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THE S;AN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1898. THE FRIGHTEUL TERRORS OF THE FROZEN YUKON OW MEN FOUGHT THE ICY DEATH Dread Winter March of the Famin e=Stricken Army. While Behind Them Came the Sound of the Flood That Swept Hu Their ndreds to Doom. BY SAM W. WALL. DAWSON, Feb. 14 (by special carrier to Dyea and by steamship Queen to Seattle, March 17).—Since my last dis- patch I have made a journey with dogs to Fort Yukon, and there secured the full story of the miserable army of the unprovisioned that struggled to reach Dawson City, only to be ordered by their own needs to move on. Writing from Dawson when this day was far in the future, I said the winter promised for the great disorganized multitude that climbed the pass above Dyea an experience of suffering such as threatened to overmatch that of the | French in their retreat from Moscow. I | have seen the fulfillment of that threat. In the long stretch of frozen rivers between here and Fort Yukon, I have seen the wrecks of the boats in which that section of the north-bound army | floated down stream. I have seen the trail for miles strewn with its forsaken | and ruined property, and I have seen | and camped with detachments of that army as it comes back from Fort Yu- kon, struggling against the bitter cold and driving snow and frightful winds, through a temperature registering from 30 to 50 degrees below zero, each man pulling his sled loaded with the food he had secured, literally freezing that they might not starve. By their campfires along the bleak river, I have heard them tell, careless by comparison, of the terrible experi- ence they are now undergoing, of a cer- tain night in October while they floated down the river, and there them “that peculiar sound of ice in mo- tion.” The ice was jamming, the river rose behind it, their boats were caught and crushed and thrown under. Cries for help were answered by other cries for help. We know this from those who made the landing. I have secured the names of many of them. If some went down in the darkness and the flood, we do not know it and can never know. The story of that struggle, that night with the water and the ice, the effort to reach the land over the broken and un- certain surface, the waiting by some for days until they became sufficiently fixed to bear their weight of the slow struggle of over sixty miles through the bewildering maze of islands known as the Yukon flats, often losing their way and turning back on their own tr giving way under them, compelling them to abandon their little supplies of food and even their clothes, some of them without matches or ax with which to make fires, and with no more than a blanket for covering, the mer- cury registering 10 degrees below zero; this is the experience in slightly vary- ing detail and degree of five hundred men. I give the matter of fact relation of the experience by individuals most of them tired and worn at the time of the telling, incapable of any play of imag- ination, but the listener in the incident of the ice jam, for instance, could still feel the darkness of the night, the black water underneath the boat, the moving masses of ice, on every side, land nowhere to be seen, and in the | ear, “that peculiar sound of ice in mo- tion.” * The sudden rise or check of the wa- ter, the rush and crush of ice about the boat and then the crash of contact. There were over 100 men in that crush of the might of the 12th of October in the vicinity of what came to be known as “Camp Ray” or “Jam City,” and 400 others entered the jam before or within a few days after. Later this crowd was assembled at Fort Yukon, cold, miserable, destitute. They were cared for as well as the equipment of the place admitted. They had lost and suffered much. They had been advised to go there and were assured that they could get food without money if they had none. Some of them had been engaged at Dawson to make the rourd trip on a boat that got no further than Circle City, going down. These felt they had a definite griev- ance. There were among them a num- ber of idle and ill disposed men who thought they saw an opportunity to get something for nothing. All of them demanded outfits that they might get away and do the things that they came to do. They were offered the opportunity to chop wood at $5 a cord and were required to accept it as a condition of thelr being given food in quantity. Some turbulent spirits arose against the acceptance and an organized move was made to capture the caches of the trading companies. It was directed first against that of came to | and the treacherous