Show PROSPECTORS DESTITUTE CONDITION OF STORM SUFFERERS SUFFER-ERS AT NOME PITIABLE I Hundreds of People Host Their All by the Torrent of Sea Water that Covered the Sandsplt Seattle Wash Sept 27Time steamship steam-ship Tacoma Capt DIxon arrived today from Nome which port she left on September 17th She had 325 passen gem and about 5300000 in gold dust moat of It from the Pioneer Mining company operating Anvil creek mines J E Glcdson of this city returned on the Tacoma Speaking of the recent storm at Nome he said The storm continued for two days There were sixteen vessels under the leo of Sledge island on the ICth Instant for shelter but the wind abated that cvcnlnc and they all returned to Nome harbor The property loss caused by time storm will be over 1000000 Only three persons were drowned off the Nome beach but the loss of life up and down the coast must have been very heavy according to reports reaching Nome The BJuesione country Is all right It will prove to be one of the best payIng pay-Ing sections In the North The passengers returning on the Tacoma Ta-coma report that the condition of many of the storm sufferers at Nome Is pitiable In the extreme Hundreds of them had previously been reduced to just enough provisions to live on and this In many cases was all swept away by the torrent of sea water that covered the sundspit Hundreds of peo j pIe It Is said are walking the streets without a place to sleep and depending entirely upon the charity of friends to secure enough to eat to keep from starvation star-vation Solomon City at the mouth of Solomon Solo-mon river waa devastated by the atorni All the buildings were either swept away by the waves or were wrecked by the wind The town had a population of 200 all of whom ate destitute des-titute and homeless A message from the sea was picked up on the beach by a soldier on September Sep-tember 17lh near the military icserva lion The bottle was tightly corked and a message was written on a common com-mon Japanese paper napkin and read as follows Off Port Safety Sept 11 1000 Who finds this plcata report to authorities eight of us left Port Clarence three days ago and aro now sinking fast with no hope JACK DICrANEV O L MYHUS SAM MARK OR MACK JOHN DOLAN GEORGE THOMAS A M DEAN The message was turned over to Capl Jarvls |