The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-18
ALPHA'S TERRIFIC STRUGGLES
With THE BFRING SEA I0.
Consumes Over Month in Reaching Her Destination and
Works for Days Amid the Floes-Brings Back Gold
and Tells of NOmeS Riches.
Special Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer.
via the Alpha

Special Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer.
via the Alpha
VANCOUVER. r. c.. June 1.-THE
steamer Alpha arrived direct from Cape
Nome al o'clock tonight. after one OF
the most evenifui and yet one OF the
luckiest trips on record. dozen times
Capt Buckholtz says he would not have
given six bits for the chances OF the
boat or her passengers. Yet she came
back. after trayersing 500 miles. with
over a thousand miles of that through
ice foes without a single aecident--not 50
much as the breaking OF a yard-rope.
The Alpha brought five passengers. who
had about saeooe on board The passen-
gers were:
Glen TinsIey. OF Dawson. with
s25.0oo.
Jack KIN. seattle. representing
partially Frye Brubn a CO.. sIS5.oOo.
Frank Green. Dawson and Nome.
SEQ 600.
J. {. Monaghan. of Denver, Col.
with ss0,o0o.
The NTH passenger was Oscar Gandel.
a Scandinavian. who went north by the
Alpha and was nearly fatally poisoned by
mercury on the way Purser shonp had
tho gold brought down in his safe Tho
passengers will leave for Seattle tomnr-
row morning. The Alpha landed aii ~ her
l5s passengers and n full load OF freigh,
at Nome She had chartered for 50,
Michael. hut most people believed when
she left here she would go to Nome. all
her passengers being really bound for the
American gold fields.
Capt. Ruckhnltz explains that the ice
was too thick towards st. Michael. and ho
really had 20 go 20 Nome. once there he
said the people were suffering much
under a regime of high-price,i food that
they received him with open arms All
the dufncult points 81 the United States
customs laws were waived and even
though Nome was not a SUPPORT they
landed all their provisions during the a~e
days between May Is and o.
e have been sealing f1r twelve years"
10 said tonight "and ! know the roates
~ the revenue cutter Rear when we
got out We kopt out 81 her way. We
had no trouble at all over customs"
STORY oPe ALrHA's IRIr.
The Alpha bad a terribla trip. she ief,
Vancouver on Apru g. nearly n moath
ahead = any other Nome bound boat
The story has already hoop related re-
lated of her meeting. ihe ice foes. skirsinR
taeir southern urnit untU ahe maae Auus-
'asia. on the sfssrian coast. away NJ the
western shore n BernE Sra. on April
~ sac had beaded for ST. Aiichaea time
and again, bat aH Efforts % oatain an
entrance through the great hslda of packeA
See werc uaavaNng she turned hack
ard arrived AZ Tutch hartor On May
sho left again en the 9,h. and rnef iea
and heavy weather al the time fnY three
5ays Wnen she hal eyrived at north
iaiitufe N .isgrse@ minutes. wegi ion-
giiu3e lFi. a. sha wrought 90 agsinVt thn
varsi ic0 rack she encountered 3uriag
$50 entire trir tpt ifnmsdia;ciy after she
found On Opening ard started far Sunl-
vaf isiar3s The sau Fran is-a whsGars
Atfxau4ra ara Jeaanette wsre there vfth
1' fa@aengefs apiece t-ginE 60 make their
way in. The Thrasher. soesasr san iran
ciaco whh4er. was also PASSED
AGAINST SOLID PACK rcH.
After Eve daTs ~ iaoeaaant working fha
Alpha f1Had lead ts~1aEh the See uesf-
ward aroans Sc Lawrence island oct
thon turne4 saath she asooa away ear
~ MahaeL Thter days nsora t,ura fa-
aEA.a up aEaloFy sallG pack ice. There
waa - probability now ~ getting fats
NNvton SOUND ~ the heal = which stands
So Michael Like o. nan who has come
sorroWsalg face % face with TIE lss-rs-
sanie. capt Eaekholtz reluctantly turned
bis tte4rner's course toward Cape Nome.
The steamer arrived there "a May d.
So GLAD were the citizens q the northern
ulla.ag camp. hs says. 20 see the Alpha.
thar when she was made out miles ofs
shore. they began arinE salstes and brlnx.
ing out an the Gags and bunting In the
toNn- The Jeanne had beaten taeu
into port ~ couple Of days ana ne
Gaxe Son.s NeWs ce.earate2 Lis. oocaal.r