The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-14
LATEST TELEGRAMS
THE GREELEY EXPEDITION.
A Total Failure.

A Total Failure.
Washington, 13.-The Signal office
has received the following from
Lieutenant Darlington, command
ing the Greeley relief expedition
'St. Johns, 13.-It is my painful
duty to report the total failure of
the expedition. The Proteus was
crushed in a pack, in latitude Is
degrees, 81 minutes, longitude Y
degrees, rs minutes, and sunk on
the afternoon of the 23d of July.
My party and crew of the ship were
all saved. [ made my way across
Smith sound and along the eastern
shore of Cape York; thence across
Melville bay to Upper Nav;cz, arriv-
ing there on the oath of August The
Yantic reached Upper Navick on the
I'd Of September and left the same
day, bringing the entire party here
to-day. All well.
Signed,
E. A. DARLINGTON"
st. Johns, n. F., 13.-The first
officer of the Proteus briefly sum-
marizes the Inflated Proteus expe-
dition as follows "The Yantic and
Proteus left st. Johns at p. m. of
June Goth. The Proteus arrived in
God Haven bay, at Disco island,
July 9Th. The Yantic was at the
same place on the 18th. The
necessary preparations were made
and the Proteus sailed for Cony
island, arriving there on the 10th.
She left on the 2lst. and two days
afterwards was crushed, sinking at
p. M, July 23d. Twenty-Five days
were spent in tbs boats ; several
storms were encountered, from
which the boats took refuge under
lee Of icebergs. Lieutenant Caldwell
and six of the crew parted company
with the others at Cape Y ork, and
found the Yantic July 31st, and re
ported Captain Pike and the remain
der of the crew moving southwark
The Yantic reached Cony island
August I'd. The same night she
proceeded to Pandora harbor, where
the record from Pike and CARING
ton were found. She next pro
ceeded south, along the Greenland
coast sending boats all round The
islands, searching for the missing
crew. A storm and a heavy
pack of ice on August 9Th
forced the Yantic to anchor to the
leeWard of Northumberland island
Next day she bore aWays6er Upper
| NaYik, arriving there August 18th
On the 9th, started for the Waigatt
coal mines and returned to Upper
Nayik, September I'd. Captain Pike
and crew were found and taken Oh
board the Yantic. It seems tina
the first intimation of the Proteul
disaster was found August Sd, al
Littleton island, by the Yantic
Lieutenant Darlington left tht
record there, coming south, describ'
| ing the shipwreck and indicating
the general movement of Genera
Pike and the ships company. Or
the 4th a search was instituted
along the Greenland coast from
Cape Alexander to Cape Robertson
at every point likely to bring VI
with the retreating party; searched
till September I'd, when Upper
| NaVick was reached and the whole
of the Proteus party was found il
| good health and tolerable spirits
They were exposed during thirty
one days and nights in their boats
making some stOppages at inferno
date points. The Proteus wa
crushed in foe of ice at 8 O'Clock
on the evening of the 23rd of July
and sank within four hours after.
The company had clothing, provi-
sions, compass and other necessarie!
to meet what might prove a pro
tracted voyage. On the 25th TIT
boats being equipped, provisioneC
and manned, a start was made
The scene Of the disaster
was eight miles north-north-
northwest of Cape Sabine, latitude
10 degrees and 81 minutes north
Over 600 miles of ice and frigid sea
were passed before the Upper Nav
lex was reached. The worst feature
in the unfortunate Proteus expedi
ton is that no provisions were
landed or caches made, and all the
stores intended for the Arctic colony
of relief went down in the steamer
When at anchor in the Danish harc
Dor on the 18th Of August, Governor
Elburz came on board the Arctic and
reported that the Danish steamer
Sophia had arrived there from the
harbor thirty miles north Of Cape
York, and the captain stated that
a native Eskimo had told him that
two natives with the Greeley expe-
dition had arrived in sledges last
winter and reported the party all
well, except DR.. Pavy, who had died
The natives went back to l ady
Franklin bay, Another Eskimo
arriving from the Greeley camp
reported all the officers murdered
by the men. Neither of these re-
ports were reliable, as the fondnes;
of the Eskimo for lying and sensa
tionalism places them in the cate
CORY Of fiction. Captain Sinkt
says that as far nortf
las Cape Sabine there Wa'
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