TXTB OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. VOinLAUD. . FRIDAY : EVENING, SSPTLZH 8, III
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ATH E MANY FffiRCEFORlS
ASSAILS MOUNTAINEERS ON HOOD
Guide Weygandt delates Thrill-
, A ng Experience in . Snow;;
.and Thunderstorm.
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J r'.V. i 1 1 I l i in, '-X ,i
WAS TWICE STRUCK DOWN 1
: BY BOLTS OF UCHTNINQ
Professor and Mrs. Lyons Were ReJ
pcatedly Saved From Destruction
V on the Denxeroui Side of the'Mk
by His Efforts.
'"- - Perched upon the sharp pinnacle of a
,;" volcanic put rising to an altitude of
' 11,090 feet, wilh enras"4 Jove lndulflnc
la target practise - at - thera with hla
'' bolts; a fate sweeplne; tha . mountain
" until It seemed at If tba basalt rocks
.-wouI4.be uprooted; anow driving; In
blinding atom; night approaching-, and
hell-deep abyaMa on every, hand,, with
: crevasses. Ice caverns and cold hiding
a new form' of death everywhere, three
:, people will - remember their experience
. en MountHood last week aa an axcur
, aion among supernatural norrori.
Guide M. W., Weygandt. who -was
' with 'Prof eaaor and Mrs. M. W. Lyons
' when overUken by a bliasard near the
v. summit, waa in the city yesterday. Hla
- Simple narrative ef a Journey having the
maximum of . perlla la a graphic atory,
': Whea llateaing to hla words describing
the elertrle demonstration of tha ele-
' . menta, the mind becomea Imbued ."with
- the reverence of the guide ' for this
2 great mother peak. Te Mm It . la a
'. mountain of wonders,- where nature Is
JL rampant, and mortality muat abide Its
' time (or visile Into the awesome work
bouse.- - - ' -
While ' the people of Portland were
, ' basking In sunshine and seeking bosky
shades, the three hardy cllmbera were
" battling with f reeling cold but (0 njle
v'away. . lLi:... j.,..j:u.,
Saow Mom Sooeeds enallght.
71 - Mount Hood was suddenly trans
formed from a aarene peak, bathed in
.softly tempered sunlight, into a battle
L: ground of the elementa. Withla Ave
' minutes after the flret cloud appeared
the storm beoke-wlth the seeming Intent
'to hurl tha mountain from Its. Arm
foundation. Men could - barely , stand
' before it, stones' the also of marbles
, , were driven like ballets, while thetem
perature suddenly- sank .below sercC
. . Twice the guide went down at a light
. nlng bolt, remained unconscious for
'some momenta. The descent, waa made
'I In the teeth of thla gale, after anow had
. fallen 4 to- It Inches over the . usual
' trail, and when the deep erevaaaes were
I located and croased It was in Cimmerian
darkness. Violent guata of wind lifted
, '' the pilgrims from their slippery footing.
. and only by fortifying ggalnat such dan
4 gera by driving the alpinestock deep
into the Iced anow and bracing agalnat
tt did the guide prevent tha storm from
'-whirling the part)) to death over the
, precipices.
3T This AuguarirTploTBe summit ' of
Mount Mooa win be rememoerM ay tne
( professor and his wife. It may be for
i gotten by the hardy guide, who regarda
, the great mountain aa the home of mya
terlea. He has lived for many years on
""Its rufcged breast -vleirfng tt -when
. enorm-swapt or bathed lo awna hlne.
Where Weird 'Sowars Bea.de.
r -Te him it la always the same vener
, .able monument of, the creator, where
. , weird powers reside, end where man can
..venture for pleasure or to wltneas the
' sublimity of fury only with great cau-
" tlon.
T'There- were bo positive storm signs
in the morning when the professor and
, his wife wanted to make the aacent,"
i said Mr. Weygandt. "Mrs. Langell ad-
- vised not to try -the trip, bat the.pro
' feasor thought there would be no dan
. ger. . We tied ,the horaea about a mile
' , and a halt from the summit, and made
the - difficult part of - the ascent. We
.-. were climbing on the northeast slope;
. a wind blew from tha southwest, i When
. ; within a short distance of the summit I
i noticed a dark eloud rolling from the
..j southwest. In less than iflve minutes
' a violent, storm set In. I asked them
what they wanted to do, and they said
:. as we were mo near the summit, and the
,. t storm might pot amount to much, they
...would finish the trip up. When Ti to
100 feet of the top the eleotrio display
'began. ; .
