The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-25

Choynski, the Cousin Of the Pu-
gilist Identified AS one of the
Dead-Tha Clothes Stripped From
the Body and the Flesh Horribly
Mangled and Bruised-Great Elk
citement Along the Trail Which
Is strewn With wreckage.
Port Townsend. Wssh. sept. 2i-The
tug Pioneer Captain Ni-lsoa, arrived
here at 3 c'clcc5 this morning direct
from SHaguay VITA news Of a Lard
glacier slide on the Dyea tran last
Saturday accompanied by tle loss of
the lives Of several people, the exact
number net being known. Eighteen
persons in all, seventeen men and enc
woman. are reported missing and While
1t is not supposed that nlcrc than seTcie
or eight were Filled. il would net s-r-
Prise rsose who Brought cut the rows
to saarn later trat nola Of the missing
would ever turn up alive TIE accident
IS deserted by some as q snoWs1ida.
ard by others as - tearing loose by
the rains Of hage sf9Sr tEat eyer
hung S.i6eD camp and tte TRAIL me
uaws reaCled Skagray Sunday evening
and the tug Pioneer left there 81
O'clock Meacay nec-n-n5.
THE STORY OF SPRAGUE.
WTliam spragua bre.car of Captain
SpYagUe Of the tug SEA Lion, was q
passenger on tae Pioneer ara he tells
the following story of the destructive
ri Ia n 70 slide
on Sunday evening fie.m man Wllo
claimed 10 have witnessed it. The ac-
c.5eEt was caused by le.e rain. During
the first paTt CT tfie weak IL vas cold
and ice had formed al around On
Thursday { change came ard THURSDAY
night snd Friday mcTn.nG mere was
warm lain, alcOInpa -l1d b. a chl-iooll
wind Whichs UlaWe1 cut everything.
The rain cana down in torrents, tie
worst storm CT tlra year for that sec
tioA, and continued all Friday and Sat
Urday forenoon
About noon on Saturday the Slide
came, striking the Dye, tran at sheep
camp. Just what caused il cCald ror
he told, but there came a slide Of earth
and rocks and Ndr5- thai t1rile9 al
in its path. Sheep camp Was in the
path Of the feed, and il was literally
wiped out Of existence. fortunately.
there were no many people tkeTe on
AAl1N Qd-4 1I-t-lletl GA- NANAA AAAC A-NA-AAbAA
usually at the camp There s Ull9!e
the loss OF life occurred Everybody
left Their GUSTS and la SSasa Leaih4
and fed for ife. Some were caught in
the d5lUge. Just how many may never
be known. bGt IS were missing alto
getheF. Two of thsm were ml.l and
wife, named ETo!sstt, ! believe, VINO
were running restaurant at Sheep
camp. Il is S5lieVed that the woman
q, least Vas lost. No trace CT either of
them had been found CT reported UP
10 the time ! let Skuguay.
BODY OF CHOYNSKL
"One hody mad been found 1t was
that OF ChCynSki. 2 cousin of the prize
fighter Be was found quarter of q
mile from Were he had been camped
On the trail ana Vas in a terrasle con-
diti0n when discovered. An his clothes
had been torn from his body, which
was bruised ard managed but he was
not dead when discovered. He was
suffering untold agony and died within
a short time after being found. Is Guy
or dVe other missing men were Indian
packers. and one VI them IS reported
20 have had 81 0o0 with him and was
Just starting ont for Dysa When the
Side came There IS greaS excitement
along the tran and at Dvea and Ska
gday over the report of ;ha big side,
and i was reported that 50 persons had
been killed, but the facts are as [ have
stated them already"
Charles Finn, assistant engineer Of
the Pioneer, confirms the story told by
Mr.. Sprasue. He MAS on the shore al
Skaguay III o'clock Monday morn
ing and made dIligent inquiries about
The reported Landslide. Mr.. Finn be-
i-eVes that one ef The glaciers which
are 10 be seen hanging along the noun
lain sides Was washed out by the heavy
nd 1n1
The am, dealing destruction along its
path Just before reaching the trail
and Sheep Camp this glacier swept
through 4 lake Al the fooC of one OF the
hills and Instantly there was an exit
for the lake, and its waters followed
the glacier. This. Mr.. Finn believes. is
a re3Sona bic explanation Of the acct
dent and ne is cepeain from what he
heard while on shore that 81 least seven
were drowned or crushed 10 death in
The slide.
DESTRUCTION EVERYWHERE.
The slide left destruction along IL
path said Mr.. Finn, "aad the water.
@eHc SO swollen that the fcOcbridge al
the mouth OF Skaguay river. which was
erected ~ the time Of the drownins
there was washed out One OF the
men talk tn wss an Indian packer
who mad escaped the food by running
ebdiU lie declared I8at II was me WOfSi
storm he had ever known in that c3un-
try. h knew the names Of several OF
the missing, but Vas seen Joo drunl
afteC landing IN Skaguay to talk in
diligently on any subject. There is
CONSERVATION at Dyea and Skaguay
over the report Of the accident, and il
VIII deter hundreds from trying ts
make It across this year I was toll
thai the Skasuay trial was literally oh.
liberated and that there is no use try.
ing 20 get over il again this year
Charles Tfnsley, chief engineer of tFl>
tug Pioneer, talked With an Indian whC
witnessed the avalanche at Sheer
Camp. The Indian called it a snow.
slide and said il carried everything be-
fore it down the mountain side. and il
was his belief that all reported missing
would be found dead. But the Indian
was very much excited and TinsIe,
thinks only a few We're killed.
WORST EVER KNOWN.
Captain Nelson OF the Pioneer de-
scribes the rain storm of last week a;
Skaguay as the worst he ever wit
messed.
at came down in torrents and there