The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-22

NO TIDINGs FOR W YEARS FROM
LIEUTENANT GREELY's PARTY
AT LADY FRANKLIN BAY.
ST. JOHNS, n. F.--The United
States Greedy relief steamship Yantic
has anchored here. Her tidings are
lamentable. No word has been re-
ceived from Greedy or any of his party.
The steamer Proteus Was crushed in
foe ice at the entrance to Smiths
Sound on July %. Captain Pike, his
crew, and the scientific party are pas.
sengers by Che Yantic.
The first officer of the Proteus briefly
summarizes the expedition as follows:
The Yantic and Proteus left st. Johns
at 4 z. M. on June 20. The Proteus
arrived at Godhaven Bay, Drisco Island,
July 6, and the Yantic arrived there ON
the 18th. The necessary preparations
were made, and the Proteus sailed for
Cory Island, arriving there on the 10Th.
She left on the 21st, and two days
afterward was crushed, sinking at 7
z. M, on July %. Twenty-nine days
were spent in the boats. Several
storms were encountered, from which
the boats took refuge under the lee of
icebergs. Lieutenant Colwell and six
of the crew parted company with the
others at Cape York. They found the
Yantic July 81, 2 i reported that Cap
tain Pike and the rest of the crew were
moving southwark. The Yantic reached
Cory Island on August 2, and on the
same night proceeded to Pandora Har-
Dor where records from Pike and
Darlington were found. They next
proceeded south along the Greenland
coast, sending boats all around the
islands in search of the missing crew.
A storm and heavy pack-ice on Au-
gust 8 forced the Yantic to anchor to
the leeward of Northumberland Island.
The next day she bore away for Uper-
navik, arriving there on August %.
On the 9th she started for the Waigate
coal mines, and returned to Upernavik
on September 2, when Captain Pike
and the crew were found and taken on
board.
While at anchor in a Danish harbnr
on August II, the Governor of Elburg
came on board the Yantic and reaorted
that the Danish steamer Sophia had
arrived there from a harbor thirty miles
north of Cape York, and that her Cap
tain had stated that a native Esqui-
maux had told him that two natives
who were with the Greedy exIe lition
arrived there ON sledges last winter and
reported that the party we've all well
except DR.. Pay, who had died. These
natives went back to Lady Franklin
Bay. Another Esquimaux who ar.
rived from the Greedy camp reported
that all the officers had been murdered
by the men. Neither of these reports
is reliable, as the fondness of the Esqui-
maux for lying and sensationalism
places them in the category of fiction.
Captain Pike says that as far north
as Cape Sabine there was no trace OF
Lieutenant Greedy or his party, and his
failure to come south to Littleton Is.
land to meet the relief steamers this
sum ner evokes grave apprehensions as
to his probable fate.
The prospects of the Greely colony
encountering the rigors of a fourth
winter beneath the Attic circle are
mournful to contemplate.
The crews of the Yantic and Proteus
are in excellent health. One death only
occurred during the expedition, that of
Henry Wilson, gunner's mate of the
Yantic, from apoplexy.
WAsHINGToN.-The Signal Officer
has received the following from Lieu.
tenant Darlington, in charge of the
Greedy Relief Expedition
"ST. JOHNS, N. Fit is my painful
duty to report a total failure of the
expedition. The Proteus was crushed
in pack ice in latitude IS degrees so
minutes, longitude IA degrees % min
utes, and sunk on the afternoon of the
23d of July. My party and crew Of the
ship all saved. NJ de my way across
Smith Sound and along the Eastern
Shore to Cape York, thence across Mel.
vile Bay to Upernavik, arriving there
on the oath of August. The Yantic
reached Upernavik OF the I'd of Sep
TENDER and left on the same day, bring
ing the entire party here to-day. All
WE'LL"
The Acting Secretary of the Navy
summed up current opinion when be
said to-day mo vessel in the navy
no vessel in the world could reach
Greedy before next summer. He and his
party are in a very bad fix"
Lieutenant Greely's expedition was
one of the international series for max
ng meteorological observations in the
Attic regions determined upon by the
Internal Polar Commission, which was
organized at Hamburg in October.
1879, and the station allotted to it at
the 81. Petersburg meeting of the
Commission, held in 1881, was the
northernmost Of all. Last winter it was