"It la somethlng-you -cannet wider'
stand unless you experience It. Light'
. , nlng la- terrible up there every time- it
' storms hard, and the rocks are scorched
. and aemetlmea broken by bolts. i-ha
' found rocks ' with holes bored elesr
' j through them by some terrible stroke of
v . lightning. ;
, . . . .. . Veiled by Thaaaerbolt.
; , "I waa drat atruck lightly about 78
feet from the aummlt There was a
crackling - sound, as if whips were
snapped near my ear a. and suddenly it
' felt to me as If a redhot iron was boring
; into my brain. I went down, but did not
. lose consolousnesa. . When I fell I began
slipping over the snow, until the rope
to which the others were attached be
'came taut." 1 realised I was slipping
' and scratched hard to hold on. ' When I
. Vot up I again aaked the profeaaor what
be thought. Aa they were nearly at
. the top and did not seem to appreciate
, . that the lightning had knocked me
down, he aatd thy would go to the
record-box and sign up.1 i -.
0 REST, o sleep. Itch. Itch. Itch,
cratchlae aUl the tender skla
beeoimas inflamed, fore ena cieeainji
1104 kr SktabeaTtfe TrMtawet, wtH aire the
uSVrlu Mttl aaa iMtul rii aa4 al. aad
exalt la eaaipleie ear. Mulutwv-e et joi
Mr HtHlna kaa s eooai for eaaoaf, imte-
iie, eraptMoe. esatlrag. tBIa seir, araw hw
awurta, aatlwpUe, eaoaoruiag. iragraob
-A tneth sf Me Balaam In Every Cat."
! gae. eakaa: 1 eakte . ; ralts.
Wim Mkeutates. . ho seep Is s.ilce
X. BaHlB.
V .- br nito Htv epeefattlaa
N. f. Vke SMblag wlLkoat tkl
malMa' m M Jt1
wOOSABB. nAmxa CO
rm wio.wiy wi.wywwyyy '
Guide M. W.
V"W struggled oq, the wind on top
making us neml rar against it to move
at all and keep from being blown off
the ground. Aa I had been the only one
who felt - tha lightning - I thought !
would keen right on and maybe nothing
else would happen, although I knew the
storm waa roarlns at the summit.
"We pulled the record-box. out.,or the
fockplle where it Is kept, snd which
waa covered with alfting snow, and I
waa carrying it back - a few feet for
protection behind the rocks, while they
signed. X was in tha lead, leaning away
back against-the wind, when a heavy
bolt atruck me. I had . taken about
three steps from the pile of rocks and
the woman was behind me,. It seemed
that my- bent knees were straightened
with a terrlAo Jerk and something shot
me up from the ground aa if I had been
a rubber ball. . I was knocked back
against Mrs. Lyons' and oq to the pile
oi rocn ine- uroKf -wa jirecvueu uy
that awful popping and crackling sound
trr-rhe-slr:
U Death's Taee. :
"When I came to I thought that the
ethers were killed. 1 got on my banda
and knees and saw the professor In -like
attitude near, while nia wrre wis stand
ing on the snow." Buffer tha critical
situation. It was funny ta see the pro
feaaor and .J look at each other there.
Mra. Lyons did not seem to get the full
force of the shock. - The professor said:
'.'Mr. Weygant, X think we had bet
ter- get off the top of tha mountain.' I
told him I waa glad to hear blra aay so.
I crabbed the record-box. which, hd
eh6oTOurTlferTnd was
about to throw It back into the rockplle,
when they aaked to be permitted to algn
up. I hated to touch tha box again, for
fear of the , lightning, ibut opened- It,
took the book out and brushed the snow
off while they signed. I signed with the
date, but we did not mention the storm
oecausa we were in a hurry.. ,
"With that I hurried them off the
top. . We had got down about 100 feet
when that crackling and snapping In
the air began, and there was a frightful
glare of lightning. We got through
that all right. By this time the gale
waa terrible; rocks were blown through
the air and the snow was blinding. The
tracks we had' cut were all covered, Ice
waa under the new snow and every ler
ror tha great mountain could master
seemed to be turned loose to dash us
over the precipice. ' . - -. -
Wo Best em the Mount.
"Mrs. . Lyons lost her-- alpine-stock.
We got down to. Lunch Rock finally,
Been covetea six Inches with now. This
distance waa made by aid of tha 1.(00
feet of Ufa line, and- was not so bad.
