Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-11
many Miners return
Klondike Survivors Tell narrowing
Tale Of suffering In the Far
North.
Arrival Of a Large Number at
Wrangle-Glad to Get
Back.
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Trading Companies Denounced For
Failure to Make Good Their
Many Promises.

Failure to Make Good Their
Many Promises.
Wrangel, Alaska, Aug. 6, via Seattle,
Aug. 1.-THE Stickeen River steamer
Strathcona arrived here today with
thirty survivors of the Edmonton trail
They are: H. Berton, of Salt Lake City;
~. Cliff, Vancouver; w. Coulter, Mani
toba; E. H. Dunbar, Seattle; w. H.
Dunbar, Seattle; H. Fenk, Los Angeles;
G. Gaffney, Los Angeles; j. Hackney,
Ottawa, Canada; w. Hinxman, Chi
cago; C. Jefferson, Asbury Park, N. j..
J. Levin, Ottawa, Canada; E. Fl. Lyons,
Missouri; j. McGilvary. London, Eng.;
j. Moore, San Francisco; s. w. Morgan,
Silverton, Oregon; w. I. Mum, Mis-
souri,; NJ. Ostig, Chicago; w. Reed.
Canada; o. Reed, Canada; NJ. Randle-
man, Chicago; d. Robertson. Vancou-
yer, C. Steifel, Chicago: NJ. TALL Can
ada; E. H. Tall, Canada; A. H. Tigar,
Alberta Province, Canada; l. HI. Tom
linson. Tacoma; NJ. Neley, Ohio; G. Vel-
ger, Canada; NJ. w. Weisen, Chicago;
w. H. Wells, Missouri.
All these men came in with the pack
train sent out from Telegraph Creek
/ and Laketon by the various trading
lscompanies last spring. The survivors
bring news of the loss of the follow
| ing:
| johnson, -. of New York. frozen to
death.
Party of Canadians, persisted from
hunger and cold.
William Schmidt. OF Chicago, prob
ably dead.
Fred Swift, of Chicago, thought to
have frozen to death.
Two unknown men, frozen to death.
Unknown man, member of Cosca
Trading Company. drowned.
Perry Wells, died of scurvy.
The unfortunate tell heart-rending
stories of hardships endured, comrades
lost and abandoned. and strongly de-
lnounce the trading and transportation
companies as Well as the Canadian off,
Gals and newspapers that so profuse-
i ly advertised this route as feasible
one to the Klondike gold fields To out
/ ward appearances these men certainly
gave evidence of the awful suffering
/ eighteen months ago. Most of them are
land greasy clothes--pictures of pllysica
( and financial wrecks. Several are gray
and bear marks OF scuryy.
A few have just enough money to
reach Seattle or Victoria, but the ma.
Ijority are without funds. The citizens
lof wrangel have applied to the United
NuS1,j fNtI
Iup to this date no aid has been re
Iceived. There are about twenty fiv,
destitute miners here. Many had mar
row escapes from starvation along thu
trail from For. Simpson to Mud rive
lane Fort Laird. A. H. Tiger and part,
lived on squirrels and bacon for nearl,
; two weeks.
NJ. Ostig, G. Stiefel and NJ. w. Weisen
three of party of the five from Chi
cago, owe their lives to bear that the.
5 killed just as they had run out of pro
visions about twenty miles from Lairt
post. William Schmidt and Fred Swift
) of the same party, left the camp a
Z Laird post last spring to trap and hav'
) never been heard from since. NJ. Ran
dlemann, of Chicago, was lost in tn
woods above Fort Laird last fail, an,
Z three weeks.
Perry Wells brother of w. H. Wells
; who was one OF the passengers on tn
strathcona, died of scurvy at Tele
graph creek. 1t is admitted that Their
are still more than 100 men scattere
z along the trail between Laird post an
]. the Pelly banks. and relief parties hay
2 been sent out by the Hudson Bay Com
:, pany. The last report brought to Lair
(: post was that many We're dying {
z scurvy and hunger.
< 1t is estimated that there are thfrt
o or forty sufferers at Telegraph creel
z p waiting the next trip of the boat III
3 sick that had to be carried on stretcf
9 ers had not yet reached Genera whe
Is the Strathcona sailed.
@ Several starvation cases are reporte
g About twenty miles above Devils For
8 age two unknown men We're tour
@ frozen to death last winter. A ma
x bearing the name of Johnson, from Ne
York was found dead in tent ne;
Ill the source of the Mud river, last fla
This poor fellow has as covering on
I half of blanket and in Diary ST
lopen in his hand were these words .
,,osite the date of Feb. Is, 1887: i di'
of hunger.
!. All along the route from Fort Sim
~ son. on the Mckenzie river to Fo
Laird, men with frozen limbs were
sisted, while some too weak to he
themselves, We're necessarily left behll
. by those more fortunate and able
struggle along. Scurvy ragged in all t
camps more or less, but there are Il
deaths from this disease reported.
number of Canadians who attempted
cross Cutland Trail from Fort Simps
r to Fort Francis last fall, have nev
been heard from, and it is likely tn
they persisted from cold. Beaupre "
. the name of one of these men and
hailed from Ontario.
Provisions We're scarce and high at
70 the military posts last winter. and
In several, including Laird post and F.
~ Francis, even the post men were put
rations during the months of April a
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