Iditarod pioneer., 1914-06-27
NEWS OF KUSK0K I'M

Special Correspondence of The Pioneer(
 Aniak Alaska, May 30.-Roscoe Marker, aged about 2S or 30 years, was drowned in the Aniak river on May 21. The water was very high, and accompanied by man known as Count Won Meyer, from Marvel creek, he was coming down from William Boardman's cabin to Duke E. Stubbs' place for a load of provisions which he had cached there when the winter trail broke up.
 They had already met with three mls- haps on the Salmon river where Meyer nearly lost his life. They had lost their provisions and all the boat uipment but one pipe pole when they got to the Aniak. There they made small paddle and had proceeded but short distance when the boat struck log jam, which wrecked the boat and threw them into the water. The current carried Meyer under the log jam, but he finally managed to get his head and arms above the water and held onto a snag until his strength partially returned, and when he dragged himself up onto the logs he found himself prisoner in the middle of the swift river. He remained on the jam for about fifteen hours, until all hope of seeing his companion was gone, and then by means of rope which he cut off of the boat, which lay crushed against the logs, he constructed little float that would keep his head above water He entered the water and by hard swimming succeeded in reaching sweeper that hung far out into the river. Holding to this, he saved the rope off his little float and reached the bank He had then been wet for more than twenty four hours, the weather freezing and showing, and he had neither dry clothes, food matches nor ax and did not know where he was never having been on this part of the river before. From the wreck of the boat he had saved piece of rope and hand saw Lying on the bank near where he landed was rusty tin can with a press-in lid. Hoping that it might con tain some kind of food, he pried the lid off and found that it contained dry matches, and with these he was able to build fire and dry his clothes.
 After two days hard mushing through brush and across sloughs running full of water, he found the Bear creek winter trail and followed that until he reached the roadhouse
 Mir Marker made a trip to Iditarod just before the break-up and was the last musher over the winter trail On his way home after leaving the kuskokwlm river he had to abandon his sled, and with packs on his dogs reached the roadhouse He was on his way down river to pick up his outfit when the accident occurred. He was ex- pecting to prospect at the head of the Anlak this summer. He was a native of Ohio, and was born on farm north of Green vile, Darke county He was of 8 quiet, reserved disposition, and was well liked by everybody.
 Alex Cornwall, formerly living at Flat City, who with his partner, Frank Mills, was working lay on Bear creek, was taken seriously i'll just as the snow went of with appendicea abscess He was taken over to the roadhouse on the Aniak, where Mir and Mrs. Stubbs cared for him until after the breakup, when he was taken to Bethel and operated on by the government surgeon, Dr. J, Wilson Reed. Owing to the delays incl dent to the break-up he did not reach Bethel until thirty-fve days days after the attack, and was then in serious cond- tion The operation was most successful, and Mir Cornwall stood the ordeal quite we'll Unless complications should set in his recovery promises to be speedy.
 The river steamer Alice was the first boat of the season to go down river to meet