The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-14
SERIES Of uISHApS
STORY OF THE VOYAGE OF THE
ELIZA ANDERSON 70
ALASKA.
AT FIRST REPORTED LOST.
STEAMER SAFE AT DUTCH HARBOR
AFTER A TRYING AND PERIL
Gus TRIP.
RICH FINDS IN THE KLoNDIkE.
Gold in Wonderful Quantities Dis
covered Along the Banks or
Sulphur Creeh.

SEATTLE, Sept. 13.-The steamer
Humboldt arrived this morning from
ST. MichaeTs She brings fourteen pas
sengers and about $4,000 in gold. The
Humboldt also brings news that the
side-wheaI steamer Eliza Anderson.
from Seattle, which was reported lest.
is safe in Dutch harbor-
The Humboldt was eleven days from
st. MichaePs. The steamer Eliza An
derson anchored in Dutch harpor on
the 4th inst, and is now detained by
the revenue officers. Her passengers
have by this time entered the BerinS
sea on a schooner chartered for that
purpose. Two Of the passengers on the
Anderson were so frightened that they
gave up their search for gold and re-
turned south on the steamer Humboldt
Mayor Wood, Of Seattle, who char
tered the Humboldt. is still at st. Mi
chaelS, but letters received from him
indicate that the stories Of dlSSenSlon
and strife between members of his eX-
petition are untrue. The Humboldt
brings back advices which retterate the
stories of the untold wealth of the
Klondike and Yukon and verify the
previous rumors Of the shortage Of
food supplies in the interior.
There will be privation, sickness.
starvation, scurvy and death on the
Yukon this winter" is what the return
ing gold hunters all say.
Only seven passengers of the Hum
boldt have money. 1t is impossible to
induce them to say how much money
they have, but the purser gives the
figures as: J. A. Manager, 5000; d.
Turner, $500; j. F. Creider, $4,000; W.
Uruquart, 500; J. T. Rogers $4,000: F.
f. Atkins, 81, 800: Capt. j. Whitesides.
$4,000
j. NJ. Secretan, who came back on the
Humboldt and who has but very little
cash, says he came out to avoid star
walton at Dawson. He said: THUS far
upwards of 1,500 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 Of them are COM
ing to winter in the states and thus
avoid what they believe will be a win
ter of hardship, suffering and probably
murder and thievery.
I'VE left Dawson on July 26 on the
steamer P B. Weare. At midnight on
the 9th the steamer ran on a bar be-
low Circle City. After waiting seven
teen days the passengers were trans
ferred to the steamer Healy and arriv-
ed at st. Michael's Aug. IS. The next
day we took the EXcelsio? to San Fran
cisco. On the morning of the 28th the
Excelsior went aground in ten feet Of
water in the Boring sea, seventy miles
from land. The passengers moved sew
enty tons of coal from her hold to a
lighter, and at midnight she hoated,
having broken two blades of her pro-
peller. she arrived at Onalaska Sept.
1. On the second day they tried to
beach her, and on the third succeeded.
On the fourth they took off her pro-
peller, and on the fifth put on new
one. She sailed, via Ungerford, Dutch
Harbor, Sept. 6, where we took the
Humboldt for Seattle. On the way
from Dawson City l have paid three
fares. The first to the North American
Trading and Transportation company
for transportation to Seattle, then $3.50
to the Excelsior, and again SIS to the
Humboldt"
w. b. Price, of Danville who went
Up on the Eliza Anderson and who
left that vessel at Dutch harbor re-
turned on the humboldt. He said:
1.-THE entire trip was a series of mis-
haps. The third day out from DiXons
ranch, 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 it seemed that
she would go over. The passengers
were thrown out Of their hunks, the
crew was insufficient to the pumps, 50
the passengers took them in charge. l
was put in command and divided the
passengers up into squads of four men
each. Each squlA worked two hours.
I also did the sounding to see how
much water there was. We kept this
up for forty-eight hours and during
that time the Anderson drifted. The
, second day of our trouble, the other