Evening star., 1898-11-14
4 DANGEROUS RIDE.
woman shoots the Terrible White
Horse Rapids in Alaska
From the Portland oreGouian.

From the Portland OreGouian.
Miss Laura Evans of Oswogo has per
formed the feat of riding the terrible White
Horse rapids, between Dawson CITY and
Bennett, in the Klondike country. She is i'm
Portland and, in speaking Of her periious
trip, said:
The day before | shot the RAPIDS ciuht
boats had been wrecked, and in a number
of these cases it was blamed entirely m
the women. because they got excited. mad.
TIE men nervous who We're rowing. So thai
they lost control of the boat Colonel Steele
head OF the mounted police, therefore made
rule that no more women or children
should go through. They must 90 around
DE land, as most OF the people had been do
ing flght straight along on account of the
great peril OF the trip.
This new rule was made the day az
TlNeu there on my trip to Dawson from
Bennett. When / heard of il L told tho
inaian pilot 10 bring the boat down and
iahd where there was big eddy this sfdr
OF Miles canyon. He tied the boat there
as / had directed him to do. and 1 watched
my chance from the brush. When Their.
was no one looking L jumped into the boat
and, though the Canadian police are mighty
clever, they are not clever enough to stop
boat after il is once started To go over
the falls. Besides myself there were two
men 10 row and the Indian pilot.
IL would be long story TO tell Of my
sensations during the next fifteen or tU,eu-
~ minutes. said Miss Evans, and her
black eyes twinkled with laughter at the
remembrance. After the boat was united
II Eoated along smoothly, then all at once
ii was snatched from that eddy as though
1t had been shot from cannon. The water
seemed TO be going up and the sky seemed
to be coming down. We were dashed from
Cne side to The other against the rocks
This was Miles canyon, and it took us two
OF three minutes TO go through it, dis
tance of a mile.
After another smooth eddy, We were
again snatched up in the same way as be-
fore, the pilot working over his oars Ike
snake. This is what made one nervous for
ii looked as though he had lost control of
his boat.
Then, after passing this second canyon
we struck the queerest place. bobbing up
and down and rolling over sideways. until
1t seemed as though we would all turn a
somersault. This was SQuaw rapids the
most dangerous place in the White Horse
for there were loose powders on the bot
tom, which keep turning over so that if
they are safe one day they are not the
next. The pilot never knows whether ne is
going to get through alive or not.
when We passed these rapids the pilot
told us to look at the White Horse Sure
enough, there seemed to be ahead of US a
whole herd of white horses their tails and
names all flying. As we started to go
through them the boat tossed and tumbled
every way, the waves washed over us We
were drenched, the boat half filed with
water-suddenly the Indian threw down his
oars and shouted. Look out for your
selyesr
The men who were rowing. when they
heard this, threw down their oars and gave
up completely. One of them crawIed under
the seat.
But this, it seems was only a Joke on
the part of the Indian, who. like all In
dams, had a queer idea of humor He
knew that if the boat was once started all
right over the rapids. il would come
through safely. He takes pride In telling
that / sat perfectly still. The fact is / WAS
wondering just when the wreck would take
place"