The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-02
HAD HARD LUCK STORIES
Frightful Experiences With Kot.
zebue Country.
ARE BEYOND DESCRIPTION
Horrible Sufferings OF Hardy Prospec
tors in the Frozen North-Bering
See Swept by Terrific
Wind Storm.

Seattle, Wash, Sept. 1.-Two steam
ers arrived from Alaska to-day bring
ing about 500 miners, fortunate and
unfortunate. The Laurada came from
St. Michaels and the Humboldt from
Skaguay. The total amount of gold
dust they brought down is estimated at
one-half million.
The reports from the Cape Nome dis
| trict are still conflicting, but the fact
remains that considerable gold dust
| was brought from there by passen-
| gers on the Laurada
The dust is very fine and has to be
| amalgamated.
S. A. Warren and o. H. Robertson
| of Denver brought out $50,0 900 from the
Eagle City district. J. Dickinson, who
has been in that district six years, had
| $25, 900.
From the Klondike came ]. H. Ladd
with $4,000; E. McGrath with $4,000,
and Charlay Anderson with 100000
| One stalwart miner struggled toward
| the assay Office this morning with a
sack of dust Is inches long, and was
| asked where he came from.
Eagle City, sir, and that's on the
| American side and Im an American
miner. and don't forget it,
He seemed to take as much pride in
the latter part of his statement as he
| did in his sack of dust.
Many hard luck stories are also told.
| T. c. Martin of Chicago lies in Prov
idence hospital and his old partner.
| Thomas Cragie, of the same place, is
dead on the barren and inhospitable
| shore of KotZebue sound. Martin went
| in two years ago and is a physical
| wreck, glad to have escaped with his
life. He says the terrors they ex-
| perienced were awful and cannot be
described. He had to be helped off
| the Laurada and into and out of the
| conveyance by a friend named Kyle,
who took him to the hospital.
| P. j. Peterson of Cbicag came back
| on the Laurada. He had an iron con-
| stitution and does not seem to be
much the worse off for long, hard
| winter spent in the Kotzebue country.
81 was the only one, though, out of
| 81 who pitched camp together, that
was able when the ice broke up to
| walk out straight
peterson wintered about 265 miles np
the Kobuck river from the mission on
| Hoodum Inlet.
| Mike DAILY and two Frenchmen from
| Providence, r. l.. are reported to have
| died last winter in the Koyukuk coun-
try. Their bodies were found this
| spring
DR.. Groves of Redding. Cal, died in
the Koyukuk country of spinal men
| ingitis.
Bering Sea was swept by a terrific
wind storm on the 18th, goth and 21st
| of August that made all shipping
| caught out in it struggle hard to live,
| The British gunboat Pheasant, the
| United States cutters Rush and Cor
! win and the Laurada were all caught
out and had a hard time to live ii
| out. All escaped, however, but the
| Pheasant lost two of her life-boats
which were smashed by heavy seas
| washing her decks. The huge waves
that broke over her piled down into
the forecastle, driving every Jack Tar
to other parts of the ship. The Rush
and the Pheasant, after the storm
put into Dutch harbor, where the Lau'
| rada saw them. The latter vessel was
caught by the hurricane one day this
side of Nome at about 10 o'clock or
| the night of the 18TH 1t came uI
| from the southeast and blew with ter
rife force till the 22d. The Laurads
was heading into it and shipped but few
seas. Sailors on the cutters said II
was the worst storm they had ever en-.
countered.