ice and snow | cial object of malice, but because of the isolated position of the cache. Captain Ray took possession of both | caches in the name of the Government {and turned the men from their pur- pose, although a very determined front was shown by them and a score of rifles uncovered, a messenger to Cap- tain Ray flred upon and captured and that officer himself confronted and de- layed on the ice while on his way to the cache. Lieutenant Richardson, with a soli- tary rifle, patrolled before the cache and held them in check previous to the arrival of Captain Ray and until a conference between him and a repre- sentative of the men reached a satis- factory conclusion. Under the agreement there reached many of the men agreed to cut wood in payment for provisions, and bona-fide prospectors were given outfits on giv- ing their notes. Others secured individual credit and others, who had it, paid money. It was these men, after this adven- ture and others that took no part in it, that I met toiling back along the line of the Arctic circle, enduring all that dens of beans and bacon and flour. I told the story at length, gathering from many sources, and dispatched it by | carrier, under date of January 5, from that post. I left there Januarv 10 and wrote another dispatch at Circle City under date of January 15. As I ar- rived at Forty Mile one day ahead of | the carrier and at Dawson four days ahead of him, I have practically carried or beaten my own dispatches and have later date from this place. I left Dawson at noon on the 10th of December, left Fort Yukon for my re- turn on the 10th of January and arrived here on the 27th of January, forty-eight | days out. In that time I was thirty- | three days traveling over 1000 miles, as | the trails run. The trail was made in | large part by this struggling army of | unfortunates to whom the river, and | especially the flats, were unfamiliar, kon and Circle City is this winter lengthened into 100. Any trail is beter than no trail and the traveler in this frozen land follows the man who has gone before, even if he | knows he is being led some distance out i of the way. Thus the trail all the way down is | said to be much longer than usual this | year. It is true that it shifts and is | its main direction it has been laid and men. In going down I traveled as far as Circle City in company with Captain ‘W. E. Geiger of the steamer Weare. We have eleven dogs and two sleds. We had with us Cherosky, an Indian guide, famous as the discoverer of gold at Cir- cle City. There traveled with us as far as Charley River. Sonsa, another Indian of some fame on the river, and |t0 Forty Mile Pitka, a great Indian runner and the partner of Cherosky in | the discovery of gold. | From Forty Mile through to Circle | City another young Indian named Peter | was with us, so that between Dawson | and Charley River, two-thirds of the | distance, there were three Indians in ithe party. All save Cherosky, how- ever, were independent of us, and had their own dog teams, although we camped and traveled and worked to- gether. . During the last three days Cherosky, our Indian, was sick, causing frequent stops, when he would kneel on his snowshoes and rest his head on the sled. The entire journey was made on foot and most of the way on snow- shoes. We encountered frequent snow and wind storms that completely oblit- erated the trail, and for days at a time we were compelled to follow it by means of a stick, feeling for it through a foot of snow. Indeed the greater part of the journey we followed the trail by a sense of touch rather than sight, especially going down, as we had but a few hours of daylight and for days did not see the sun. The journey was undertaken at a time of year when the days are short- est. On the shortest day of the year, | the 22d of December, we were in the Upper Ramparts, two days east of Cir- cle City. We traveled, despite the darkness, from 6 o'clock in the morn- ing until 3 in the afternoon, being com- pelled by the necessity of gathering dry wood to make camp while yet there was a little light. With a cabin in prospect as a camping place, how- ever, we would travel many hours with no light but the stars. the Alaska Commercial Company, not because that company was the spe- There are cabins here and there along the river at irregular intervals,equipped that implies, to Dawson with thelr bur- | the opportunity to write under this still | | and the eighty miles between Fort Yu- | | 1ost and is made over again in some de- | | gree by almost every traveler, but in | fixed by the travel of unexpenenced} THE TANANA RIVER Not Come winter. Caniff. large numbers