Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-12-23

ors from the Jeanette, or furnishing
| information TO this government
(Signed. FRELINGHUYSEN,
Sec'y of State.
An ACTIVE SEARCH.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 20-A special
supplement of the official Gdsetts, issued
this evening, announces that all tele-
grams from Engineer Melville of the
lost Arctic exploring steamer Jeanette,
be forwarded to their destinations
as promptly as possible, and that most
energetic measures be taken for the
| discovery of the remainder of the crew,
and those left on the ice at the mouth
of the Lena river.
LATER INTELLIGENCE.
LGNDoN, Dec. 20.-A dispatch from
st. Petersburg says news has reached
the government from Jakutch, eastern
Siberia, that on Sept. II, three natives
of Ouloner, near Cape Bupree, ana
140 versts north of Cape Bikotf, discov-
cred boat containing eleven
men, who said they belonged to
the Jeanette and had undergone
EeSlAlpAS SullSIlilS. Ou u6siElilS inc
news district deputy of the govern
| ment with doctors and medicines was
imm mediately dispatched TO the help
of the wrecked men and was instructed
to bring them to Jakutck. The governor
was also instructed to do everything in
| his power to recover the balance of the
crew. Five hundred roubles were
given him to 6efrav the first expenses.
Engineer Melville has .clegraphed the
American legation ut st. Petersburg
that the Jeannette was surrounded and
crushed by ice on the 23d of June, in
latitude n north, longitude 157 east
The crew left the vessel in three boats,
about fifty miles from the mouth of the
Lena. They were separated by violent
winds and thick fogs. Boat No. 5.
commanded by Melville, arrived on
the 29th of September, at the eastern
mouth near the Lena, where she was
stopped by blocks of ice near the village
inhabited by idolators. Boat No.
reached the same pert. The occupants
of these boats say that Lieut.. DeLong
and DIR. Amblet with i Others landed
on the northern mouth of the Lena,
and that they are in fearful condition,
suffering from frost bitten limbs. The
inhabitants of village started immedi-
ately for their assistance Nothing is
known o. boat No. ,.
FROM ANOTHER SOURCE.
THE HAGUE, Dec. 20.-Geo. Kennon,
of this city, who some years ago, travel
ed u thousand miles or more up the
river Lena, ut the mouth of which
| Lieut.. DeLong and survivors Of the
crew of the Arctic Steamship Jeanette
recently landed, says where the Jean
nette was lost, is 80 miles northeast of
the Island New Siberia, and 800
miles from the nearest part Of
the Siberian mainland, and little
more than 500 hundred miles from the
mouth of the river Lena. 1t is proba-
bic that Lieut.. De Long, after abandon
ing his ship, made for the nearest
point on the Siberian coast, passing
eastward and southwark of New Siber-
ian island and striking the mainland
between the mouth of the Indiginka
and the mouth of the Lena. If he
reached the coast early enough i'll
summer he ought to have found Rus
sian and native fishing stations on the
Yana, Indiginka and other small rivers
that flow into the Arctic ocean in that
vicinity, and thus have obtained succor
much better than on the Lena. 1t is
possible, however that he did not reach
the mainland until all the fishing sta
tions had been abandoned and the fish
ermen returned up the rivers to their
winter villages, which, as a rule, are sit
| rJofnH i,,la,,1 thn
mouth of the Lena there is permanent
settlement, and this seems to have
been appointed as rendezvous for all
the boats. If the third boat failed to
reachthe rendezvous agreed on, the con
clusion by no means follows it is lost
the crew may have found an inhabited
station nearer than the mouth of the
Lena, or been picked up by Russian
or native fishing boats and carried OF
guided to some other place of safety
In such case they might not be heard
from for month or so after the arrival
of the other boats. The third boats
crew should not be given up rs lost un
til we have heard from the the village.
of Yana and Indiginka, and from Nizhr
and Kolyma, which places of refuge is
quite as near and quite as accessible as
the mouth of the Lena. The retreat
of the boats 800 miles across the Arctic
sea to the Siberian mainland is re
markable achievement, and one which
is paralleled in the Arctic history only by
the retreat of Barent's and his men
from the northern extremity of Novoys
Semblia, and Tegetthoff from From
Joseph's Land; the fact that DeLone
and his men we're three months at sea
and on the ice in open boats before
they reached the mouth Of the Lena
is fact which of itself tells a mournfu
story of hardship and suffering, anC
one which more than accounts for tht
pitiable condition in which we are tolC
belongs crew at last arrived in. The
Jeannette's crew at the moutf
Of the Lena, would be vel
cared for on any Russian settlement
on the whole of the Siberian coast; they
would fiDd warm earth in "Yourts,
abundant clothing, and food and sym
pathy and care, of warm-hearted, hos
pitabie people. As soon as winter came
a road was established, and when tn,
crew were strong enough to trave
they would probably be brought up th'
Lena on dog sledges, to 4okowtch
which is a large Russian town of abou
6,000 or 5000 inhabitants.
Engineer Melville forwarded by ma
tives long dispatches to Mr.. Bennett, o
the New York Herald. For want 0
funds they have been forwarded bl
post, addressed to Gen. Ignatiff. Or
: Oct. 29th, Nindeman and Noyes, sea
men, who were in boat No. l, joinec
their comrades, and stated Lieut.. D.
: Long, Dr. Amber and twelve other
had reached the mouth of the Leni
and were starving. An expedi
ton was at once sent out to rescue them
The survivors lost everything. Enginee
Melville says money is urgently needle,
and should be sent by telegraph to ia
kutsk. He has urgently requested tina
6.000 roubles be transmitted immedi
ately to the governor of Jakutsk TO
the return and care ef the shipwrecke'
men.
The party would have all the com
f forts and many of the luxuries Of tn
Russians. The governor Of the pre-
vince would furnish them with trans
portation across the mountains G
Okhitska, where they could be Gale
fo- b.y ono of tho raSsafa Of l,.rr po off