The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-21


= ~ ~ - SECOND ArTsMPr HosgH. ~ IA n
It appears that on the sth Of yune In tho foiiow-
ing year ns72s, another attempt was made under
the command OF lr. Tyson 70 rsacn the Gorth in
two boats. One boat, IN charge 81 Mr.. Chester the
mate, was crushed by ice about July Z; ne osAer
boat was hauled up on the shore, and the men. who
were about twenty-five miles on ana were within
communication, returned to the ship overland, as
the sailing master was calling loudly for assist
ance because
THE SHIP WAS LEAKY.
They were at that time watching an opportunity
to get north, but none occurred. Northeast gales
were pling up the ice. which drfted south. Gould
get no footing on it; it was crushed and all in
hunmocks. This was In Robeson's Channel,
extending from 81 ~ to 50 20 Tor 25).
Arrived at the ship they found her not in
much Understanding like what was represented.
She was leaking. but from an old leak caused by
her breaking away In 1871 and swinging against
an iceberg called BY Captain Han providence
Berg" on the lea OF which she Jay all that Winter.
BURLINGTON ABANDONED fHE EXPEDITION
altogether, and started for home on August 10.
On the 18th OF October tue ship had drifted from
latitude 80 deg. min. to II deg. IS min.,
where she encountered q heavy gale from south
east and was damned by q heavy pressure Of Ice
and bergs. The Ice lifted herout OF the water.
so that she only drew six feet and lay on her
beam ends every low tide. At the stxfe water
marx she ~
\ BROKE HER STERN ~
and started weod-ends. On the night OF the 18th,
fearing she would be crushed and the vessel being
reported leaking very badly, an order was given to
SHIFT PROVISIONS FROM SHIP TO ICE. -
They continued landing for two or three hours
when the pressure ceased. Tyson then went on
board and asked the saiiing master II the vessel
was making any more water than usual; he re-
ported that she was not. Tyson went tg the pumps
and ascertained that s.s vas not making anymora
water thaa she had been all Summer. He then went
on the ice again. The rescued party were on the
Ice alongside the vessel where the provisions were
deposited; the remainder OF the ships company
were on board. The Ice commenced to crack, and,
in few minutes more, broke up into pieces. The
vessel broke from her fastenings, ana was soon
lost to sight
IN THE STORM AND DARKNESS.
On the broken ice were most OF the provisions
that had been taken from the ship, OF which they
succeeded in securing fourteen cans of pemican,
eleven and half bags ofbread, ten dozen one and
twopound cans OF meat and soup, fourteen hams,
pounds some musk-ox skins, . few blankets, q
number OF rines and abundant ammunition.
AS regards the mornings Of the vessel, 1t seems
that, had she been properly moored that night, she
would have been able to hold on although Tyson
says that expected her to 60 as the pres
sure Of ice Stacked. John Heron, being particu-
larry interrogated
AS TO HER M0oRINGs,
says:-"The vessel was In great danger-timbers
cracking and crashing; but think II the forad
moorings had been properly secured she would
have stood The for'ad hawser slipped and did
not break; it was wrongly secured BY slippery
hitch; it was done by fireman. and not by one Of
the regular seamen; no seaman woula have done 1t
that way.n
The fastenings appear to have been ice anchors
and hawsers made on to the main doe, on part OF
which the men were when the vessel broke away.
The provisions were placed on the ice in antictpa.
ton Of the vessel breaking away, with the wsmen
and children, to enable the crew to save all they
could, and then jump for their lives II necessary.
4 MOMENT OF AGONY.
Tho prayattinc trrrrooo,op orror<, enc - Sort,,
nate nineteen who were LEFT behind was that Bud
dington had wlfully abandoned them to their fate.
He had been anticipating the breaking up Of the
Ice for some Tune and II he had wished TO have
Tyson and his companions on board he could easily
have represented matters to them In such light
that they would not have ventured to be absent at
SO critical juncture. But no such intimation was
gwen to the men on the ice. The vessel did not
drit away so suddenly that the men could not have
been rescued from their perilous position !. but
RESCUE THERE WAS NONE,
and the inference is irresistible that the sailing
master, thinking he would be rid OF troublesome
companion in the person Of Tyson, determined to
seize the favorable opportunity, and regardless OF
consequences, abandon the men to their fate whom
1t was his sacred duty to What must have been
the feelings Of the nineteen persons the ice nve Of
whom were feeble women and helpless children, as
they saw the vessel which to them was the only
means OF salvation, drift slowly awaya Around
them was the breaking and floating ice, which
every moment threatened to engulph all
in the cold clutches OF Death Right in
their sight the vessel moved away They could
not reach her. She could not or did not attempt
to put back for them. Thoughts OF home and
friends, who in all probability might never be seen