Daily globe., 1882-06-22
THE ILL-FATED RODGERS.
Berry Heard Fr0m-Accounts the Crows
Location-O Man Per1shed.

Berry Heard FrOm-AcCOuntsO of the Crews
Location-One Man Per1shed.
WASHINGTON, June 21.-The navy depart
ment is in receipt Of dispatch from Lieut.:
Berry, commanding the United States ship
Rodgers, burned at st. Lawrence bay, giving
an account of the destruction of the vessel,
and stating that the crew is divided up among
four stillagrees in the vicinity of st. Law
renee bay. The villagers are kind, and their
houses comparatively comfortable. There is
no danger from hunger or disease. The lieu
tenant proposes to engage one of the whaling
fleet next summer to take the party to st.
Michaels and there engage passage to San
Francisco.
WHEREABOUTS AND NAMES OF THE SUR
vIvORs.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. Ter, June d.
TIE steamer Idaho has arrived from Sitka with
full reports of the burning of the United States
exploring steamer Rodgers in st. Lawrence
bay, and the rescue of her crew by the revenue
steamer Thomas Corwin, which arrived at
Sitka, June 8, with the officers and crew Of
the Rodgers. The officers landed at Sitka are
Master D. s. Warning. Ensign G. n. NJ. Story,
Passed Assistant Surgeon NJ. D. Jones, Passed
Assistant Engineer A. N. Zane, and Assistant
Surgeon J. D. CASTILLO and twenty-six men in
good health, the latter comprising the same
crew that sailed from San Francisco, all told.
Lieut.. M. Berry, commander Of the Rodgers,
accompanied by Ensign II. J. Hunt left st.
Lawrence bay the 23d of December to sledget to
the Siberian coast.
DEATH IN THE ICE.
PORT TOWNSEND. W. T., June 21.-The ac-
count of the burning Of the Rodgers and the
life of the crew among the natives gives the
following account of the loss of Sailing Mas
ter Putnam: On the 4th of February Master
G. F. Pulnell Tor Putnam) commanding the
supply depot at Karmen, arrived at the Indian
villages where the Rodgers crew were shell
tered with four sleds loaded with pemmican
and other provisions for the shipwrecked
party, he having heard of the loss of the ship
through natives. He started on his return
trip to the depot in bad weather and was
overtaken by terrible gale of wind, with
drifting snow. When two days out he was
obliged to turn back, and in the endeayor to
reach village on the southern side OF st.
Lawrence bay, about twelve miles from
North Head, he became separated from his
native escort, not being able to see ten feet
ahead of him, and was carried out to sea on
an ice foe. Later in the day he was seen
about seven miles off shore, abreast of the vii
lage. A vigorous attempt was made to rescue
him by four of the Rodgers crews and two ma
tives in canoe, but owing to the interven-
ing ice they were unable to reach him, and
put back after getting three miles from there,
This was the last ever seen of Putnam.
Master Waring, leaving the ships party in
charge of Ensign Story got sledge, guide
and dogs and searched the entire coast to
Indian Point and thence to Plover bay, but
found not trace of the unfortunate officer.
On the way down the coast four dogs were
identified as belonging to Putman's sledge.
One OF them had wound through his neck,
as though made by a pistol ball, circum-
stance which was unaccountable.