The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-11
on the Resale and the ssean,r. -
to Vancouver.

on the Resale ana the $685. -. :
to Vancouver
many nasheavtenea Kl~.Aan..-
According 10 the officers Of IL rssv..>
Seattle. the chilkoos slide di...,., -.
caused many Of the prospective r,-
dikers TO become satshesr,e,.a 49,
VINO have lost friends or nart. - 49,
outfit viii give up the race Far soaS ~
return. Nearly 30 persons ann,,s, a
the officials OF the Washington = ats~a
Company Tor special rate In -
points. Others VIII leave the Dvea -.
Tor some OF the other routes q 49,.
terror.
Regarding the Dead yen.
Edward Cook and George oversc. =.
two Of the best known Seattle men -.
are said TO have lost their lives in N. =.
cident. overton Is Cooks son-,r...-
and the two men were making the,r -.
10 Dawson while their two fami,;e. s,-s
together in this city. Both men have b..
employed for years by the Denny ca.v
Company. Cock as foreman and overto. :.
timekeeper. Cook Is the father Of Pa
Cook. assistant chief Of the f,re 49,.
ment. He leaves q wife and seven -
dren in this city. He was about % ~,
OF age. overton leaves wife ana -.
children He was IS years OF are. r..
LEI for the north about month 49, a
company with several Minneapoais 49,
r. l.. Esterbrook. before going 10 ~.
IA, was Tor several years travelling Aud1l1p
for the Northern Pacific railway. Hs ~
many friends In this cry.
Harry Holt, who was killed With 4.
iramway men. Is a son OF II. II. Hail ~
weli-known Ncoma merchant He -
% years OF age. A. F. King was formess-
employed in the ST. Pau, and Tacoma ,.sS
He was the second son Of a wfda~A1
mother and was D years Of are. ~ -
q member OF Company C.. OF the Naf,n.si
Guard OF Washington. His body was -
at the Tacoma wharf by the members =
that organization.
&. L. NcNeifs body was accompanis.a h
his brother L. M. Mcneil, Of Eik Rivss
Wis The latter does not believe thai ~
number OF dead from the series Of ssdr1
win exceed 100
Edward Doran had been employed =
Tacoma as motorman on the JeiYerrsn
street electric line. His parents live q
Tacoma.
Albert Englund or English was rorrersy
an employee OF the Tacoma mill. He -
no relatives la Tacoma
J. B. P.ercs, Of Tacoma. il one Of II
best known men supposed to have NJ
their lives In the slide. lie was Al -
time manager Of the Fairhaven hotel i
boom days. At the time ne left for AlaDl
IA he gave up the position of steward q
the Tacoma hotel. Mrs. Pierce Ilve2 4
Tacoma She was at the wharf with Nh
Bennett when the Seattle landed and kneu
nothing Of her husbands death untA a.
OF the passengers biuntiy told Mn. H.
nett that Pierce was dead.
John A. Morgan has lived In Empolh
for twenty years. For nineteen yoaf1 Il
that time he was employed ~ Z 49,
men In George w. Newman's Carpet g.
He boarded for dlfteen years WttH
mother OF Ira Conner. Of this city. H
a Royal Arch Mason and member Gf -
Enlporia commandery. He wac 8 u6jo
OF age.
The body Of @. F. Smith win b 49,
to Woolley this morning to his beo9E
John Smith.
Charles Kinney. who - listed from ..
coma. II supposed 10 have wife on oovoo
seenfh avenue and Madison street. q r..
city. He came from Gillette. Cal, - r
north In tho service OF tho tramwuy e.
pany.
H. J. Hunt. OF this city, who brent
down the bodies OF Gus Z.ebarth. 1T
Spraguc and Steven 6tevenson, aryttsd =
the scene OF the slide shortly ann ~
disaster happened. He was going - y
see about the loan Of an AZ thai looas.h
owned He found both Zia1Gef ~.
Sprakue dead. Hunt saw IL HGbNSM
Seattle men after the slide. and 1n0Ns
that they are safe: Porter, c. Il m
bard. Henry c. Boies. Michael seari. @. q
johnson, Ed Keene. HOPKINS ana WG1nH
Young.