Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-18

sole survivors, arrived to-day, having been res
cued at the point of death from starvation by
the relief ships Thetis and Bear June 22nd at
Camp Clay. northwest Of Cape sabin All are
who was re5cued, died July Sth. Cross died last
Saturday. Christensen, Rice, Hardwood, Jewell
and Edwards died in April Ellis, -Kes.on,
whistler and Israel died 10 May. KisIipgbury,
Tabor, Henry, Gender, Payey, Gardiner aud
Schneider 6iedin June. e i abandoned Fort Con-
ger August 9Th i.czeu in PACK off Victoria
Head August 29th abandoned The seam launch
September 11th, eleven miles northeast of Cooked
Hat Island. When on the point of landing, we
were driven by southwest storms into Kane's
sea, but finally landed September 18th in Baird
Inlet Learning by scouting parties of
the Porieus disaster, and that no pro
visions had been lett for US from Cape
Isabella to Sabin. We moved and established
Sabin and Cooked Pat. An iuventory S owed
that by a daily ration of3our and one third
ounces of me; /, seven ounces OF bread and dog
biscuits, aud four ounc IS Of miscellaneous food.
the party would have ten days full raiions le..
for crossing Smith Sound to Littleton Island
Unfoi ,una,ely Smith SouEd remained open the
entire winter, rendering its cfossipy impracti-
cable. Game failed, despite daily hunting from
ca ly February, before lie sun returned Only
five hundred pounds o. meat was obtained this
year. Minute shr nps, weed, slssafras,
rock ichens and sea skin were resoried to for
food with the results rs shown by the number
of survivors. The last re yular food issued was
May 18th. Only $50 pounds of meat was lie / by
Arlington, and we were compelled 10 send
in November men to obtain Ia pounds OF
Ell lish meat AT Isabella. During the trip
Ellison froze solid DO. hands Id feet, aud lost
them al; surviving however, throrca our Terri
ble winner and spring UNI July Stt. The sur
viyors owe Their lie 10 Tie indomitabe ene.g ~
of Captain Sehley and Lieutenant Emery, who,
preceded By three aud accomparied by five
whalers 70 ced Their vessels rom Uperwavik
through Melville Bay, / ).o the noT,h water at
Cape York. With the foremost whaler they
gained yard whenever possible, and always
held it. SHi.h Sound was crossed, aud the parry
rescued du'iLg one OF the mos violent gales
that had ever been known. The boats were
handled only at lie immiDert risk OF swamp
irg. -Four of us were then unable to walk, aud
could not have survived exceeding twent y-iour
hours. Every care aad Attention was given us.
We saved and. ere bringing beck copies O.
meteorological tiGal, astronomical, magnet e.
pendulum and other observations; also peudu-
lum, gale and ssan6ari thermometers. Forty
eight photographic negatives, collection blanks
and Photographic pioo,s, Esquimaux relics and
other things were necessarily abandoned. The
Thetis remains here five days, probably.
GREEDY, Commanding.
DISPATCHES SENT TO GREEDY.
WASHINGTON, July 17th.-The following
dispatches were sent to Lieutenant Greedy
to-day : lt@ .Il---
SIGNAL SERVICE, July 18th.
Lieutenant 4. ". Greeiy, 81. JONAS! Our hearts
are overcoming with giaduess and thanks to
God for your safety, and in sadness for those
who. witnort fault o, yours, ere dead. Your
family are well, and in San Diego
-' - ". b. HAzEN
Liemenan, Gieely 81. Johns: Your dispatches
are most satisfacte y, ard show your expedition
to have been in the highest degree successful in
ever par GUAR. This fact is not affected by
the disaster later W. B. HAzLN.
OPINIONS OF NAVAL OFFICERS.
