Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-12-31
De JEANETTE FOUND.

o FFICIAI 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 JeaDnette was crushed in ice on Juno IL,
latitude ~, longitude 157. The crew embarked
in three boats. which were separated by wind and
fog Number three. with eleven mon. Engineer Mel
vile commanding. reached the mouth of the Lena
SeDtember 10. subsequently, number one, with
Capt. Ee!ong, DR.. Amber and twelve men, reached
the Lena in q 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
eminent. lSigned] 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, 40 versts north of Cape
Billott. discovered boat containing eleven
men.who stated that they belonged to the jean
nette, and had undergone terrible suferings
On hearing the news, the district deputy gov
ernor, with u doctor and medicine, was i'm
mediatoly 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-
ms i.,(sa Of ha iua 11,,G
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 2Sd of June in latitude II north, longi-
tude 1877 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.
8, commanded by Engineer Melville, arrived
the 29th 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. reached the
same port The occupants of these boats state
that Lieut. belong and DR.. Amber, with twelve
others, landed On the northern mouth of the
Lena, and that they are in fearful condition,
suffering from frozen limbs. A party of in
habitants of Bolerlanger started Immediately
for their assistance Nothing is known Of
boat No. 2.
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. 800 miles from
the nearest point of the Siberian main land, aud a
little more than 500 from the mouth of the Lena.
his ship, made for the nearest point the Siberian
of new Siberian Island and str Striking
1ndigirka and mouth of the Lena. If he reached
the coast early enough in the summer he ought to
have found Russian and native fishing stations at
streams which fall into the Arctic ocean in that Vi
entity, and thus have obtained succor much nearer
than the Lena 1t is possible, however, that he
stations had all been abandoned and the fish
ermen had returned up. the rivers to
their winter villages, which, as a rule.
the Lena, there is. believe. permanent settle
ment, and this seems to have been appointed
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
crew may have found an inhabited section nearer
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 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 valleys
along the Yana and Indigrka, and from Nizhni Ca
lyma, which as place OF refuge was quite as near
and quite as accessible as the mouth of tho Lena.
The retreat of these boats across 800 miles Of ice
encountered Arctic sea to the Siberian ma,nand Is
a remarkable achievement, and which is
paralleled in Arctic history only by the retreat OF
Barutes and his from the northern extremity
of Novena Semya and of the crew OF the Togethof
from Franz Josef land. The fact, that Belong
and bis men were three months on the ico in opon
af1i s0 %5'n Of Rsdsb1 ss and fs suer
and one which more than accounts for the pitiable
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 we'll 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 a warm hearted, hospitable
people. AS soon as winter road was established
and the crew were strong enough ts travel, they
would probably be brought up the Lena on dog
town Of 5000 to 5000 Inhabitants. Her house,
and many of the Injuries of life, and the Russian
government of the seacoast province would fu.-
Anyoya mountains to Oshkosh, where they could
be called for by the vessels of our Pacific
land to ST. Petersburg. They win have no serious
difficulty in getting homo from the mouth
Of thes Lena. The journey from
the, Arctic seacoast to Yakahtsk will be
of climate in that part Of Siberia, but it ouget not
to occupy more than month or month and halt
and is not attended with any danger to men of such
powers of endurance. It is in some respects
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 on dog sledges
thence bv Cossack courier travelling dav and
night with relay horses to Irkoutsk, the
capital of Eastern Siberia, and thence by
telegraph to St Petersburg. Fhe news has been
fully two months and perhaps more getting from
the mouth Of the Lena to Iskantsk, and it is more