The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-22
I'll Loss OF LIFE
Many People Have Persisted In the
Frozen North.
UTAH MAN ON THE LIST
SCURVY PROVES FATAL TO
FRANK ROBINSON.
Disease, Accident, Murder and Sui
eide Permit Death to Reap a
Frightful Harvest In the Various
Mining Districts-Seven Per Cent
of One Party Succumb.

Santa Barbara, Cal, Aug. ELK
Supervisor w. Aston Hayne, who, with
party of Santa Barbara people. has
been in the Kotzebue sound region all
winter. has written very discouraging
news home. His letter. dated July 81,
on the Arctic circle, 500 miles inland
from Kotzebue sound, gives the follow
ing list of the miners who entered that
region and persisted there:
j. L. Onderdunk, Portland, Ore. died
at Spring Gulch from Overwork; E. c.
Mead. Sumner, Wash, Jesse Lue. black
leg; Charles A. Leonard, Cleveland,
o., Stony Camp. heart failure; Sabyn
Harris. Oakland, Cal, Reilly Camp.
black leg; I. T. TrUsler. San Francisco.
Nugget Creek, dropsy; L. Snyder. Seat
tie, Reed River. spinal meningitis: c.
K. Hay. Lawrence, Kan. Amber City.
scurvy; III. Cross, Kansas City. Amber
City. scurvy; G. z. Miller, Iowa, Mil
ler's Pass, drowned; A. c. Breed, Buff
falo, y. Y. Pock river black leg: ]. j.
Murrat, Los Angeles, Kogoluktuk riv-
er, scurvy; Nj. Nelson, Hammond. Ind.
Monolook. river. black leg; J. Berchey,
Lecome, Wash. Kobuk river. black leg:
j. Chrander, Healdsburg. Cal. Kotze-
bue Camp
\. P. Brown. Kansas. Monolook riv-
er. black leg; Captain c. Smith, Blake
ly. Washington, Salawik river scurvy:
Robert Becker, San Francisco. Pock
river suicide; F. Kudder, Bay City.
Mich, Salawik river. scurvy: F. John
son, Blakely. Wash, Salawik river,
scurvy; u. Mccall. Velit. Wis. Salawik
river, scurvy; ]. Messing. San Jose,
Cal, steamer Agnes Boyd, heart fail
ure; Pickering brothers, Princeton,
KY, Salawik river, murdered.
Utah Man Dead.
w. L. Simpson, McDermot. New.
Monolook river. scurvy: George Nc
Coy. Montana. NOatak river missing;
:. Benjaminson. Grand Harbor y. D.. |
Reed river. scurvy: Charles Deadtrick, !
Spearfish. $. D., Salawik river. miss
ing; Frank Robinson. Utah. Noatak
River. scurvy: Joe Stearn. Butte City, /
Mont, Noatak river: Mr. Treisite. Cali |
fornia. Noatak river; S. II. Dobins. |
South America, Noatak river. scurvy: |
4. NJ. Fairbild. Texas, HOLMAN Inlet /
scurvy; Mr.. Martis. Santa 4
Rosa, Cal. Noatak river. missing.
F. Howard. Fall River. Mass, Hol-
nam Inlet, drowned; J. Hoard. Fail /
River. Mass. HOLMAN Inlet. drowned: !
) Wilimoth,. Fall River Mass. HOLMAN
Met, drowned; John Morris. London.
england, EscholtZ Bay, accidentally
hot: Peter Nelson, Fair Haven. Wis.
SalaW1k river. scurvy; Mr.. Benz. Bay
lily, Mich. Kogoluktuk river. scurvy:
:. j. Boinuart, Seattle. Wash. Escholtz
Bay. drowned; MARITIME Borally. Italy,
iolham Inlet, scurVy: 5. F. Muller.
san Francisco. Cal. Kotzebue Camp,
drowned.
This list does not include thirty-six
Vho were drowned when the James \.
cray was lost. Neither does it in
Jude the last report of the deaths by
rowning of the men who left HOLMAN
Met for Cape Nome. The Indians.
owever, have reported the boats lost
nd the men drowned.
The two Pickering brothers are said
o have been shot by Indians, whom
hey ill treated.