The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-14
MESSAGE OF DEATH.
TALE OF DIARY WRITTEN BY A
PERIsHING MAN.
I he Fate of Blackstone. MolIiqae and
Bottcher Recorded by q Frozen
housekeeping Between Corpxes
On q 6iacier-A Faithful Dogs
Finding the Hody-In MemOriam.

Last Assistance TO His Master
Finding the Body-In Mcmoriam.
A diary written in the las. agonies OF
oeAta-s death from cold and from star
E3toa. Ia z bed chamber with the vast
dome of heaven as 3 ceiling and a grea;
glacial wall 10 echo back a requiem from
the ssa. should surely prove interesting.
Such IS the document left 0y Charles y.
Blackstone. who with two others, J. ".
Molilque and George j. Bottcher. per-
!sheG IN attempting to cross the glaciss.
between Sunrise Caty and Turnagain
arm. He wrote with fingers nuHlbed.
and In his brain the consciousness OF
two companions lying stiff In deata on
top of the Icy ciin rearing above the
beach on which he lay.
The diary Is dated Saturday, April T.
1884. /, tells OF the wanderings OF the
three men on the unfriendiy glacier. A
storm came up and drove them before
it-crove everything before IT, Their
treasured stores were torn from their
frozen fingers and whirled over the edge
OF the cliff. Ii was intensely cold. The
demon wind left the blankets and moose
hide. and beneath this covering the weak
travellers crept. The dumb sleep of ex-
That was Tuesday night, March 81. When
Blackstone awoke he found himself lying
between q corpse and a dying man.
Boltcher had frazen 10 death during the
night. MolIique died that morning. The
survivor himself had MS ears nose.
right forehnger and two left fingers
frozen. lie was alone with the storm
and the giacier-aHd the corpses His
dog Sport. an old companion, had been
ed nf ka ola rfa
be stayed there trying 10 think of some
lfe-saving plan. Blackstone imagined he
heard the howl OF his dog away below.
HE IS calling me. he thought. and on
Friday morning ne started down the
sheer face of the cliff working his way
1000 feet to the beach below. along an
almost perpendicular wall He does not
;el how this was accomplished. and
imagination fails TO account for the feat.
When Blackstone was found by the
searching parties, the half eaten carcass
OF dog was at his side. Only the bones
and hide of Sport remained to testify
how well he had served his master A
butcher knife. few cooking utensils
book and pencil and MoliQue'. cap were
scattered about the body. The writing
materials were beside the head as though
tossed there al the last moment. Black
stones body was lying on one-han of
"A quilt. with the other half tucked
around.
The story OF the fatal journey Of these
three men has been incompletely told
many times. Tney left Sunrise City
March 3 10 cross the portage with mail
to be transferred at Prince William
sound 10 the mail steamer. Bottcher in
tended 10 come to Seattle II was a cold
stormy day. with a north wind blowing
full Of Snow. The men were on snow
shoes and made Sswmill camp the first
day. Camp was made there for the
night. and the next day, with sieds. they
proceeded to the foot OF the glacier.
There they waited for Gladhough and
Petersen. who knew the route and also
intended TO 60 over. These two were
delayed. and Blackstone Bottcher and
Mollique took directions as TO the route
and started ahead. Instead OF keeping
10 tho left OF the mountain and reaching
salt water. these three went 10 the right
up the glacier. which ends n It's own
summit in a precipice overlooking the
sra. 1850 feet below. There they per-
ished
IN the latter part OF April passengers
arrived In Sunrise from the mail steam
err. They had landed and crossed the
portage without meeting the three men
Searching parties went out. The sue
cecsful ones were Charles Wiuoughby
and George Hail They left Sunrise Ci'y
MAY II with one months provisions.
Blackstone was found on the beach at
tha foot or the glacier. rs described.
May - and he was buried where he Law
The searchers next went around 10 the
summit II the glacier looking for the
bodies IF Mollique and Bottcher in de-
scrihing the trip afterward Wilouxhhy
said:
we punched about IN the snow with
shovel handle hut could find nothing
/ Of the bodies The time the mon persisted
: on the glacier there VAS fierce storm.
-nd iudEing from the way the wind
blew when W were thsre, Il "a no won
der hey were Unable - live under IT,
> The head % the glacier or false portage
IS barely quarter Of mile vide. ard
is funDel-shsped The wind draws
straight down from the mountain SIDE
untl il hits the beach picking no the
water thore IN sheets The width az The
Wind streak Is 800 feet wide with calm
on either side. \ sent occupied hy the
deed mn was pitched directly In tha
center ~ the wind s'r six. How Black
stone got Gown the face or the cliff VIII
always remain mystery"
Sunrise CITY was *8eaencd by tne fste
Of these three well knoHa ana pouu'ar
nrn. In q region 80 cHt oT from The
outside world every tfa seemed d0ubfv
precious Among she Ynznv express. nus
~ SORROW one has reached thiS ofHce
A. = special meeting - the Sunrise cry
Minstrel Cjue tse following resolutions
were at0pteG in meuortam:
Ky herras ". ] Mo,loue who lost his
lfc on thc glacier between Cook inlet
ard Prince William sound was mem
t.r az the Sanrise city Minstrel club
we. ire members - said club nouru
him SIS a member ard fr'ert. And he 3:
'Rcsolved. That We extend cur heart
felt sympathy a. hts family IN their sal
bereavement, ara be Il further
Resolved That a copy - SAID reso.
lr-fous 30 cent - tire Post-Inttrngencer
cf seattle for publication
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