Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-11
THE ARCTIC EXPLORERS.
SAD TERMINATION OF THE CRUISE
OF THE POLARIS.
Death of Captain Hall.

Part of the Crew Rescued from an Ice Flo
by the Steamer Tigress.
| men.
ST.. JOHNS, NEwFOUNDLAND
May 9th, 1878.
To the State Department, Washington:
The English sailing ship Wallerns has
just arrived, and reports that the steamer
Tigress picked up on the ice at Grady Har.
bor, Labrador, on the 30th of April last, Is
| of the crew and of the EsQuimauX OF
the steamer Polaris, of the Arctic eXpedi-
ton. Capt. Hall died last summer. The
Tigress is hourly expected at st. Johns.
Il. n. MALLORY,
United States Consul.
New YORK, May 1O.-A special from st.
Johns, Newfoundland, of the 9th says
| The steamer Wallerns arrived from the
sea fishing at st. Johns this morning,
| bringing the news that the steamer Tigress
had come into Bay Roberts, eighteen miles
from here, having on board nineteen sur
yivOrs of Halls arctic expedition. A
| correspondent Immediately started to Bay
Roberts to learn the full particulars The
| Tigress was at anchor and the rescued men
WcI0 dSStDlulcu Ol ucCk. IHoy Iur.
nished the following deeply thrilling mar
rative of adventures of the expedition, the
death of Capt. Hall and the final escape of
the survivors who were taken off from the
| ice by the Tigress on the 30th of April
last, in latitude $50 30/, after having spent
nineteen days on the fioe
The following are the names of the
| rescued III. G. Tyson, Assistant Navi-
gator Frederick Mayer, Meteorologist
John Heron, Steward w. G. Kruger, sea-
| man; VIM. Lindeman, seaman +; Fred
Antinig, seaman GustaYus II. Linguist,
seaman Peter Johnston, seaman VIM.
Jackson, cook EsquimauX Joe, interpre-
| tor Hannah and child; EsquimauX
| Hans, wife and four children, the youngest
| only Is months old.
Left by the Polaris.
This party which had been landed from
| the PolariS were driven from her by the
gale which burst her moorings on the 18th
of October, 1872, in latitude of 100 and 35|.
When they last saw the Polaris she was
| under steam and canvass and making for
the harbor OH the east side of NOrthum-
| berland Island. She had no boats left, of
six which she brought with her from New
York. Two were lost in the Northern eX-
pedition, two were landed on the ice with
Capt. Tyson's party, one was burned as
the other is on board the Tigress. The Po-
laris was in command of Capt. Bud
dington, who had thirteen of the crew
along with him and q plentiful stock of
provisions. She was making good deal
of water, but as Capt. Tyson informed the
correspondent she was not more leaky
than when he was ON board the previ-
Gus fall and winter. The Polaris was
somewhat damaged and it is the opinion
nf hQ hot ho 10
to get clear until July and not even then,
if the ship is unseawOrthy, when they
would have to make new boats TO effect an
escape.
Death Of Capt Hall.
On the Sth of October, 1871, i'm latitude
So, So, longitude 60 44/, Capt. Hall died
of apopleXy and was buried on the shore
where they erected a wooden cross to mark
his grave. He had recently returned from
the Northern sledge expedition, in which
he had attained the latitude of 80 16r.
He seemed in his usual health and had
called the crew into the cabin to encourage
them with the hopes of future reward and
to stimulate them to renewed exertions,
when he was suddenly struck down and
expired to grieve those around to whom
he had endeared himself by his kindness
and devotion.
In September, 1871, the Polars entered
into winter quarters and left August II,
1872. The ice was very heavy and set in
Southern direction. She was forced South
and she continued drifting till Capt. Tyson
and party were driven from her.
suferings of the Crew.
The sledge party crossed Kane's Polar
Sea which they pronounced to be strait
about fifteen miles wide. There was ap-
pearance of open water to the north.
The rescued party suffered very much DUR
ing their dreary drift from hunger and
cold. For the last two months they ate
raw seal and polar bear as they could get it.
When met by the Tigress they showed evil
dent signs of their great suffering, but dur
ing the nine days they have been on board
they have improved vastly and are now in |
fair health.
A party is in charge of the United States
Consul and will arrive in st. Johns Mon |
day next.
The following statement was furnished a
correspondent by Capt. Tyson: On August
u, 1871, we left Tissinsac and went |
through Smiths sound we succeeded i'm |
getting as far north as latitude 800 16/, |
when We returned and wintered at Polaris |
bay in latitude So 30 and longitude SO Az. |
We were frozen up until the 10Th of Sep |
tember. On the 10th of October, Capt. |
Hall started on his sledge journey north |
anu returned on the 24th, when he was
taken sick and died on the 18th of Novem-
ber. He was buried on the 11th prox. The |
attack that carried him off was said to be |
apoplexy.
The Terrible Ice blockade.
We passed the winter at Polaris Bay.
On the Sth of June, 1872, we attempted to
reach the north with two boats. We haul
ed our other boats on shore, and returned
overland. On tho 9th of TuIv we St9rtpd
for nome. On the 18th of August, and on
the 10Th, we Were beset with ice in latitude
SOo y. We drifted from there down to
latitude 720 So, where we encountered
heavy southwest gale. Our ship being
under a heaVy pressure, on the night of
ions on the ice. The vessel being reported
as leaking very badly at times, we contin-
ued landing provisions for two or three
hours, when the pressure ceased. I went
on board the vessel and asked the sailing
f11acfor If thp UpoSnI u-oc 1aIinr anv mora |