Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — THREE MEN STARVE TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

THREE MEN STARVE TO DEATH.

Perish Miserably in a Blizzard, with Belts Fall of Gold bust, William Lafler. who has returned to Tacoma from Alaska, brings a tragic story of the deaths of N. C. Daily and two Frenchmen, names unknou-n, all of Boston, on the Bonanza river, in northern Alaska, last winter. The men had been searching for gold, but ran out of food and starved to death during a terrible blizzard, though their belts were filled with gold dust. Daily and two Frenchmen got separated fro-m Lafler and his partner during the blizzard, and wandered BM-ay almost without provisions and with only scanty clothing. When the storm moderated Lufler’s party searched for their missing companions, and finally found their tent. The men’s bones had been picked clean by wolves, though their belts and gold dust remained intact. One camp stove in the tent was found. The kettle was filled with the rawhide thongs of snow-shoes which the starving men had tried to boll for^food.