ago a Vienna woman did
II without even 8 guide. 1t is a good
thing that the authorities have forbidden
any moce attempts
Copyright. 1900, by Quail Wsrren.)