The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-22
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
THE JEANETTE.
Additional Particulars OF the
Rescue.
Nothing from the Third Boat.

,nOC De given up as l0st until we have
heard from all the villages along the
Jsnna and Indigerks, and from Mizbni
Kolyma, which as place for refuge, was
quite as near, and quite ss accessible as
the mouth of the Lena. The retreat of
these boats across 300 miles of ice en-
numbered arctic sea, to the Siberian
mainland is a remarkable achievement
and one which is psrslelled in arctic
history only by the retreat of Darents
and Hesmen from the northern ex-
tremity of Nova Zembla, and of the
crew Of the Tegetthof from Franz Josef
land The fact that De Long and his
men were three months at sea, and
On ice in open boats before
they reached the mouth of the Lena is a
fact which Of itself tells mournfuI story
of hardship and suffering, and one which
more than accounts for the pitisble con-
dition in which We arr told DeLong at
last arrived. The Jed1lnette'S crew at
the mouth of the Lena would be well
cared for at any Russian settlement
while on the Siberian coast. They would
find warm earth-em banked 'yourts,"
abundant clothing and food, and the
sympathy and care of warm-hearted,
hospitsble people AS soon as the win
ter road" was established, and the crew
were strong enough to travel, they would
probably be brought up the lena on dog
sleds 10 YOutsk, which ia large mission
town of 6 600 or 5000 inhabitants Here
they would have all the comforts and
many of the luxurie2 Of life, aud the
Russian governor of the sea coast prov
ince would furnish them with transport
tation either across Stan .voi Mountains,
OkhCtsk, where they could be called for
by one Of the vessels OF our Pacific
squadron, or up the Lena 20 Irkoutsk,
and thence overland TO st. Petersburg
They will have no serious difficulty in
going home from the mouth of the Lena
The journey up the river from the Arctic
sea coast toYakoutsk will be hard one,
on account of the great severity If the eli
mate In that psr, Of Siberia but it ought
not to occupy more than a month or
81 month and half, and is pos attended
with any danger TO men with air powers
Of endurance. It Is in some respects an
essier journey than from Mizhni Koyma
to Yakoutsk, which is performed by
scores of Russian traders every winter
The news received to-day was brought
from the mouth cf the Lena by special
messenger up the river 20 Yakoutsk on
dog sledges, thence by a c5ssack courier
travelling day and night, with relays of
horses, to IrkOutsk, the capital Of east
ern Siberia, and thence by telegraph to
st. Petersburgh. The news has been
fully two months, and perhaps more, in
getting from the mouth of the Lena 10
IrkoUtsk, and it is more thsn possible
that the next Information we get will be
that Of the arrival of the shipWrecKed
crew at Yskoutsk. The governor Of the
sea coast province a. Yskoutsk is a man
of cultivation and enlightenment, and If
| mistake not a member of the Siberian
branch of the Imperial Geographical
Society.
Engineer Melville for wardod By ma
tives long dispatches 10 Mr. Bennett, of
the New York Herald. For want
of funds. they had been forwarded
by post, addressed to General Ignatieff,
October 29th Ninde1an and Neras.
seamen who were in boat No. l, joined
their comraGs, and stated that Lieut..
De Long, Dr. Am bier and twelve others
hsd reached the eorthern mouth OF the
Lena, and were starving. An expedi-
ton was at oncs cent out to rescue them
The survivors lost everything. Engineer
Melville Gays money is gently. needed
and should be sent by telegraph to
Jskutski. He has urgently requested
that I, 900 roublss be transmitted Ina medi-
ately to the governor Of Jakutski, for
the return and care of the men.
London, 2O-Ths Times under.tatd
the British foreign Office autographed to
st. Petersburg for . confirmation Of the
news, and further details regarding the
Je InnettS.
The NeaUS, in leading article, saya:
If any apur were needed to hasten al e1-
petition to help Leigh Smith it is pro-
vided in the news:sbout the Jeanette.
That sympathy with such ventures is
widespread and deep is proved by the
heartfelt relief experienced at the news
that the major part of the crew of the
JeGn7t cite are alive.
The Post says: Ia every quarter of
the globe the news that the brave sailors
have reached port of refuge will be re-
ceived with heartfelt satisfaction.
The Standard says; Though the Json-
rette has suffered destruction Americans
have added additional glory to that they
have already won in frozen regions. Il
concludes: 1t is more than possible that
belong may be the herald'of new race
of those who fesreth not the spirit which
dwelleth in the land of ice and snow.
New York, 2l.-The TyIbssae says
There was a pleased family group at thu
house of VIM. c. Wolton, brother O
Mrs. Captain belong, last evening
There was present, Captain Wolton anc
wife, the parents Of Mrs. belong, snC
William G. Wolten and wife. Mrs. De
Long left the city on Saturday to take VI
her residence with b ,r sister in BurliDg
ton, Iowa. She has passed the time sine
her husbands departure, alternately will
this sister and her brother in this city
Captain Wolton, telegraphed to her q
once the news Of her husbands Arriva
at the mouth OF the Lena River
Mrs. belong, as we'll az myself, sal
Captain Wolton, has never had tn
least apprehension that her HUSBAND
would return in safety. He himself fel
sure of this. He said he did not exPec
to come back in the Jeanette, however
He thought she would probably have t
be abandoned, and that the crew Woult
have to take to sledges and boats, and
has happened. William Woiton sal,
he took it for granted that it was in Jun
Of this year that the JedHnetts had bee
abandoned. He had determined tina
it was some 400 miles northwest o
Wrangle Land. Mrs. belong, it Wa
thought, would return to this city 8
once, so that she would get tidings from
her husband at the earliest possibl
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