of them. into the interior. the river. ized. ed up and attached to expert dog Indians. B AR R RS | With stoves, built by the Miners' Asso- ciation and designed as stopping places for wayfarers. Here all have equal privilege and it is the sight of a lifetime to see men, each with his sleigh and outfit and dogs, thirty of them gathered in one of these cabins to prepare their suppers and cook dog feed on one little tin stove and a campfire outside and succeeding with it all with not an impatient word spoken during the ordeal. Men have to be patient and tolerant on the trial and they are so. There were two of these cabins be- tween Dawson and Forty Mile on the boundary line, one in an old house, once occupied by Ogilvie and his party of surveyors when running the line, an- other and the best on the river at Mission Creek, and still another eight miles from Circle. Houses of refuge in extra severe weather also were the In- dian camps and the occasional cabin of the woodchoppers, but the traveler often passes them by and camps in the open when he does not come upon them at camping time. The flats are the same terrible flats summer or winter. For miles above and | below Camp Ray the trail led over Jjagged stacks of ice that kept the sleds constantly turning upside down and made progress, even with six dogs, exceedingly slow. And yet it was here we met many of this unhappy army of the unprovisioned leaning forward in | the traces, wreathed in and their faces | literally obscured b+ frost, hauling their own sleds. Above and below the | Jam of jams—for there were more than one—the trail ran for miles over level ice, honeycombed with holes, often so close together as to barely admit the | width of the sleds betwen them and the | dark and swift current of the river | flowing at the very edge of the trail. i Once our heavily loadeu sled went par- | tially through, and again we were com- pelled to go into camp. although it was scarcely afternoon, because Patton | stepped in some snow just off the trail. | His hold on the “gee” pole saved him, | but he was wet to the midaie and de- | clared he had “not touched bottom.” | The rotten ice is accounted for by | warm springs, swift currents and gla- iers. I returned to Dawson with Harry Davis, the Alaska Commercial Com- pany’s agent at Fort Yukon, the man who stood the brunt during the trying | times when the unprovisioned were be- sieging his quarters. We were just ’three days in making Circle, remained | there two days, ran to Forty Mile in | nine days, rested there one day, and in | two days more reached Dawson. We overtook James Dodson, known on the river here as “Windy Jim,” bringing mail up from Manook (Rampart City) and the mouth of the Tanana, 300 miles below Fort Yukon. He brought up fifty-three pounds of mail and $16,000 from the stranded people and the trad- | was to be paid a fixed sum #er letter for carrying the mail up and bringing back what mail was here for the sub- seribers, some of them agreeing to pay as much as $20 per letter, and the whole guaranteeing him $2,000 for the trip. He left Rampart City on December 8 and arrived here on January 18. He reports the steamers Seattle No. 1, the May West and Hattie B., all enter- prises of last fall, with their passengers wintering in the mouth of the Noveka- kat River, ninety-five below Rampart | City or Manook. The Governor Stoneman, a small ‘stoamer with a barge, is ninety-five | miles still further down, with forty | people. He says there are at least 500 | people at Rampart City and 200 camped | with their boats, the settlement there | being known as Woodworth, after ‘Captain Wood of the Seattle No. 1 and | Captain Worth of the May West. Al | Mayo has established a store at Ma- | nook, and the developments on the ‘creek indicate a substantial camp. Ex-Governor McGraw and General Carr of Seattle are prospecting there. The steamer May West and those in- | terested in her are in all sorts of trou- ble. She has a number of passengers | whom Captain Worth, out of his con- | fidence in his ability to reach here last ifall, contracted to feed until they were | landed at Dawson, The provisions are running short, and the passengers are | getting fretful. James Adams, one of | the passengers who had advanced some | money to Captain Worth, and has a mortgage on the boat, and the carpen- ters and crew have not been paid. They threaten to tie her up on reach- ing Circle City and have her sold to re- cover their money. The total indebted- ness is about $5000. She is loaded with bonded goods, and the question is raised as to whether she may be tied up under these circumstances. These people on the lower river have been absolutely cut off from commu- pication with the outside world, and the letters Dodson brings will, when they get out, be the first direct word their friends have received from them since leaving home last summer, their whergabouts even being unknown. Dodson expected to carry back with him a quantity of mail addressed to them here, but will probably hav to return without any as no Canadian mail has arrived since last summer, and hope of its arriving before the opening of the river is now almost given up. . The rumor that was current last Sep- SEATTLE, Wash., March 17.