The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-27

All the survivors OF the many ui-iatt0
Edmonton trail expeditions through the
wilds Of the Canadian Northwest 10 the
Klondike have not yet returned to civ
iiixation. and as they are slowly coming
into habitabie places again they bring
their tales of terrible suffering. freezing.
starvation and death. The steamer Cot
tage City. arriving yesterday morning.
brought several more OF these pioneers OF
that route into the interior Of the north.
who add to the many stories that nave al
ready been told.
One of the most important OF these was
w. d. DooIittie. OF Irvington, N. j., who
has just reached the Sound, after series
OF awful experiences lasting more than
year He brings the latest udings from
Telegraph Creek, the outlet Of most CT
the travellers Of that trail who are able to
get to t.dewater again. Doolitue arrived
at Telegraph Creek February II, out Of
food. and just able to make his wants
known and to take food from the hands
OF a minister OF the Church OF England
there. who offered him sustenance-
since l reached the Coast" said he last
night, II have witnessed terrible sights
of people coming in. with hands and feet
frozen, starving and suffering with sour
w. all telling the same awful story of the
frightful hardships they experienced In the
Lizard country. A party of fourteen men
was on its way to Telegraph Creek. five Of
them leading to break trail through the
snow, and the nine others following. A
heavy snowstorm came up and the nine
behind became lost. All efforts have fail
ed to discover their fate. They doubtless
wandered through the storm until they
were Frustrated, when they sank down and
died.
Petition for Relief.
while ] was at Telegraph Creek a petit
ton came N from the Lizard district. ask
ing the government to send relief to the
starving. as they had no provisions and
were dying every day. Porter, the gov
eminent agent organized, on his own re-
sponsibility. party Of two Indian guides
and four white men. and sent a scpw load
OF food to their relief. This expedition left
for Laketon, lS6 miles inland. the latter
part of May, and the last reports were
that the scow had reached the district in
safety and given the food to the needy
people. There must be 500 people there.
and / do not believe they had provisions
al OF this scow.
"A week before left for Seattle men ar
rived from Teslin with the report that
three men had been found dead at Moose
Lake, l2o miles in from Telegraph. They
all died from scurvy. They we're the two
Allison brothers. OF Kent. England. and .
man named Carter. Of New Zealand They
but knew nothing about scurvy and had
built their cabin in a marsh. 1t was learn
ed from diary one OF them kept that they
did not know what the disease was, al
though they described It's symptoms. The
last entry in their diary was: My brother
passed peacefully away. l don't know il
/ win live tn leave here Nine hundred
dollars was found in their cabin. and cloth
ing. Porter. the government agent, was
about to send men to bury the bodies and
take charge OF their effects, when Il was
learned that a government constable and
three men at Teslin lake had done this.
Il cannot describe the terrible sufferings
We experienced in that country. The trail
Is simply terrible. and it Is q wonder SO
many come out alive. Lord Pike. who is
Interested In the trading post at Laketon.
PIE. ana wills will not n let any leave w:,hou,
provisions to last them to Telegraph
Creek, ever II they do moi have money to
pay for them.
but the Hudson's Bay people are differ
ent. and viii not give a thing, unless they
are paid the high prices they ask At the
lower Lard post the prcspectors held UP
took all the food they needed"
Others Get To Dawson.
DR. J. r. Connolly. Of Chicago: b. VII
chen, Of Brooklyn. David Hopkins. D. NJ
Dalgitsh. u. p. Meem. OF Ottawa. w. A.
Mclean. ]. Orchid and ]. e. Duff. Of Chi
cage. and A. f. Haines. of Michigan,
reached Dawson June 5. They were men,
bers of two Edmonton parties that trav-
. eled together from Seven mountains
Hopkins and his men left Edmonton De-
cember Is. 1897. and Connolly. leader OF the
other expedition, departed from the same
point February 20. 1888 John Beauret. of
the Hopkins party. was drowned on July Il
last and Orchid September S, both in
Peace river.
The survivors sleided from Edmonton
over Seven mountains. distance OF 40
miles, 20 Peace river. where they built
boats and foated down the Slave river
and Great Slave lake. thence down the
Mackenzie to MCPHERSON. From tha.
point they roped the boats up Peel river.
pecfiug from August until December Is
when they set out TO find PASS through
the Rocky mountains
They we're four months getting through,
though they Travelled only I25 miles 20
Stewart river. lnnumerable har,ishiDs
we're encountered during this portion OF
the journey. and a. times IL seemed al,
must give up in despair