Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1898 — LOST IN THE SNOW. [ARTICLE]

LOST IN THE SNOW.

Victor F. Maidhof, of New York, Perlakes on the Manook Trail, in Alaska. San Francisco, July 11. —The schooner Hattie I. Phillips, from St. Michaels, brings the sad news of the death on the Manook trail of X ictor F. Maidhof, of New York, who was United States consul to Annaburg, Saxony, during the first administration of President Cleveland. Maidhof attempted to cross the Porkage from Unalaska to Kaltag, bound for Manook, in company with H. M. Morgan, correspondent of the Associated Press. Deserted by their guide, they lost their way in a blinding snowstorm. Their provisions were exhausted, their hands and feet frozen, and after subsisting on dog meat for several days Maidhof died and was buried in a snowdrift. His companion, Morgan, became snowbound and was found by a party of Indians. After he had lain four days in his sleeping bag at the point of death Morgan was resuscitated at the Unalaska mission, although some of his toes had to be amputated. The Phillips also brings word of the drowning in a hole in the ice while crossing the bay at St. Michaels of George Clark, of Glasgow, Scotland, and more recently from Victoria, B. C.