The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-26
TIE RODGERS BURNED.
The Relief Vessel Rogers, in Search of the
Jeannette, Burned ara Sunk.

The Relief Vessel Rogers, in Search of the
= Jeannette, Burned ara Sunk.
New YORK, April 1S.--The following is a
special cable message to the Herald:
IRKUTsK, Siberia. April is, 1882.
have this morning received startling news
from Mr.. Jackson. the Special Commissioner who
was sent in search of the Jeanette survivors. He
apparently forwarded the dispatch by courier.
Il ran:as follows:
FROM THE BANKS OF THE ALDEN RIVER.
April 6, 1852.
II have just met a courier bearing dispatches
from W. H. Glider, Herald correspondent with the
Rodgers, whom the courier had accompanied
Kolymsk, on the Kolyms River. TO Verkhoynsk,
400 miles north of Yakutsk. Glider had made a
journey of 1900 verts among the Chuckches. He
was sent forward with the news that the Rodgers
had been burned and sunk; that Lieutenant
Berry, with the officers and Grew, thirty-six in
number, are at Tiapka, near Cape Seodze; that a
vessel should be seat for them as soon as po,-
sible.''
Further Details of Her Loss by Fire-Burned
on New Years Day-An Hands saved-The
Fight With Flames and Ice.
New YORK, April 22.-The Herald has received
the following cable Dispatch
IRKUrsK, April is, 1882.
The following has been received by post from
Mr.. jackson. dated at Yakutsk, on March %:
IL arrived here to-day. There is no news from
Melville. / leave for the North on the 10Th. Gov
ernor Tchernalef renders every assistance. 1t
will be fifty dsys yet before the ice breaks up
here. The steamer Lena VIII be useless. / shall
secure steam launch ior the mouth OF JuEe 10
come down the Lena River to Bulun for news or
for my RETURN"
The following important dispatch from Mr..
Jackson sent tn this place by estafette or courier
px frx1u, Yak n tr1Qt tn dav
KARAeA, ON THE LENA RIVER. April . 1882.
~ arrived at tins place. distant 40 versts (eghy
miles) from Yakutsk, shortly after noon. en- route
for BHlnn. Here and Is now the Ispravnik
Qocal Governor1 of Srednikor Middle) K6lymsk,
Nh. Feodor de Vsrawa, who has just left the Her
aid correspondent, Mr.. w. II Glider. at Yerkhoy
apsk, having accompanied him thither from the
kolyma River Mr.. Glider sends the following
opea dispatoha 4 ili sssd ta,i ailsi.fol -lff *
2'it ia il..'yE1KHoyASsK, March 2s 1852
"Iarsived here yesterday and leave tonight
ior Buiun 10 meet Melville; VIII reach Yakutsk
toward The - end nd Of APr Melville. with the
February II. There Is no news from them since
then. 900 ~ -fa .lolf VIII GILDER.'
THE BURNING OF THE RobeKRs.
Mr. Jackson's dispatch continues: "As unfor-
tunately, Can not gee the dispatches of Mr.. Gil
der, which are sent uDder seal 10 Governor Tcher-
naieff, give you the Information recs ived from
the Isprsvnik of Sred 1 Koiy ymsk, aud have asked
Governor Tchernai.ff to send the dispatches by
THE Ispravnik left Kolymsk thirty four days
ago with Mr.. Glider. who had made long jour
ney overland among the Chukches and had ar
rived at Koly msk ia the latter part of February.
The journey TO that point In mid-winter had been
a terrible one. The Ispravitik says that Mr.. Gil
der brings information that the steamer Rodgers
Eas burned ON the lst of January. this year: tnat
Leuteuant Berry and the crew are at Tupkan.
where they get food enough from the Chukcnes
sent tobacco and tea 20 them for bartering pur-
poses They needed nothing else.
Three months provisions were saved from the
slip, Tppkan Is near Cape Serdze Kamen.
'Further details say that endeayors 70 save the