The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-09-11
WILL STARVE TO DEATH
Frightful Suffering Awaits the
Miners in Dawson.
PROVISIONS CANNOT LAST
Serious Disaster To the Anderson Her
Fate Unknown 90 Trouble ON the
Humboldt Forty-Two Men
Lose Their Lives.

SEATTLE. Wash. Sept. l0.-Thc steamer
Cleveland. Captain Hall. l. days from
~. Michacls arrived this evening with
es passengers and about 4oo.no IN
gold dust. This amount II only ap-
proximate a. many nj The miners IN
beard refuse To state the exact amounts
they broughewith them. pursrr J. ".
Whitbrook Of the Cleveland had In his
charge sIto.ooo and a. states that this
amount, together with other sums on
hoard Ia his knowledge, viii aggrc-
gate about s40e. .ou0. Thirty eight of the
passengers came from the gold fields
and - were csrprntrrs Mhn vent to
81. Michaei's 70 construct boats for the
North American Trading and Trans
poriation company.
The Yukon river steamer y. Is. Woarc
of the North American Trading and
Transportation company, cn route from
DAVIS city to ~. Michaels. struck
on a sandhar 20 miles below circle city
July ~ The river was nj "A very low
stage and the passeng'rs remained IN
hoard until Aug. Is, when the steamer
Healy. down the river took them OH
and conveyed ihrm Ia 81 Michacfs,
where they tvpk passage ON The steam
ers Excelsiof and cleveland Tor san
Francisco and Seattle The Mearc was
hard aground and il Is doubtful IL she
viii get on.
Tn. story Of the fabulous wealth of
tn, kiondyke. sonanYa and Eldorado
and other creeks tributary L. the lu-
kon Is rctold by III, rturning miners,
but the warr,rE Tn'ch has already
been given Ia wait until spring Is re-
mated and .mphasizad by everyone On
beard the Cleveland. They say that
hundreds must go hungry this winter
aud that many VIII certainly starNc 10
Il, ath, as IN. food supply In The mining
=, gions is far below The quantity ne
quired To keep alive thosc ALREADY IN
and around Dawson city. ~ the steam
.rs fail 10 get up the river the suffer-
irgs viii be something terrible on
July .s the stores Of the Alaska COM
m,rcial company and the North Amer
lean Trading and Transportation com-
psny Nee closed aud notices posted on
their doors that no NOR. PROVISIONS
would lie sold urtH the arrival of an
other steamer fr"m st. Michael's. The
steamer Excelsior of san Francisco left
81. Michaels two days before the
Cleveland. but when three days out
she broke two propeller blades 10y run
ming on bar in Bering sea and put into
! Dutch harbor for repairs. The Excel
sior has ON board about 100 passengers
| and II H. stated she has gold dust
amounting Ia nearly a million dollars.
Perhaps the most serious disaster
which has bcfalleD any of the eNpedi-
tons II that which may have over
taken the old side-whocl steamer Eliza
/ Anderson. This craft. In company with
the stern wheeler W X. M,rNin. the
schooner W. b. Bryant and tug j. T.,
| Holyok.. the latter towing barge. the
| old Polytoski. sailed from Puget sound
/ for 81 MicharIs Il month ago. The
captain Of the Cleveland reports that
"n Aug. "a heavy gale sprang up oil
/ Kodiak ana that the Eliza Anderson
became separated from IN. rst of the
notilla A short time previously she
had signalod Ia the Holyoke that she
was short of coal and asked the tug 10
come to her assistance. Before the lat
ter could do So the barge she WAS tow
| ing broke away aud the IInlyokr Was
forced to go in search of a. While she
was absent the Eliza Anderson was
blown ouI of sight of the other vessels
| and her fate is unknown. IL is possible
that she managed tn reach Kodiak IL
! an optimistic opinion cherished by the
| captain of the liolyokc.
The Anderson sailed from Seattle
! Aug. 10 for ST. Michael's. where she
/ had expected 10 transfer the freight
and pass.ngers to the steamer MeIwin
and scow carried NJ on the odd Rus
sian gunboat polytuski. which left Sc-
attic the sam" day. The Anderson
carried l25 passrnRers and $50 tons of
/ freight She was commanded by cap
\ tain Tom Powers one uf the best
known skippers on th" Pacific coast
| The Anderson was the oldrs, boat ui.
the sound having been built M Port
| land IN 1889 She had been rebuilt once
I sinc. the FIRST "trip out oi thu Columbia
4 river aud had been oycThaulcd aud Re-
! paired several times. She was subject
\ "a Ia a process of this kind jus, before
leaving seattle and Inspectors of Hulls
aud Boilers Bryant and cherry pro.
nounccd her safe.
The cleveland passed tn" steamer
| Humboldt - miles out frnm 81. Mich
! acts on sunday. Aug ~ Before de-
partur. ~ the Humboldt from S"attl,
iumors Of strife among the members
of the party had been frequent. When
the Cleveland put In to Dutch hRrbui
| for coal nn her down trip Captain Hal
| Was Informed that thp diss'nsions had
/ reached such an acui" stage that op.I
3 thr,ats Wsio made ~ lAnchmg Mayor
Wood. ~ fore the Humboldt lrfi then
however, q truce gns patched W. aud
she proceeded on her voyage Ia 81
Micha"ls
Albert Bryan Of Seattle. an rlnctri
rian, WhJ had been working at ~
Mirharls returned on the cleveland
Bryan said IN an interview Th
Cleveland was delayed ut 81. Michnel'
several days aga by difficulty In un
loading II is SLOW ana tedious wor,
After SO started We encountered la
winds nearly all The way About tW
hours out II 81 Miohaels We met IA
Humboldt and Al Inalaska the steam
er Excelsior, which had left two day
hDfpf" Vo dl1, and ran on sand bar l
tho -, hiring Sta. uNrrto"k us. Sop
after We met IA, Merwin and the Poly
toSkI. and lbay told us they had lcf
the Eliza Anderson two day. 10, for
dying signals ~ distress. bciug out "a
food and water The revenue rutsT
Grant wac to start from Dutrh hatbu
tp go t the Andorsun's assistant,
The -i"umeiS Bertha and South coas
wcr" thcrp and the brig Courtney For
and the srhoourrs Fisher Er,rhrTs gr
Bshrinr sea we're also ln p,.i Th
river Steamer Hamilton. upon IS bich ~
Nerr working. started up tbs river u
the 10th About eu ~ tn ltsseucai
ou thu cleveland and ENcrlsipr un va
up ifip puol'l their fur.Un,-. u3urh