The Cordova daily times., 1919-05-20
NATIVES
 MISSING MEN ON ISLAND

Mr. c. B. Leatherman, Indian agent at Tatitlek, was in Valdez last week and gave a Miner representative further details of the finding of two men recently on Glacier island, a lonely spot in Prince William Sound, ono dead from starvation and the other nearly so. It appears that the men were Austrians, two brothers, by the name of Andrew and Louie Livisky.
 The natives were fishing in bi- darky near the island and had occa- sion to go ashore and up to cabin in small bay there. They entered the cabin and found one man lying on the floor dead and another sitting in a chair, nearly dead from starva- tion, so emaciated and weak that the natives had great difficulty in resus- citating him.
 Dividing their scanty store of pro- visions with the survivor and making him as comfortable as possible, the natives started on their long paddle acrosssthe stormy waters of the Sound for assistance. Arriving at Tatitlek they notified MT. Leatherman, who quickly placed some supplies in a launch and started back for the island. Upon arriving there they cooked some provisions for the sur vivor, and returned next day to Ta- titlek with the patient and the body of his brother.
 MT. Leatherman states that the liv- ing man was a pitiable sight, with hair and beard unkempt and several months growth, and that the squalor and filth about the cabin were such as to sicken the rescuing party. The men had no food in the house 3ave a small pot of mussels on the stove, ard had been on the island for sev- eral months, having no food during tEat time but the small shellfish found clining to the rocks, which could only be gathered at low tide. A can of paint had been opened and the survivor informed Mr. Leather rian they had tried to eat 1t but were unable to do so.
 It appears the two men were of the belief that a man could subsist on roots and herbs, and the survivor stated that hio brother had gone as long as thirty days without eating. They had boated to the island early in the winter and had taken little food with them in the belief that after fasting a short time they would need no food, other than that furn- ished by nature, which laid down on tho job after the first snowfall, leav- ipg the two men in a precarious con dition The ravens had left tke dis trict and the Elijah act also failed.
 The men had fishing lines and al- though the waters teemed with fish, tLey starved to death in the midst of plenty. Their boat which was an old worthless tub was wrecked early in the winter and the two men had a splendid opportunity to study the effect of mind over matter, only they made the mistake of forgetting they lacked the mind.
 When MT. Leatherman asked theI survivor what disposition should bel made of his brothers body he said: 'I don't care; throw 1t in the bay or do whatever you want to with him. The remains were taken to Ellamar and inferred.
 The two men originally lived in New Jersey, and beat their way to the coast, thence coming to Alaska. They were alien enemies and proba- bly, hid away fearing internment.
 The two men had gun and plenty If ammunition but apparently were .oo unbalanced to help themselves in my way.
 Glacier island is lonely spot, at ;hc entrance to the bay named after he big glacier, and is desolate, spot in winter, seldom visited by boatmen unless storm pound.
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