The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-11
DAWSON DISTRESS
MANY MUST STARVE IN THE ME-
TROPOLIS OF THE YUKON
COUNTRY.
FOOD SUPPLY ABOUT OUT
STORES HAVE NO LONGER ANY
THING TO SELL TO THE
MINERS.
STEAMER CLEVELAND AT SEATTLE
Nearly Half u Million in Gold Dust
Brought Back by the Return
I ing IxIOndikers.

SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 10.-The
steamship Cleveland, eleven days from
St MichaePs, arrived in the straits at
2:30 o'clock this morning. She brings
sixty-five passengers and about $780,
COO in gold dust. Thirty-eight of the
passengers are from the gold fields,
and twenty-seven are carpenters re-
turning from st. MichaePs, where they
went to construct boats for the North
American Transportation & Trading
company. The story of the fabulous
wealth of the Klondike, Bonanza, Ell
dorado and the other streams tribu-
tary to the Yukon is reiterated by the
returning miners, but the warning
which has already been given to stay
away from the gold field this winter
is emphasized by every one on board.
They say that hundreds of people
must go hungry this winter and that
many will certainly starve to death,
as the food supply in the country is
far below what will be required to
keep alive those already in Dawson
City.
On July rs the stores of the Alaska
Commercial company and the Amer
lean Transportation & Trading COM
pany at Dawson were closed and no.
tees posted on their doors that no
more provisions would be sold until
after another steamer arrived from
the mouth of the Yukon. The steamer
Excelsior, of San Francisco, left st.
MichaeI's two days before the Cleve-
land but when three days out she
broke a propeller blade and was COM
PEELED to lay up at Dutch Harbor for
repairs. The Cleveland left Dutch
Harbor Sept. 8, and the Excelsior was
expected to get away on the 9Th
The following is list of the miners VINO
T ]. Allen. $35 GOO; A. q. Segrin, $1,000; b.
Schroeder, ST 600; Miss Lolita Burns, 81 COO;
Charles Engle, $4,000; A.-P. Barber, sl0e09;
Fritz Kloak, $1,000; Samuel Mathews, $500:
George Reynolds, $1,000; Bank of British
Columbia, $4,000
The officers of the ship and all the re-
turning miners agree in telling OF the dls
tress at Dawson. The winter has set in at
the mining city of the frozen north. Those
who have been seeking gold now must seek
for food or starve While there may be
a tendancy to exaggerate the actual condition
of affairs there be no question that
famine threatens the adventurous men and
women who made their way to the klondlke.
Hundreds of unruly spirits are hooking 10
Dawson Threats Of violence are being made
on every side. Indignation meetings, heavy
with muttered threats of vengeance, are held
at 81. Michael > ny IHOSe WIZ rec lltIIS hoPSo
of advancing up the river and less Oh gettlng
back to civilization
The first signs Of winter are apparent On
the river Yukon, which is beginning to freeze
and in a few weeks will be closed. Enormous
prices are now being paid for food at Dawson
and it is impossible that more than four YES
sells with provisions can reach Dawson be-
fore the river is mass of ice
Perhaps the most serious disaster which
has befallen any of the expeditions is that
which may have overtaken the old side
wheel steamer Eliza Anderson. This craft,
in company with the stern wheeler w. K.
tug J. B. Hollyoke the latter towing a barge,
the old Polytoski, sailed from Puget sound
for St. MichaePs a month ago. The cap
tain of the Cleveland reports that on Aug.
"a heavy gale sprang up off Kodiak and
the Eliza Anderson became separated from
the rest of the fleet. Shortly previous she
had signaled the Holyoke that she was short
of coal, and asked the tug to come to her
assistance. Before the latter could do SO
the barge she was towing broke away, and
the Holyoke was forced to go in search of
it. While she was absent the Eliza Anderson
was blown out of sight of the other two yes
that she managed to reach Kodiak, an opin-
icn cherished by the captain of the Holyoke.
The Anderson carried 125 passengers.
Charles Engle, of New York city, who has
been in Yukon for three years, came out
with his wife and four children. He sold out
his interests there and practically fled for
fear of starvation. 1.-The people who are go
ing there this winter" he said, ARE crazy.
There will be 10000 people in there this
winter and very little to feed them. At
least 1,500 men will come out before winter