The herald., 1898-09-28
TfRRORS OF THE TRAIL
LEAD THE CANADIANS TO'TAKE
ACTION
RELIEF WILL BE PROVIDED
The Ashcroft Route to Dawson 6
Horror-The Stickeen Trail Not
Much Better
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
VANCOUVER, Il. c.. Sept. 27.-As re-
suit Of the many stories told of the distress
Of tho prospectors on the Ashcroft trail,
1t is stated that the provincial government
Is taking the necessary steps to send aid
and that the Dominion government will be
asked to do Its share.
]. A. Grey of New York and J. Atwood
of Boston tell q story which confirms for
mer reports of the horrors of the Ashcroft
trail They left Ashcroft April 2s and were
nearly starved, they say, before they
reached Glenora. Said Grey:
"Our sufYerings between Hazleton and
Glcnora were almost beyond endurance.
For ten days VIC lived on a few ounces Of
porridge daily and for five days, when the
pangs Of hunger drove us to desperation,
VIC shot a horse and lived on horseflesh.
Weary, footsore and weak to death, we
reached Glenora. Not having any money
after reachin. here to get home we applied
to the American consul for aid from the
United States government
A Favored Few
VICTORIA, B. c., Sept. 27.-The steam
er Danube arrived today from St. Michael,
Alaska, with one hundred and eighty-six
passengers from the Klondike and gold
dust estimated by the purser at q quarter
OF million.
The gold was by no means equally di-
vided; 1t all belonged to a favored few.
The names of the. lucky ones are Major
Morgan, William Bateman, R. Sinclair, j.
Jones, James Winters, J. Erickson, C. w.
Simms, c. w. Still. r. Hanna, r. Gierson,
J. s. Lusk and J. NJ. Sloan.
All the Danube's passengers came down
the Yukon on the steamer Yukoner. which
has since been sold to Pat Calvin, the we'll
known Klondike millionaire. Captain
Hackaberry, Purser Price and all the Off
GERS and crew of the Yukoner were passen-
gers to Victoria by the Danube. Price re-
ports that on the way down the river the
Yukoner passed seventy-six steamers,
small and large, bound for Dawson. Four
were ashore. and the Yukoner spent some
time in unsuccessfully endeavoring to pull
them off the sand bars. Three of the ves-
sells aground were the Clara and the Tyrell,
both Of Vancouver, and the j. p. Light, one
Of the Moran steamers.
Three other larger vessels were seen
ashore near the Yukon's mouth, the Robert
Kerr, the Power and the Marguerite. The
liver was still navigable when the Dan.
ube sailed, but was low In places.
The Danube left st. Michael September
14th and Dutch harbor ON the 18th. At
Dutch harbor the schooner Ocean Belle
was seen, and from her It was learned that
the sealing vessel ordered home under seiz-
ure was the schooner otto.
Sold a Steamer
VICTORIA, 3. c.. Sept. 27.-The steamer
Danube returned from ST. Michael this
morning with Commodore John Irving of
the Canadian Pacific Navigation company
on board. He had been up the Yukon with
the stern wheel steamer Yukoner, belong
Ing to the company, which he has now sold
to Pat Calvin, the cattle king, for the sum
Of $50, 900.
A Sorry Crowd
SEATTLE, Sept. 27.-Out Of a party Of
twenty-six men that left San Francisco
early in tho year to go to Dawson via the
Stickeen trail, Herman Long of that city
Is the only one that pushed through. Two
out of the number were drowned. two are
insane and the others are far in the inte-
rior regainIng their health at trading posts.
In the swift Chesley River seven of their
ten boats were dashed to pieces on the
rocks and the outfits were lost. In two
OF the wrecks DR.. Black and man named
Morgan, both from California, were
drowned Long says that many of the
men went temporarily insane otter their
provisions began to give out. They had to
be watched continually, as several at
tempts at suicide were made.