The sun., 1900-08-19
A DIARY OF STARVATION
HEPr BY WEYHRICH UNTIL TWO DAYS
BEFORE MS DEATH.
Five Days Later Food was Obtained By His
Surviving Companlon-A story OF Terri
BILE Suffering In the British Northwest.

from me Los An0eIes Tunes
Henry Weyhrich. a motorman, who LETT me
service OF tho Los Angeles Railway Company
In the winter OF 1898 to seek his fortune In the
I Klondike. has starved to death. His comrade.
| A. l.. Domlny. who narrowly escaped the Same
fate. returned Saturday In safety to hi home
at Adams and Hoover streets in this city. bring
| ing the nows OF Weyhrch's death. Mr.. Domlny
was with Weyhrich when he died. and brought
| back to brave little mother and sistsr. who
| live out on HLnth street, Just beyond Park View
avenue. hundred loving messages and diary
| in which the young prospector told OF his little
daily adventures and at last how he was dying
! bv inches OF hunger. Iii piteous book. that
diary; for he writes heroicaly. trying 70 see
hope where there was no hope.
Weyhrich was one OF the Sunny South party
which left Los Angeles for the Klondike two
and one-half years ago. They took the Ed
monton route which carried them along Peace
River. by Fort Graham and along Sylvester Post.
The other members all turned back before long.
but weyhrich and Dominy kept on into the
bad luck. They found little gold, but is Tss
too fine and not In paying quantities. they
TO turn about empty handed, and, stayed on
and on IN the threat Of the coming winter,
last Il caught them. apd n unable IN 70 TayGi S
az the lower end OF Mcpherson Lake on tho
| Yessezoo River. about Ave. hundred miles
wRero her DSM "Srs 'S proba6S he nearest human bs.
ings They knew they had not provisions
enough TO last the winter through, but rested
'" Sir weyhficRR writes ri s.p"ctrfT il hi- diary
Of their search for a good plao9 f0r tho cabin
axes got very dull and nicked, and y was fear
fully cold. the Thermometer sometimes going
| down, to 10 and even IS desroos below zero:
Still they seemed TO be having not unpleasant
experience Small game Ike pine martin and
squirrel appeared to be plenty enough. But
as winter settled down tho game became very
The men kept living la tho hope OF getting
moose. sometimes they found tracks; some-
1t was too late for poor WeynTich. Last New
Years Day tie two snqw-seged projectors
They knew by that time that there, was small
chance Of either one seeing another New Years
Day, Weyhrleh told Of it in his diary. He
Jan. l. 1900 camp Winter Quarters.
Cold and clear.
we had two good meals to-day, Doniiny
1GHea 1Gi9, e 'Sas sres.et The spider with bit o'
steric acid candle; cooked cried apples.
w4S9 We ate Snl l ws sse h5S
inlsh and u spoonful Of peameal-our last
an1 driei apples for supper
y remained in camp and cut up a big log
Of freNool. Mr.. ponliny went noose hunting
They we're travelling. lie caught one narten
The wood had 70 be gathered in enormous
quantities. Sometimes they burned ns much
as a cord in night 10 keep from freezing,
Teeor ~ of The doing. N mat lust ateful winter
was written across the pases Of little Spanish
English Bible which hau the sGcreG worus
printed Ia parallel columns in the two Ian
gunges. II seemed % though hope had left
them that New Years dey. for there is not
OF the days thereafter only a cool, manly
re- slsnatioi, on Jan, 9 .Weyhrich writes:
Too weak to 70 hunting. Cooker spoonful
Of rico, one OF Aour oho Of vegetable one leg
Jan very ooll. chopped wood, Mr..
Domin- rested so us TO save his strength for
II yeel that the Lord has saved our souls.
,hough our bodies perish by starvation t or
Living on two meals of thin soup,
Jan. s-Mr Dominy went moose hunting
three miles up to ne left, saw ,,l moose on opI
his strength was failing. he could not get al It
We are eating buds OF willow TO stay gnaw-
s weasel iS' Tor breakfast re Our soup keeps getting
We are getting weaker fast and can't hold
out many more days
III relief H. some shape does not come soon
we must perish
Jan Starving to death
"One spoonful Of evapOrated vegetable and
one OF rice and one OF -four per man per day.
and doing hard work on that
MIR. Domlny goes moose hunting every day
from one 10 four miles. breaking new trails with
snowshoes without getting sight Of any moose
except one at dusk half way up the mountain
zero. and fine snow with wind from the north
daily. which cuts through person.
We can hardly keep warm on the wood can
Jan 10 Very cold showed during the
might and all day. Fine, now.
Rice all gone. No living thing moving.
The squirrels have crawled into their holes
and the few remaining pine martens have
Mir. Domlny and both went moose hunting
up TO Tarmeryan Bench. three miles up the
river to the left Saw no signs OF any living
We both expect to die II we don't get out
side relief within one week. as the snow Ia
getting 80 deep and our strength is failing fast.
1t all depends on our getting moose, and
We are prepared TO meet our Lord and
Saviour in heaven, where care and sin and sor-
mother and sister there with relatives and
friends.
most impossible to move around camp with
out .snowshoes. Snow Is four feet deep on a
level
or one spoonful OF vegetables and the tips OF
was too weak to write, evidently. Each dSy iIy
he merely entered the date and the name of the
camp. Winter Quarters.
The sad record closes Tuesday, Jan. 10 IL
seems as though .weyhrch knew Il was TO be
the last entry. He wrote:
Tuesday Jan. 10, 1900, Winter quarters.
Henry A. Weyhrlch Of Los Angeles. Cal.
Cold, Very cold. About three inches Of
snow fell last night.
Il have given up all hopes OF living Ny
legs are so weak and thin they can't support
my body
am skeleton"
By ono OF those weird circumstances which
are often encountered where Bibles play
a part, Weyhrioh's dying message was writ
ten across the following verses in Acts
And now behold | so bound In the Spirit
unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that
shall befall me there,
Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in
every city saying that bonds and affections
abide Me.
But none Of these things move me. neither
count ! my life dear, unto myself, so that I |
might finish my courte with Joy. and the min |
tstry which have received Of the Lord Jesus |
to testify the Gospel OF tho grace Of God
Two days after. Wey yhrich went 10 his death |
with the utmost pluck and oheerfulness ne |
and Doniny sang songs all the morning until |
the end came.
Dominy buried his friend and lived four |
months alone in the camp. Two days after |
Weyhrlch died hs managed TO shoot a squirrel |
and five days after Weyhrchs death tie longed |
Tor moose was slain This saved Dominy's I!
life.
When he regained his strength by food.
he made terrible journey across the snow |
TO civilization and finally got safely home.
carrying Weyhriohs diary and papers through |