Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-09-14
STEAMER HUMBOLDT ARRIVES WITH
TALES OF MISFORTUNE.
BROUGHT DOWN LITTLE GOLD.
HER FOURTEEN PASSENGERS HAD
BUT $4,000 AMONG THEM.
Rumors of Shortage of Supplies Mt
Dawson City yerified-Unhappy
Experiences of Those Who
Went North in an I'm
neawOrtlly Ship.

Humboldt arrived this morning from, st.
Michaers. She brings fourteen passengers
and about $4,000 in gold. The Humboldt
| also brings the news that the sidewheel
steamer Eliza Anderson, from Seattle,
which was reported lost. is safe at Dutch
Harbor, where she arrived on the 4th inst,
and is now detained by revenue officers.
Her passengers have by this time entered
the Bering sea on schooner chartered
for the purpose.
Two of the passengers on the Anderson
were SO frightened that they gave up their
search. for gold and returned south on the
steamer Humboldt.
The Humboldt brings back advices which
reiterate the stories of the untold wealth
OF the Kiondke and Yukon. and verify the
previous rumors OF the shortage Vi Aoou
supply in the interior. .,.--
There will be privation, sickness. star
walton, scurvy and death on the Yukon this
winter" is what the returning gold hunt
ers all say.
Only seven passengers of the Humboldt
have money. 1t is impossible TO lnduce
them to say how much money they nave,
but the purser gives the figures as: y. "A.
Manger, $500; Z. Turner, $500; J. f. Crelder'
5000; w. Urquhart, $500; j. d. Rogers
| s., COO; D. F. Atkins, $500; captain j.
j. n. Secretan, who came back on the
Humboldt, and who has very little casii,
says he came out to avoid starvation at
Dawson Said he: Thus far upwards OF
| $500 men have pushed their way over the
passes from Skaguay and Dyea and nave
| arrived at Dawson City. me inilu5 S .ta oa
miners over the passes has frightened the
old timers in the interior and all that can
are coming to winter in the States, ana
thus avoid what they believe Will be WIN
| murder and thievery. We left Dawson on
July 26, on the steamer P. B. Weare. Al
midnight on the 9th the steamer ran on a
| bar below Circle City. After waiting sew
| enteen days, the passengers Were trans,
ferred to the steamer Healy. and arrived
at st. Michaels August 70. The next DAY
| We took the Excelsior to San franciSco. SS,
On the morning of August Is, the EX-
ce1sior went aground in ten feet OF water
in the Bering sea, seventy miles from land;
| The passengers moved seventy tons OF
| midnight she floated. having broken two
blades of her propeller. She arrived at
| Unalaska September l. On the End they
tried to beach her, and ON the Srd sue
She sailed via Unger for Dutch Harbor,
where e., we took frn the nn%son
City I have paid three fares First, to
the North American Trading and Irans-
portation Company for transportation to
Seattle: then $120 to the Excelsior, ana
again s75 to the Humboldt"
w. B. Price, of Danville, ILL.,. 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 mshaps The third day out from
DiXon's Entrance bar, weather came on bad
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 SEEM
ed that she would go over. The passeIl-
gers were thrown out of their hunks, the
i,,cr1 fT,aia to MOI MI N
SO the passengers took them in charge.
was put in command and divided the pas
sengers up into squads of four men each;
Each squad worked two hours. also did
the sounding to see how much water there
| was. We kept this up for forty-eight hours
and FGIf that time the dan Of
trouble three other vessels were in sight;
Then, the -Merwin. which was being towed
and Politofsky, broke loose and the captain
of the Holyoke turned about with the other
two boats In tow and picked up the Mer-
Paul, on Kodiak island. We should have
| taken coal there to get to Dutch Harbor but
could not get it. After leaving St: Paul,
cruise cru Sc alongshore. We arrived within 16G
miles of Dutch Harbor when coal gave
out. We were rigging a. small boat to send
out for relief when we sighted small
fishing smack with one man in it. He told
us we could reach an abandoned cannery.
about twenty miles distant where coal had
w
enough coal to reach that point. All day
long the passengers worked in a drizzling
rainsto take on that coal. and finally, on
September 4, we reached Dutch Harbor.
Captain Hooper of the reyeue squadron
boarded us at Dutch harbor, and, seeing the
unseaworthy condition of the Anderson
forbade her to go further. It was not nee
essary for him to go below, but. upon see
ing that we had insufficient lifeboats. he
gave the order to tie up there. The passen-
gers of the Anderson. with the exception OF
Mr.. Scott and myself, raised 1000 to char
ter the schooner Parisoff to take the pas
sengers from there to St. Michaeps. The
DiXon's entrance to Dutch harbor cannot
be pictured too wildly
1t was remarkable statement that Cap
tain Chilcott, one of the incorporators OF
the company which runs the Anderson, Is
| reported to have made to Chief Bonnifield
Of the Humboldt, this morning. He said
we knew that the Anderson was unsea-
worthy, especially for an ocean voyage, but
We were bound to get her there, anyway.
We put her in charge of one of the best
sea captains on this coast, Captain Powers
If anybody could get her there, he could. y
There We're only two passengers who went
up on the Humboldt who decided to return
spring. They We're DR.. A. c. Posey, of Oak
land, Cal, and j. A. Williams, of San
Francisco.
The passenger list is as follows: DR.. A. G.
Posey. Mrs. E. Cronister G. A. Wanger. E
Turner. Tuner. ]. F. Crider, z: qrquhart j. b
wife, w. B. Price, George Scott, J. N. Scre-
tan, Mrs. Woodward and five children, j.
p. Rodgers, D. F. Atkins and Mrs. A. Clark
| FAMINE MAY BE AVERTED.