The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-14
AT SEA IN A TUB
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES ABOARD
TIE ELIZA ANDERSON.
Fitted Out and Dispatched to Alaska Dur
ing the Late Rush For Passage ThIther,
and Her Voyage One Continuous Series
of Mishaps-Ber Owners Aware OF Her
Unseaworthioess When They sent Her
Out-Passengers From Dawson City Re-
late Similar Misadventures on the Down
Trip-starvatiOn in the klondike-


| Trip-starvation In the Klondike.
Seattle, Wash, Sept. 13.-The steamer
Humboldt arrived this morning from st
| Michaels. She brought fourteen pas
sengers and about $4,000 in gold. The
Humboldt also brought the news that
| the side-wheel steamer Eliza Anderson,
from Seattle, which was reported lost,
is safe in Dutch Harbor.
The Humboldt was eleven days from
/ st. Michaels. The steamer Eliza An
derson is anchored in Dutch Harbor,
now detained by revenue officers. Her
! passengers have by this time entered
| the Bering Sea on a schooner chartered
| for that purpose. Two passengers from
! the Anderson were so frightened that
| they gave up their search for gold ana
returned south on the steamer Hum
| boldt. Mayor Wood OF Seattle, who
chartered the Humboldt, is still at St.
Michaels, but letters received from Dyea
/ indicate that the stories OF dissention
and strife on the part of the members
or his expedition are untrue.
UNTOLD WEALTH-TO GET.
The Humboldt brings back advices
which reiterate the stories of the untold
| wealth of the Klondike and Yukon and
! verify the previous rumors OF the short
age Of the food supply in the interior.
There will be privatiOn, sickness,
starvation, scurvy and death on the Yu-
10, ic hat ret iY1a q
gold hunters say
Only seven OF the passengers on the
Humboldt have money. 1t is impossible
to induce them to say how much money
they have, but the purser gives the fol-
lowing figures: G. A. Wann, $500; E.
T. Turner, $500; J. F. Crieder, 81 ,00o; W.
Urqunart, $500; j. D. Roger. $4,000; d. F..
Atkins, $4,000; Captain J. Whitesides
$4,000.
TO DODGE STARVATION.
]. n. Secretan, who came back on the
Humboldt, and who has but very little
cash, says ne came out TO avoid starry
ing at Dawson. Said he:
Thus far upwards of 1900 men have
pushed their way over the passes from
Skaguay and Dyea and have arrived at
Dawson City. The influx Of miners over
the passes has frightened the old timers
in the interior and all that cane are
, coming out to winter in the states and
thus avoid what they believe will be a
winter of hardship, suffering, and, per-
haps. murder and thievery.
I'VE left Dawson on July 26, on the
steamer P. B. Ware At midnight on
the 9th, the steamer ran on bar be-
low Circle City. After waiting seven
teen days the passengers were trans
ferred to the steamer Healy and arrived
at st. Michaels August 25. The next
day We took theExcelsior TO San Fran
cisco. On the morning of August %, the
Excelsior went aground in ten feet OF
water in Boring Sea, seventy miles from
land. The passengers moved seventy
tons of coal from her hold TO lighter,
and at midnight she fioated, having
broken two blades Of her propeller. She
arrived at Unalaska September /. On
the second day they tried TO beach her
and on the third succeeded. On the
fourth they took off her propeller and
on the fifth put on a new one. She sail
ed via Unger for Dutch Harbor Septem-
Der 6. where We took the Humboldt for
Seattle. On the way from Dawson 1
have paid three fares. First to the
North American Trading and Transport
tation company for passage to Seattle.
then S120 10 the Excelsior and again SO
to the Humboldt"
A SERIES OF MISHAPS.
w. B. Price of Danville, H., who
went up on the Eliza Anderson, and
who left that vessel at Dutch Harbor,
returned on the Humboldt. He said:
The entire trip was a series OF mis-
hops. The third day out from Dixon's
Entrance bad weather came on and the
wind blew terrifically. The waves would
lift the guard up and leap in under it.
During the first night after the storm
began, the rudder chain broke five times
OF course after this broke there was no
controlling the boat. Every minute 1t
seemed that she would go over The
passengers were thrown out Of their
hunks. The crew was insufficient 70
man the pumps. SO the passengers took
them in charge. 1 was put in command
and divided the passengers up into
squads OF four men each. Each squad
worked two hours. | also did the sound
ing 10 see how much water there was.
We kept this up for forty-eight hours
and during that time the Anderson
dr!fted back four miles. The second
day OF our trouble the other vessels OF
the fleet were in sight. Then the Mer-
win. which was being towei by the
Holyoke. along with the Bryant and
Poltofsky. broke loose and the captain
OF the Holyoke turned about with the
other two boats in tow and picked up
the Merwin. The next place We reach
ed was ST. Paul on Kodiak Island. We
should have taken on coal there 70 get
TO Dutch Harbor. but could not get il.
and We were forced 70 cruise along
shore. We arrived within 100 miles OF
Dutch Haroor when our coal gave out.
were rigging a small boat 20 send out
for relief when We sighted a small fish
ing smack with one man in il. He told
US Ne could reach an abandoned can
merry about twenty miles distant. where
coal had been lying for FIVE or six years.
We had enough coal 10 reach that
point All day long the passengers WORK
ed in a drizzllng rain TO take on coal
and finally. on September 4. We reached
Dutch Haroor. Captain Hooper, OF the
revenue squadron. boarded Us at Dutch
Harbor and seeing the unworthy condi-
ton OF the Anderson forbade her 20 so
further. II was no. necessary for him
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