Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — GOLD SEEKERS ARE SLAIN [ARTICLE]

GOLD SEEKERS ARE SLAIN

Indiana in Alaska Massacre a Party of Prospectors.

A report has reached San Francisco that a party of fifteen gold seekers, including Rev. Mr. Webber, a Moravian missionary, were murdered by Indians while they slept. The Indians, after the massacre, held a dance, getting drunk, and then indulging in a fight among themselves over the division of the spoils. This party was reported drowned by the wrecking of the schooner Jessie some time ago, at the mouth of the Kuskowi river, in Alaska. P. Malakoff, a Russian, states, however, that the party reached snore in safety. The Indians rendered assistance in saving their tents and supplies, and then murdered the entire party. Malakoff says he learned from a squaw that after the prospectors were killed the bodies were placed in canvas, taken out to sea and sunk. The squaw saw the Indians wearing the clothing and jewelry of the murdered men. Two bodies, which w»/e washed ashore, were identified by an agent of the Alaska Commercial Company, Both bodies were mutilated, end Were buried on the beach.