The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-21
HOME AGAIN.
Arrival of the Remains of Lieutenant De
Long and Comrades.

New YORK Feb. 2O.-The steamship Frisia,
from Hamburg, with the bodies of De Long and
comrades on board, arrived at her dock this
afternoon. There were no deputized delegations
to receive the bodies, but there was a considera-
bic number of relatives and friends of the de
ceased on the dock of the steamship company.
The remains were in stee-bound packages on
the main deck, on other side of the saloon sky
lights. The bodies are not in a state of preser-
vation and will not he exposed to public view
Lieutenant Ward, United States navy,
representing Commodore Upshur met the
Frisia at quarantine and came on it to the
dock a. oboken and transferred the bodies to
the Undertaker's, who will remove the bodies TO
the pier and guard them until Friday morning
when they will be taken to Pier l, North river
and put into ten hearses and escorted to the
hayward at Brooklyn. De Long will be buried
in Woodlawn Cemetery. DR.. Amber will be
taken to Philadelphia, and Boyd, seamen, to
Virginia. The bodies of De Long and six men
will be taken to the Church of Holy Trinity,
Forty second street and Madison avenue, where
religious services will be held.
Lieutenant William Schuetze, who, with Lieu
tenant Harder, left New York Feb. 4, 1882,
to find the Jeannettes dead gave an interesting
account of his search for the bodies. He told of
his efforts about the Lena river; how he and his
comrades built schooner fifty -one feet long by
nine feet BEAM called the Search and how
the officers and men took their four hours
watch at pulling the vessel, like canal-beat
mules, on stony shore that out their
boots Lieutenant SchuetZe related how they
travelled by dog and reindeer sleds some three
thousand miles. Sometimes he said the dog
sleds could make over. one hundred miles day
rad n ha N1ti w
moderately. The Lieutenant and comrades, after
they found the bodies within ten miles of the
mouth of the river Lena, drove night and day,
stopping for nothing except to eat, until they
reached Irkutsk. At that place the people well
coined the party with marked respect
Two years ago this month Lieutenant Giles B.
Harder and Master w. H. Schuetze, of the United
States navy, left st. Petersburg on their way to
the Lena delta to search for Lieutenant Chip
and the other missing men of the Jeanette When
Lieutenant Harder returned to Yakutsk on Nov.
20, 1882 from the Lena delta, without any news of
the missing men, he found awaiting him orders
to take home the remains of De Long and his
companions. The bodies could not be removed
from the tomb Chief Engineer Melville built
near Mot Val without permission from the
Russian Minister of the interior, and this was
not received by Mr.. Harder until Jan %, 1883
While waiting nearly two months for authority
to remove the bodies he made all preparations
to start northward again without delay and on
Jan. 26 he and Mr. Schuetze left Yakutsk for
the delta. They accomplished their task sue
cessfully and returned to Yakutsk on March 80
only to discover that they must remain almost |
year longer in Siberia The report current at
the time was that the United States
government had instructed them to take the !
bodies home in the winter season, so that they
might be transported frozen. If such an order
was given, it does not appear to have been neces
with iAob hp1ia
have been taken to Russia without delay. Such
collins, however, were not to be had in Yakutsk |
and for some reason the metallic ones sent from |
the United States had not been forwarded to that
city.
After leaving st. Petersburg, Mr. Harder and
Mr. Schuetze had anything but pleasant time.
Their best beds for ten months were planks COW |
cred with deerskins, and for many days they |
slept upon wet ground. often in the mud. Their |
diet was fish, reindeer meat, rice and hard black
bread, to which were added potatoes, birds, white
bread, frozen cabbage and salt cucumbers while |
they were in Yakutsk.