The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-30
0r,rH ON KL0NDIKE TRAIL.
.-,RIl- EVERY MEMBER OF PHIL
,nrLPHIA PARTY OF FOUR
TEEN LOST.

md suffering win > Ate
and Rats-Cursed God in
Their suffering
From the Philadelphia Record.
....ls Wash, July 22-Wnliam Elem
~ carpenter and builder of No. 1873
No., Fortv-fourth street, Philadelphia, is
.r an inmate of the King County Hos
MI near this city, and it is a serious
N...don if he will ever again see Pennsyl-
" He is suffering from dropsy, the eff
H. of scurvy and frozen limbs, and his
.Andtng physician, when asked about his
..Arrs condition, said; He may recov-
- M it is doubtful. His hair and beard
-. ,Nmost white, but on the brain and
.besk\ and on the hands and forearms are
dark y stains that tell of frozen flesh"
As alSady told briefly in press dis
matches. Fleming was one of a party of
r6lade.p.Nans who suffered so severely
while irving TO reach the gold fields of
interior Aia\ka by way of the famous Ed
rOooton train Another member of the
mart, is in tbe city. His name is Paul
raror and hA formerly lived at No. 1905
Pine street. Philadelphia He suffered with
Fleming. but he\is in much better condi-
non ana VIII soon leave for Philadelphia.
Fsming is too II to tell the story of the
,ar.y's experiences Non the trail, but Taylor
lo-d9g told of then in detail The most
important statement he makes is as to the
other members of the party.
abandoned ON the Trail.
Besides those known to be dead, Mason,
Peters and two others, neither of the men
known aught Of their companions fate.
They were left along the way when il was
q struggle against starvation, cold and dis
ease for the few who could walk They
pulei them on sleds for miles and miles,
living on TWO teaspoonfuls of flour and a
CUP OF tea a day. Then it came to
poir, where. too weak to longer pull their
sick companions, but one course was open
leave them sheltered as best they could,
with al the food that could be spared and
push on TO send back a rescue party. This
tsev did From Telegraph creek, from
Fort Lard, from every point that could
be reached-men went back to find the
wanderers.
How many they will find, how many
will be alive when they find them, no one
knows: but if Taylor and Fleming, among
the strongest of the men, reached civiliza-
ton more dead than alive what must be
the condition of those left behind in that
wilderness sick, frozen and starving when
they were left?
Survivors story of Suffering.
Here is Taylors story. 1t reads like
q novel;
"On Jan. g. 1898, party of fourteen OF
US left Philadelphia for the Klondike. In
the party were myself, Paul Taylor, NJ.
Fleming Capt, John Mason, H. r. Sny-
der. Louis Mason, +. TOmlinson, John Nc
CuIough, Fred Carlston, Robert Smith,
Charles De Lere, a man named Jonas and
two others. We were well fixed, not only
with camp equippage, but with horses,
having eighty head, and dogs as well. We
were persuaded to try the overland trail
from Edmonton into Dawson.
May God forgive the men who sent us
on that route. There is no trail, and
hundreds of men have persisted, even as
some OF our party did, trying to make a
trail across waste of snow and ice river
and swamp, only to turn back disheart-
ened We left Edmonton on March 9. 1898.
ana started out. We soon found there
was no trail, and started to make one.
Five hundred miles we hewed and cut our
way, and finally, in August, 1898, we decid-
ed TO try and return home.
Three Wen Frozen to Death.
"One day we found a cent in the bushes.
and IN il three men frozen to death. All
they had left was a few beans, and these
they were too weak to cook
wv made up our minds to try and reach
GFAzauon in some other way than going
oaeA as We came. We made RATS ana
started down river, knowing that all
MYERS lead TO the sea, and at the very
S.d' or the journey Capt. Mason was
drowned He was in charge of what few
horses We had on shore, and we were go
lug 10 put them on a raft. One night we
,g9Iu cry went ashore and saw Capt.
Jason nat floating on the water That
- ID. we Know of how he died We posted
'.U.'ee 'eihng of his death and started on
we went across the country 10 make a
!'st call Sylvester There was 10 trail.
IL was hunting bhndly over the snov ana
''' 'Ae racks Of s~lne other parry that
Aad y e be:orc.
'aen came lhc storm, the biting. III nd
l'R "hzZ'rd The > tiless hail. the ever
I.i'ils 200" c'ecping about you so soft-
'9 '-''iE so white and pure, "A. bold
ing deain IN every fake
l., A"' more than one poor boy heard In
9 ao"I, as the snow crept around him,
ro"i OF the storm change to a lula
LOO IIozen TO move, and we were 100
..'1sn 10 help them, we would leave them
"l9pted IN the mantle of the storm fall
'.s asl1ep, freezing to death and babbling
'Hey died Of the sunshine of Pennsyl-
,s 100 knows it was hard" and great
va stood in Taylor's eyes, then trick
G., p2"n his cheeks, but what could we
struggled on. To stop was certain
F'l5,' 70 90 ahead only chance for life.
+,15 ' enc man dropped, frozen and Grip
~ "ilh scurvy. We threw away enough
am. ..e CUNT to make up for his weight and
bie7su MN on a sled, each man taking
or 5 ~ 'or we no longer had either horses
YES me horses had frozen to death,
en- I ,sl by starvation. and we had eat
'''S' in Wilderness of Snow.
,,5 men another man went down. another
ave- d"olnef and we kept on throwing
nnt5 our outfit so as to pun them along
rno.. . early everything was gone. Had
,,. 'lA OF pure gold risen before rs, not
j.,T INA, party would have stopped to
t ~ Ne We wanted to get TO civillza-
-' 10 Ndd be n BETRAYED 10 talr, n traI