Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-12-10
LATEST FROM KLONDIKE,
Greater Riches, Greater Horrors

Than Told In Earlier Reports---MIners
ON the steamer Seattle Had $500. OOO
in Gold and Receipts for $1,000. OoO
---Rich Claims Aside from the Khan
dike---2OOO People Snow Bound with
Scanty northumberland VIII
Die This Winter.
Information received by The Phoenix this
week direct from Seattle, gives the latest
news from klondike, brought by the 25
miners who leftAthere Oct. ii and 10. ar
irving in Seattle Nov. 2S. The faces ~
some of the men were frost bitten as thew
trudged through snow waist deep on their
way out to life, grub and sunshine. These
miners believe this winter will see such
scenes enacted in Dawson as were never
dreamed of by the thaughtless, improvi-
dent horde of fortune hunters who rushed
into that country without food.
There is golden hue to the story, how
ever, A dozen of those on the steamer
Seattle brought down gold and nuggets
valued at nearly 5000 600 One man had
a sack weighing over so pounds. The
miners also had drafts representing $780,
900 to 81 600, 900 deposited with the trad
ing companies before their departure.
These men say that the true story of
the richness of the ground on the Eldorado.
Bonanza and other streams lately discoy.
cred has never been told. They say the
country is richer even than described, and
that when the mines are again worked by
men who have something more than bad
bacon and little cold -four in their stom-
achs they will turn stream of yellow
wealth toward the States.
The reports of rich discoveries on sew
eral creeks and gulches is confirmed by
these men. They also confirm the story of
the order of the Canadian mounted police
to those not provided with provisions to
leave Dawson, and of the great scramble
to get to Fort Yukon and other places
down the river where there is more to eat.
Probably 1000 people are snow bound in the
Yukon valley without adequate provisions
for the winter. Only fear of the Canadian
mounted police has prevented the sacking
of the warehouses in which gold is stored.
A letter brought out from Dawson Oct. Is,
says thousands of men and scores of WON.
en- and children will be suffering from the
pangs of hunger and probably scurvy be.
fore spring. Hundreds of men are in
camp with a sack of flour, 40 pounds Of
bacon, rs pounds of beans and five pounds
of coffee to last until next spring. Hun.
dreds of new graves will fill the cemetery
back of Dawson before next May. Val.
liable claims which could not be bought 8
month ago for any price are now being
traded for provisions and men worth big
fortunes are sacrificing their possessions
for grub.
The men who aimed at Seattle were
able to reach the Alaskan coast by leaving
Dawson with Jack Dalton, one of the best
known men of the Yukon region and the
discoverer of the Dalton trail. He anC
his men went to Dawson with large sup
ply of meats which were sold at $1.25 anC
$3.50 per pound. The returned voyager:
suffered intensely in polling the boats W
the ice laden stream before they started
overland. They were snow-bound nint
days.
The steamers on the river failed to ge
down to Dawson in the fall as expected
and many men who were planning t
leave were compelled to face the winter!
terrors. Some will try to reach the coas
during the winter with dogs and sledges
Dysentry and fever were general at Daw
son last summer. An epidemic is pre-
dicted for next summer.