The record-union., 1897-09-11

Miss I1otta Burns, 81 ,000 Charles En-
gle, $4,000; A P Barber, $4,000;
Fritz h>loak, $12, 600; Samuel Mat
thews, $1,000; George Reynolds, $1,000;
NJ. Misamore, $1,000; Hans Anderson,
$500; B. Anderson, 1000.
Perhaps the most serious disaster
which has befallen any of the expedi-
tions IS that which may have overtaken
the old side wheel steamer Eliza An
derson which, in company with the
stern wheeler w. X Merwin. the
schooner w. ]. Bryant and the tug ].
b. Holyoke, the latter towing a barge.
the old Poly-Toski, sailed from Puget
Sound for st. Michaels a month ago
The Captain of the Cleveland reports
that on August 9th a heavy gale
spranS up off Kodiak, and the Eliza
Anderson broke away from the rest of
the fotilla. A short time previously
she had signaled to the Holyoke that
she was short of coal. and asked the
tug TO come to her assistance. Before
the latter could do so the barge she
was towing broke away and she was
forced to go in search of it. While she
was absent the Eliza Anderson was
blown out of sight of the other two
IL. L
is possible that she may have reached
Kodiak
The Captain of the Holyoke has no
idea that the Eliza Anderson is in Sc
rious danger, but believes she made
Kodiak in safety.
The Anderson sailed from Seattle Au-
gust 10th for St. MichaeIs. where she
expected to transfer her freight and
passengers to the steamer Merwin and
scow carried upon the old gunboat
PolytOski, which left Seattle on the
same Gay. The Anderson carried 125
passengers and about 80 tons of
freight. She was commanded by Cap
tain Tom Brown, one of the best
known shippers on the Pacific Coast.
The Anderson was one of the oldest
boats on the Sound having been built at
Portland in 1859. She was rebuilt once
since the first trip on the Colunbi.
River, and was overhauled and repaired
several times. She was subjected to A.
process Of this kind just before leaving
Seattle, and the Inspectors of Hulls and
Boilers, Bryan and Cherry, after goins
through her from stem to stern. pro-
nounced her safe.
The Cleveland passed the steamer
Humboldt thirtY-five miles out from
St Michaels on Sunday. August Doth.
Before the departure of the Humboldt
from Seattle rumors of strife among
the members of her party were fire.
quent
When the Cleveland put into Dutch
Harbor for coal on her down trip Cap
tain Hall was informed that the dis
sensiOns had reached such an acute
stage that open threats were made of
lynching MAYOR Wood Before the
Humboldt left. however. truce was
patched up and she proceeded on her
voyage to st. Michaels
Albert BRYAN of Seattle. who re-
turned on the Cleveland, was sent UP to
St Michaels by the Morgan Brothers
of Seattle to take charge of putting an
electric plant on the steamer Hamilton.
and there We're twenty-seven of the
crew which returned with him. Mr.
Bryan said: ''The Cleveland was DELAYED
at St Michaels several days by diff
Guilty in unloading. Tt IS slow and
tedious work. After we started we en-
eountered head winds nearly all the
Way. About two hours out of st. Mich
aels We met the Humboldt and at Una
laska the steamer Excelsior which left
two days before we did and ran on a
sand bar in the Behring Sea. Soon
after we met the Merwin and the Poly
toski. and they told us they had seen
the Eliza Anderson two days before
flying signals of distress, being out of
food and coal. The revenue cutter
Grant was to start from Dutch Harbor
to go to the Anderson's assistance.
Steamers Bertha and South Coast were
there and the brig Courtney was in
port. The river steamer Hamilton.
which we were working on, started up
the river on the 10th. About sixty of
the passengers on the Cleveland up
trip pooled their fortunes and bought
the river steamer st. Michaels and
barge for $4,000, and started up the
river. Each of the sixty men took
LOCO pounds of provisions and
tools. P. c. Richardson's steamer
which CaDtain Worth is to take up
was about ready to start up the river
when we left. She had full cargo
and had any number of passengers.
willis Carr. who took a load of
goods up for Seattle merchants. is sell
ing them at a good figure Every one
who came out that saw reported that
prices at Dawson City are away up and
in fact nothing can be bought at ALL
Charles Engle of New York. who has
been in Yukon for three years. comes
out with his wife and four children. He
sold out his interests there and prac-
tically fed for fear of starvation
The people who are going in there
this winter" he said, ARE crazy. There
viii be 10000 people in there this win
ter and very little to feed them. When
left Dawson there was at least 5000
people there and they We're coming in
at the rate of 40 to 80 a day. Very lit
tie attempt was made to build houses.
and if they do not want to freeze to
death the coming winter they viii have
to take their small boats and go down
the river Immediately to Circle City or
Forty Mile
Il started down from Dawson on the
Weare. and when that steamer ran
aground on the bar near Circle City 1
got aboard the Healy with my family
and came out down to St. MichaeIs.
The Weare is undoubtedly gone, for un-
til summer and her services is a severe
loss to the miners as all the boats are
needed that can possibly be brought
into requisition to get supplies up the
river. The Humboldts passengers will
not get to Dawson this winter. as it is
a Ions trip UP the river and the Yukon
will freeze before they reach their des-
tination. Probably but few of the men
who are rushing into the Yukon country
are fit for work I should say not more
than one-third of them can cope with
the difficulties and hardships of the
life. 1t is all that an ordinary man can
do to exist 1t takes two weeks to
sink a shaft to bedrock anywhere. If it
turns ont well q man must hr.nn 70