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Show MANY MEET DEATH. Prospectors Lose Tbclr Lives In Rush to Klondike Gold Fields, Seattle, Wash., June 9. The list of prospectors who have perished in their rush to the Yrakon gold fields over the Edmonton trail is growing, and if reports re-ports bronght down by the steamer Laurada from southeastern Alaska are to be relied on, it will be very large when the full story is told. Fifty are reported to have been drowned in Great Slave lake, twenty have perished in the rapids of the Mud and Laird rivers, ten have been frozen to death, twenty-five have died from scurvy, and the bodies of a score who have died from exposure have been found. |