The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-11
A Terrible Tale Brought by
the Steamer Cleveland.
LAwLEsSNEss REIGNs SUPREME
Provisions Sufficient to. Supply the
Camp Cannot Possibly Be Taken
in Before the Closing of
the River.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept, 1O.-The Exam
iner prints an extra edition containing
the following news from Dawson City:
"OTTER POINT. B. c., Sept. 10.-The
steamer Cleveland has arrived from st.
Michaels, bringing with her from the
Yukon gold fields story of distress and
disaster. The miners she has on board
and officers in charge of the ship tell a
story of disorder and distress at Daw-
son.
Winter has set in at the mining city
of the frozen north, and the two great
stores of the place have closed their
doors, for they have nothing to sell.
Those who have been seeking gold must
now seek for food or starve.
While there may be tendency to ex-
aggerate the actual conditions of affairs,
there can be no question that famine
threatens all the venturesome men and
women who made their way to the
Klondike.
Hundreds of unruly spirits are flock
ing to Dawson. Threats of violence are
being made on every side.
ENORMOUS prices are now being paid
for food at Dawson, and it is impossible
that more than four vessels with provis-
ions can reach that camp before the riv-
er freezes.
Indignation meetings, heavy with
murmured threats of vengeance, have
been held at St. Michaels by those who
see no hope of advancing up the river,
and less OF getting back to civilization.
The first signs of winter are apparent
on the river Yukon, which is beginning to
freeze, and in few weeks will be closed
against all navigation. A mlshap has
come to the Excelsior, and from the
frozen north comes the story of another
disaster in which forty-two men lost
their lives.
On the Cleveland there are thirty
eight passe ngers who have come from
Dawson City. There are few miners in
this party that are able to tell of pros
perity. Most of them wish to exagger-
ate their possessions, and if one were to
believe the indefinite stories they tell he
would say the treasure ship with which
they come carried $4,000, 900. Captain
Hall. OF Cleveland, says he has 500, 900
in his safe. The purser believes he can
account for $3.50, 900 on board.
The Cleveland left st. Michaels August
29th. She has some of the passengers of
the P. B. Weare on board. The Weare
left Dawson City in time 20 connect with
the Portland had she not met with a
mishap and stuck on the flats above Cir
Gle City.
The miners from Dawson report that
on July 25th the stores of the Alaska
Commercial Company and the North
American Trading & Transportation
Company closed their doors, and an
nounced they had no more food to sell
When the announcement was made con-
sternation seized upon the people of
Dawson, with gold-seekers crowding in
at the rate of 20 to 80 per day. Drunk
eness and disorder, gambling and idle
ness were rampant.
At st. Michaels the condition of affairs
is also the cause of gravest concern.
There are not enough structures in town
to accommodate the crowd, and scores
of people are living in tents. Shortly
before the Cleveland left st. Michaels
two expeditions, those of the National
City and of the South Coast, held indig-