The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
t.:r'. RUSHING. ]. TO THE NEW
 DIGCINGS
 
 :. ::,... ;; :: z. ...1. '.. Stampede From Daw- son to Swede Creek. Gold-Hunters Act Like. Lunetics in the Wild :. Scramble. ~.-... In the. Last Rush Five Men Die .:.=... From Exposure to the :. ;. E: =. ,.- ! Snow and Ice ;: :: ; . . - -
REFUR= o,F=TWo PARTIES.
s Ex-Ma yor. .NVo of:seattle and Others
 Get Back to e3ivilization rom .: : :; :.sl !: :.tlle New Fl Dorado .:
;. " Special Dispatch. to The Cali.

:. ..JJINF,ATT.. Alaska March 2S ;'-(by
 SteaInslrip .Quean to. Seattle, April. l( (s-- : A: 'Jla 1WSj,rl party which arrived here to- . ifayI coming down to tide water last : Friday at. Dyea and Skaguay,.a states
 that: a. town site is=being laid out near walsh. creek, the scene of the latest :. stampede for gold The construction :" Of several. cabins has already begun, excavations having been made m the snow for foundations, and some timber 1feIled..:=z W # 5::, .:::'. < The party. is composed of ex-Mayor w: ID. wood of Seattle, A{ho has come :all#the way 4lp the. Yukon from Mfnook, .*Whare he and his party were stranded last ia +. and H. Willis Carr of Seattle, . who, accompanied him; pr. J. ". Slay-
 dell#.a and. E. E.. Enllnotss; of Tacoma, :: wash, and W, c. White: of. :Coloradp : Springs, colo. *Theyleft Dawson Feb. :ruaf,y :24 last and the. two: parties travelled. together. Exz Mayor Wood
 and MT. Carr stopped several days in DaMsoll forrest: and farnil. .arize :thenl- selves. with the. situation there. The
 ice trail is. breaking up st Lake Marsh :and;i1l several: :other: spots are the first : indications. in. the interior of the ap- #preach. of +.spFing.,: The thermometer ranged from 1O:to 50 degrees below zero. ; often. when it was less: than: 30 degrees
 the party. travelled in their shirt sleeves
 and felt conlfortahie with the smart :ex
 .@ercise of llfttfIfg. the trail: and making *as good time: as poSsi bte. Their time from Dawson to tide: wa ter was twenty: $ six. days The: soft trail delayed them /. and they did not start, out; with the in *>tention of trying. to break the. reeerd.. : An account of eX+Afa yor %Aood' $ expeTI- ences- was. g1Xen.fn. Sam Walls. recent: correspondence. from: Fort Yukon. =: .> t:
 The: WooI party and cthe:.Stayden
 party brought out: ahout twenty pounds .+of letters each for Afinool1, Fort Y ukon : and Dawson friends for which they made no charge. They: met@:the first . Canadian mail since last fall going in: Jack Carr is coming out. few days
 behind them on the trailj making d
 speciality of; letters at: ST each, so that many. people in California and the East who have friends in the: inside may
 expect: to hear from them in a few days: He: is expected to bring out about: fifty
 pounds of @ mail. E. None of the: party. brought: out a large amount. of gold. Carr; came up: the river eighty nine days from St. Michael to Dawson; a
 distance. of about IS00 miles, bearing
 Government dispatches: The nature of
 these. dispatches was not known to any
 of this party and no information in re. gard to them is to be had: here. It :: is supposed they were strictly official
 communications between@the post at St.
 Michael and up-river posts, as any news of importance at St. Michael at the time
 he left would. have been .s personally
 Known by Carr. .... :... :,.+.. .:: =. : Stampedes from Dawson to reported
 new and rich ground are. the prevailing < excitement at Dawson now, and res ports have come back from one or two that the prospects look promising. =
 x, pr. Slayden said: "A town has been
 plated, to be; the headquarters of the :: new prospects on Lake and Walsh
 creeks. The work is being done chiefly / by the Canadian police, and to me it
 looked like a police enterprise The To-
 two creeks. They: were digging around
 there in the snow I learned very little
 about the ground, though 1t was re- ported quite rich, from 40 to D cents
 to the pan, I was told. More work, I understand, has been done on Lake Greek than any on Walsh Creek think only a few holes have been sunk
 on either. On the trail this side there is considerable ?. excitement over the
 creeks, but not So much, I think, as
 there is at Skaguay, Dyea and on this
 side of the mountains. We did not stop . lO- Ildhe. dly -DuC ny. ODlfl-
 ion is that they have found something
 in there. No man can see into the
 ground. The police say the ground is
 rich" F. .<'
 Dr. Slayden said further: "The big
 gest and latest stampede that Dawson
 has had in a. long time occurred on
 February 16. It was to Swede Creek,
 about six miles from Dawson. Some
 call it Twelve Mile Creek This started
 at II o'clock at night. It almost cleo
 trified a man to look at. it. He is a
 cool one who can keep his feet to the
 ground and stand still when any kind
 of a stampede starts. The excitement
 will almost wake up a dead man. I had to go back home and shut myself in several times, particularly from join
 ing the Swede Creek rush. The Lord
 only knows how they start They just
 open out like an umbrella and about as
 quick. Men rush to their cabins, get a
 few things together including a little
 grub. On this occasion some actually
 struck out in their shirt sleeves. Others
 came along later with dog teams and
 they often have to bring the other fel- /" lows back. In the stampede to Swede
 Creek five men lost their lives. One
 was frozen to death, the four others
 were so frost -bitten-hands, feet, face
 and Ter s-that they died afterward. It
 was impossible to save them. I do not
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