| Show t FEU ON t GLACIER Tales of Suffering and Death s Brought From Copper River t HARDSHIPS BUT KO GOLD 4 TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES OF MISGUIDED PROSPECTORS I I Body of a Man Found T Frozen and Imbedded Im-bedded I ths Ice Only One E capes Out of a Partyvof Three Strong Men Ara Made > Physfcal Wrecks Port Townsend Wash Sept 5 Among the passengers on the steamer City of Topeka which arrived tonight from Alaska were a number of miners from Copper river W E Hendricks of Halford Cal after af-ter eighteen months prospecting returns re-turns with nothing but the clothes on his back having lost everything in I trying to cross Valdes glacier He reports re-ports the death of D F Dunhaj > of I SanFrancisco by drowning while attempting at-tempting to cross one of the glacier streams early In August Dunham was ugus kilning a director the Golden Eagle Dredging company of Valdes The body of a man named Smith a jeweler from Chicago who was frozen on the glacier last November was I found imbedded in the ice just before the party started out The remains were buried by miners L C B Nad au of Pyscht Wash is the only one of a party of three who returned to tell the tale of misfortunes misfor-tunes and death Nadeau spent 1500 in his search for sojd and returns a 1 physical wreck His partners were II I Edward Dreyfus of Nova Scotia who i last November succumbed t scurvy and John Starr of Patterson N J who was drowned while crossing a stream in an effort to reach the coast Na deau narrowly escaped the same fate Their supplies were all lost in I the stream and Nadeau made a journey I food of nearly 200 miles alone and without Many Sick and Destitute Two men P Barley and F Cole of Minnesota were down with the scurvy on Tasina river Miners contributed enough of their scanty means and sent Dr Pierson to their relief Pierson 1 had not returned when todays arrivals I left Valdes I The United States revenue cutter Perry was at Valdes when the party left The object of her visit was to bring out forty destitute miner I is thought she will bring out eighty or 100 100On theTopeka were also two victims of the Edmonton trail G Frazer and G H Frazer brothers from Calgary Alberta N W T They started over the trail in May 18S8 and sucpeeted in reaching wLiard riv r after en urng I numerous hardships Tiey prospecteoT I Liard river thbrqnghly and the best diggings they found would l pay only from 2to 5 per day Several pay men were scattered up and down the river At Glenora G Frazer while 1 cutting wood with which to build a raft cut his foot and was brought I down the river on a stretcher I |
