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Show NOME IS HARD HIT by mi Famous Sand Spit, Rich 1 in Gold, is Washed i Away; Inhabitants Es- II cape With Lives and Some With Goods. 11 $1,500,000 LOSS; MUCH SUFFERING Outside Help Needed; i Government will Send W Revenue Cutters; 500 H Houses Demolished Wm and More Are Falling. ffi XOME, Alaska, Oct. (J. Firo ha 'H broken out in tlio storm-stricken city $B; of Xomo and the llamas lnivo attacked gB tho Pacific Cold Storncc plant, where K is stored the chief sttpplv of meat for if the winter. The firo apparatus was dc MM1 stroyed in tho yale. 1k Front street ia n seething mass of jjjK wreckage, into which great seas are jlil breaking, while hundred? of homele jB persons aru atruggling to save nccessi (H ties of life. JJJK Receding seas are narryiiijr away the liK contents of wrecked houses and store?, as well as parte of wrecked structures. WM None of the building.1 on the .sand Ijjl spit remuin standing, and the leveled wM structures there are iu flames. Thi ' Iff portion of the community Is cut off by 111$ tho turbulent waters. 'jilt Storm Worst Ever Known. m. The storm that began last night, beating in from Bering sea, was the ! worst ever known here. Men nnd 'jIL1 women worked all night in the icv (IK waters to save their household effect;. IHJ The eloctric light plant was wrecked jjlj aud tho telephone service cut off. The ? loss is estimated at a million and a nl J half dollars. JIH There will be much suffering aud flml outside help will be required. Winter ml is at hand, and it will be impossiblo to 11! got in supplies needed. Rflj Steamships Escape. 31 j. The steamships Victoria and Gor- W win, which wcro lying in the roadstead, W ran to the open sea and escaped dam- tj3 ago. All tho small boats on tho beach nS' were destroyed. Flvo hundred houses jjfri have been demolished, and more are jjl falling. 1 . Nome, tho famous gold camp, on 1 1 Bering sea. the most northerly city In Bxill tho world, was built on a sandy sea M beach. In front, of tho town there is mTi an anchorage for ships, but steamers $ do not make a landing. Cargoes nnd j uw passengers are lnnded at an aerial (I r I tramwaj station in deep wator. The I'll principal part of the town which a !ii dozen years ago bad a population of ill 20,000, is on the east side of Snake P a river, with a long finger extending to C tho west along a nairow Band spit. Thin j sand .spit was rich in gold dust, and lEf the early settlers built thoir cabins R there. Gold Deposits Swept Away. ijj I Of late 3-cars the sands have been ji worked out, and little except dredging 01 3 operations, which require largo capital, U I has been done. It had been estimated jg that tho dredges had enough ground in SI 1 sight to operate fiftj years more. Nome Jk g has produced more than $35,000,000 of jJ f gold dust. Some years the vield fans tf B been as high as $S,000,000. This year the production will not exceed $4,000,- II 000. owing to lack of nntcr. j2f j The summer population of Nome is laf about -1000, and in winter 2000 remain, JS I the others going out on steamships I that leave lato in October. One stcant- ! i -hip is vet to leave Seattle for Nome. Rf I Ir "will bo possible to send revenue ' ji I cutters to Nome to deliver nupplies and ' fl 3 take away nccny persons wno'wisn to I i leave. JJ f Cutter Sent to Scene. i HP j, WASHINGTON, Oct. G. The rer- i ff cuue cutter IJcur now is on route from J fffi Un:ilaka to Nome. No official report . jfi j has reached here regarding tho storm M which wiped out. the AInskan city, but j j, the Bear is expected to reach Nome in uM a day or two and probably wU mako jri a report of the. needs of the popplo, fn ii |
