Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1878 — A Thrilling Accident. [ARTICLE]

A Thrilling Accident.

Not many days ago a student named William Folwell, who accompanied one of the eclipse parties to Denver, met with a thrilling and most wonderful adventure on the craggy side of Pike’s Peak. He had climbed swiftly away from his companions, and was endeavoring to mount an almost precipitous rock, so that he might the more easily sweep the valley before him, when he lost his footing and fell. Turning three somersaults in the stone-like downward dash, the climber found himself with a broken arm and bruised body in the top of a cedar forty or fifty feet down the mountain side. The branches of the trees were so thickly clumped that the fall had been cut short. There, in the top of the cedar, the student swayed to and fro, lustily using his lungs. When the party got vdthin ear shot they hastened forward, and being unable to approach the tree from below, threw a rope, which was caught by Folwell, and •successfully used to make his escape.