—The tribe of 300 Indians located along the Tanana River in Alaska have been battling with starvation the past This fact was brought by a trapper and a fur buyer to Cir- cle City about the middle of January and news sent south by Thomas These Indians had gone into the hills near the headwaters of the river to wait for the usual coming of the cariboo and moose. animals pass in herds, going from the coast toward the interior. They are usually three or four days in passing and the Indians This season the deer did not appear at the ordinary time, but the Indians presumed that the passing would only be later than usual, not that the deer had taken some They waited until all their food had been eaten up and then began to live on the flesh of their dogs. Early in January nearly all their canines had been eaten up, still the deer did not arrive, and the Indians had no way of traveling to It was at this time that a trapper came acrc at once went on to Circle City wi Several sleds with such supplies as could be spared were load- fenced Yukoners, started over the snow to the relief of the famished It is a question whether they will arrive before many of the red men shall have succumbed to the pangs of hunger. MU P P OUUTTOSSEEEEE S e ahh e ers down there to be forwarded out. He | INDIANS STARVING They Went Out to Hunt at a Place to Which the Deer Did as Usual. The slaughter other route them. He ty organ- ith the news. A relief pa teams. These, in charge of exper- O R e R e T + + tember to the effect that Major Walsh and Judge Maguire were on the trail up about the Peliy River, coming in with 1400 pounds of mail, still circu- lated here at intervals, but no mail ar- rives except stray ers through pri- vate individuals. Even the officials here claimed to be in doubt about the whereabouts of the mail and Major Walsh. They say they have received no official advices. It is believed that Walsh and Ma- guire are camped somewhere on the trail with the mall, but are afraid to come here on account of the scarcity of provisions. The American mail is almost equally at fault. Richardson, the contractor, is the principal owner of the steamer Seattle No. 2. He prom- ised to meet the carrier of the Sep- tember mail at Circle City with his boat, or in the event of failure of the boat to come up with dogs. The boat failed, but he did not go up or send up. G. P. Sproul, the carrier of the Sep- tember mail, is here in the hospital, or just out of it. It was his four pouches of mail that we carried to Circle City. Although passing through Dawson, it is distinctly American mail and con- tains no letters for this place. The re- turn mail s now bei sent up by an independent carrier, Ben Atwaters. There is great and general complaint because of this utter failure of the mail service here. Relieved by the exodus | up and the exodus down the river, the | fear on account of scarcity of provis- ions here seems to have entirely passed away. There are a number of restau- rants here in full aperation running night and dav. and a meal may be obtained for $2 i), although the price is still maintained at $4 50 by one or two restaurants—pie and a cup of cof- fee $1. There is a great deal of sickness here. Forty patients almost test the capacity of the hospital. A number are suffer- ing from freezing, and a still greater number from scurvy. There Is said to be also a great deal of scurvy among the miners up the creeks. J. J. Miles of Seattle was frozen to death while on a stampede to Moore- hyde Creek on Christmas day. He was a bookkeeper in the employ of the | Alaska Commercial Company and leaves a widow here, In company with S. Archibald he started up the creek, which is just four miles below Daw- son. Becoming tired he told Archibald to go on and he would rest awhile and would have a fire burning in a cabin near by for him when he returned. He sat down by a tree and Archibald went on. Returning he went to the cabin, and not finding Miles nor any sign of his having been there, he went to the place where they had parted. The frozen body of