The age-herald., 1897-09-11
MISERY AND DEATH
 IN THE FAR NORTH Narrowing Stories of Distress and DiSaS-
 ter Told PV RETIlPNE0 ONNNkEPC
BY RETURNED KLONDYKERS
Winter Has Set In and Provisions Gone
 The Worst Not Yet.
ITS NOT GOLD BUT FOOD THEY CRY
And All the Wealth of the Indies Cannot Put It in the Hands of the Adyenturers Now
 That Ice Has Begun to Pack
 Stranded Sailors.

San Francisco, Sept. 10-The Exam finer prints an extra edition containing the following news from Dawson City:
 Otter Point, B. O.. Sept. 1O.-The steamsr Cleveland has arrived from St. Michaers, bringing with her from the Yukon gold fields a story of distress and disaster.
 fieers in charge of the ship tell the story of the sufferfnge at Dawson. The win ter has sat in at the mining city of the frozen north and two great stores of the have nothing to sell. Those who have been seeking gold now must se:k food or starve
 While there may be a tendency to ex- aggerate the actual condition of affairs there can be no question that famine threatens the adventurous men and women who made their way to the KleR- dyke. Hundreds of unruly spirits are f1ocking to Dawson. Threats of vio- lence are bsing made on every side. The first signs of winter are apparent on freeze and in a few weeks will be closed. Enormous prices are now bsing paid for fc3d at Dawson and it Is impossible that more than seven vessels with pro- visions can reach Dawson before the river is a mass of ice.
 On the Cleveland there .ar+ thirty eight passengers, men, women and child ren who have come from Dawson iCty. There are a few miners in this party that are able to tell of prosperity. Most of them wish to exaggerate their posses sions and if one were to believe the stories they tell he would say the trsas- ure ship in which they come carries $5 ,OOO OOO
 Capt Hall, master of the Cleveland. says that he has $100, ,0OO in his safe. The purser believes that he can account for s150,00O on board. The Cleveland has some of the passengers of the F. B. Weare on board. The Weare left Daw- son City in time to connect with the Portland had she not met with an ac- cident and ran aground on the shoals They report that on July 2 the stores of the Alaska Commercial company and the North American Trading and Trans portation company announced that they had no more food to sell.
 Three weeks ago the same companies were unable to furnish enough, and when the announcement was made that no more goods were available conster- nation resulted on the part of the peo- pie of Dawson City, with gold seekers piling in at the rate of twenty or thirty a day.
 Drunkenness, gambling and disorder were rampant, and conservative observ- CTS predict the most serious conse- quences. There is gold everywhere, but the people of Dawson want food more than they want gold now.
 At St. Michaers there are not enough u, and scores of people are living in tents.
 Shortly before the Cleveland left St. MichaePs two of the expeditions, those of the National City and of the South Coast, held indignation meetings. threat ening dire vengeance upon thcse who had brought them there and were unable to carry them farther They are stranded at St. MichaPs and cannot possibly reach Dawson before next spring.
 If fortune favors four vessels will be able to reach Dawson from St. Michaeps before the river Yukon freezes. They will carry provisions, but it is by no means certain that they will reach the Klondyke. They offer the only hope, however for a renewal of supplies.
 August 2S-The Excelsior left St. Mi- chaeps. Reports were current of treas ure on her amounting to a million dol lars, but there are none on the Cleve- land who can verify this assertion.
 The Excelsior was caught on the dan- gerous flats of the Yukon and broke two blades of her propeller. When the Cleveland reached Onalaska she found the Excelsior undergoing repairs. It is probable that she left Onalaska last Thursday to resume her journey south.
 Shortly before the Cleveland left for sea, the United States revenue cutter Bear put into St. Michaels. with Capt. xUb;ta h;., wife tho fret a ,,d fo,,rta. .e fcers of the steam whaIer~ Nevach. They related terrible story of death in the arctic.
 The Nevach was caught In m ice pack