The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-11-13
an ALeINE TRAeEDY.

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turn ION riag At one spot Il IS neecs
sai-y "a cross a couioir. or gully Of
snow and ice, and down. this channel
tail most Of the stones that uetaeh
themselves from the shattered face of
the-peaiE 4he leading guide E1rrer,
was making his way over when
stone. dropping from considerable
height, struck him fun on the heaP
ana instantly kIlled him. The two
others, attached by their rope to his
dead body were unable In their pre-
/ Curious foothold 70 resist tie shock and
were Immediately swept away down
the couIoir at terrific speed Their
/ axes were torn from their grasp. arld
1 Geufinettn, who never lost conscious
ness. wns convinced that death must
await them at the end Of that awful
/ Journey, but this man Of iron nerve
/ kept his presence of mind and showed
what a stout heart and a keen Intel
llgence can do even In the most des
uerstte situation.
About 500 feet below the spot where
! the party were carried OF small
bergschrund or creyasse ran across the
ice slope which forms the base OF the
Matterhorn on its eastern side. This
crevnsse Is not always open-in fact.
in october, 1908, when went on to
the mountain to photograph the scene
Of this accident, 1t dfdanot exist ut all.
1 Beneath It are ice cliffs, and any one
1 shooting the crevasse and FILLING over
| these would have q sheer drop which
4 must Immediately be fatal, but inAir.
sloegett's case the crack was several
feet wide and into It the two still lfv-
| ing men and their dead companion
/ were precipitated. The chasm was.
partiy filled with stones and sand, and
i Mr.. Sloggett fell face down Cent?
netta, though terribly bruised, without
/ an fnstant's delay seized the helpless
form of his employer, pulled him out
OF the position in which he lay, almost
suffocoting, and cleared the sand out
Of his throat and eyes.
Ills jaw was broken, and his bruises
were even worse than those OF Cent?
META, but no other bones were broken
but at any moment an even more ter
rible catastrophe threatened the two
Door wounded men In the crevasse-
The coulolr was, as I have said, nat
ural channel for falling stones, and It
was Just the hottest hour of the day,
when the snow was thawing fast and
loosening from its letters the missiles
It had earlier held fast frozen to the
mountain. It was imperative to lose
no time in waiting for assistance from
the other parties who were on the Mat
terhorn- So the guide and the English
man, without axes, bruised, shaken
and weak, started on the desperate
task of climbing back up that CLASSY.
blood stained wall, a task hard enough
even for nm uninjured and fully equip
ped party
"How 1t was accomplished Gentinet-
tn declares he does not know, but by
an extraordinary display of pluck and
skin the two at length reached their
old tracks and gained a place Of safe
ty. Assistance was now ut hand, and
with the help Of tho other parties the
wounded men eventually arrived at
the Schwartz hotel. Though laid up
for many weeks after, both in the end
made an excellent recovery Poor Fur
rer,s body was with much difficulty
brought down next day from the ere
vase"