The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-26

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na7r.41 make cut a Ii~t Of the losers. WITH
the amounts they lost. as follows
Har~v Roae--s. Of san Francisco. No
arx a complies outfit
q II. Cooper. outfit and cash valued AZ
go
p cr~estsnhctrn. OUTFIT ard size cash
frank I.smbs-g outfit. tents and casa
amounting 70 nearly $50
III. c. frgiss. tsse cash and . complete
cy.tAt purchased IN Seattle
Perry E. Jackson. slS IN cash. clothing
ard outfit
osltrt and stock
Higgins ard Baa.z, OF Seattle. lost psrt
OF thefr S-ock % liquors.
Charles Meadows. called Arizona Cnar-
ley lost bis outfit and tent
Sore Of these are much fl need, and y
IS likely that Seattle people will help them
cut
Mr. BeriIner said that there were az least
40 people above she camp. between Isse
Log house and the summit. Not ali OK
these we're Il the path OF the avalanche,
but II IS known that the torrent caught
IN It's icy grasp more than one unsortEG-
ate
The miners at the camp hastily organ
fzed a searching committee. including II.
=
Indian. They al once set to work TO ascer-
tain the number OF lives lost, but had sue
ceeced only In determining the fact that
TIE two people who were seen cEnging TOT
dear life 70 the tent as IL shot by the camp
had not been seen again.
The residents al the camp. a. wen "a
the miners stopping there made Individual
efforts TO get the saved together and See
ho~ many were missing. On account OF
the fact that the camp was changing ev-
cry day, as people came and passed. II was
difficult @ obtain an accurate estimate OF
the number who were there the night De-
fore the food. Dir. Berllner expressed his
belief that not more than five persons were
drowned.
Mr.. BerIiner resigned . position worth
$3.50 per month In the assessors office at
San Francisco TO go 10 Alaska. He was
secretary 10 John ID. Spreckels during ths
campaign Of lsS6.
Col. Davis Account
Among the passengers was Col. o. V.
Davis who was just below Sheep camp
when the landslide occurred 1T was just
a week ago yesterday morning" he said
70 a reporter at the Occidental hotel last
night. II had come over the summit. and
was just below the camp on the tran
There had been heavy and almost continu-
Gus rain for two weeks. with now and then
as the crater. This caused the formation
OF q vast pond or lake. which gradually
honeycombed the crater and finally broke
down the copflning wan. carrying every
thing before IL. II was more Ike the
bursting OF a great dam than anything
else. A mile above the camp there Is a
deep and narrow gorge into which the
whole vast food was compressed Coming
on toward the camp the channel OF The
81 nd H0n1
spread with devastating force. Most of the
people had warning enough TO seek safety
In flight. Even then some OF them were
caught by the swirling water. and were
waist deep In IL before they could struggle
out. Just along the low ground nearest
the stream Arizona Charlie and other
gamblers had their tents, and these. OF
course. were the first TO be swept away.
Choynski is the only man known to have
been killed. AT first It was reported that
DIR. and Mrs. Smith were killed. but I
heard on good authority just before left
Skaguay that the report was unfounded.
Most OF the talk that I have heard about
the disaster is exaggerated. or course a
lot Of tents and clothing were swept away.
and probably 5000 TO 5000 pounds of pro-
visions. / noticed as l came down from
the summit that there were some ten or a
dozen tents on the line OF the avalanche
above Sheep camp. These were probably
swept away.
II went over as far as Lake I4.nderrnan.
| and would have gone on down but that
came TO the conclusion II was suicidal 10
| 20 in now. At Lindermau / met a man,
| whose name cannot now recall. who was
| Just twenty-five days out from Dawson.
| As TO the general situation as reported by
him. can simply say that showed him
| a Post-Intelligencer OF the 16th and he
corrobOrated every statement OF its Klon-
| dixie news. Supplies are already running
| short at Dawson. and no more are to be
had at any price. lie said that unless an
additional supply came In by river steamer
very soon suffering would begin. and he
| looks for much suffering through the win
ter. He says that the news has reached
Dawson that there is some whisky on It's
way up the river and that he firmly be-
heves the whisky will be spilled and the
men who bring Il in win be lynched. He
told me OF several instances OF strikes on
stewart river recently made. running 81 000
and s. coo. and thinks there is going TO be
great wealth urearthed there He also re-
ported much sickness.
Not only az Dawson. but along the river
there Is going 10 be suffering. Men are
stiil starting down the river from Under
man, and some OF them are going IN with
but 6QQ pounds OF grub. Some OF the
scenes one witnesses are pathetic. Men
bending every energy 10 get forward and
set unable 20 move. \ young man who Is
with me here. 4. II. Homan. OF Cleveland,
O. packed all his stuff 1000 pounds as
far w a Crater lake. There ne came to a
| halt. His money was gone. Without money
| he could get no further, He sold his outfit
and came back. Many viii be unable 10
! get away. There VIII be large camps this
winter az I.inderman and Sheep camp.
ION the summit I met Judge Sullivan.
! % Cosax Al LindeTman I met Senator
/ Range Of Populistie fame He started on
/ down the river. leaving Lindermaa about
September IS. I also met on the trail
| Arthur Cppenheimer. OF Spokane Wills
4 81 Spokane, who used 20 be conductor on
! the Oreson Railway and Navigation, I
/ found stiil a. Skaguay."
/ Great assistance was rendered the desI-
4 tute prospeCtors who had been victims Of
/ the avalanche by Capt Roberts. Purser
/ q. r. Th0rndyke and the officers OF the
+ steamer CRY 4 Seattle. and these tes laad
/ their appreciation by adopting q resolu-
, ton extending a vote OF thanks 10 these
/ officers This vas signed by Denny NJ
: ByoEan OF Seattle, Henry Hfie. OF Ju-
/ ueau. Col. .. V. Davis. OF spokane; Or
/ Il T. Pinuey. Of Oakland: Ready. OF
/ Montreal: Charles w. Seymour. OF Ia
/ soma. sol Herl'uer. % san Francisco. ard
/ George c. Marks. Of Los Angeles
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