Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-21

Sr. PETERS RsBURG, Dec. 20-News reached
the government at Jakutsk, Eastern Siberia,
that an the 14th of September, three natives OF
Oulonsv, near Cape Burhay, 140 versts north
of the cape discovered boat containing eleven
men who stated they belonged to the JEAN
nette, and had undergone terrible suffering.
On hearing the news, the district deputy gov
ernor with doctor and medicines was lmmedi-
ately dispatched to help the shipwrecked
sailors, and was instructed to bring them TO
Jakutsk. The governor was also instructed to
do everything IN his power to recover the re-
mainder of the crew. Five hundred roubles
were given him to defray first expenses.
Engineer Melville has telegraphed the Ameri-
can legation at st. Petersburg that the jean
nette was surrounded and crushed by ice on
the 23d of June, in latitude n north, longi-
tude 157 east. The crew left the vessel in
three boats, about so miles from the mouth
of the Lena. They were scattered
by violent winds and thick fogs. Boat
No 3. commanded by Engineer Melville,
arrived the 29th of September at the eastern
mouth of the river Lena, where it was stopped
by blocks of ice near the village OF Bolenlanga,
inhabited by idolators. Boat No. l reached
the same point. The occupants of these boats
state that Lieut.. Delong and DR.. Amble, with
twelve others, landed on the northern mouth
of the Lena, and that they are in fearful con-
dition, suffering from frozen limbs. party of
inhabitants of Bolenlanga started Immediately
for their assistance. Nothing is known Of
boat No. 2.
A special supplement to the Official Gas cite,
issued this evening, announces that all tele-
grams from Engineer Melville, of the lost
Arctic exploring steamer, Jeanette, be for
warded to their destination as promptly as
possible, and that the most energetic measures
be taken for the discovery of the remainder of
the crew of the Jeanette, and those left on the
ice at the mouth of the Lena river.
Engineer Melville says that money is ur-
gently needed, and should be sent by telegraph
to Jakertsk. He has urgently requested that
6,000 roubles be transmitted Immediately by
the government of Jakertsk for the return and
care of the ship wrecked men.
THE NEWS AT WASHINGTON.
Secretary of State Frellnghuysen received
to-day the following telegram from the
charge de affairs of the United States at st.
Petersburg:
"Secretary of State. Washington, D. c.:
The Jeanette was crushed in the ice on
June II, in latitude II, longitude 107. The
crew embarked in three boats, but were sep
arated by wind and fog. No. 3, with eleven men
Engineer Melville commanding, reached the
mouth of the Lena September 10. Subsequent
ly number l, with Capt. Delong, Jr., Amber
and - men, reached the Lena in pIteable
condition. Prompt assistance was sent. Num-
Der 2 not heard from.
(Signed) HOFFMAN, st. Petersburg
In response to the above the following was
transmitted:
"DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 20.
Hoffman, charge, st. Petersburg--Tender
hearty thanks of the president to all author
bn how in hoo
instrumental in assisting the unfortunate sur
vivors from the Jeannette. or furnishing in
formation to this government.
(Signed.) FRELINGHUYsEN,
Secretary of State"
George Herman, of this city, who some
years ago Travelled thousand miles or more
up the river Lena, at the mouth of which
Lieut.. Delong and the survivors of the crew
of the Arctic steamer jeanette recently landed,
says: Where the Jeanette was lost is $50
miles northwest of the island New Siberia, 800
miles from the nearest port of the Siberian
main land, and a little more than 500 miles
from the mouth of the Lena. 1t is probable
that Lieut.. De Long, after
abandoning his ship. made for the
nearest point on the Siberian coast,
passing to the eastward and southwark of New
Siberian Island, and striking the main land be-
tween the mouth of the Indgirka and the
mouth of the Lena. If he reached the coast
early enough in summer he ought to have
found Russian and native fishing stations at
the mouths of the Lena, Indigirka and other
small streams which fall into the Artic
ocean in that vicinity, and Thus have obtained
succor much nearer than the Lena. 1t is
the mainland until after the fishing
stations had all been abandoned,
and the fishermen had retreated up the rivers
to their winter villages, which, as a rule, are
situated some distance inland. At the mouth
of the Lena there IS, l believe, a permanent
settlement, and this seems to have been ap-
pointed as rendezvous for all the boats. If
the third boat failed to reach the rendezvous
agreed upon, the conclusion by no means fol-
lows that it is lost. The crew may
have found an inhabited station
nearer the mouth of the Lena, and
has been picked up by Russian or native fishing
boats, and carried or guided to some other
place of safety. In such case 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 villages along the
Yana and Indigirka, and from NiZhn Xolyma,
which, as place of refuge, was quite near,
and quite as accessible as the mouth of the
Lena.
The retreat of these boats across 800 miles of
ice encountered Arctic sea to the Siberian
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which is unparalleled in Arctic history only
by the retreat of Barutes and his men from the
northern extremity of Novena Semlv, and of
the crew of Tegetthoff from Joseffland. The
fact that Delong and his men were three
months on the ice in open boats before they
reached the mouth of the Lena, is fact which
. OF itself tells mourneful story of hardship
and suffering, and one which more than ac-
counts for the pitiable condition in which we
are told Belongs crew at last arrived.
The Jeanette crew 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, embarked Yourts,
abundant clothing, and food, and sympathy
and care of warm hearted hospitabie people.
AS soon as winter road was established and
the crew was strcng enough to travel, they
would probably be brought up the Lena on
dog sledges to Yokantsck, which is large
Russian town of 5000 or 5000 inhabitants.
The Russian governor of the seacoast prov
ince would furnish them with transportation
either across the st. Anvoya mountains to
Oshkotsck, where they could be called for by
one of the vessels of our Pacific squadron, or
up the Lena to Jurosk and then overland to
st. Petersburg.
They will have no serious difficulty in get
ting home from the mouth of the Lena. The
journey from the Arctic seacoast to Yakantsk
will be hard one, on account of the severity
of the climate in that part of Siberia, but it
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