Hello Mystique. Here is a 6 years old thread about the incident. Very interesting reading.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/archive/t-226986.html
Now, here is where most of the talked happened, it is the Nome newspaper site. Unfortunnatly, the archive only goes back to jan2009. Maybe you can contact the newspaper to ask for more information on their part. But certainly not a good thing for them to come back on...
http://www.nomenugget.net/index.php
Namaste, Steven