Show I SHIP OFF TO RESCUE > 1 HOPE 18 TO GAVE FOUR MEN MAROONED 1 MA-ROONED ON ALASKA ISLAND i Quartet Wan Dispatched by a Commercial Com-mercial Company to Trap Foxes on Chlrlkof a Full Year Ago I Seattle WashFour men marooned for the last year on Chlrlkof Island a rocky mountain top jutting out of the sea to tho south and cast of the Alaska peninsula nro now safo in I Squaw Harbor Alaska or dead of I starvation Throo weeks ago tho schooner Hunter was sont to their aid by tho Alaska Commercial company but it will bo several weeks at the cat Host before news of their fato roaches here Tho four men were sont out by the company to trap foxes on the Island ono year ago and fitted out with provisions pro-visions enough to last them for a few months Additional supplies ware promised them Immediately At tho end of three months tho schooner St Paul was stored with provisions and started for the relief of the Impris u oned trappers whose supply of food U was judged was almost gone The St Paul never returned After a delay of two months another an-other schooner wary went out for the Island and with orders to search for the St Paul or news of her This second craft also has disappeared overwhelmed It is thought in one of the violent storms that raged for seVeral seV-eral days after her departure Then a small steamer was supplied with provisions and started out but a short distance at sea she bocamu disabled and returned to port at Squaw Harbor whore she has been slnca under repair Meanwhile friends of the four trappers trap-pers In Squaw Harbor and Unga became be-came frantic with the thought of their old comrades alono for over a year on the barren Island with food enough to last them but a low months and the schooner Hunter had gono to make the fourth attempt to rescue the men It Is hoped that the trappers will be able to kill enough foxes on tho island to supply them with food but as the Isle Is small It Is feared that they killed off all Urn animals In tho first few months of their Imprisonment before be-fore It became apparent to them that their supplies wore not to arrive on time Chlrlkof Island Is extremely difficult of approach being surrounded with submerged rocks and friends of the men believe that the rescuing schooners schoon-ers were wrecked while trying to make laud It this Is the case tho quartet on the island may have been reenforced by tho crews of the vessels ves-sels This news came from Alaska on the brigantine John D Sprockets 22 days from Unga which also brought word of tho death of two men In Alaska waters by drowning One of theso was Dirty Face Andrew a well known character around Unga whoso real name was Andrew Larseh In company with Martin Anderson a fellow fisherman Larsen started from Unga in a sailboat on May 4 bound for Sand Point Outside of Unga as darkness came on they ran upon the rocks off Cross island and Larsen was drowned Anderson manaind to grasp a rock and to this ho clung during the night At low water when the men were wrecked the rock stood a few Inches above water but at high tide waves broke over It continually with such force that the sailor was swept Into the sea time and again But ho managed man-aged to fight his way back to the rock and In the morning ho was picked up by n native In a dory Shortly before this a fisherman was drowned at John sons Harbor |