New YORK, July 17tE.-Naval officers of
experience here say that Greely's reaching
Smith Sound at all is a miracle. Never
before has a sledging expedition there in
autumn or winter been successful Au-
thOrities, such as Fielden and DIR. Bessels.
have commended from the first that itlwould
be utterly impossible for Greedy to pene-
trate The frozen fastness of Smith Sound
We all know, from the reports, what ter
rible weather they had in the Arctic r.
gions last winter; but we can form no idea
whatever of the perils, hardships ard
tortures these men have undergone in over
coming the very obstacles that wore out
Dr. Hayes powerful sledgemen in 1861.
RECEIPT OF THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, July 17th-When the tele-
gram was received at the Navy Department
this morning announcing the rescue of
Lieutenant Greedy and a portion of his
crew, the news caused great excitement,
and hours after the first telegram from
Commander Schley was received the Office
of the Secretary was besieged by
persons anxious for news as to the
fate of the party Secretary Chandler
is absent from the city, and Admiral
Nichols is acting Secretary. All the in
formation III possession of the Department
was promptly furnished the press, and the
ordinary business of the Department was
temporarily abandoned in order 10 furnish
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history of the Greedy expedition, and the
steps subsequently taken for its relief The
history of the expedition is too well known
to be repeated, and the failure Of Liecien-
ant Darlington, in the expedition made by
him in the steamer PIoteus last year, to
rescue the explorers, is a matter of naval
inquiry record The Court of INQUIRY
appointed by the Secretary to investigate
the cause of the failure of Lieutenant Gar
Gngton sey erely condemned General Ha-
zen, Chief Signal Officer, under whose
management the expedition was started,
{or his carelessness i'll arranging the meas
urcs and means essential to succor the
party According to the information de-
rived by telegraph from 81. Johns to-day,
it would seem that wrat provisions were
made for the RELIEF of the party were left
upon the east instead OF NE west side of
Smiths Sound, while il should bave been
apparent 20 General Hazen that the Greedy
party, if 70 ced 10 retreat from Fort Con-
ger without relief, must have pursued
its Journey south ON the west side
of the water, and whatever supplies may
have been left for Greelv's relief should
have been deposited at or near Cape Sa-
bine, ins.ead of Li,ttleon's Island, on me
opposite side of the Sound. The circum-
stances also seem to ind:cate that Lieuten-
ant Darlington, commanding TIE Proteus.
followed slrictly the instructions given
him by the Chief Signal Officer and that
he i'll no wise can be held responsible for
the terrible loss that has attended the ex-
petition.
AN ARCTIC TRAVELLERS VIEWS.
WASHINGTON, July 17ib.-George Kenna,
of this city, we.l-knOwn Arctic traveller
and author who has taken an az We in
terest in the recent attempts to relieve Lieu
tenant Greely's parry, and who went be-
fore the Arctic Relief Board last spring to
urge offering such reward as would Sc
cure The co-opera iol of wnalers Ill the
search, was asked by an Associated Press
reporter to night what he thought of the
news received from st. Johns. He replied:
" 1t is a remarkable story of he ,oic achieve
ment in a field clouded by disaster due to
incompetency in Washington. If Lieuten-
ant Greedy and his parry had all returned
in safety to the United States. as they
might have done had they been properly
supported, their Arctic record, in point of
skillful management and success, would
have been unparalleled. No other Arctic
expedition has ever spent two consecutive
winners and pari of a third III such high
la.tudcs, and achieved such results with
out casualty o; single case OF serious sick
ness. If Lieu enant Greedy had found at
the mouth of Smi his Sound the shelter
and food which h. had right to expect
there, he would p obably have brought his
entire party back to the United States in
pe- &c health, a.,er three winters in the
highest northern latitudes that had ever
been reached, and after q series of sledging
campaigns VIII ca for boldness and skillful
| execution have rarely, if ever, been sur
pa SD"
"Cou'd the disaster which befell his
parry have been ave. ted with the knowl-
| edge available at the time the relief expedi-
tons wee flied out? %
"Unques.ionaby and that is the pity of
| it. 1t donb'c tie grief which must be felt
IN the face of such terrible catastrophe to
think that two ships, on successive years,
and probably third, were in a position to
la IL stoie rs which Won d have saved the lives
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