The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-01
FOUR REPORTED DROWNED.
Seattle Men said to Have Met Death
at Five Flngers.

Warren Nelson one of the Dawson pas
sengers OF the City Of Seattle. which ar
rived here yesterday evening, tells some
interesting stories Of the Kiondike gold
fields. and Is himself one OF the lucky
ones who went there in search OF gold.
Mr.. Nelson says he was the last OF the
City OF Seaftle's passengers to leave paw-
SON. he having left there on the steamer
Ora on June T.
came up the Five Fingers rapids by means
OF steel cabiee. anchored up stream, and
hauled on by wtndass from the ltsa ger,
and that he saw there the capsiA z wsI
the day before, four Of whom were
drowned. and were said TO be from Seat
tie. Two Of the esxht were saved by the
mounted police and two. who had chung
to rocks. by ropes from the steamer Boz
nanxa. which he left there trying 10 get up
the rapids. The saved men were taken
when he left He did rot learn their
names but only that some OF the men
were said TO be from Seattle.
Mr.. Nelson said that the repor,s in paw-
son from people who had recently come
from Cape Nome were that large hnds
were being made there, some turning out
So 10 the pan. and mat II r. said sailors
are deserving vessels and steamers 10 go
10 the diggngs Among others who have
deserted their work for this purpose are
a number of government men employed
To watch reindeer
Many people he says are making prep
arations to 20 TO the cape. and he has
doubt there viii be = big crowd there as
soon as they cau go. He had heard no
report In Dawson nor on the City of Seat
tie Of iynching at Cape Nome. although
he was in Dawson week prior To his
leaving. The papers there did not report
Il. nor did he hear OF IL until reaching
Seattle. and he therefore thinks the re-
port here Is untrue. In this opinion he
was Joined by several others of his fellow
passengers
Mr. Nelson says that while he does not
know certainly, no prudent man Will
make known the exact amount Of hts dust.
he thinks the City az Seattle brought In
over ss1,oeo. ''The whole country" said
he, rs rich In deposits and new finds are
being made all the time. A friend Of mine
took out s2ss in two paris al Gold Run. and
crowds are going there now. II looks as
though II Is going TO be a SECOND tsldo-
RADIO. Gold will soon he coming south in
large quantities. ana think the output
SO aoo. ooo''
Mr.. Nelson il from South Dakota. and
has been in the klondke since isg. He
says he did not make much OF strike
until the last spring, when he made n
good ind on Gold HUI at the forks az
the Eldorado and RonanEa where SINCE
March he has sunk two shafts. th'rty-two
and eighteen feet. He would not state the
amount he had brought out but said he
WAS satisfied with 70 and with the future
prosperity Of hts mine. After few DAYS
In Seattle he will 60 East and bringing
hts wife and child 20 Seattle. win leave
them here when he returns 20 Dawson In
about sir weeks
He says There are many men In Dawson
and other camps who are not succeeding
because they are not equal 30 the strain
There are only two classes az men who
should so 20 that country" he said land
they are men with some money or men
who have the physique and courage tn
withstand the harishipS OF prospecting
The country - rough and unsettled cold
in the winter and hot and moseaitc-in~
Tested in the GUNNER. Trampsnc with a
heavy pack over rocks and hills, through
mud and SNOW ard with all the ether
hardShttaS Incident To the life. VIII tax
the hsst~uf men. and the weak In body or
mind had better stay at home