The record-union., 1897-09-14


VIII Result Before the Winter
Is Over.
SEATTLE. Sept. 13.-The steamer
Humboldt arrived this morning from st.
Michaels. She brings fourteen passen-
gers and about $4,000 in gold. The
Humboldt also brings the news that
the sidewheel steamer Eliza Anderson,
from Seattle, which was reported lost,
is safe at Dutch Harbor.
The Humboldt was eleven days from
St. Mfchaels. The steamer Eliza Ander-
son is anchored in Dutch Harbor, where
she arrived on the 4th instant, and
where she is now detained by revenue
officers. Her passengers have by this
time entered the Behring Sea on a
schooner chartered for that purpose.
Two of the passengers on the Anderson
were so frightened that they gave up
their search for gold, and returned south
OH the steamer Humboldt Mayor wood
of Seattle, who chartered the Humboldt,
is still at st. Michaels, but letters re-
ceived from him indicate that all is well
with him, and that the stories of dis
sension and strife on the part OF the
members of his expedition are untrue
The Humboldt brings back advices
which reiterate the stories of the untold
wealth of the Klondike and Yukon, and
verify the previous rumors of the short
| age of the food supply in the interior.
There will be privation, sickness, star
vation, scurvV and death on the Yukon
this winter" is what the returning gold
hunters all say.
Only seven of the passengers on the
Humboldt have mon4y It is impossible
| to induce them to say how much money
they have but the purser of the Hum
boldt gives the following figures: G..
A. Wanger, 5000; E. Turner, $500; J. f.
Crieder, $1,000; w. Urquhardt, 5000; J.
D. Rogers, $1,000: D. F. Atkins, $4,000;
Captain J. Whiteside, 81, 200.
j. N. Secretan, who came back on the
Humboldt, and who has but very little
cash, says he came out to avoid starva-
| ton at Dawson. Said he:
"Thus far upwards of l, 800 men have
pushed their way over the passes from
Skaguay and Dyea, and have arrived at
Dawson City. The influx of miners
over the passes has frightened the old
timers in the interior, and all that can
command money are coming out to win
| ter in the States, and thus avoid what
they believe will be a winter of hard
ship, suffering and perhaps murder and
thievery. We left Dawson on July
Goth on the steamer p. B. Weare. AT
midnight on the 9th the steamer ran on
| bar near Circle City. After waiting
seventeen days there we were trans
ferred to the steamer Healey, and ar
rived at st. Micha is on August 18th.
| Next day we took the Excelsior to San
Francisco. On the morning Of August
! 2Sth the Excelsior went aground in ten
| feet of water in the Behring Sea, seven
| ty miles from land. The passengers
| moved seventy tons of coal from her
hold to lighter, and at midnight she
foated, having broken two blades of
her propeller. She arrived at Unalaska
on September list. On the I'd they tried
to beach her, and on the Sd succeeded.
On the 4th they took off her propeller
and on the 5th put on a new one. She
sailed via Unger for Dutch Harbor on
| September 9th, where we took the Hum
boldt for Seattle. On the way from
Dawson 1 have paid three fares. First
to the North American Trading and
Transportation Company for passage to
Seattle, then S120 to the Excelsior, and
again $75 to the Humboldt"
w. B. Price of Danville, H., who
went up on the Eliza Anderson, and
who left that vessel at Dutch Harbor,
returned on the Humboldt. He said:
''The entire trip was a series of mis-
haps. The third day out from Dirions'
Entrance bad weather came on, and the
wind blew terrifically. The waves
would lift the guard up and leap in
| under it. During the first night after
the storm began the rudder chain broke
five times. Of course, after this broke,
there was no controlling the boat. Every
minute it seemed that she would go
over. The passengers were thrown out
of their hunks, the crew was INSULT
cient to man the pumps, so the passen-
gers took them in charge. / was put
in command, and divided the passengers
up into squads of four men each. Each
squad worked two hours. l also did
the sounding to see how much water
there was in the hold. We kept this up
for forty-eight hours, and during that
time the Anderson drifted back one
hundred miles. The second day Of our
trouble the other boats Of the fleet We're
in sight. Then the Merwin, which was
being towed by the Holyoke, along with
the Bryant and Politofsky, broke loose,
and the Captain of the Holyoke turned
| about with the other two boats in tow,
and picked up the Merwin.
1.-THE next place we reached was St
Paul, on the Kodiak Island. We should
have taken on coal slough there to get
to Dutch Harbor but could not get it.
After leaving St. Paul the sea was
heavy and we were forced to cruise
along the shore We arrived within 100
miles of Dutch Harbor when coal gave
out. We were rigging a small boat to
send out for relief, when we sighted a
small fishing smack with one man in it.
He told us we could reach an aban-
doned cannery about twenty miles dis
tant. where coal had been lying for five
or six years. We had enough coal to
reach that point. All day long the pas
sengers worked in a. drizzling rain TO
take on that coal, and finally on Sep
tember 4th we reached Dutch Harbor.
Captain Hooper of the revenue
squadron boarded us at Dutch Harbor
and seeing the unseaworthy condition
Of the Anderson, forbade her to go
further. 1t was not necessary for him to
go below deck, but Immediately upon
seeing that we had insufficient life boats
he gave the order to tie up there The
passengers of the Anderson, with the
exception of George Scott and myself.
raised 81 900 to charter the schooner
Barisoff to take the passengers from
there to st. Michaels. The conditions on