New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-18
PERfLS or THE KLONDIkE.
TWELVE MEN PERISH FROM sCURVY AND
EXPOSURE TO COLD - DANGER
or

EXPOSURE TO COLD - DANtEtt
or VALDES GLACIER.
Seattle. Wash. March News that scurvy was
raging among tho prospectors OF Copper RIVER
Alaska and that six men persisted from co.d Oh
the Valdes Glacier in the first days Of March was
hroupht here last night on the steamer Excelsior,
from the mouth Of the Copper River. She brought
nearly one hundred passengers. 40 per cent OF
WHOM, were suffering from scurvy. The following
six men died from scurvy in the course OF the win
ter in the Copper River district:
CUsHMAN. D. G.. Meadvne No.
HADEN Jack" San Jose ca
MANARD Tan" Meadvne. No
MIIILGAN. S. Los Angeles, Cal
ROHER. John. Honolulu
URBAN. Mex. Pittsburg. Penn
At Cooper Centre there are twenty scurvy pa
tients in the hospital The last report from Dr.
Townsend was 10 the effect that they were al I'M
proving and that he expected no further fatalities
Among those who are sick with scurvy are W. o.
r Gully Warrensburg Mo; Daniel eastman, chi
cago: Dr. WInslow. Los Angeles; Joseph Mako
v,itz San Francisco. Valentine Schick, Santa re-
y NJ. George Corley Hartford, Conn sainuel
Brady and George Lowe, Elliott, Iowa; Julian
Mueller. Miami Fla and W. b. Crane. Lee Sum-
nit Mo.
The following is a list OF those who persisted on
the glacier
AIEEMAN. Alfred. New-Yort.
EHRHARDT. Adolph. New ork
H-LERKANP. Rudolph. Louisville. Ky
LOGAN Dr. Edward. Denver Col
MILLER. MAMMALIAN. New-YorA
SCHULTZ. August New-York
The men were all in one party. Late in Febru-
arv when they encamped on the other SIDE
OF the glacier Ehrhardt and Miller were taken sick
with scuryy II WAS decided 10 bring them out 10
ValGcs They strapped on sieds, Whlch Wtiie
uulIcd by the others. The party successfully
reached the summit and started 70 cross the ga
cier when a blizzard came up. on March Dr;;
Barrett who has camp between the giscler anu i
the summit. came into Naldes ana inquired WhSIH ~
The party had arrived there. II had passed MS
place and he fearful that the men had been
lost IN the storm. , a.. 49, 1865,
T. Va - bitterly cold DAY. on the fourth bench OF
The eiacicr they found Ehrhardt and Miller strapped
10 their sleds. Their bodies were not sum, indl-
eating that they had been dead only snort um5.
Near by Schultz was found buried IN mole. His
right hand was stretched above MS heah. Al th1 1
foot Of the bench tho bodies or fHsIkathp anu
Aleenen were found IN crevasse. The Dody OF
Or Logan was not found. and II IL supposed tha'
he wandered away from the trail IN search Oh heP'
II. O. Nordyig. Of Portland, Ore. and 6. II. VII
SON OF Browning. Mo. have arrived from koy uSnS
r,rfv 81 men headed by Jack FOlger, an Ole
/ Alaskan who started from Rampant city TO ta a.
a blizzar1 Six Of the party returned 20 haiS n ~
! CITY but FolPer and one companion putn'ti'
through 10 Peavey. For twenty-one days they SUP
sisted on dog meat. Nordvg ana W iIsoh aI.O r. %,
I0rt scjr,-v among the Alaska Union party al
I-nion CITY. seven men are affected An unknown
? prospector wac frozen 10 death on the Atanla"e
River I'm the Arctic region. IN the early winter,
Mr. Wilson gives the pOpulaton OF 'le -. ~,
/ ~: BurgUan CITY -3V, ArCuc 'l'S' w. '
me North American Transportation and Trad
,f Co-nrany n is reported. Is about 70 move II,
! br ,douarters from Peavey 20 JimtoWn on aSCouI
OF the rich prospects on Davis CreeK: uiou bI
t,ker ont one man cleaned up $3.50 last fall "hl''
is the largest known