Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-05-23
Eastern Dispatches.
WASHINGTON, May p

Eastern D1SpaJcnes.
WASHINGTON, May 81.
Lieutenant Wheelers exploration
party will leave in a few days for the
operations contemplated in the explora-
ton and surveys west of the one humid
redth meridian during the field season
of 1873. 1t will include portions of
Utah, California, Arizona and New
Mexico. The expedition will be divided
into four main field parties, one of which
will be again sub-divided into four as
Economical parties. They will seperate
in nearly parallel lines from north to
south, cutting most of the old routes of
travel
New YORK, May q.
Joba Heron, steward of the Polaris,
makes the following statement concern
ing the sickness of Captain Hall: Capt.
Hall had good health up to the time of
returning from the sledge expedition.
He was not sick when he came on board
but complained soon afterwards, and
said that the heat OF the cabin effected
him. | asked him what he would have,
and was anxious to get him something
nice, but he didn't care about anything
but cup of coffee, and he did not even
drink that. He was sick fortnight and
talked very little. He was perfectly de-
lirious the last few days. l think he was
paralyzed in one side. There was moth
ing sudden about his death. He was
attended by DR.. Bessells and Mr.. Merit
on, who did everything in their power
to alleviate his sufferings. His death
made us feel very sad. Captain Tyson,
speaking of Captain Halls death, says,
Hall was sick fifteen days. He was in.
sensible when he died. He started from
the ship on a sled expedition northward
on the 10th OF October, and was absent
fourteen days On the Sth of November
he died, and WAS buried on the 18th
LIS EIdNC pOlC ooutu sOutbCdot anu dDou'
five hundred PAGES distant from the OBJ
servatory in Polaris Bay, which was il
latitude 81 deg. and SO minutes longi
tude, 81 deg and "A minutes, on tn,
shore. We erected board over hi
grave with the inscription giving hi
name and age, the commander of tn
North Polar Expedition. All hands
except Cook, attended the funeral. /
was dark, dismal, cold, windy, disa
greeable day. l held lantern, and b,
the light of it, the beautiful services o
the Episcopal Church was read by MIR
Bryant Few Of those present will for
get the deeply affecting scene. OF,
sailors whose faces were bronzed b,
the summer suns and frozen in the arc
tic seas. wept aloud. Captain Hall wa
universally beloved, and his death at
time when the enterprise promised s
: hopefully, was felt by his survivors to b
an irretrievable loss. Those thought
were uppermost in their minds, an
I when the funeral party returned to ii
Q ship, there was hushed silence attent
t ing the performance of every dut,
: Esquimaux Joe, in a published stat,
I ment, speaks in disappearing way {
e Captain Buddington, sailing master {
!. the Polaris. and says that Hall WI
6 poisoned, that Hall SO expressed himse
to him, saying that there was somethir
bad in the coffee he drank on returnir
}. from the sledge expedition, and that
u made him sick, and that he had bur-
a ing sensation. Hans Christians stat
1t ment is to the same effect. The preva
e. ing impression among the unfortuna
70 nineteen who were left behind was tn
ar Buddington had willfully abandon,
them to their fate. He had been ante
- pating the breaking up of the ice +
:, some time, and if he wished to ha
, Tyson and his companions on board
!. could easily have represented matters
them in such light that they would n
have ventured to be absent at 30 critic
a juncture, but no such intimation W
given to the men. The vessel did n
ed drift away so suddenly that the m
&C could not have not been rescued fro
NJ their psrilous condition. Tyson says
Ok could have got aboard the vessel Il
IN night and been there now but / wor
not leave the women and children.
ng duty was on the ice. thought
De would get back to us the next day, viii
D. he could have done. The breaking aw
was caused by foe to which the 81
rr was fastened, drifting between land Q
=. some icebergs that were joined. WI
CT the vessel broke away it was about nj
or ten o'clock at night. The tempe