The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-04-22
THE RODGER.
Latest Report States That it is Burned
to the Waters Edge.
1t is Thought that the Crew are All
Alive and Well.

~NS" VIM EAPll L. hO
has been received by post from Jackson,
dated at Yakutsk, March 9th:
81 arrived here to-day. There is NO
news from Melville. L leave for the
north on the 29th. The governor Of
Tchernaieff renders every assistance.
1t will be fifty days yet before the ice
breaks up here. The steamer Lena will
be useless. 1 shall secure steam launch
for the month of June to come down
the Lena river to Bulun for news or
for my return. The following impor-
tant dispatch from Mr.. Jackson sent to
this place by Estafette, or courier ex-
press from Yakutsk, has also reached
me to-day.
"Karaga Terinsky, on the Lena river,
April I'd: Iarrived at this place, dis
tant about 120 versts, eighty miles,
from Yakutsk shortly after noon, en-
route for Bulun. Here was, as is now,
the Ispronit, local gorernorl of Sredni,
Tor middle) Kolymsk. Mr.. Teodor,
who has just left the Herald correspon-
dent, W. H. Glider, at Verkhoysk, hay
ing accompanied him thither from the
Kolmy river. Glider sends the follow
ing open dispatch:
'Verkoyansk, March 29.-I arrived
here yesterday and leave tonight for
Buttun to meet the Melville. 1 will
reach Yakoutsk toward the end of
April. Melville, with the %Ispravnek of
this district, started on the search Feb.
18th. There is no news from them
since then. Signed,
W. II. GILBER.'
Jackson's dispatch continues:''As un-
fortunately l cannot see the dispatches
of Glider, which are sent under seal to
the governor of Tchernaieff, L give you
information received from the Isprav-
mex of Soedner Kolmsk and have asked
the governor of Tchnaief to send dis
patches by express courier to Irskusk.
The Ispravnek left Kolmsk "a days ago
with Glider, who had made a long jour
ney overland among the Chuckches and
had arrived at Kolymsk in the latter
part of February. The journey to that
point in midwinter had been a terrible
one. The Ispravnik says that Glider
brings information that the steamer
Rodger was burned on the first of Jan
uary, this year; that Lieut.. Berry and
the crew are at Tapkav, where they get
food enough from the Chuckches. The
Ispravnik, Mr.. Denorawa, of Kolmsk,
had sent tobacco and tea to them for
bartering purposes, they needed moth
ing else. Three months provisions were
saved from the ship. Tupkan is near
Cape Serdzekam. Further details say
that endeavors to ave the ship were
made in vain. She lay within a short
distance Of the shore, but the young
ice could not bear the weight of the men.
A line was fixed with much, difficulty
from the ship to the shore, and the
boats and crew were all safely landed.
The entire ships company are in good
health and spirits. There is no danger
Of their starving. The governor of
Tchernaieff has given orders to the
Chukche chiefs to do all in their power
to assist the shlpwrecked crew.
1.-THE latest news fromVerkhoyausk is
that they are anxious there about the
I%spravnik who went with Melville, aud
who they think ought to have returned
in February, He has not yet returned.
Terrible hurricanes. with snow, have
prevailed of late in the Verkhoyausk
district, and they are afraid the Isprav-
mix has persisted and eventually the
whole party, as the I%spravnik had or
ders to accompany Melville until such
time as the latter should choose to send
him back 1 believe there is no reason
for anxiety"