The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-18
AGROUND IN THE YUKON
SEVERAL STEAMERS FAST ON SAND
BARS AND FROZEN IN.
Return of Gold Seekers Who Failed
TO Reach the kIOndiI1e-COrrespOn
emit Dead ON HOOsier Creek.

VICTORIA, b. c., Oct. 1.-THE steamer
Danube has arrived, ten days from ST.
Mickaeps. She brought eighty-two passen-
gers, most of them men who failed to reach
the mines by the all-water route. Some got
as far as Fort Yukon and had to turn back.
There are twelve miners from Circle City,
who bring about $4,000 in gold dust Most
of them have been working around Circle
City, but few are interested in the Klon-
dixie claims. There is plenty of provisions
at Fort Yukon, but it is feared that if there
is rush from Dawson it will cause short
age farther down the river. 1t is predicted
that many men will perish in the attempt to
escape from starvation by coming down
the river.
The steamer p. B. Weare. after being on
a sandbar twenty days, got off and arrived
at ST. Michaers Sept. 90 She started up
again with load of freight, but it is feared
she will never get up the river. The steamer
Alice arrived at St. Michaers Sept. "a with
100 miners, and after starting up again on
the 27th ran aground at the mouth of the
river. The steamers Mare Island and Mer-
win tried to get up, but failed The Merwin
and Alice, at last accounts, were on a bar
and freezing up. The Mare Island had re-
Michaers. Few men, with very little gold,
We're at st. Michaels when the Danube left
and they will all come down on the Bertha.
The North American Transportation and
Trading Company will build their river
steamer at Unalaska on account of the
schooner Hueneme having been lost in
Uniak pass. Five other river steamers are
to be built at ST. MichaePs The ice was in
the upper river when the Weare started
down and icicles were a foot long on her
when she reached ST. MichaelS. The steam
ers Bertha, Cleveland, Portland, Excelslor,
Bear and Iakkame were at st. Michaels
when the Danube left, also the schooner
Queen.
A party which arrived at ST. Michaers
from Stebbins Oct say that the steamers
Merwin, Alice and Mare Island are frozen in
at the mouth of the Yukon and fears are en-
tertained that they will be destroyed when
the ice breaks UP in the spring. Passengers
who started up the river on these steamers
We're endeavoring to get to st. Michael S
overland. The steamer Healy, which, with
a barge, was loaded at st. Michaels, IN
loaded when the news came from Stepoms'
The Excelsior and steam schooner Navarro,
with a tow, arrived at ST. Michaels on
r. B. Tucker of Troy n. Y, correspond
ent of the Associated Press, died of exhaus-
ton on the trail few miles from Ram
part City He and a friend started out at
night, with little food, to locate claims on
Hoosier creek. They spent two days and
nights IN the WOcdS; tnen lnSy Turned Ddch
Tucker fell from exhaustion His friend
went for assistance but when it arrived
Tucker was dead
OF the men who reached st. Michaels re-
Gently most of them have been working for
wages in the vicinity of Circle City. They
made the trip to Fort Yukon in rowboats
and from there came down in steamers.
There was not 900 in the whole, crowd,
so that the rest of the boats this fall Will
bring very little treasure.
There is considerable talk among the men
who failed to get in of taking action against
the steamship companies which took them
UP, particularly against the owner of the
Eliza Anderson. OF a thousand odd men
who started since July not one reached the
mines Some are still at Fort Yukon, hoping
to get in early in the spring, but large
majority are corning south Mayor Wood,
of Seattle, and his party got their steamer
built and started up the river, but they
cannot go far, as they are sure to meet
floating ice if they escape the sandbars
There are now eighteen steamers on the
river, as against five last year so that there
will be plenty of food at Dawson soon
after the river opens in the spring. Some
of the men who reached Circle City on the
steamer Hamilton will try to push on to
Dawson over the Yukon. No news comes
from Dawson.