Miles was sitting exactly as Archibald had two hours before left him. Since the establishment of the Cham- ber of Commerce and Mining a new mining exchange has been opened here on Second street under the direction of Russell Ulrich of Chicago. It is lo- cated in a large commodious building and was successfully opened on the evening of February 1. There are no less than four newspa- per enterprises about to be sprung here. Two newspaper men, Wilkins of Pitts- burg, and Settiz of Chicago, are at the head of the Dawson News, for which subscriptions and advertisements are now being taken. Two other newspaper outfits are on the river and will be here, one from above and one from below, when the ice breaks. The outfit of the Yukon Press, which has heretofore been published at Fort Adams, is on a boat and will also probably be brought here. The mining situation grows in inter- est as the spring with its clear-up ap- proaches. The work on El Dorado and Bonanza has thrown up mountains of rich dirt, out of which will be washed much greater quantities of gold than was realized last year. Both creeks, wherever they have been worked. have fully met all the great expecta- tions that were raised by the output of last spring and summer. Bonanza is being worked as high as 100 above Discovery, but like nearly every other creek in the country de- velopment is interfered with to some extent by the run of water from gla- clers, the weather not having been cold enough so far to close up this source of annoyance to the miner. The heavy fall of snow that took place early in the season has protected the streams of water that flow under it and they have driven many men out of the mines. Not a few lays have been given up on this account and many rich claims have for this reason not been worked. This is true con- cerning the diggings of. the whole country. A number of new creeks havesprung into competition with Bonanza and El Dorado in public interest during the past two months. Hunker Creek leads them. It is being worked from 7 above to 49 below Discovery continu- ously, besides a great number of more isolated holes that are being sunk. It is claimed that there is not one blank so far found on the creek and that the developments pan out from 50 cents to $2 a pan. Sulphur is also reported to be show- ing fine prospects, and Alex McDonald, one of the big operators here, has taken up a string of twenty-five claims on Baker Creek with the purpose of sluic- ing, with excellent prospects being re- ported from there. Henderson's Gold Bottom, Dominion, All Gold, Quartz and Eureka creeks are all talked about and boomed by those interested, but Continued on Ninth Page. NOW MANY ARE IN THE HOSPITAL Misery of Some of the Men Who Seek Northern Gold. Scores of Sufferers Treat- ed at Fort Yukon Since the Ice Jam. Terrible Work Done by Jack Frost and the Scurvy Along the Frozen Yukon. PROSPECTORS LOSE TOES. Here Are the Names of Men Who Left Dawson to Get Food, and ‘What They Are Doing. BY SAM W. WALL. 0000000000000 00000 PROTEST AGAINST LIVERNASH. DAWSON, Feb. 14.—The pro- test of the miners against Liv- ernash of the Examiner-Journal representing them in the matter of securing the repeal of the ob- noxious mining laws has been sent to Ottawa. The feeling against Livernash is general throughout the mining district. A meeting has since been held, repudiating the action of the meeting that appointed him, and resolutions making a strong protest against him were adopt- ed and subsequently forwarded to the capital. o 00000C0000000000000 FORT YUKON, Jan. 2 (via Seattle, March 7).— Some intelligence of what has taken place along the river be- tween here and Circle City during the past two months has doubtless reached the outside or will have done so before this dispatch gets into print. It is only left for me to tell the story as I have gathered it. Fort Yukon, a few months ago the home of a trader and a missionary and the camping place of a few Indians, has been the theater of much stirring events since I left it to ascend the river in a small boat on the evening of September 1. There is now a hospital here full of sick and enfeebled men, one of whom, Charles Lehman of St. Louis, had his frozen foot amputated to-day. There is now quite a little settlement of stranded people here and the cabins of woodchoppers are found at frequent interval for fifty miles up and down the river. The great exodus of the unprovis- joned from Dawson to this post caused the greatest anxiety on the part of the agents of the companies for the safety of their property here and on the part of friends at Dawson for the personal safety of those who undertook