The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-21

asous three miles to the east and found
cache had been made by belong, Ser
temoer 18th, '81. / made q thoroucI
aearch and gathered up everything
Inc eleds being too heavily laden 3
carry It, searched for boat east suc
Wess OF the cache for distance of five
miles, and east to distance
one and half miles off the shore snC
saw no signs of it. The ice was verZ
much broken and was showed up In
masses to within twenty-five feet Of the
cache. | returned about midnight to the
upper Belun. Next day, Novem Der
lotn' turning stormy was Obliged d
wait there TWO days to rest and feed the
dogs. During this tima I overhsuled
everything obtained in the cache, and
the following is 8 correct list, viz;
One Dox containing refuse medical stores:
one box Of small articles of mess gear:
one box for navigst on books and sex
tant; one box for chronometer: two tin
cases containing four log books; two
COOK stoves, seven old sleeping bags and
condemned one; lot of old clothing
worn QUIT; one Winchester rife; one re-
pestlDg rife aud other articles. There
were no live articles found in the cache.
out the. following record was found in
the navigation box: Arctic Exploring
Steamer Jeanette, Lena delta, Morday,
lsth, September, 1881. The following
named persons, belong, of the Jean
nette, which was sunk by the ice June
18th, 1881. in latitude north TO l5'.
loRitude 1859. landed here on the evening
OF the 18th instant, and will proceed on
foot this afternoon to try to reach a set
tIement on Lena River. (SignpdJ,
George w. belong, lieutenant COM
msnding; First Lieutenant belong,
second Surgeon. Ambley, third NJ. r,
Collins, Fourth w. +. g. Manderman,
nth a. Goetz, sixth A. 81. Sam, seventh
Alex =. eighth II. H Erickson.
ninth A. A. Koch, tenth G. w. BOYD.
eleventh W. Lee, twelfth N. Juerson, thir-
teenth LIZ. oris, fourteenth A DressIer.
Whoever finds this paper is requested to
forward it to the secretary OF the raw,
with the note Of the time and place at
which it was found"
Copies Of the above IN six languages,
followed. On November 18th I left the
Upper Beun with fish for ten days food
and with three dog teams. driven by
three natives. l discovered place st
which De Longs party had crossed the
Lena and traced 1.-The party to Sixtera-
week, fromwhich place / wished to search
for them and in which Erickson died,
but there was storm raging, and the
natives insisted on returning to either
Belun or U pper Belun, because there was
lack of food and the dogs refused TO
work. We had only raw, frozen fish to
eat. so determined to return to Belun
and arrived there November 9th, in a
terrible condition, feet, hands, legs and
face baby frost bitten, having been ten
days In continuous storm, remaining
two nights and one day all the while in a
snow bank without shelter of any kind.
From my knowledge Of the coun-
try and evidence of Noro's and
Niderman, am convinced De-
Long and party are somewhere
to the ives ward Of the Lena and betw en-
SIxteraveck and Bulco1r, which are sep
arsted by an extent of $50 versts OF bar
rem snd desolate region, devoid of sub
sistaDce. o search that region a large
force will bs required, with proper su-
thority from the Russian Officials. II
therefore came to this place to commune
CAFE with the United States, and imms
diately, with the aid of the authorities. |
to organize searching parties In the |
meantime, the cnmmRndsnt of Belun. is |
searching with all the force his station |
offers. The governor OF this province
has sent a general order throughout the |
entire regi N from the Lena to Kolgms,
to search for and render assistance to |
both the parties that sre missing. am
now completing my arrangements and |
will start north in few days.
By The n 1t mail will give you a full
statement. explaining the organization
and p!aus adopted for thu search. When
D4nenhower rescued Belun trAnsp 1rta
ton sou was Furnished for onIv sig
men, so he to k four # the weakest of
the party. and reached this place De-
cember IL, the rem aiming ak arrived
yee'erday. The general health of the
whole party Is ex "ellent, but D4nerhow-
sr's eyes are badly affected. Janroele,
seaman. suffered from alteration of
mind, and Hubert Leach from frozen
oes. Tomorrow Danenho wer, with
nine men, will proceed to
sku;sk and thence to the
Atlan.ic sesbor1. l will keep Bartlett
ireman, And w. F. !. Nindeman With
ne. Oauenhower will carry to the
nited States the records and articles
ound IN the cache. In conclusion allow ,
pc to call the attention of the depart
1ent 70 the upright and manly conduct of
laster j. w. ID inenhower, who cheer I
1lly rendered most valuable assistance
nder the most trying circumst snces, /
nd of whose professional knowle1gs I S
vailed myself Of on all occasions. We I
ere 10 perfect accord at all times, al. f
lough an unfortunate circumstance de- d
rived him of his legitimate command. E
he conduct of frst-class Fireman Bart
1T is worth special notice His superior
ltelligenee, cheerful disposition and :
1ergy ara highly commendGble; also u
canaan Hubert Leach, who was at the a
slm eleven hours in a gale, at which p
me his feet and legs were badly frozen, n
ter which he worked msnfully at the
Irs without murmur and during the +,
ost intense pain II
Yours Respectfully, -
(Signed) GEO. MELVILLE, =
Asst. Engineer United States Navy. q
Yakutsk, Siberia, January 7.-Neros %
as one of the men selected by Lie1ten-
It belong TO 90 ahead for relief. Ina
tier be says: We Travelled about two T
seks short of them. The captain de- ~
led to send Nindermsn and myself n
cad to look for assistance. We walked =
0 miles without anything to eat. For L
I days we had not had mouthfal of d
ID, and were most starved when found y
Il TIL n,