Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-12-23
THE LOST JEANETTE.
FURTHER TIDINGS FROM THE
SURVIVORS.
Lists Of the BOats' Crews-Energetic
Measures for Their RelIef-HIstorY
of the Ill-Fated Vessel.

VI Al~Eate0 Ne98els
NEW YORK, December 22.-The following
special to the New York Herald has been
received:
PARIS, December 21.-Our st. Petersburg
correspondent telegraphs: ''The Governor
General of Eastern Siberia, who happens to
be at present in st. Petersburg, having
received information of the arrival of the
shipwrecked crew Of the Jeanette in the
region under his command, Immediately
proceeded TO Gatsehfns and saw the Empe-
ror, who. personally ordered that all sup
plies that were necessary for food, clothing,
money and transportation, should be placed
at their disposal.'
The Herald also has the following, which
was received at the London Office at twenty
minutes past two O'Clock this morning:
"IRKUTsK, December 81, 2 p M.-The
Jesnnette was crushed by ice in latitude
77:l5, north; longitude 157. east. The boats
and sleds made good their retreat
to point fifty miles north
west OF the Lena river, where the three
boats were separated IN q gale. The whale
boat in charge Of Chief Engineer Melville
entered the east mouth OF the Lena river
on September 18th. II was stopped
by the ice in the river. We found
native village, and as soon as the river
closed l put myself in communication with
the cOmmandaut at Boloenga. On October
29th heard that the first cutter, containing
Lieutenant DeLong, DR.. Amber and twelve
others, had landed at the north mouth of
the Lena. The commandant at Boloenga
sent instant relief to the whale boat party,
who are all well.
"Mendemar and Noars arrived at Boloenga
on October 29th for relief for the first cut
ter, all Of whom are in a sad condition and
in danger OF starvation, and all badly frozen.
The commaDdant at BolOenga sent native
scouts to look for them, and will urge a
vigorous and constant search until they are
found. The second cutter has not yet
been heard from. Telegraph money
for instant use to Irkutsk and Jakutsk.
The list of people in the boats is as follows:
LIST cutter-Lieutenant De Long, Doctor
Amber. Jerome ]. Collins, VIM. Mendemar,
Louis NOars, Hans Erickson, Henry Knock,
Adolf Bressler, Carl Getretz, Walter Lee,
Neils Iverson, George Boyd, Alexia Ahlorn.
"The whaleboat-Eugineer Melville, Lieu
tenant Darenhour, Jack Cole. james Bart
lett, Ravmand NeWcomb, Hertsert Leach,
George Landentach, Henry Wilson Manson,
Aniquin Long. The above are safe.
"The second cutter, which is still missing,
contained the following: Lieutenant Chipp,
Captain Dunbar, Alfred Sweetman, Henry
WsXey, Peter johnson, Edward Star, -
Shawell and Albert Kaihue."
The Herald has received news of the safe
tY OF Jerome ]. Collins, the scientist and
the Herald correspondent, who is thought to
have been In command of the missing sec
ond boat Of the Jeanette.
WASHINGTON, December 22.-The Secre-
tary Of the Navy has received from En-
gineer Melville, under date of Irkutsk, De
cember 81, cable message identical with
that cabled from London last night to the
New York Herald To this the Secretary re-
piled as follows:
ITO Engineer Melville, q. s. ~, Irtaltsk:
"Omit no effort and spare no expense in
securing the safety of the men in the second
cutter. Let the sick and frozen of those
already rescued have every attention, and
as soon as practicable have them transported
70 a milder climate. The department will
supply the necessary funds.
"RUNT, Secretary"
LONDON, December 22.-The st. Peters
burg correspondent of the Standard has had
an interview with General AnOutchim, Gov
ernor of Eastern Siberia, who expressed the
opinion that the remainder of the crew of
the Gamer Jeanette have fallen in with
natives aud been Hospitality treated.
The Jeanette was a bark-rigged steamer
of 400 tons register and 200 horse power,
long, low and rskish-loOking. She was
DuliJ III lOO6 DN lUt DTltlsu OONbIHm6ub lot
dispatch boat and tender TO the Mediter-
rsnean fleet, but subsequently sold out of
the navy to Sir Allan Young, who fitted her
up She was then known as the Bandors,
and made two notable voyages to the Arctic
regions under bis cOmmand-one in 1875,
and another in 1876 In January, 1875 she
WAS purchased by James Gordon Bennett,
Of the New York Herald, for twenty thou
sand dollars, and, by authority of special
act Of Congress, was registered as an Ameri-
can vessel under her present name, given
by her owner as a compliment to his sister.
Lieut. ienant DeLODg was, with the approval Of
Secretary Thompson, placed in charge OF
her, and took her out to San Francisco,
where at Mare Island she was thoroughly
Overhauled and put in order for her polar
voyage. The whole cost of the expedition
was betrayed by Mr.. Bennett, and was 10 the
neiChborhood of three hundred thousand
dollars.
The programme of the Jeanette en-
braced a voyage OF polar exploration by
way of Behring's Straits. She put in at two
OF three ports in Alaska for supplies and to
leave letters, and was sighted on September
2 by Captain Barnes, of the whaling bark
Sea Breeze, to the south OF WraDgell Land.
On the next day, September B, other whalers
sighted her steering due north, under steam
and sail, in the direction of Herald Island.
She was then about twenty miles from the
or heard of her from that day until the date
Of the discovery now announced.
No missing vessel was ever the object Of
a more systematic and thorough search than
the Jeanette. The whole polar world has
been, or is being. explored for her. The
revenue steamer Thomas COrwin has made
two journeys to the Arctic regions-One in
1880 and another in 1SSl-following as
closely in her probable path as possible,
but without obtaining any traces OF
her. The steamer Rodgers, purchased
and fitted up by the government, sailed
from San Francisco on June 10th
last, under command of Lieut.. Berry,
United States navy, and is now in the Arctic
seas. A fortnight later Lieutenant Greeley's
Lady Frsnklin's Bay party set out from st.
John, Newfoundland, and although he is
now fixed for the winter at point far dis
tant from the scene In which the Rodgers is
cruising. he has special instructions to be
on the lookout for the Jeanette In case she
should happen to have drifted eastward
around the American continent.