When we got to the end of the line I
waa afraid we could not go farther in
safety. The profeaaor wanted to know
If we could not get Into some little
crevasae and wait for tba storm to pasa,
but I knew It might rage all night, and
that we would all be froxen to death If
wa atopped. I told him that as long as
I had strength to keep them from It I
would not permit such a course, snd I
ordered them to go on. -
"Mrs. Lyons gave oa. I had the pro
feasor In the lead, hla wife next and I
came laat to hold them If they allpped.
I put a half hitch over her feet and
made htm pull her, which he did until
he "played out' Then we pulled to
gether. 'Finally ha aald ha was utterly
exhausted and would have to reat Our
BEAUTIFUL
Mnse taat roxcrlast aalr tt
Kea. yoathml to lor always ni3
te loetr ekarma. T
suy ba goldtev I
er bnma, sat wh
n vaeeawa gray
or xadeg tlwre 1
aa aapearaaee
at ate. taeogk
mmm auy real a
roast at tnt. Ci
SUaeas gray half
a drawback.-
HMntlEAlTN
Koogtm You looking Young J
arwara armr tb eolor and beaoty ef rafk
t rta'er(le k.lr. IHltlTelrrBwT4iaiini,
kill tk t-na aae atop kalr failing. Dm et
J?1' -V" . Aided kr HAHFIlf A SOAH
LL?!. ! h1 aealp. ernea Itcklng mni
k aotktog without Phu Bay Oo. slgaatare.
Fres Sen Offer tssimt
Kaaa
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Addreas.
Xemztt and Wea&iarfca gka,
mm
riCmBBHBeaBBSS-Ba--' 'r-jt A. I
Weygtnas -
handa were freexlng and we bad to whip
them about to taaw them. Tne- snow
bad become' about knea deep. I un
hitched her feet and aaked her If she
could not vet up, snd she said she be
lived aha could. r -i.
terra Toeaea the Moantalaears.
"While descending over tha long reach
of-snow,-which standg-st-an-ngte" of
about 5S degrees from tha norisonuu,
the wind srusts were awful at times.
When I heard the. roar made by one of
them .above I would stick my alpine
stock aa deep as I could in tha anow,
drop flat on the anow above IV and
brace my foot agalnat thjs support. It
often saved us, for the othera ware
lifted off their feet more than once, and
I had to check them from making a
death elide. ' . -
"While we were pulling along this
wsy. suddenly the professor called to
ma. T) OoA. aava me. Wevrandt.' He
started to slide, pulled his wlfs off herd
IeeU-.nd 1 barely had lma to get my
brace fixed before tne rope jeraea on
me. but I waa able to atop them. When
he stopped, his legs were hanging over
the edge of one of tha biggest crevasses
on the mountain,- where he would have
dropped 200 to 400 feet If he had not
been checked. He crawled back in
hurry, holding to the rope. I could not
aea the. erevaaaa, and we were Within
16 feet of It i . .
."I had to gueaa in tha blinding storm
at tha crossing of each of the erevaaaes,
and hit the bridge right for all except
ing this one. It .wasc loae work, and 1
flirt niM ana sr. T-htlhr -rf )-
make it or noU L aoon located the cross
ing over this big fne. ana wa continued.
' Sad to Carry Mrs. fcyona.
"Just sfter we croased this crsvssse,
Mrs. Lyons gave out -again and could
not go any farther, aa she had been
attacked by crtmpi In the legs. These
are cold cramps which will attack al
most any one who gets numb and is
freexlng. I made up my mind that we
would have to do somethingand that
Quickly. I put tha professor behind me
aaeV picked his wife up and carried her
as if she had been a kid. ' ,
"By the ilme I hsjd carried her 1.000
feet down) the mountain. I waa tired.
After croaaing another big crevaase, I
put her down Just aa 1 heard one of
those roaring winds coming again. It
lifted both-oOhem up aa If they were
feathers and ' I just had time to pin
myself . down with the alpinestock to
save us. When the squall would strike.
it would throw them . clear off their
feet This tlm Mr. J.ygna wag Ihrownl
But for tha rope he
would have gone forever that time, and
he called for me to aava him.
f - "The woman was - soon exhausted
again and asked If she could not slide
after getting across the crevasses. I
pulled her a little distance. I waa
afraid aha waa getting cold, as her
strength was very low, and I made her
get up and walk. She did her best
until we croned another crevaase, and
then she gave up entirely and suffered
from cramps again. Ws carried her
along with her feet touching the ground.
There were many little crevasses after
that, tha bottoms of which had water,
and we would have loat'our Uvea had
we fallen Into them.
