The herald., 1897-09-11

i of the provisions aboard in order tc
take on a. large shipment of whisky
Several instances are related of where
people going up the river have sold OF
left behind them provisions for the sake
l of taking on liquor, which sells at an
exorbitant price in the mining regions.
Capt c. F. Hall of the Cleveland is
most emphatic in his statement that
intense suffering will result at Dawson
| City and vicinity this winter on account
of scarcity of provisions. In an inter-
view he said:
Winter is setting in early than usual
and ice is already forming on the Yukon
| near shore. The North American Trad
| ing and Transportation company are
preparing to shelter at ST. Michaels 300
or 400 miners who intend to come down
| the river and spend the winter at St
Mchaels, The river steamers Bella
Hamilton and Alice, will go up the river
before the freeze-up. but it is doubtful
| if any of the expeditions now on their
way to st. Michaels will get up the river,
and the passengers will simply be COM
PEELED to stay at Dawson and consume
| their supplies. A few of the passen gers
taken up by the steamers National City
and South Coast have secured passage
on the river boats. but the most of them
are still at ST. Michaels. Half a dozen
newspaper men paid 800 extra and Wen
up on the Hamilton
| Captain Hall thinks the Portland. on
, her next trip. will bring down $1,000, GOO.
The following steamers have gone up
the Yukon this summer with provisions
and stores: j. ]. Healey. two trips,
$50 tons; 2. B. Weare, one trip. $50 TONS
Bella, two trips. 45O tons; Marguerite,
one trip. 500 tons; barges, $50 tons; C. H
Hamilton, one trip, 14O tons; total, 2S4O
tons.
A WBALER WRECKED
SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 10-JuSt be-
fore leaving ST. Michaels the survivors
of most disastrous wreck, in which AZ
men lost their lives reached the island.
Only nine persons live to tell the tale of
one of the most terrible trips ever taken
in Arctic waters. The steam whaler
Navarez. of San Francisco, cruising
in the Arctic waters, got caught in
foe. The particulars of the fearful
less of life which followed the unfortun-
ate shipwreck We're not obtained by any
of the passengers of the Cleveland, nor
by any of her crew. They left ST.
Michaels two hours after the survivors
were brought in by the revenue cutter
Bear, and were too busy getting ready
for their own journey to obtain the full
story. AS much of it as they know is
contained in the brief summary above,
and a few additional facts. After the
steamer became jammed in the ice, there
must have been part of the crew who
tried to get out by making their way
across the ice. There were 81 of these,
and they all perished. Eleven more
froze to death in the boat, leaving nine
survivors. These nine are Captain c.
A. Whiteside and wife, the first and
fourth mates and four seamen. They
made their way out in canvass canoe
and reached Cooper island. There they
raised signals of distress, which were
observed by the revenue cutter Bear,
cruising north of Point Barrow.
| The Navarez was a steamship of 1888
gross tonnage and 1345 net tonnage. She
| was. 26S feet long, 43 feet beam, and drew
121a feet of water. She was built in 1871
and was owned in San Francisco.
| Among the passengers on the Cleve-
lard was Charles Ross, whose home Is in
| the northwest territory. Ross ac-
panied the first Detachment of mounted
police into the Yukon country, and has
been there ever since. He was chief of
the scouts during the Riel rebellion in
! the northwest territory, and in that
campaign ssrved with Captain P. D.
Hughes of this city Mr. Ross, durin g
his residence on the Yukon, visited and
prospected in all of the promising min
| ing sections. He said that all of the
claims and tributaries of the Klondike,
which show any sort of promise, have
been located. During the summer he
| put in his time prospecting.
| Mr.. Ross believes that the American n
side of the line offers the best induce
| mentS to miners. He visited Forty
Mile Creek and the camps on it's trib-
utaries, and found them practically de-
serted, everybody having gone in the
rush to the Klondike. Joe Dyer and his
| partner Mathieson, We're working one
claim on Forty Mile Creek, from which
they took out during fifty days of the
summer $50,0O0
SAILORS SUFFERING
| SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10.-A spe-
| cial to the Call from Seattle gives addi-
| tional particulars of the rescue of part
OF the crew of the wrecked whaler Ne
varch, caught in the ice. Two hours be-
fore the Cleveland left st. Michaels Au-
gust 2Sth, the United Statesrevenue cut
ter Bear arrived in port, having on
| Captain and Mrs. Whiteside, Mates
| Blaine and Read, two seamen and boat
steerers Peter and Sanders of the Ns-
varch. They were transferred to the
Rosalie, having been picked UP by the
Bear at Cooper island, thirty miles east
of Point Barrow, on August 18th.
| The party had left their vessel Angus t
18th. They dragged a small canvas boa t
| over the ice with them, using it to ferry
across open stretches ond their course,
and after struggling in this way for
thirty hours without rest or sleep they
reached Cooper island, narrow point of
sand, and managed after hard strug-
gle to reach land.
| The survivors were in pitiable condi-
| ton from exposure and lack of food.
| They huddled together on the beach for
warmth, until the Bear saw their signal
and picked them up. The cutter had
been searching for the wrecked crew fol-
eight dayh, having heard from othei
vessels of the whaling fleet that the Ne
varch had been pinched in the ice pack
When, after several days cruising the
iwhaler was finally sighted and the Bear
attempted to steam toward her the way
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