BOTANIST KOREN SAFE IN NOME AFTER WRECK OF SCHOONER IN ICE

All Equipment, Furs and Specimens Taken by Norwegian Expedition Lost

NOME, Alaska. March 22, 1913 – Johan Koren, the Norwegian botanist, whose power schooner. Kittie Wake, and the American whaling schooner Morris were crushed to bits by the ice at Cape Serge, on the Siberian coast, last fall, arrived in Nome late today. All the equipment, furs and specimens taken by the Koren expedition were lost when the schooner was destroyed. Koren, who crossed Bering strait on the Ice with Sam Gottschalk and other members of the party, remained in camp two days on the Alaska coast, while Gottschalk proceeded to Nome with news of the loss of the two schooners. Captain Witting, who was with the party, was too ill to attempt the perilous trip over the ice and remained on the Siberian shore, intending to make his way to Plover bay. Tho Kittie Wake was picked up disabled by the schooner Morris last fall and was towed to Cape Serge, where winter quarters were to be established.

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