The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-09-21
lost AMONG ICEBERGS.
Tie Steamer Proteus, Conveying the Gree.
y Arctic Explorers, Crushed to Pieces by
, ke-Escape OF the Party. II

y Arctic Explorers, Crushed to Pieces by
he-Escape of the Party. d
! wAsHIEGToN. Sept IL
The Signal Office has received the follow
ing from Lieutenant Darlington, command
ingthe Greely relief expedition:
!" ST. JOINS, N. F., Sept. 10.
II is my painful duty to report the total
fainre of the expedition. The Proteus was
crushed in pack in latitude rs degrees 80
minutes, longitude n degrees 20 minutes, and
sunk on the afternoon of July %. Ny party
andthe crew Of the ship were all saved.
mae my way across Smith Sound and along
the EASTERN shore to Cape York. thence across
Melville Bay to Upernavik, arriving there
Auglst2l. The Yantic reached Upernavik
SEPTEMBER 2, and left the same day, bringing
the eltire party here to-day. All well.
E. A. GARLINGToN."l e
ST. JOHNS. N. F. Sept. II.
The United States Greedy relief steam
ship Yantic has just anchored here. Hel
tidigs are lanentable. No word has been
received from Greedy or any of his party.
The steamer Proteus was crushed in foe ice
at tle entrance to Smiths Sound July %.
Captain Pike and his crew and the scientific
party are passengers by the Yantic.
Tie first officer of the. Proteus briefly sum-
marizes the Inflated Proteus expedition as
follows: The Yantic and Proteus left st.
Johns at four p. m. June 20. The ProteuS
arrived at God Haven Bay, Disco Island,
July :, and the Yantic reached the same
place on the 18th. The necessary prepare
tions were male, and the Proteus sailed for
Cory island, arriving on the 10Th; it left on
the 21st andtWo days afterWard was crushed,
sinking at one p. m. July 80. TWenty-nine
days were spent in the boats and several
storms were encountered from which the
boats took refuge under the lee of icebergs.
Lieutenant ColWell and six of the crew
parsed company with the others at Cape
York. TheY found the Yantic July 81,
which repoted Captain Pike and the re-
mainder of fe crew moving southwark. The
Yantic realized Cory Island August 2, and
the same light she proceeded to Pandora,
where therecords from Pike and CARING
ton were found. She next proceeded south
along the Greenland coast, sending boats alb
around the. Stand in searcilJof the missing
crew.
A storm and heavy pack-ice on August 8
of Northumberland Island, The next day
they bore away for Upernavik, arriving
there August IL. On the 9th she started
for the Wagate coal mines, and returned to
UpernaYik September 2. Captain Pike and
his crew were found, and taken on board
the Yantic 1t seems the first indication of
the Protens disaster was found August at
Littleton Island by the Yantic,
as Lieutenant Darlington left req
ord there coming south describ-
ing the shipwreck and indicating the gen.
eral movements of Captain Pike and the
ships company. On the 4th search was in
stituted along the Greeland coast from Cape
Alexander to Cape Robertson. Every point
likely tO bring up with the reteating party
was searched till Sept. 2, when Upernavik
was reached, and the whole Proteus party
was founI in good health and toler-
able spirits. They were exposed during
thirty one days and nights in their
boats, making some stoppages at in
termediate harbors. The Proteus was
e eEFghng o as &c iGs at t5F9s 8flqek r on tha
four hours. AS the closed foes parted COM
pany, fortunately sufficient time was given
to save clothing, provisions, the compass
and other neceSSarieS to meet what might
prove a protracted voyage. On the 25th
the boats being equipped, provisioned and
manned, start was made. The scene of
the disaster was eight miles north-northwest
of Cape Sabine, latitude 1881 north. Over
600 miles and frigid sea were passed before
Upernayik 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 relief went down in the
steamer. While at anchor in Danish Har-
Dor on the 18th of August, Governor Elburg
came on board the Yantic and reported that
the Danish Steamer Sophia had arrived
there from a harbor thirty miles north Of
Cape York, and the Captain states native
Eskimo told him that two natives with the
Greedy expedition arrived on sledges last
winter, and reported the party all well, ex-
cept DR.. PaVy, who had died. These natives
went back to lady Franklin Bay. Another
Eskimo, arriving from the Greedy camp re-
ported all the officers murdered by the men.
Neither of these reports are reliable, as the
fondness of the Eskimo for lying and sem
sationaliSm places them in the category of
fiction. Captain Sinke says that as far
north as Cape Sabine there was no trace of
Greedy or his party, and his failure to come
south to Littleton Island to meet the relief
steamer this summer evokes grave appre-
hension as to their probable fate. The Pro-
teus was retreating home when the ice-nip
overwhelmed her, and she got barely fifteen
miles north of the scene of the shipwreck
The prospects Of the Greedy colony encoun-
tering the rigors of fourth winter beneath
the arctic circle are mournful to cOntenl-
plate. The crews of both ships, 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, Of apoplexy. l -