the Jjourney so late in the year. The anx- iety of both was more than justified. Between 200 and 300 men were caught in the ice jam in the Yukon on the night of October 12, and the experience of every one of them was such as crowded the wear and tear of years into a few days and nights, aged, maimed and enfeebled numbers and people a hospital. No immediate fa- talities are known. Gathered at Fort Yukon in front of the bulging warehouses of the two big companies this crowd of cold and hun- gry men, most of whom had lost all of their possessions in the struggle against the icy river, now become im- patient and intolerant, organized and with guns essayed to take possession of the caches. The energy of two men, Captain P. H. Ray and Lleutenant Richardson, Eighth Infantry, met and overturned the plan, and eventually brought about the conditions that now obtain. A great majority of the men who came down the river in this extremity were destitute, and provisions were issued to them upon their personal notes, Cap- tain Ray guaranteeing the notes on be- half of the Government. Some few had money and paid, some of them voluntarily and others by compulsion. Others known to be trustworthy are al- lowed credit without the intervention of the Government. Still others con- sented to remain here or near by, build cabins and cut wood for the companies at the stated price of $5 per cord, which means about 85 per day, and outfits were advanced to them on that account, Following are the names of those who came to this place and received outfits together with a note as to where they have gone or what they are doing so far as could be obtained: John Po- latsek, remains here waiting the boat. These are on the trail for Dawson: Earl Cautcher, Edward Hagman, B. H. Morran, Andrew Johnson, John Peter- son, Frank Hesmond, A. J. Cadenhead, George Stokes, George O. Hayne, D. H. Gray, H. Griffith, T. Bolland, E. T. Hansen, E. O. Welmouth, Andrew Paul, Pavid Orr, J. G. Nichols, E. Wall, Thomas Torry, John Thompson, Clar- ence Worthington, John O'Gara, Will- fam Borcovich, Peter Choquette, H. J. Schroeder, Mr. and Mrs. R. Giddings. These have gone to Circle City: Thomas Brady, T. Boland, Charles Brutsch, Charles Davis, O. McLain, John Lockner, Louis Kern, Bert Evans, Robert Lennon, Ernest Michael, John Sharpley, J. A. Jesson, Henry Senran, P. O. Carlton, Edward Hall, Chester ‘Worthington, F. L. Sanford, Andrew Douglas, Samuel P. Harris, Otto Wil- ner, J. C. Hayes, M. T. Dodd, Dan Mec- Pherson, George Livie, Willlam Van ‘Winkle, Thomas Eaton, D. T. Ander- son, Alexander Hoy, David Jones, Dan- jel Casey, A. Nelson, Edward Sanders, A. Mack, Louis Christol, F. Trumpf, 18 8. Neal, W, "T. Price, J. 0000000000000 000000D0 000000000000 00000C000 ©+0+6+23+8+0+9+0+0+0+0+0+9+0+0+0+0+0+6+6+0+0+0+0+e+0+0+ RICH ORE FOUND ON KENAI PENINSULA The Men Who Are Working in the 28 385888032808 58 828 0893335328083 28885223880 a8 00 R Rttt Cooks Inlet Country Have Prospect of Wealth. SEATTLE, Wash., March 17.—The latest arrival from the Cooks Inlet country in Alaska, to which there was such a stampede two years ago, is Charles Denham of Chicago. He arrived here to-day, ¢n the steamer Excelsior, having left Sunrise City February 23. Denham reports a remarkable glacier gold find on the Kenail Peninsula, 2000 feet above sea level. This strike in the hills was made early in Jan- uary by A. R. McConnaughey and another party. When near Skil- lokh Lake they broke the ice on one of the small streams to prospect for gold. The first panful of gravel they took out ran $318 when weighed later at Sunrise. Other pans were secured which ran as high as $4 in coarse gold. This hill has never been prospected. The Cooks Inlet country is showing up better than ever this win- ter, and the 135 men there are getting good returns for their work. Considerable mining has been done on Mile Creek, one prospector taking out as high as $70 for a day’s work. The miners are now engaged in hauling provisions and sawing lumber for cabins and sluices. The coldest day of the winter was February 21, the thermometer falling 42 desr below zero. In an interview with The Call correspondent to-night Mr. Denham EFEEEEEEEEEEREE R said: “The Polly Mintng Company is a large operator in Cooks In- let. Last year it worked sixty-seven days and took out $100,000 in gold. This season it will operate on a much larger scale. I have secured ten claims on Six Mile Creeck for the Alaskan Bonanza S Mining Company of Chicago, “Longshorty” McConnaughey, located a & well-appearing quartz ledge near Skillokh Lake shortly before coming & out. 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