Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — KLONDIKERS FREEZE TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

KLONDIKERS FREEZE TO DEATH.

Disaster Follows Stampede from Dawson to Swedish Creek. Death and suffering have follpwed the njost remarkable stampede yet made from Dawson. It was' to Swedish creek, reports of the richhess of which reached Dawson on Feb. 18, when thermometers registered 00 below zero. In their haste the stampeders left their blankets behind, depending on camp fires to keep them warm. Alany were frozen and helped back to Dawsou by friends and the Canadian police. Three died shortly after returning. Two others had legs amputated and died from the shock. The schooner Julia A. Ware, lumber laden, which was wrecked in midocean the early-pnrt of January, drifted ashore on Long Island, N. Y. Nothing has ever .been heard of the crew, and all on board were probably lost.