The San Francisco call., 1898-10-19
TWO MEN LOST
 IN CROSSING
 THE GLACIER Fortune Hunters Die
 MiserabIy. COULD NOT BE RESCUED ONE DISAPPEARED, A SECOND LEFT CALLING FOR AID. One Hundred and Eighty Gold Hunt CTS Bound for Lake Atlin Are Also in Danger of Per
 ishing.
COULD NOT BE RESCUED
ONE DISAPPEARED, A SECOND LEFT CALLING FOR AID.
BY HAL HOFFMAN.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

JUNEAU, Alaska, Oct. II (by steam
 ship Dirigo to Victoria B. C., Oct. 1S).-
 Considerable gold is being brought out
 of the new diggings at Lake Atlin by the latest outcomers arriving here and at Skaguay to spend the winter and
 make arrangements to return early in the spring. An occasional nugget is
 exhibited, but they are scarcer than are found in the Dawson mines. It is mostly coarse gold from the new dig .gings, clean and bright. L. McKinnon, one of the first locators near DiscoY- cry, and Dr. LoVett and MT. Wheeler arrived here this morning. McKinnon made neat cleanup on quantity of provisions he took in by pack train over the Taku trail.
 A line of small steamboats will be put on the Taku Inlet run from Juneau next spring. Enough men are going In from the coast towns of Alaska to make a camp of three or four thou sand people soon after the ice breaks up in the rivers, and there will be con- siderable movement of supplies to At lin City over the snow this winter. No new strikes have been made, but all reports continue favorable
 The caravan of 1S0 men with horses, | who struck across the country for At lin from Teslin City, the Stickeen River trail and Glenora has not been heard | from or seen since it started out. They | set out to follow large valley run | ming across country, in which there was said to be grass for the horses. SeV- | Pral parties have arrived out from Lake | Teslin by way of the Taku trail. They | learned of the departure of the cara | van, but saw nothing of them. The | attempt was a dangerous one with win ter so close at hand, and it is feared | that the entire expedition will perish. That will certainly be the result if the party gets showed in, as they were not burdened with provisions. On account of the lack of horse feed they were able to purchase the horses for as low a price as $I each.
 A party of eighty Klondikers came up the river on the little steamer Clara and arrived at Skaguay in time to l catch the Dirigo Some of them re- port an increasing interest in Pine | Creek and Lake Atlin country. A 1 number left the party when they ar rived at Lake Marsh and went over to Atlin by way of Taku Arm to take a look at the country The Klondikers bring out about s60,000 in dust, and an unknown amount of checks and drafts.
 Most of the party on the Clara are men who went to Dawson in the rush last winter and spring, locating noth- ing of value and are returning home empty handed.
 The death rate was still very high ten days ago, but winter is expected to kill the typhoid epidemic soon. Daw- Sonites are interested in suppressing news of the large amount of deaths, and for this and other reasons it is probable that the whole number will never be knOwn.' The steamship Ex- celsior was lowed up here last night from Valdes and other ports to the westward. She brought down about 100 Copper River argonauts, who tell | the same hard luck story of their ex> perience in the Copper River country no gold, except color now and then. This is the last batch of Copper River gold seekers to come out this season. About 400 people in all will winter in the country and next summer go up the river and over the divide down into the Tanona and White River country. They | are camping at the head and foot of ! Klutena Lake, at the head of the can- yon, and a few at Valdes
 Captain Abercrombie of the Govern ment military expedition has about dozen men on his hands at Valdes who | have neither money nor food. He will | send them to Puget Sound or San Fran cisco on the first Government vessel
 One of the latest parties to come | over the glacier lost two men in crew ices. Their names are not known One | man was never heard from after he | broke through the snow crust and dis i appeared. The other man was heard 1 calling for help down in the black | chasm. Everything possible was done to rescue him with the means at hand A rope with a rock tied to the end was lowered. but he could not reach 1t, either on account of his position or be- cause it was not long enough. The cries of the poor fellow Tn his prison of ice became fainter after several hours. He seemed to realize that he was beyond help. The party left him still screaming for rescue.
 The man who told me about this said | he would remember to his dying day the cries of the poor fellow. homeward | bound, probably to wife and children, as they turned from the brink of the chasm and took the trail again.
 The Excelsior sailed for Sitka and will take the outside passage for the