The record-union., 1899-03-17
Caught in a Blizzard Affer Successfully
Crossing the Summit.
Scurvy Raging in All Camps in the
Interior, Many of the Cases
Proving Fata1-Out of Forty
Passengers Returning From the
Mouth of the River on the Ex-
ce1sicr Forty Were Suffering
From the Disease.


ors of Copper River, Alaska, and that
six men perished from cold in the VAL
dez Glacier in the first days of March,
was brought here tonight on the
steamer Excelsior from the mouth of
Copper River. She brought nearly 100
passengers, 40 per cent of whom were
suffering from scurvy.
Following is list of those who per-
ished on the glacier: Adolph Ehrhardt,
New York; Macmillan Miller, New
York; Alfred Alleman, New York; DR..
Edwin Logan, Denver; Rudolph Eller-
kamp, Louisville, KY; August Schultz,
New York.
All the bodies except that of DR.. Lo-
gan were recovered and buried at Val
des. Ehrhardt, Miller and Alleman
We're members of the Scientific Pros
pecting Company of New York.
They were all in one party. Late in
February, when they We're encamped
on the other side of the glacier, Ehr-
the scurvy. 1t was decided to bring
them out to valdes They were strapped
on sleds, and were drawn by the 9th
ers. The party successfully crossed the
summit, and had started to cross the
the I'd of March DIR. Barrett, who has a
camp between the glacier and the sum
nit, came into Valdes and inquired
whether the party had arrived there.
They had passed his place, and he was
fearful that they had been lost in the
storm A party of ten left Valdes to
cold day On the fourth bench of the
10 y, ,,-f,o ard mr.
strapped to their sleds. Their bodies
were not stiff, indicating that they had
been dead but a short time. Near by
Schultz was found, buried in a hole
His right hand was stretched above his
head. At the foot of the bench the
bodies of EHerkamp and Alleman were
found in a crevice. The body of Dr.
Logan was not found and it is sup
posed that he wandered away from the
trail in search of help.
Another fatality reported by the Ex-
celsior's passengers is the freezing to
death of Peter Benson of Madison, Wis.
Benson had started from the interior
to valdes over what is known as the
summer trail. In crossing a small
creek the ice broke, and he got wet
from head to foot. Before he could
get to a fire he was frozen stiff.
Scurvy is reported to be present in all
the camps in the interior, and many
miners are coming to the coast either
to escape it or to recover from its ef-
fects Six deaths have occurred during
the winter At Copper Center there are
twenty scurvy patients in the hospital
The last report from DR.. Townsend was
to the effect that they were all improv-
ing, and that he expected no further
fatalities.
DEATHS FROM SCURVY.
SEATTLE, March 16.-A Post In
telligencer' special from Valdes,
Alaska. gives the following list Of those
who have died from scurvy in the Cop
per River district this winter: S. Mil
ligan, Los Angeles; John Rohr, Homo
lulu; Nick Urban, Pittsburg, Pa; Jack
Haden, San Jose, Cal; d. G. Cushman,
Meadville, Mo-; Dan Manard, Mead
Vile, Mo.
Among those who are sick with
scurvy are the following: w. Q. Fl.
Gully, Warrenburg. Mo-; Dan Cash
man, Chicago; DIR. Winslow, Angeles;
Joe Nlarkowitz, San Francisco; Valen-
tine Schick, Santa Fe, N. M; George
Corley, Hartford, Conn; Sam Brady,
Elliott, Ia; George Lowe, Elliott, Ia;
Julian Mueller, Miami, Fla; Russell
Briggs, San Francisco; w. s. Berry,
Wheatland, CAL, and w. B. Crane, Lee
Summit Mo.
FOLGER PARTY SAFE.
SEATTLE. March 16.-H. O. Nordvig
of Portland Or, and G. H. Wilson of
Browning, Mo-, are the latest arrivals
from the Koyukuk district, Alaska.
They report the safety of the party of
eight, headed by Jack Folger, an old
Alaskan, who started from Rampant
City to the Koyukuk, and who ii was
feared had perished in blizzard. Six
of the party returned to Rampant City.
but Folger and one companion pushed
through TO Peavy For twenty-one
days they subsisted on dog meat.
Nordvig and Wilson report scurvy
among the Alaska Union party of Chi
eago at Union City. Seven men are eff
fected. Two miners belonging to the
DIETRICH party of San Francisco have
frozen their feet so badly that amputa-
ton will probably be necessary.
An unknown prospector was frozen to
death on the Alantana River, near
Arctic City in the early winter.
Mr.. Wilson gives the population of
the various towns on the Kuyokuk as
follows: Jimtown $50 Burgman City
$50, Arctic City 80, Peavy 150, Union
City 100 or less.
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