The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-02-17
The Missing Crew. Of the Jeanette

The Missing Crew Of the Jeanette
NEW YORK, February 8.
The following dispatch from Lieutenant
Danenhauer, dated Irkoutsk, February 4, has
just been received here:
DE Longs party is between the stations
Of Buleur (BolinoiD and Sisterouck {Usto
leonskD, in . narrow wilderness eighty miles
long, devoid of habitations and game. jerome
j. Collins volunteered to stand by the dying
seaman, Hans Erickson, and let others of De
Longs party push south.
"The new search builds huts, and goes over
every inch Of the region, which Is plowed by
heavy drift-ice every spring
"We visited Nordenskjold's winter quar-
tiers, and found he was safe before we entered
the ice near Herald Island.
"The general health of the crew during the
twenty-one months drift was excellent. No
scurvy appeared. We used distilled water and
bear and sealmeat twice week. No rum was
served out. Divine service was regularly held.
We took plenty Of exercise. Everybody
hunted. Game was scarce. We got about
thirty bears, two hundred and fifty seals, and
SIX walrus No fish or whales were seen.
''All possible observations were made dur
ing the drift, the result showing northwest
course. The ship was keeled over, and heavi-
ly pressed by ice most of the time. The men
tai strain was heavy on all Of the ships COM
pany. The result of the drift for the first five
months was forty miles. There was a cycloid-
al movement of the ice. The drift the last
six months was very rapid. Soundings were
pretty even. They were eighteen fathoms
near Wrangell Land, which was often visible
seventy-fve miles distant. The greatest depth
found was eighty fathoms, and the average
thirty-fve. The bottom was blue mud.
Shrimps and plenty of algalogical specimens
were brought up from the bottom. The sur
face water had temperature of twenty de-
grees above zero.
"The extremes Of temperature Of air were:
Greatest cold So below zero and greatest heat
a above zero. The first winter the mean
temperature was 80 below zero; the Sec
ond winter 80 below zero. The first
summer the mean temperature was 40 degrees
above zero. The heaviest gale showed
velocity of about fifty miles per hour. Such
gales were not frequent. The barometric and
thermometric fluctuations were not great.
There were disturbances of the needle CO.
incident with the auroras. The winters
growth of ice was eight feet; heaviest ice seen
twenty-three feet. The engineer states that
a heavy truss saved the ship, November 81, from
being crushed. The telephone wires were
broken by the movement of the ice. The
Photographic collection was lost with the ship.
Lieutenant Chips 1000 auroral observations
were also lost. The naturalist's notes were
saved.
"Jeannette Island was discovered, May 16,
In latitude IS degrees AZ minutes north, longi-
tude 15S degrees s. minutes east. 1t was small
and rocky, and we did not visit it.
"Henrietta Island was discovered and Wis
tied, May "a, in latitude n degrees minutes
north, longitude Isl degrees 80 minutes east.
1t is an extensive island. Animals are scarce,
but glaciers are plenty.
"Bennett Island lies in latitude 76 degrees
50 minutes north, longitude 14S degrees %
minutes east. 1t is very large. On it We
found many Birds old horns, driftwood and
coal, but no seal or walrus. A great tidal &C
ton was observed. The coast is bold and
rocky. The cape on the south coast was named
Cape Emma.
1--WE drifted back the first week of the re-
treat twenty-seven miles more than we could
advance. The snow was knee deep. We had
to 20 thirteen times over and over the track,
seven times with loads.
Lieutenant Chips boat did better than
ours (Melville's) during the afternoon Of Sep
TENDER IL, the three boats having got clear Of
the ice of Seminovsky Island at noon that
day. About dusk he was 100 yards off our
weather Quarter and lowered sail as il round
ing to. We lay for twenty-four hours under a
triangular drag. Nothing was seen Of
Lieutenant Chips boat at daylight. He
could not get back to the island in northeast
gale. He was unable to carry his share of the |
provisions.
81 observed a strong easterly current near
The Lena delta. There were masses Of drift
wood between the Siberian Islands.
"Jack Coles mind is not wholly alienated. |
He has not been violent for twelve days, but |
Is happy and harmless. Getting home may
restore him."