The San Francisco call., 1898-02-15
FROZEN TO
 DEATH IN
 THE PASSES Many Lives Reported Lost in an Alaskan
 Blizzard. Binding Snowstorn De- scends Upon Crowds
 of Argonauts. Score of Men Said to Have Perished on the Ska quay
 Trail. GALE ALONG THE SHORE. Vessels Compelled to Remain a Juneau Until tho Hurri-
 cane Abated.
Score of Men Said to Have Perished on the Ska quay
 Trail.
GALE ALONG THE SHORE.
Vessels Compelled to Remain e Juneau Until the Hurri-
 cane Abated
Special Dispatch to The Call.


 JUNEAU. Alaska, Feb. (by steam ship Rosalie, via Seattle. Feb. 1D.- During the last four days a terrible blizzard has been raging along the coast from the head of Lynn Canal to Fort Wrangel. The wind came down in irresistible blasts from over the tops of the mountains and through the gaps. Vessels in the harbor were afraid to venture out.
 The steamer Chilkat, from San Fran cisco, while on her way to Juneau. was caught in the storm. She steamed for ten hours against the wind without making. four miles. She lay here twen- ty-four hours waiting for the wind to go down.
 The steamship City of Topeka lay here thirty-six hours. Her lines parted and she was blown away from her dock and dropped her anchor.
 Old-timers say it was the hardest wind they ever experienced in Alaska. At Dyea and Skaguay the cold was in tense. Part of the time a blinding snow fell. People on the trail suffered greatly.
 A sensational report has reached Ju-
 
 that many persons were frozen to death on the summit of White Pass and on the trail beyond. As evidence of the severity of the weather, w. Murruatt, an Englishman, was brought to the hospital here with both of his feet frozen. A surgical operation will like ly be necessary.
 Accounts differ as to the number of hn h f-g1fr seventeen to twenty-seven. There is no means at present of getting at the real facts. It will take some days for the truth to be ascertained. There is little doubt, though, that there were number of deaths, and the Chilkoot- the worst pass in Southern Alaska for storms-is yet to be heard from It is no eXaggeration to say no small steam CT has dared to venture out the cap tain of each fearing that the wind would lift it up bodily and drop it ashore.
 Skaguay is comparatively quiet The action of Governor Brady in asking the President for sufficient reinforce ments to preserve order and protect life and property has had a whole some effect on the rough element The shell and ether sure thing men are not making themselves so conspicuous. and the sand baggers and garroters are not now doing any more work in robbing the solitary, unwary and be- lated pedestrians. The best citizens of Skaguay are keeping their hands on the reins and are now running the town. The theater where the fatal shooting of United States Deputy Mar shal Rowen and McGrath occurred is still closed, and will doubtless remain so until time has cooled the temper of the people.
 United States Marshal Shoup will leave Juneau tonight for Skaguay He came over on the last boat from Sitka. He had printed a number of silk badges bearing the words in gilt, 'U. s. Marshal" which he will require all his deputies at Dyea and Skaguay to wear on their hatbands.
 Eddie Fay. the bartender in the theater, who killed Rowen and Me Grath, claims that he did not know the former was a United State Deputy Marshal when he killed him. Marshal Shoup is inclined to believe this story for the reason that Rowen was a very recent appointee, He will, therefore. decorate his deputies with the badges of their authority. AS has been face tiously suggested here this may be a sign, to the following effect:
 T am Deputy United States Mar shal. Don't shoot"
 The Governor will make a show of force at the head of Lynn Canal He will shortly make his annual trip of inspection to Yakutat, aboard the Wheeling, now at Sitka, and he is ex- pected to drop anchor before Dyea and Skaguay on the way. News that Gov ernor Brady had appealed to President Mckinley for help created a big sen sation at Skaguay and calmed the town.
 Governor Brady also admitted at Sitka last Friday that the report sent exclusively to The Call last week that he intended to take the gunboat Wheeling and make the Killisnoo re- store to the Hoonah Indians the $2500 worth of blankets and other property forced from the unfortunate Hoonahs by superior numbers is correct. He will stop before the Killisnoo village on the way to Yakutat. There can be but one result when two big G's-a