Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1898 — HARD LUCK OF KLONDIKERS. [ARTICLE]

HARD LUCK OF KLONDIKERS.

Out of a Party of Twenty-Hlx Only Qnt Succeeded in Reaching Dawson. Out of a party of twenty-six men that left San Francisco early in the year to go to Dawson via the Stikeen trail, Herman Long of Seattle, Wash., is the only one that pushed through. Two of the number were drowned, two are insane and the others are far into the interior, regaining their health at trailing points. In the swift Chesley river, in the north rivers, seven of their boats were dashed to pieces on the rocks and the outfits were lost. In two of the wrecks Dr. Black and a man named Morgan, both from California, were drowned. Long says that many of the men went temporarily insane after their provisions began to give out, as several attempts at suicide were made.