The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-08
MANY kLONDlKERS PERISH.
NOT LESS THAN roo REPORTED LOST
ON THE EDMONTON TRAIL.

F. l.. Bremner of Brooklyn and e. -. Pres
ton of Trenton Among Those Drowned
starvation, Scurvy and Exposure Killed
Many Others Who started on the Peril
Gus Trip-Partial List of Those Lost
C. Richter of New York n Suicide on
the Trail-Demand for Relief Expedition.
SEATTLE. Wash. June THE steamship
Lauradn is In port from Wrangcl. Alaska, with
news OF the death and suffering Of American
miners who tried to reach the Klondiko gold
fields over the all-Canadian route from Ed
monitor Several parties reached Wrangel last
week from the interior. after spending from
twelve to twenty months on tho trail in vain
endeavor to reach the gold fields.
They say that no less than 200 prospective
miners have lost their lives by drowning.
starvation. exposure and freezing during the
past winter. Most OF these were Americans
from the Eastern States. Scurvy is now raw.
aging the miners who are stalled on the trail.
and before relief can reach them many others
will have died
The Hudson Bay Company and the North
west mounted police have started small relief
expeditions from Telegraph Creek. Govern
ment action on a large scale will alone rescue
| hundreds who are unable to get out Of the
from various causes furnished by miners who
have reached Wrangel numbers but twenty
two. 1t is extremely difficult TO secure Names
although miners tell Of many accidents which
cost the lives OF parties Of five or ten.
The identified dead are: Drowned-C. b.
Preston. Trenton. N. j.: Harry Hitchcock
| Texas: F. ]. Bremner. Brooklyn; +. Preston.
| Philadelphia; Capt. Mason. Alaska: C. Smith.
| st. Louis; H. p. Munson. Chicago Frozen
| Dan Taylor. Nanaimo. b. C.: - Hutton. Van
| couver. b c.: John Paine. Vancouver. b. c.:
- Leighton. Victoria; H. Reardon, Cincin-
nati;J p. McCrumm;, pittsbuEg Robert 4 Y Ton
Bna fS~ Ja msAeS &ons SAN Fr"n Fran
Br r%a +. NeeIy. sauit Ste Marie ssnicide-G.
Richter. New York Arthur N. Collins British
GG3lpmba Exposure - Valentine Wendler'
Fifty miners lost their lives BY drowning on
Slave Lake ofthese but three are Known
distance from shore. and no one knows, the
identity Of the unfortunate miners Many
shodt the on rapS s'e Mia Lard Nelson
rivers. and parties OF from two to five were
Fuller details OF the deaths by scurvy ex-
| pcsure and starvation will be had when big
party OF miners. now lighting their way out
OF the country. arrive. -
Where bodies We're found , idcnt,fhcation vas
| the coast have no information in many cases.
Many parties are reported missing. having
Preston Hitchcock and Bremn er were victims
rail- rat With cons siderable difficulty and started
across the lake shortly before freeZe,up.
m SMGn Nave BEEN v droWned Fed
Preston was drowned while irving to ford
Lizard River, Cant. Mason. an od.time Alas
kan sailor. was swept from raft while cross
effort , 70 save him and he raj, was nearly
Mud River, All Of the deaths BY drowning oc-
s"on n's agS Sn inc party
nine men from Washington and British Column
DAP ry IT hS Are from BE
Camp on Hay Mountain for the upper Lizard
post. shortly after they struck into the hills a
party lost the trail and their bodies are es some
where in TIE m9untains Traces ai n Of the Garty
recovered by accident.
Reqrdon. TonsIla and McCrumm came from
came @aS acaRuainted the trs Theyy Vq oT
camp near Dease Lake and decided 70 strike
Tn HG we Tnf dss s !" DEATH fh The BSe
W. NSey Nif6IssRS nTosfsefG5; !; the W.
served hut. There tRey found Seely's BODY.
ierinGso on the trail; With a companio1
Tor ID TheS
an extensive outfit and several horses. Their
trials OF working their way through miles Of
mud across trackless deserts were wildly
told Every, few pages contained sarcastic
remarks on the Canadian Government for ad :
vertising such trail, Then he told how his
hands and feet had been frozen. quarrel
Graham told him he was going on to the gold
fields and did not care whether Nicely live or
not ~ the miner. locate Graham thew say
| they will hang him fora cowardly act.
| The of but three OF the viz
TINS were obtained from party that reached
Wrengel, Monat was sick with scurvy before
he left Telegraph Creek. He was, hound for
srss On" ne "Speu He had small rIrS ou,t
mule His body was found near the trail fifty
into his legs and made 1t impossible for him to
go further He crawled into tho timber and
died, klingman had penetrated beyond Upper
Gst Ss the S seu bSy an% S h
Thomas ia a Mud River victim. Two others az
his party died. but their names are not known.
Brook died OF starvation. near Mud River He
was German, and ieit letter to his family.
which will be brought ont
The suicides reportediwere both the result
OF, despondency, and both men, shot them
ing himself fastened this sign to n nearby tree
Hell can't be worse than this III chance II -
Collins was an old British Columbia miner and
took his life Hudson By Post Lard River
Mt Dease Lake. Mud and Lizard Rivers. F. W,
Ford. who has reached Wrangel. says: The
Unite, states, and pomiipion ot CanadG
send well equipped expedition into the
citizens Of the. United States as nine out q ten
were induced to try the Edmonton trail by the
| Dominion Government. and were led into a
tran that will cost many more OF them their