Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-09-18
THE MAD RUSH FOR GOLD
DEATH AND STARVATION OVER
TAKING kLONDIKERS.
Many Will BE Unable to Reach
Their DestinatiOn-Arrivn of
Cleveland.

amount is only approximate, as many
the exact amounts they brought with
them.
Purser j. w. T., Whitbeck of the
Cleveland had in his charge $l40,000
and he states that this amount, together
with other sums on board to his knowl-
edge, will aggregate about 100000.
Thirty eight OF the passengers came
from the gold fields and 27 were carpen
ters who went to st. Michaels to con
struct boats for the North American
Trading s. Transportation Company.
The Yukon river steamer z. b. Weare
of the North American Trading & Trans
portation Company, en- route from Daw-
son City to st. Nlichaels, struck on a
sand bar 80 miles below Circle City July
%. The river was at a low stage and
the passengers remained on board until
August Is, when the steamer Healy, go
ing down the river. took them off and
conveyed them to st. AIichaels. where
they took passage on the steamers EX-
celsior and Cleveland for San Francisco
and Seattle. The Wesre was hard
aground, and it is doubtful is she will get
Off
Reports of fabulous finds on the klon-
dixie. Eldorado. and creeks tributary to
the Yukon, are told by the returning
miners, but the warning which has been
already given, to wait until spring, is re-
peated and emphasized by every one on
board the Cleveland. They say that hun
dreds must 60 hungry this winter, and
that they will certainly starve to death,
as the food supply is far below the guam
tity required to keep alive those already
in and around Dawson City.
If the steamers fail to get up the river
the suffering will be something terrible.
On July 26 the Alaska Commercial Com
pany and the North American Trading &
Transportation Company We're closed and
notices posted on their doors that no
more provisions would be sold until the
arrival of the steamers from st. Mi
chael
The steamer Excelsior of San Fran
cisco left St. Michaels two days before
the Cleveland, but when three days out
she broke her propeller blades by running
on a bar in Bering sea, and put into
Dutch harbor for repairs.
The Excelsior has on board passen
gers, and it is stated she has gold dust
to the amount of nearly a million dol
lars.
Following is the passenger list Of the
Cleveland: a. J. Green. S. Croft, John
Guyer, James GaIligcr, Mrs. A. p. Hen
derson, L. V. Holder, p. Kelly, William
Lowden, i. +. Leonard. Samuel Mat
thews, John Quiner, George Reynolds,
Frank Segerin, III. Shredder, William
Sherman, T. j. Allen. H. Anderson, b.
Anderson, Mrs. T. A. Bieber, Miss Lotta
Burns, T. II. Beaumont and child. a.
Barker and wife, II. j. Burrows, A. Bolt
hoff Mike Broolardig, j. o. Berg, S. r..
Churchill Fritz kloak, Charles Engle,
wife and four children, George Forman,
Rudolph Flelr. G. II. Ross and M. MISC
mare.
Following is list Of the miners who
brought the largest amounts OF gold dust:
T. j. Allen $50 OGO; F. Segerin, $l7 900;
$1,000: Charles Engle, $4,000; a. ?. Bar
ber $4,000; Fritz Kloak, $4,000; Sam
uel Matthews, $1,000; George Reynolds,
$4,000; NJ. Misamore, $4,000; Hans An
derson, S25OO; B. Anderson, $4,000; Jas.
Gallger, S3OOO Bank of British Colum-
bia $4,000.
The Cleveland has on board three men
from the sealing schooner Aurora Bore
ais, who were lost from the vessel during
a dense fog last month. The men were
five davs and nights in an open boat
without food or water, when finally the
fog lifted and they put into Dutch har-
Dor.
NJ. Misamore Of Portland, Or, who was
a passenger by the Cleveland, brings
about $4,000. He was the sole represen-
tative on the Cleveland Of the newly dis
covered diggings cn Minook creek. 1t
was lack of food which forced him to
leave promising claim, and when he
goes in the spring it will be with com
plete outfit.
The Minook," he says, ''runs into the
About 60 men are working on the Mi
nook and its tributary, Hunter creek
Two brothers, Robert and Charles Carl
son, rich claim owners on Bonanza creek
died on July of typhoid fever. They
had sold their claims in the spring fol
$50,0OO and were preparing to leave the
country for the winter when stricken
down. The former partner of the Carl
sons is a passenger on the Excelsior Tic
is said to be lying at the point OF death
and may not reach San Francisco to en-
iov the wealth he has earned.
Mrs. A. p. Henderson of Chicago, one
Of the returning passengers, has been II
the Yukon since spring. Her trip was
for the purpose of gathering material tol
newspaper and magazine articles. Mrs
Henderson said: Il would not i've II
the Klondike country for all the gold
there is in it, Dawson City is one o.
the most immoral mining camps the
world has ever seen"
The Cleveland brought information
that a man named George German O
Detroit, Mich. who was employed there
as carpenter, died on August l8 from
complication of lung troubles. Before
his demise he was known to have in The
neighborhood Of $4,000 in his possession
but this money disappeared at the time
of his death, and no one knows what be
came of it.
The whisky traffic into the gold re
gions has assumed enormous proper
tions. One boat on the river, having
more cargo than she could carry up, de
stroyed portion Of the provision
aboard in order to take on a larger ship
ment of whisky. AS an inducement it il
said the company was paid an enormous
rate for the transportation of th
liquor. Several instances are related 0
people going up the river who have sol(
or left behind them provisions for th'
sake of taking liquor, which sells at al