The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-12-28
HOFFMAN,
FRELINGHUYsEN,
Secretary of State. y
FULLER PARTICULARS.

ST. PETERSBURG. December 20-A
special supplement of the Official
Gazette, issued this evening an.
nounces that all the telegrams from
Engineer Melville, of the lost Arctic
exploring steamer jeanette, will be
forwarded to their destination as
promptly as possible, and that the
most energetic measures will be
taken for the discovery of the re-
mainder of the crew of the jeanette
and those left on the ice at the
mouth of the Lena river. News
reached the Government at Jakuisk,
eastern Siberia, that on the 14th OF
September three natives of Oulonsv,
near Cape Bartray, l40 versts north
of Cape Bikoff, discovered a boat
containing eleven men who stated
they belonged to the Jeanette and
had undergone terrible sufferings.
On hearing the news the district
Deputy Governor with q doctor and
medicines was Immediately dis
patched to help the shipwrecked
sailors and was instructed to bring
them to Jkutsk. The Governor
was also instructed to do every
thing in his power to recover the
remainder of the crew, 500 roublees
being given him to defray the first
expenses.
Engineer Melville has telegraph
ed the American Legation at st. Pc
tersburg that the Jeanette was sur.
rounded and crushed by ice on the
90 of June in latitude II north Ion
gitude, 157 east. The crew left the
vessel in three boats. About fifty
miles north of the Lena they were
separated by violent winds and
thick fogs. Boat No. 8, command
ed by Engineer Melville, arrived on
the 29th of September at the eastern
mouth of the river Lena, where it
was stopped by a block of ice near
the village of Bolenenga, inhabited
by idolators. Boat No. 1 reached
the same spot. The occupants of
these boats state that Lieutenant
DeLong and DR.. Amber, with
twelve others, landed at the northern
mouth of the Lena, and that they
are in a. fearful condition, suffering
from frost bitten limbs. A party of
inhabitants of Bolenenga started i'm
imedately for their assistance.
Nothing is known of boat No. 2.
Engineer Melville forwarded by
natives long dispatches to Mr.. Ben
nett of the New York Herald. For
want of funds they have been for
warded by post addressed to General
1gnatieff. October %, Ninderman
and Noras, seaEaen, who were in the
boat, had now Joined their comrades
and stated that Lieutenant DeLong,
DR.. Amber and twelve other had
reached the norther mouth of the
Lena and were starving. An expe-
dition was at once sent out to rescue
them. The survivors lost every
thing. Engineer Melville says mon
ey is urgently needed, and should
be sent by telegraph TO Jakutsk.
He has urgently requested that
600 roubles be transmitted imme-
diately to the Governor of Jakutsk
for the return and care of the ship
wrecked men.
WHERE TIE JEANETTE WAS LOST.
WAsaIScnoN, Dec. 20.-George
Kennan. of this city, who some
years ago travelled a thousand miles
or more up the river Lena, at the
mouth of which Lieutenant DeI.ong
and the survivors of the crew of the
Artic steamer Jeanette recently
landed, says where the Jeanette was
lost is $50 miles northeast of the
Island OF New Siberia. 800 miles
from the nearest part of the Siberian
mainland and a little more than 500
miles from the mouth of the Lena.
1t is probable that Lieutenant De-
Long, after abandoning his ship,
made for the nearest noint nm the