The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-17
Seven Han Drowned in Turnagsin
Arm, Alaska, juno 4.
swAaApeo ~ THE RACING TIDE.


Schooner Gen. osglt1 OF the untteo Ut4Aes
Mercantile company's line. arrived yesfer-
a. FROM Cook inlet with details OF
6rowuang disaster wherein seven men
vsuf down to waasry graves In treacheroue
Tusna9ain Arm. No bodies were rccev-
cred
ne names OF the known dead are:
a =. JOHNSON, Malone. y. r.
lIOCus PETEasON. Chicago. IN
CHRIS MADISON. chtcaSe, HI.
- PORTER, Oal1fosnia.
- MUTGMDSsON, Rockford, IN.
TWO uNlGHOWN.
CasUht ~ . TSAal wave.
All seven psrssh<d June Z. They we're in
three rowboats. making their way up the
arm. whsn they we're overtaken by great
tidal wave. which swampsd the canoes
Johnson, Peterson and Madison were In
ons boat. Porter and Hutchinson In an
other, and the two unknown N the third.
The three hrst named were prospecting
partners Of G.. G. Smith. Of Ogden, Utah.
They had been 20 Hope City and were re-
turning 70 suarise, where Smith awaited
thom. Learning Of their death he hasten
&c to the scene by boat. and made dill
gent search for the bodies, but found moth
Ing save wreckAGe.
Peterson and Madison were half brothers
and they leave Peter Madison. q brother
and half brother Of the deceased. residing
In Chicago.
hut little 10 known by the sigiin's passen-
gers Of either Porter or Hutchinson. The
former often stated THAT he had lived long
In California where he had followed mn
ing more or less
Il1-lsck Of DestOn Party.
Among the sigin's passengers are four
teen OF the party OF sixteen Massachu-
ago last February In the schooner Rube
l. Richardson. Rounding the Horn. the
Richardson touched next Af San Fran
cisco, going thence direct 20 Rsy.rrec-
ton bay, Alaska. There she was anchor
ed for the winter. but IN November shs
broke her chains. and . strong wind drove
her at high tids on q sand bar. The craft
Careenad and settled until within three or
four weeks .she was practically buried In
tho sand Meanwhile the prospecting con-
tingent had gone on to Cooper river.
tributary OF Resurrection bay, whore they
located claim and at once began tts
developmsnt. Very poor dlEgings were
encountered. the men making but 70 cents
10 Il per day. but they kept paging away
until they secured enough gold 20 Pay
their passage hack home Before their
departure they sold the buried schooner.
which In a compar ativeiy new craft con-
strueted at a cost OF Si0.0eo. to Capt.
Newport for 500
Nearly All Had scurvy.
Those OF fhe party who came on the
sIwin are T. C.. Collins. L. p. Grover. c.
r. Chapman. j. Murphy. John Btice. Mar
TN Nelson, Charles II. Baker. r. o. Lake.
G. Herring. r. c. Wilcox. B. Ericsson. W.
A. Miller. d. A. Nicholson and J. C. Case.
Nearly every member Of the crowd had
q slight touch OF the scurvy during the
winter hut none died az the disease They
were returning to their Massachusetts,
homes very much Disguised with the Res
direction hay section OF Alaska as gold
producing district.
No better opinions are entertained Of
Cook Inlet by A. H. Wood. =. r. Kendall
and James Taylor. three Maine men. and
George Hadden. Of Indiana. Harry Kent.
OF ssachusefts: John Forbes. OF New
York. and q. Ssruppie, of Hop Bottom,
Pa, who are leaving the country dissat-
tsfed
Ftads . Copper Mine.
Louis Beaver. son az a Cedar Rapids. Ia.
banker. found what he rexards as rich
copper mine on Prince William sound
and Miss Susan o.fsrien announces that
she viii return 20 further develop prom
tsinr placer claim
Cant, Johnson says high water has ma
terfaily interfcred with Mining on the
srsbusar s~s Of Turna8aiu this summer.
but he nevertheless believes the gold out
put will exceed that OF any previous sea-
son. Several hydraulic plants. notably
tn. Bear Greek Hydraulic Mining Com
pany. have been put In successful opera
sian within the past six weeks. and 9TH
ers are about ready To begin work The
Reilly mine Is working ten men. Its out
put averages about slao per day to the
man.