The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-26
THE SEARCH FOR GREELY.
The Men Who Are with Him---Where
They Are, and What They Went For.
The Officers and Equipment of the Expedition
What Arctic Explorers Take in the
Shape of Food and Clothing.

supplies III tHe way OF BOOuS duVlscurpu
tics. There also extra store of sugar, beans
coffee etc. which might help the party through four
years if the goods kept well and lost. The
| Greey expedition sent out to establish an ad
vanced post of arctic observation, of a chain de-
termned upon at the Congress held in Vienna in
| 1879 The expectation that signal-service sta
tion could be maintained for several years at Lady
| Franklin bay, point to be found upon all good at
lases The following officers and men, mostly be-
longing to the United States cavalry and in
tantry, are the corps of observations
First Lieutenant A. w. Greedy Fifth Cavalry, acting
signal officer and assistant; Second Lieutenant
Frederick F. Kislingbury, Eleventh Infantry, act
| ing signal officer; Second Lieutenant James B.
Lockwood, Twenty-third Infantry, acting signal
officer; Sergeant Edward Israel Signal Corps United
States army, Sergeant Winfield S. Jewell, Signal
Corps, United States army; Sergeant George W.
Rice, Signal Corps, United States army; Sergeant
David c. Ralston Signal Corps, United States army;
Sergeant Hampton S. Gardiner, Signal Corps, United
States army, Sergeant William H. Cross general
service, United States army; Sergeant David l..
Brainard, Company L. Second Cavalry; Sergeant
| David Linn, Company c. Second Cavalry, and twelve
prvates Greedy and his party believed that United
States vessel would visit his station every to
see that all was well, to repenish the supplies, take
| home the sick etc. In 1882, expedition sailed
from St. Johns, July g. and tried until September
to get through the ice of Cumberland sound without
success. On the I'd of September, the ice having
become four inches thick the expedition aban-
doned No anxiety was felt for Greely and his men,
who amply provided with provisions for the
| winter.
Last summer the second Greey relief expedition
started out. The ''Proteus" left st. Johns the
28th of June and soon found great trouble with the
/ :. n
middle of July, there being no hope of getting be-
yond the Cary islands Ice seemed rise out of the
sea by magic and the officers of the Proteus the
23d of July began to despair. The official account of
the loss of the boat reads like romance "The ice
continued to close, and at A of the 23d of July
the vessel stopped but the spongy character of
the ice enabled her to endure the PRESSURE which
tnued for two hours. The lead again opened and we
steamed forward, only to find that the water that
abored hard for had disappeared. So the ship
headed back for Cape Sabine and had nearly reached
the open water leading that point when the heavy
| ice-pack began to close nip in such ice meant
destruction, and every effort made to pass
age through, but all in vain. At a quarter before
P. NJ the vessel was again nipped The matches
opened and Lieutenant Garlington, with several men,
got the most necessary articles deck. They
thrown upon the ice and another party transferred
one to do and the labored as
only do in such desperate extremity. Heavy
boxes of provisions were thrown over
board to be carried to safe quarters. Extreme
tons often needed to save them. The ice was
breaking through the starboard bulwarks and crush
ing in that side. The vessel pressed to port.
The engine boiler was expected to explode every
ment The hold fast filing with water before the
repeated cries of Come Off She is sinkingr from
those the ice needed by the workers board.
At P the ice Stacked and the vessel sank rapidly.
Her masts stripped of her yards as she sank
through the ice Dogs and pigs soon scrambling
among the general debris and the whole presented
most horrible wreck to the exhausted shelter.
less upon the ice"
The situation of the men was hazardous in the ex-
treme. They months journey from help of
any kind, in dangerous sea- full of treaeherous ice
with only few whale boats. On the 23d of August,
a part of the shipwrecked crew, under Lieutenant
Colwell, reached Upernavik the Greenland coast.
One of the men in his account of an
incident gives notion of the dangers of the trip
''When in the vicinity of the land, sight of
which cut off by binding southwest snow
storm, and huge icebergs were crashing and thunder
ing in every direction and raging threatened TO
swamp the boat every moment, rowed under the
lee of iceberg, but pulled away from it just in time
to it broken and upset by the waves. We soon
reached another berg, but in few minutes were
circled by huge masses of ice, and to avoid being
crushed the again manned, and, with almost
superhuman strength the lee of another berg was
made. Then we rested on our oars, and man at the
bow stood with ak in his hand ready to cut the
painter at a moments warning. The waves soon
ashed this berg to pieces, and another and another
had to be made in similar manner. In this way we
weathered this terrific storm, which continued for
fourteen long and miserable hours. All were soaking
md chi Init with in
to pull for life at any moment 1t was remarked at
time that the language would need some additions
to adequately describe this terrible storm, when Lieu
tenant Cowel who had held the helm continually for
twenty-five hours, responded, We may consider
selves extremely lucky if we ever have chance to de-
scribe it.
All the men who were on the Proteus, when she
went down were found by the Yantic and brought
back to st. Johns in September No news of Greedy
had been obtained
THE PRESENT EXPEDITION.
The present expedition, the first boat of which the
Bear is expected to leave here to-day tomorrow is
under the direction of Commander Schley, whose in
structions simply find Greedy if he can. Three
boats start from here-the Bear Thets and Alert the
latter going only far Greenland and remaining
there in of disaster to the advance parties. Lieu
tenant Colwel of the Proteus expedition goes the
Bear as second officer. At his invitation went over
the Bear yesterday and tried to form notion of
what the men have to expect. The stores both for
the outside and inside of the mems bodies need chap
ter by themselves. AS the ordeal OF arctic expedi
ton is always one, the food is the best that
me aey provide.
They were carrying the ground coffee board yes
terday sealed up in ten-pound airtight cans. The
principal beverage taken by the arctic explorers will
however, be tea, it having been a matter of note
on the former expeditions that the men, after
being in the polar regions for time, lost
their taste for spurious liquors and drank tea In
expedition vi be choice family Formosa Oolong, of
the best quality of compressed tea such is pre-
pared for the Russian market. II am also putting
up" said Inspector Clark, "a great variety of farina
ceous foods, such barley hominy, split peas oat
meal samp' Carolina rice, cornmeal 6uckwheat corn
starch, tapioca, farina and arrowroot."
The arctic explorers cannot expect to dine porter
house steak fhe North Pole thara