Arizona republican., 1898-04-16
NEWS OF THE NORTH Steady Development of the
 Whole Klondyke Region
 THIS SEASONS PRODUCT
The Output of a Single District
 is Mere than $3O,OOO,OOO.
A Description by tho Republicans Klondyke Correspondent of the Recent Disastrous Slide at Chl- coot Pass Two Weeks Ago.

Seattle, Wash, April 1O.-(Special correspondence of The Republican.)- A very terrible accident occurred on Sunday, the 3rd inst, on Chilcoot pass, resulting in the death of over one hundred persons. Many people were on the trail between Stone House and the Scales, pushing on with their out fits. Packing was good, and all were getting ahead. Then pieces of ice be- gan to break off the glacier above, and came sliding down the hillside. thing and rushed as one man down the canyon, warning others of danger. , The whites disregarded the warning. Haste was everything danger an old woman's tale.
 Then came a mass of snow, flying down the slope. Before they knew what was coming five men were buried
 by this little slide, and then, with an appalling roar, there came rushing from the steep hillside above a mass
 
 lay in the path of this avalanche, and when it was over a hundred and sev- enty men lay buried there.
 Men stood in their tracks on either
 side unable to move from the horror 1 of it, and then all turned to and work
 ed with the energy and excitement of i despair to rescue their comrades. Many
 were taken out alive at first, some un- l injured, others unconscious, some of them badly hurt but over a hundred
 are known to be dead-either killed outright or suffocated.
 A warm wind had been blowing from the southwest fer several days and had sOftened the great masses of snow lying above the gorge. Then came a heavy snow storm. The weight was
 too great at this place. The avalanche followed as a natural consequence, but
 no one had thought of such danger.
 Hundreds of tons of provisions and
 outfits were swept away at the same time and are doubtless ruined. Many
 men have lost everything except their
 lives. Many in their despair wish that 1 they, too, lay alt the bottom of that cold white mass. It is all a part of the | tragedy of the great north. The ele- ments there are mans enemies, and death and suffering are very near. 1 More avalanches may be expected at this part of the pass. The danger will 1 not be over for two months yet-not until the snow is gone. The trail is of course impossible at present and l in view of such an awful calamity and | the danger of it's recurrence few peo- | pie are likely to go to Dyea- Fortu- nately there can be no such horror at ! Whites pass, since there is no hill or
 range there steep enough to develop
 an avalanche. Skaguay will now have 1 the bulk of the traffic, and if her busi-
 ness men build their road she will keep 1 it
 1 On the 9th inst D. B. Campbell and 1 J. G. Courtney, both well known Se-
 attle men, arrived here, having left l Dawson on March 4th. Four days be-
 fore this the Canadian police arrived I 1 the first to reach Dawson since last i summer. All work was abandoned
 nothing was thought of but the letters
 and news from the world-and long 1 suppressed anxiety and suspense as l to the welfare of many home held crowds of men about the empty saloon, where the mail was being sorted. l When Campbell and company left the | delivery was not half done.
 | These men report that the output of gold for the district this spring will
 not be less than $30,O00,O00. They say
 that the two big companies now hold l between them S10,000, 900 in their safes and are refusing large deposits, having no room for more gold. The cleanup will begin towards the latter part of
 May and will be over by June 20. Fifty tons of gold! That is the expected i yield for the year.
 The whole Klondyke region seems to 1 be developing steadily, and the de- vloped claims are increasing in pro-
 ductiveness. Bonanza and Fl Dorado creeks will yield far more than they | did last year. Hunker creek seems to be paying from end to end, every I claim, almost, having proved rich. Dominion and Cariboo creeks have come to the front as producers. Sul- phur creek, All Gold, Too Much Gold and Gold Bottom are all doing well and show great promise. On Skookum creek the bench claims are now pay