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Show W CEJ TREASURE FR0?1 ALASKA. Steamer Eoanoke Arrives at Seattle With ?1,500,000. Seattle, Wash., Nov. 1. The treasure ship Roanoke, which reached here sixteen six-teen days from St. Michael and eleven days from Cape Nome this morning, brings the first story of the death of several New Yorkers, members of an Alaska prospecting company. ' The dead are: Mr. and Mrs. Emil Kuhr.er, Oscar Decker and a man whose name is unknown. Becker's body Was washed on the be.ich at St. Michael island, and later was found an overturned over-turned steamer and a scow loaded with machinery, which . represents the assets as-sets of the company. Two survivors are John Becker and Theo Diederick. The Roanoke had aboard, according to her owners, drafts and dust front Cape Nome amounting to 51,500,000. The principal porUe)11 of this is represented by drafts held by John Brynteson, Ja-fet Ja-fet Lindeiberg, P- H. Anderson and C. W. A. Killman, four of the original locators lo-cators of the camp. There were fully 200 others on board with dust valued at from $500 to $15,000 each, a large. portion of the same being beach dust. The principal holdings are about a3 follows: Lindeiberg and Brynteson, $400,000; J. R. Anderson, $100,000; C. W. A. Killman. $75,000; N. P.- R. Hatch, ?50,000;.F. SchoW, $30,000; II. C. Wilkinson. Wil-kinson. $30,000. Owing to the alleged impurity of the water at Nome, typhoid fever was quite rreneral at the time the Roanoke left, and twelve deaths had occurred. Six of the patients wh- were sufficiently well td travel came down on the Roanoke, Roan-oke, one of the bis state rooms having been fixed up as a temporary hospital. Jafet Linderberff, one of Cape Nome's richest men, was among the unfortunates. |