The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-11

| thirty survivors of the Edmonton trail.
They are:
NJ. Randleman. Chicago.
]. Cliff, Vancouver.
W. T. Mum, Missouri.
+. H. Lyons. Missouri
W. Coulter. Manitoba
NJ. OStig. Chicago
G.. Nelger, Canada.
S. w. Morgan, Silverton, Ora
II. Fenk. Los Angeles.
G.. Gafney, Los Angeles.
II. Burton, Salt Lake City.
W. Hinxman. Chicago.
c. Jefferson. Ashbury Pork, y. J.
J. Moore. San Francisco.
NJ. Veley, Ohio
J. McGilvary. London, England.
W. Reed, Canada.
o. Reed, Canada
J. Levin. Ottawa.
J. Hackney, Ottawa
E. II. Dunbar, Seattle
W. II. Dunbar. Seattle.
NJ. Tall. Canada
T.. H. Tall. Canada.
II. W. Weisen. Chicago.
A. II. Tigar, Prince Alberc province,
Canada.
c. Stiefel, Chicago.
W. II. Wells. Missouri.
D. Robertson. Vancouver.
I. G. Tomlinson. Tacoma.
trains sent out from Telegraph creek
and Laketon by the various trading
companies last spring.
Suffered Terrible Hardships.
These unfortunates tell heart-rending
stories of hardships endured, COM
radeS lost and abandoned. and strongly
denounce the trading and transporta-
ton companies, as we'll as the Cana
dian officials and newspapers that So
profusely advertised this route as a
feasible one to the KlOndike gold fields.
To outward appearances these men
certainly give evidence of the awful
sufferings undergone since leaving Ed
monitor eighteen months ago. Most OF
them are sicly-iooking, with unkempt
boards and greasy clothing-pictures
of physical and financial wrecks. Sew
eral are prematurely gray and bear the
marks of Scurvy. \ few have just
enough money to reach Seattle or Vic
toria. but the majority are without
funds.
The citizens of WrangeI have ap-
pealed to the United States government
a Washington. but up to this date no
aid has been received. There are now
about twenty-five destitute miners
here. Many had narrow escapes from
starvation along the trail from Fort
Simpson TO Mud river and Fort Bard
SQUIRRELS and bacon for nearly two
weeks. NJ. Ostig. c. Stiefel and NJ. W.
Weisen, three of a party of five from
Chicago. owe their lives to a bear that
they killed just as they had run out OF
provisions about twenty miles from
Lizard post. William Schmidt and Fred
Swift of this same party left the camp
at Lizard post last spring to trap, and
have never been heard from since. NJ
Randlemann of Chicago was lost in the
woods above Fort Lizard last fall, and
was compelled 10 live on bacon for
three weeks. Perry Wells, brother OF
W. H. Wells, who was one of the past
sengers on the Strathcona, died OF
scurvy at Telegraph Creek
More Than 100 In Peril.
1t is estimated that there s[e stilIv
more than 100 men scattered along thef
trail between Lizard post and the Pelly
banks, and relief parties have been
sent out by the Hudson Bay company
The last reports brought to Lizard post
We're that many We're dying of scurvy
and hunger.
1t is estimated that there are thirty
or forty sufferers at Telegraph creek
awaiting the next trip of the boat. The
sick that had TO be carried on stretch
ers had not yet reached GlenOra when
the Strathcona sailed.
several cases dIE TeDOTltu.
About twenty miles above Devils Port
age two unknown men were found
frozen TO death last winter. A man.
bearing the name of Johnson, from New
York, was found dead in a tent near
the source of the Mud river last fall
This poor fellow had as a covering only
half of a blanket and in a diary still
open and in his hand were these words,
opposite the date of Feb. 10, 1897:
Il die of hunger"
All along the route from Fort Simp-
son. on the Mckenzie river. to Fort
Lard men with frozen limbs were as
sisted. while some too weak to help
themselves were necessarily left be-
hind by those more fortunate and able
to struggle along Scurvy ragged in al
the camps more or less. but there were
few deaths from this disease reported
a number of Canadians who attempt
ed a cross-cut land trial from Fort
Simpson TO Fort Francis last fall have
never been heard from. and it is likely
that they persisted from cold Beaupree
was the name of one of these men. and
he hailed from Ontario.
Provisions Are Scarce.
Provisions were scarce and high at all
the military posts last winter, ana at
several, including Lizard post and Fort
Frances. even the post men were put
on rations during the months of April
and May of this year. Flour sold at
ss5 per sack. bacon. 10 cents per pound.
and beans % cents per quart THIS
made up the daily menu for several
weeks. Many owe their lives TO the
relief party under Scott Simpson, sent
out by the Cosca Trading company.
that reached Lizard post May %. This
daring party left LaketOn in March.
and made a most perilous trip across
Dease lake with dogs. As the ice broke
up one of this rescuing party was
drowned. and nearly all the dogs and
SIedS We're lost