Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-12-24
THE JEANETTE FOUND.

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| After Remarkable Voyage Over 5000 Niles
OF Bleak and Ice-Encumbered Ses-The
Long Missing Steamer Je annette Found in
the Ice North west OF New Siberia Island
FFIcIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
/ WASHINGTON, Dec. 2O.-Secretary Of State
Frelinghuysen received to-day the following
| telegram from the charge d'affaires Of the
United States at st Petersburg:
To the Secretary of State, Washington. d. C.:
The Jeanette was crushed in ice on June IL,
latitude n. longitude 157. The crew embarked
/ IN three boats which were separated by wind and
fog. Number three, with eleven men, Engineer Mel
vile commanding. reached the mouth Of the Lena
Septenber 10. Subsequently, number one, with
| Capt. Delong DR.. Amber and twelve men, reached
the Lena in a pitiable condition. Prompt assist
ance was sent. Number two has not been heard
, from. [Signed] HOFFMAN, St. Petersburg.
In response to the above the following was
transmitted:
Department of State, Washington, D. C.-To Hoff-
man, Charge dAfaires, st. Petersburg: Tender the
hearty thanks of the president to all the authorities
| or persons who have in any way been instrumental
in assisting the unfortunate survivors from the
Jeannette, or furnishing information to this gov
eminent. .[Signed] FRELINGHUYSEN,
Secretary of State
HOW THEY LANDED.
LONDON, Dec. 2O.-A dispatch from st. Pc
tersburg says: The news reached the govern
ment at Jakutsk, eastern Siberia, that on the
18th of September three natives of Oulonso,
near Cape Burhay, 14O versts north of Cape
Billott, discovered a boat containing eleven
mon who stated that they belonged to the Jean
nette, and had undergone terrible sufferings
On hearing the news, the district deputy gov
ernor, with doctor and medicine, was i'm
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sailors, and was instructed to bring them to
Jakutsk. The governor was also instructed to
do everything in his power to recover the re-
nainder of the crew. Five hundred roubles
were given him to defray the first expense
Engineer Melville has telegraphed the Ameri-
can legation at st. Petersburg that the
Jeanette was surrounded and crushed by ice
on the Esd of June in latitude II north, longi-
tude l57 east. The crew left the vessel in
three boats about fifty miles from
the mouth of the Lena. They were
lost by violent winds and thick fogs. Boat No.
3, commanded by Engineer Melville, arrived
the 18th of September at the eastern mouth
OF the river Lena, where 1t was stopped by
blocks of ice near the village of Bolerianger,
inhabited by idolaters Boat No. 1 reached the
same port The occupants of these boats state
that Lieut. Delong and DR.. Amber, with twelve
others, landed on the northern mouth of the
Lena, and that they are in a fearful condition,
suffering from frozen limbs A party of in
habltants of Bolerlanger started Immediately
for their assistance. Nothing is known of
boat No. 3.
THE EXACT POINT.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2O.-George Herman of
this city, who some years ago travelled 1000
miles or more up the river Lena, at the mouth
OF which Lieut. Delong and survivors of the
crew OF the Arctic steamer Jeanette recently
landed, says:
Where the Jeanette was lost is $50 miles north
east of the island Of New Siberia 300 miles from
the nearest point Of the Siberian main land, aud
It is probable that Lieut. Delong, after abandoning
his ship, made for the nearest point the Siberian
coast passing 10 the eastward and southwark
the main land between the mouth of
Indigirka and mouth of the Lena. If he reached
the coast early enough in the summer he ought to
the mouths Y,r1o, In5girku aud other slnaii
streams which fall into the Arctic ocean in that vi
cinity, and thus have obtained succor much nearer
did not visit the mainland until after the fishing
stations had all been abandoned and the fish
eis vner yass Which, the as rivers rue TO-
are situated some distance inland. tthe mouth of
the Lena there is. believe. permanent settle
ment, and this seems to have been appointed as
rendezvous for all the boats If the third boat
failed to reach the rendezvous agreed upon. the
conclusion by no means follows that it is lost The
Than the mouth Of the Lena or been picked up by
Russian native fishing boats and carried or guided to
SOME OTHER PLACE OF SAFETY.
In such they might not be heard from
for month or more after the arrival of the other
boats. The third boats crew should not be given
up as lost until we have heard from all the valleys
along the Yana and Indigrka, and from Mimi Ca
lyma, which as place of refuge was quite as near
and quite as accessible as the mouth of the Lena.
encountered Arctic sea to the Siberian mainland is
remarkable achievement and one which is
paralleled in Arctic history only by the retreat of
Barutes and his men from the northern extremity
Of Novena semlya and of the crew Of the Tegethoff
from Franz Josef land. The fact that belong
and his men were three months on the ice in open
mournful story of hardship and suffering
and one which more than accounts for the pitiabe
condition in which, we are told, belongs crew at
last arrived. The Jeanette crew. if they arrived
at the mouth of the Lena, would be well cared for
at any Russian settlement on the whole Siberian
coast. They would find warm, earth-enveloped
courts" abundant clothing and food and sympa-
thy, and the care Of warm hearted, hosDitable
people. AS winter road was established
would probably be brought up the Lena on dog
sledges to Gokantock, which is large Russian
town Of 5000 to 5000 inhabitants. Her house
and many of tho luxuries of life, and the Russian
government Of the seacoast province would fur
nish them with transportation, either across St.
Anyoya mountains to Oshkosh, where they could
be called for by the vessels of our Pacific
squadron, or up the Lena to Jurosk and then over
land to st. Petersburg They will have no serious
difficulty in getting home from the mouth
of thel Lena. The journey from
the Arctic seacoast to Yakahtsk will be
a. harder one, on account of the severity
of climate in that part of Siberia, but it ouget not
to occupy more than month month and a half
and is not attended with any danger to men of such
powers of endurance It is in some respects
an easier journey than that from
Mimi Kolyma to Yakoutsk, which
is performed by scores of Russian traders
every winter. The news received to-day was
brought from the mouth OF the Lena by special
messenger up river to Yakoutsk dog sledges
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