The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-23
Louis Dahlman First Victim OF
This Winters Storms.
DIED CROSSING THE SUMMIT.
Victim ACCOMPANIED Archie Burns
Pack Train En- Route to Atifn-
Caught i'm n storm ON the sum-
NIT, He Proceeded Alone to Lake
Iindemnn on n fooisardy Errand
--Iiody Found Frozen Near Camp.

Hogrr f~atlkoet's first victim OF ne win
ter or 1855 is Louis Dahlnan, formerly
we.l-to-io business man O. Dyea- Dani-
man LOST his life on Saturday. November l.
while Try ug 10 make his way through
binding blizzard from the summit Of Chill
kooi pass 70 Lake Lindeman, He ignored
the entreaties Of his companions 10 remain
az camp and started early on the morning
81 November u for the Lake. eight miles
away. The following day his boly vas
found frozen stiff behind q boulder only
leo feet from camp.
Dahlgaan started with a pack train and
party Of five men from Dyea Frlddy. No
vernber II. for the Attn district. The pack
tra.n was OWNED ny Archie Burns, who
started the first steam hoist on the Chill
koot pass last winter. Burns was himself
In charge Of the party. They carried
small outn, Of fre GIT and supplies for the
Atlin district Arrived on the summit,
taey encountered the fiercest kind of an
Alaska blizzard The horses refused 20
proceed farther and camp was made. The
next day the storm having increased III
the meantime, Dahlman started over the
summit for I.indeman. That was the last
seen OF him alive.
Information of Dahlman's tragic end was
brought 10 Seattle on the steamer Iauraaa
by Purser George f. Thorndyke. Mr..
Thorndyke was for q long tine purser on
the steamer City of Seattle and IS one u
the best-known shipping men on the
North Pacific coast festerday he gave
the following account Of the Geath OF DAM
man as he had received II at Sk4gWay
just before the departure Of the L4GTaia:
'Dahlman Vas well known IN Skas~ay
and Dyea He had lived a Dyea about
year and had formerly been engaged Ii
business at which he had been fairly SUE
cesSfui until the dun times set IN. As 1
heard the story Of his death, which was
sent down from the summit by telephone
messSg &c, he himself was entir -iy 10 blame.
He started vita pack train for Atm lake
district on Friday. November II. There
were four or FIVE men in the party and
they had perhaps half dozen horses. Tiny
1ere carrying supplies from Dyed - Ain
City.
When they reached the summit OF Chi
koOt Iass they found a terrific storm rag
ing. Tie SNOW came down IN such guam
titles as 10 entirely obscure the tral ana
the wind was icy and blowing hard. On
the summit the horses refused 70 -
farther. knowing by instinct that 10 pro-
coed over the pass was In invite certain
death. The men in the party, after trying;
IN vain 10 get the pack animals - CON
tiuue over the summit, turned back and
made camp in a sheltered spot. That eV-
vuing Da5iman said that he had SEINE bus!-
ness TO transact AT Lake Lindeinan ana ~
tended pushing on ahead Of the pack train
the following Saturday morning. The
other men in the party tried 10 diSsuade
him from the undertaking, which all real
iZed was hazardous IN the extreme. Ddnl-
man. however. WAS confident that ne could
make the journey Of eight miles IN safety.
ana so on Saturday morning he started.
The storm did not abdte any during Sat
urCiay and the man with the pack train
remained in camp most OF the day. SUn-
day morning broke clear and calm ani
members of the party set out 10 recounoter
the trail. Twelve hundred feet from the
camp they found thu dead body OF Dahl
man lying frozen stiff behind a boulder
along the tran. Il was surmlsed that ne
had proceeded some distance along The
route 10 lAndeman and then had turned
back, fearing that the storm would be 100
much for him. II was plain that he pad
become exhausted and had sought shelter
from the fury of The storm behind the boul-
der. There his faculties mad Saccumbed TO
the tr,eGtful cold and he had simply frozen
To death.
They were bringing the body back 10
Dyoa when the Laurada left