The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-18
GREELEY RESCUED.
The Arctic Signal Service Officer Safe
at st Johns
WITH ONLY SIX OF HIS MEN.
The Others Perished From Starvation
The story of Their Suffering-The
Party Eclipses England's
" Farthest" Record.


a telegram from st. Johns, stating that |
the Greeley relief expedition has found |
the survivors of Greeley's party, eight |
men in all. The survivors Of the Greeley |
party numbered seven instead of eight, |
as previously reported. Their names |
are Lieut.. Greeley, Sergeant Brainard, |
Sergeant Fredericks,, Sergeant Long, |
Sergeant Ellison, Hospital Steward |
Bieberback, and Private Connell. They |
were found by the relief ships Thetis |
and Bear, five miles of Cape Sabine, in |
Smiths Sound. Sergeant Ellison was
very badly frost bitten, and died at God |
Haven July 8, after undergoing surgical
operation. The relief ships Thetis and
Bear, with survivors, are. now ut st.
Johns, n. +.
FULLER DETAILS.
| WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE following
telegram was received at the Navy De-
partment this morning:
st. Johns, n. f., . u. M, July T.-Hon. VIM.
II. Chandler, Secretary OF the Navy, WASH
Tho Thetis, Bear and Lock Garry ar
rived here to-day from the west of
Greenland. All we're separated from
the Alert $50 miles north during gales.
At 0 p. M, June I'D, five miles off Cape
Sabine, in Smiths Sound, the Thetis
and Bear rescued alive, Lieutenant A.
W. Greeley, Sergeant Brainard, Sergeant
Frederick, Sergeant. Long, Hospital
nell, Sergeant Ellison, the only
survivors of the Lady Frank
lin Bay expedition. Sergeant
Ellison had lost both hands and feet
by frOst-bite, and died July 9th at God
Haven, three days after amputa-
tion, which had become imperative. Sew.
enteen, out Of the twenty-five persons
composing the expedition, perished by
starvation at the point where found;
one was drowned while sealing to pro
cure food. Twelve bodies of the dead
were rescued and are now on board
the Thetis and Bear. One Eskimo
(rurvevick) was buried at Disco, in
accordance with the desire of the In
spectOr OF Western Greenland. Others
died as follows: Sergeant Cross
c January LIST, 1881: Wedeuck, (ESkimo)
e April 5th; Sergeant Linn, April 9Th;
Lieutenant Lockwood, April 9Th; Ser
gcant Jewell, April 18th; Private Ellis,
- May II; Sergeant RalstOn, May sd. Five
bodies were buried in an ice tort near the
camp, but were swept away To sea by
= winds and currents before my arrival
and could not be recovered. With the
. date of the death of Private
fIenry (June l0th), Private Schneider
(June lSth), the names OF the dead bur
&c led in the ice fort with date of death
whose bodies were not recovered are n
follows: Sergeant Rice, Apri
9th, 1884; Corr oral Salem, Jun,
Sd; Private Bender, June 9th
Assistant Surgeon Parry, June 10; Ser
geant Gardner, June II, drowned by
breaking through newly formed ic'
whilo sealing); Jens Edwards (Eskimol
April Ia. would urgently suggest tina
Al .,ls 1,
" metallic cases here for safer and bette
transportation in u sea way. This AZ
pears to me Imperative. Creole
abandoned Fort Conger August y. lSS
and reached Baird Inlet Sept. 70, follow
- ing, with the entire party well. ii
abandoned all his boats, and WAS adri
= for thirty days on an ice-iloe in Smit
"a Sound. His permanent camp wa
u established October Il, 1888, 1
the point where he WI
\ found. During nine months bis part
"a had TO live upon scant l0wance
" food brought from Fort Conger, on thi
cached at Payer Harhor and Cape Ii
bella by Sir George Mares IN 1910, foun
in much damaged condition by ii
lapse of time, ON that cached by Beebe
Cape Sabine, In 1882, and on smn
amount saved from the wreck of th
Proteus i'm lSSl, and landed by Lieutei
ants Darlington and Colwell, on q
beach near where Greeley's party Wi
found. When these provisions we
consumed, the party was forced 10 liN
A upon boiled seal-skin stripped fro
Y the seal-skin clothing and lichens al
shrimps caught in good weather, whC
they were strong enough 10 make exc
a tions. AS it took 800 shrimps TO fill
gallon measure, the labor was too U
hausting to depend upon them to su
tain life entirely. The channel betweC
Cape Sabine and Littleton Island d
not close ON account of violent gales d
winter; so that 2i0 rations at the latt
point could not be reached. All
Greeloy's records and all instrumen
brought by him from Fort Conger n
.Ct recovered and are on board. Fro
IN Hare Island TO Smiths Soul
~ we had n constant and furious strugp
with ice in impossible iloes. Sol
barriers were overcome by watchfI
ness and patience, aud no opportuni
to advance mile escaped. For sever
hundred miles the ships were forced
ram their way from lead to lead, throu
-tice varying In thickness from three
six feet, aud when RATED much great
The Thctis and Rear reached, ca
York Juno 18th, after the PASSAGE
twenty-ono days In Melville bay, WI
two advance ships of the nundee,wh
ing fleet, and continued
days later, they fell In, wi
seven others Of THIS fleet Off Woost1
holm Island, and announced the resc
n to them that they might notlbe delay
a. from their fishing grounds, nor
V tempted into the dangerous Smjt
az sound in view of the reward of $25y
w offered by Congress. Returning acr'
Melville Bay, they fell In with tho Al
and Loeb Gary OF DEVILS Thumb,strl
Cling through heavy ice. Commant
Coffin did admirably to get along so
with the transport 80 carly In the seas
before an opening had occurred.
Lieut.. Emery, with tho Bear, has ~
ported mo throughout with great SIX
nlness and unilinchlng readiness In
accomplishment of the great duty Of
lieving Greeley. The Greeley party
very much improved since their resc
but were critical In the extreme wi
- found and for several days after. For
--- eight hours delay In reaching th
49, would have been fatal TO all now livi
The season North IL late and the clos
for years. Smiths Sound was not ol
whom | lett Cape Sabine. The win
about Melville lay was the most sey
FOR twenty years. This great result
entirely due TO the unwearied onerg,
Yourself and the Secretary of War
lifting out this expedition for the W
IL has had the honor to accomplish.
Signod w. =. SCuLEY,
Commando
nSi now THE NEWS WAS RRCEtvED.
Tho nows OF tho rescue of Lieut.. q
Icy and several of his party crel
much excitement IN thls city. The
-, gram from Commander Sohley was
- ceivod by Rear Admiral Nichols, Ac
&@ Secretary OF the Navy, who immcdia
~ communicated it's contents 90 Lieu
nnt-Genoral Sheridan, acting Secre
of War. They proceeded 20 the w
House and showed tho telegram "a
- President, who has takcn deep int,
In the expedition and expressed 3
concurn ~ the sad deaths of so nlail
tho party. A copy OF tho telegram
- lnln,srnninh Snrrninrv Chnn llnr nl 1