Horses Vaable'to Move,
"When we got to where we generally
untie-,- I still kept them tied together.
While wa were proceeding along the
crest of a sharp ridge, they were blown
off on one side snd I one the other, so
that the rope held us all. I got in behind
the rocka for the Journey down, aa I did
not feel safe oh top any more, after the
lightning atrokes. .
-'VWhen we got to the horses, they were
nearly-froten to death, and when we
untied them we could not ride and had
difficulty In getting the animals' to
mbve. We were plastered with snow
like Esnulmeaux. As the air got warmet
and It began melting, the bunohes In my
bosom which had blown through my
shlrtfront and. lumps up my sleeves and
up my gloves, drenched me, and the
wind cut through like a knife.
. "They were albin.-and I was aboul
go When close to" the Inn I agreed to
go ahead and get assistance, aa mv
clothes were thinner than theirs and I
waa "cramping- badly. When I reached
the Inn they worked with- me for three
or four houra to .get ma tbrough, and a
party went back for the profeaaor and
hla wife and finally got them in- also,
and they were put Iri a tub of hot
water." , -
Mr. Weygandt is a plain mountaineer,
who lovea the great peak where he Uvea
and thla experience, which came ao
nearly ending fatally to three, la merely
Charged to eareleaaness In going to the
summit at the wrong time. i .
V : ' Changes Kind.
(Soaetat DUiMK-e' w Tkw Jreatl '
Salem, . Or.. Sept. .- Attemey-Oen-eral
Crawford has revised his original
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CHIME SPOILED HIS LIFE
- (Continued from Iage One.)'
started and had a lot of property and
considerable money In bank I met
woman who- told me she was a widow,
can't remember her husband s name.
for I afterward round out be was net
dead, but her maiden name was Mary
Rye. Mary wanted me to marry nvr,
but I hung back for some time. ' Finally
married her. , .:'. . .
Says They Tried B1aokw.H1,
-Then I learned sha was In a game
against me, and when blackmail was
tried .and 1 was told I waa to be ar
rested for bigamy I got ecared. I lit
out dna night la order, as X thought, to
keep from being arrested.. I did not
learn until after I was gone that the
woman was also married. . .
"Ia my haete-e- get awayr X did not
wait for the bank; to openthe bank Is
1 -
' CapUin David A- barty.
located at tho corner of Kim and Pa
cine streets, In Dallas and skipped un
der cover of darkness. -1 left ray 141
acres, my saloon and reataurant prop
erty, other lota In the city on which
there were no buildings and 1100 In. the
bank... , , ..." -. ... .. , - : .
"I was-always afraid they would ar
rest me. snd jend me to the penitentiary
for-bigamy, and did not let anybody
there know where I was. -As I made
good living, I did not trouble about
tha property I had ' left 80 v it has
gone pn snd on, until today you see
me la the poorfarm.
Some time after leaving Delias, and
while he was keeping his whereabouts
secret Captain Dare became afflicted
with a malady, which slowly but surely
made Inroads on his mind., until yesrs
before his death the old man became
mentally almost sa a little child. Doubt
leaa. if such had not been the case, be
wouldha vtltkn Jtepttaavoldth
danger of a criminal prosecution and
recover hie -property.,- .r -
-r Property Xs ealuable. . : .
When Mrs. Brandon saw him she 1m
mediately recognised him, end the old
man appeared delighted to see her.
All I want la a place to eat and a
place to Bleep," ha said, "and you may
have the rest If you can secure it.
After Captain Dare had signed the
deed Mrs. Brandon told Superintendent
D. Jackson that the property muat
be worth a dbsen times its rormsr value.
In those days Daltaa was a small town.
Captain Dare lived In Portland about
II years. For some time he conducted
restaurant at XI 0 Bumstde street He
wss taken to the- poor farm montne
ago. His rambling acoounts of nis prop
erty were ' looked -on by - Mr.- Jackson
largely as tha vagaries of a mind weak
ened . bv age and disease, until Mrs.
Brandon mads Jter Appearance on the
scene.
The old msn belonged to an Insurance
society wnicn win pay aowu io nis neirs.
A part of this -money' will be used for
hla funeral axnenaea. The bode Was re
moved this, morning Iq Flnley Son's
undertaking reoma.
' aso.mala Will Be Xaaged.
(Special Dlapatck t Jjb Jeanat)
Olympla, Waah., Sept I. Governor
Mead haa refused to interfere In the
execution bf Frank Pasquale at--the
state penitentiary, on September II, for
the murder. of Charles s). Uray in Ta-
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