The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1884-07-26
GREELEY FOUND.
Seventeen Of the Is in the Expedi-
fion Perish i'm the Arctic A Sad
Tale Of starvation and Death,

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the Navy, Washington: The The
tes" .'Bear" and "Lockgary'' arrived
here to-day from West Greenland.
All well. We separated from the
''Alertn $50 miles north during gale,
at o p. NJ, June 22d. Five miles off
Cape Sabine in Smiths Sound the
"Thetesn and 'Bear" rescued alive
Lieutenant A. A. Greeley, Sergeant
Bralnard, Sergeant Fredericks, Ser
geant Long, hospital stewart Bieder-
back, private Cornell and Sergeant
Elleson, the only survivors of the
Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. Ser
geant Elleson lost both hands and
ieet by frost bite and died July 9th,
at Godhaven, three days after ampu-
tation, which had become imperative.
Seventeen ofthe % persons composing
the expedition persisted by starvation.
AT tile point where found one was
drowned While sealing to procure food.
Twelve bodies OF the dead were res
eued and are now on board the ''The-
tes" aud Bear" One, Eskina Tur-
veyik, was buried at Disco in accor-
dance with the desire OF the inspector
OF Western Greenland. Five, as fol.
lows: Sergeant Cross, January 1st,
1884; " edenick Eskimo, April 9th;
Sergeant Linn, April 9th; st. Lock
wood, April 9th; Sergeant Jewett,
April l2lh; private Ellis, MAY 10Th,
and Sergeant kalston, May 23d, were
buried IN the Ice fort near camp. They
were swept away To sea by winds and
currents before my arrival and could
not be recovered. With the date and
death OF private Henry June 9th and
private Schneider on June 18Th, the
names OF the dead buried in ice fort,
With the date aud death Of those whose
bodies were not recovered, are as fol-
lows: Sergeant Rice, April oh, 1884.
Corporal salem, June 3d, private Bin
der. june 9th, and Sergeant Gardner,
June Il h. Drowned by breaking
througa newly formed ice while seal
ing, Jens Edwards kshIno, April
I'm.
would urgently suggest that the
bodies now on botrI be placed in
metallic eases here Tor >afrr and better
transportation IN SEA way. Ihis APP
pear, To me impera I've.
Greeley aOan toned Fort Conger
August ., 1858, aui reached Baird In.
let, September Z9th following, Win
III, entire party well lie "a Oaudoned
all has boats aud WAS adrift 80 days on
an ice floe III Smith sound. Ills per-
mdnent camp Mas established October
list, 1888, a point where he was
found. During nine months his par
" had To live upon IA scant allowance
Of food brought from Fort Conger tn Il
WAS cached az Prayer Harbor and
Cape Isabella. by sir Geo. Mares in
1870, but II was found 10 be much
damaged by the lapse OF time and
That cached 10y BeeDe at Cape Sabin
in 1857. A suall amount was saved
from the wreck al the "Preteush in
1888 and landed Uy l.. L. Darlington
and Colwell on a beach near where
| Greeley's party MAS found. When
these PROVISIONS were CONSUMED tile
party was forced To live upon boiled
sealskln stripped fr IN Their sealskin
clothing aud lichens and shrIups
caught in good weather, when they
We're strong enc lgh to make the eX-
ertiop. A. il took l.30U shrinIpS u
! ill a gallon measure the labor was
too eA hauslive 10 depend upon them
| TO sustain lie entirely. The channel
| between IA oine and Littleton Island
| dad not close on account OF violent
gales all Win er, so that 240 ratlonS
at the latter place could no. be reached.
All uf Greeley's records and all the
Instruments brought by him from
| Fort Conger are recovered and are on
board. From Hare Island To Sun his
| Sound had constant anu furious
struggle with ice IN impassaole Hoes.
Solid barfieades were overcome by
watchfulness and patience. No op-
portunity To advance Il mile capped
me, and for several hundred nlles
the ships were forced To run their
way from lead To lead through ice
varying i'm thickness from three To
six feet, aud when rated much
greater. The .Thetes" and Bear
reached Cape York June 18th, after
passage of II days in Melville Bay,
with Two advance ships OF the Dun
dee whaling fleet, and entered Cape
Sabine. Returning seven days later
we tell in with several others of this
! fleet OIL Wostenhoim Island, and an
nounced Greeley's rescue 10 them
SO that they might not DO DELAYED
from their fishing grounds nor be
tempted in the dangers OF Smith $