Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-09-21
THE LOST PROTEUS.
Another Arctic Expedition a Failure,
and Grave APprehensions Felt for
the Safety of the Crew.

the Safety Ofthe Crew.
From st. Johns, n. T. comes the
following:
The United States steamer Yantic
has arrived here with the officers and
crew of the Proteus, lot in the Arctic
regions while searching for the Greely
expedition.
The first officer of the Proteus brief
" summarizes the Inflated Proteus'
expedition as follows:
The Yantic and Proteus left ST.
Johns ut p. m. June 20. The Prote-
US arrived at Good Haven Bay, TiSco
Island, July =, and the Yantic reach
ed the same place the 18th The ne
cessary preparations were made and
the Proteus sailed for Cory Island,
arriving the 10th and left the 21st,
and two days afterward was crushed
sinking at p N. July 49, Twenty
nine days We're spent In boats. Sever
which the boats took refuge under
the lee of icebergs. Lieut.. Calwsll
and six of the crew parted company
with the others at Cape York. We
found the Yantic July 81. We rs-
ported that Capt Pike and the re-
mainder of the crew were moving
southwark The Yantic reached Cory
Island Aug. 2. The same night she
proceeded to Pandora harbor, where
records from Pike and Darlington
were found. She next proceeded
south along the Greenland coast, send
ing boats all round the islands in
search o. the missing crew. A storm
and heavy pack-ice Aug. 9 forced the
Yantic to anchor to the leeward of
Northumberland Island Next day
she bore away for Upernavik, arriv-
ing there Aug. 12. The 9th she start
ed for the Walgate coal mines, and
returned to Upernavik Sept g. Capt.
Pike and crew were found and taken
on board the Yantic.
1t seems the first intinstion of the
Proteus disaster was found Aug. at
Littlcton Island by the Yantic. Lieut..
Darlington left record there, coming
south, describing the shipwreck, and
indicating the general movements of
Capt. Pike and the ships company
On the 4th search was instituted along
the Greenland coast from Cape Alex
ander to Cape Robertson. Every point
likely to bring up the retreating party
was searched till Sept. 2, when Uper
navik was reached and the whole
Proteus party found in good health
and toIerable spirits. They were ex
posed during the thirty-one days and
nights in their boats, making some
stoppages at intermediate harbors.
The Proteus was crushed in hoe-ice
at o'clock on tho evening of the 23d
of July, and sank within four hours,
as tho closed foes parted company.
Fortunately sufficient time was given
to save clothing, provisions, the COM
pass, and other necessaries to meet
what might prove protracted voyage.
The 25th, the boats being equipped,
provisioned, and manned, start was
made. The scene of the disaster was
eight miles north of Northwest Cape
Sabine, latitude 50, 81 north. Over 600
miles of ice and frigid sea were passed
before Upernavik was reached.
The worst feature in the unfortun
ate Proteus expedition is that no pro-
visions were landed and no caches
made, and all the stores intended for
the Arctic colony's relief went down
in the steamer While at anchor in
Danish Harbor, the 18th of August
Gov. Elburg came on board the Yam
tic and reported the Danish steamer
Sophia had arrived there from har-
Dor thirty miles north of Cape York,
and the Captain said a native Eski-
mau told him two natives with the
Greeley expedition had arrived on
sledgcs last winter and reported tho
party all we'll except DR.. Pavy, who
had died. These natives went back to
Lady Franklin Bay.
Another Eskimau arriving from the
Greeley camp reported all the officers
murdered by the men. Neither of
these reports is reliable, as the fond
ness of the Eskimau for lying and
sensatlonalism places them in the cat
egory of fiction. Capt. Sinke says
that rs far north as Cape Sabine there
was no trace of Greeley or his party,
and his failure to come south to Little
ton Island to meet the relief steamer
this summer evokes grave apprehen
sion as to their probable fate.
The Proteus was retreating home
when the ice nip overwhelmed her.
She got barely fifteen miles north of
the scene of the shipwreck. The pros
poets of the Greeley Colony encoun-
tering the rigors of fourth winter
beneath the Arctic Circle are mourn
full to contemplate. 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.
Highway Men Return Money ForcibIy
Taken.
Denver News
\ little over one month ago whilst
a circus was showing ut Twenty third
and Stout streets, a gentleman resi-
dent in Denver, and living at some
distance from the heart of the city,
was, unknown to himself, followed
late one evening and as he reached
the circus grounds was "held up by
two strangers, one of when held re-
volver at his head and demanded his
money. Tremblingly he obeyed, and
they, as he afterwards remembered,
tio ASSCANSu thC
of his pocketbook amounting to S47,- :
So The highwaymen at the same
tiass became possessed of an envelope
upon which was written an address,
and a,certaining from their victim
that it was his own made the state
ment that having been disappointed
in not receiving expected remittances,
and having exhausted their means
they had followed him and resorted TO
this desperate scheme to get funds,
but that they were gentlemen, as their
appearance indicated, and tkey would
refund the amount of the compulsory
loan upon their return hosle. Yester-
day the victim of this, at the time un-
pleasant episode, received q postal
order for $3.50, being the amount
originally takenfrom him, in addition
to S. for interest on the loan. He
saws while he is thankful at receiving
his money again, he would much pre-
fer another time to lo.n his money in
the orthodox way.
Hollow Checks,
A pale. hahby skin and limbs nj clothed with flesh
Indicate poverty Of the blood. The ~pcedics1 and
sllrest way TO increase its nntrifying properties,
TO import yigor and compensate for undue waste