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Show 3 Yukon River Is Now Clear of Ice Town of Forty-Mile Floded -People Han for Hills on Account of Rapid Rise Water. DAWSON. May 10. Tho Yukon river riv-er Is now clear, with tho excop-tion excop-tion of two Ico jame, one at Selkirk, Sel-kirk, the other at Flvo Fngcrs. Tho White Pass company's steamer Columbian will probably leave for Whito Horso on Thursday. Tho Thlstlo 13 on the way down from Holotlnqua. Tho lco broke down on tho front of Dayson at 0:44 p. m. May 7, tho earliest known slnco whlto men came to tho country. coun-try. It Is behoved boats will arrlvo from Whlto Horse by May 25. The town of Forty-mllo was flooded and tho peoplo left for the hills, leaving their goods behind, owing to tho great rapidity of tho rise. Tho operator had to leave the telegraph offlco owing to the breaking of tho Jam below hero. Tho water fell ten feet In six hours, leaving many steamers and scows stranded. Huge masses of lco are stranded on tho bar at tho mouth of tho Klondike, which will romaln moat of tho summer, as It cannoo lloat against It. Silas Campbell, a veteran Klondikcr, was killed In a drift on Quartz creek yesterday, yes-terday, owing to a fall of rock. |