The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-28
THEY PERISHED In
THE KLONDIKE
SEVENTEEN GOLD SEEKERS
DROWNED AT HorHAM INLET.
About One Thousand Men Awaiting
an Opportunity to Return from
Kotzebue Sound--Favorable Re-
ports from the Minook District.
Coal Found on the Yukon-The
Death Rate Five a Day in Daw-
son City.

Port Townsend Wash, Sept. 27-
The steam schooner Fulton has ar
rived, fourteen days from st. Michaels,
having encountered severe gales during
the voyage. She brought fifty-nine
miners, representing almost every min
ing district in Alaska. The crowd, ac-
cording to the statement of the purser,
has between $4,000 and $4,000 in gold
dust.
Among the passengers were John
Emerson, of Minnesota. and Charles
Daniels, of Honolulu, who left Kotze-
bue Sound on Aug. 2S. They have
prospected almost every stream empty
ing into the Sound. but found nothing
beyond small colors. They had heard
nothing of the reported strike on the
Kowak river About ZOO men were on
the beach awaiting an opportunity to
return south. All the business houses
which had opened there to catch the
trade of the miners, had their goods
packed ready for shipment to some
other point.
Seventeen prospectors are known to
have been drowned during the season
at Hotham Inlet. Many others are
missing. 1t is supposed they lost their
lives in attempting to ascend the small
rivers.
Favorable reports from Minook dis
trict are brought out. Captain Robert
j. Durham, of the river steamboat
Rideout, says that a number of new
strikes along the creeks in that dis
trict have been reported and the pros
poets are more favorable. He also re-
ports the discovery of two veins of coal
on the Yukon river about 900 miles
from its mouth. The coal is being
mined and sold to the steamboats, at
$25 per ton. 1t will render navigation
on the river much cheaper, as wood is
scarce and expensive. During the trip
up the river the steamboat paid 81, zoo
for wood. The coal is mined easily, one
man being able to take out from five
to seven tons a day.
AVERAGE DEATH RATE.
Ctate Senator ]. w. Range, of Seat
tie, who Is among the returning Daw-
sonites, said just before leaving Daw-
son that Colonel Davis, president OF
the relief committee of the combined
secret orders. told him that the aver
age death rate was five per day dur
ing the last two months. The highest
number of deaths in one day was eigh-
teen.
On her way down the Fulton found
| the schooner Louise ]. Kennedy, which
was floated successfully and taken to
Dutch Harbor, where she is undergoing
| repairs. She will be in a sea-going
| condition soon.
Vancouver, f. c., Sept. 27.-Sixty-
| u,
| the steamship Horsa. A majority were
| paupcrs. Two men, one named Will
| liam Sundstrom, from Chicago. had
been travelling for year on the Edge
monten route. They were lost in the
| Rocky Mountains for a week Several
! thousand men are on the trail, but only
a few could reach Dawson, they say.
j. w. Sheppard, Of Illinois, brought
| down $500 from Pine Creek, the re-
| suit of the sale of two claims
Several accidents have occurred re.
! Gently on the Skagway railway. Two
men, it is said were buried under a
| slide.
| Seattle, Wash, Sept. 27.-Out of
party of twenty-six men that left Sar
Francisco early in the wear to go t
Dawson via the Stickeen trail, Herman
Long, of this city. is the only on
that pushed through. Two out of th
number We're drowned, two are insane
and the others are far in the interio
endeavoring to regain their health a
trading points.
In the swift Chesley river in tn
north rivers seven of their boats wer
dashed to pieces on the rocks and tn,
OUTFITS were lost. In two of the wrecks
DIR. Black and man named Morgan
both from California, were browne,
Long saws that many of the men be
came temporarily insane after the
provisions began to give out. The
had to be watched continually as sey
eral attempts at suicide We're mad