Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-18
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
IN THE NICK OF TIME.
The Thetis StumbleS on
Lieutenant Greedy
AND SIX OF HIS COMRADES.
The Others Of the EXpedi-
tiOn Dead.
WANDERINGS OF THE PARTY.
A Graphic Tale Of Arctic
Suffering.
WANDERINGS OF THE PARTY.
A Graphic Tale Of Arctic
Suffering.
FOUND OFF CAPE SABINE.

FOUND OFF CAPE SABINE
Lieutenant Greedy Rescued-Six of His
Comrades Found With Him. Eighteen
of the Party Gone to Their Last Rest
A Graphic Tale of Suffering Among
the Arctic RIgors.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE following.
telegram was received this morning from
Commander Sehley:
ST. JOHNS, N. F., July 17-9 A. NJ.
To William E. Chandler, Secretary of the
Navy, Washington:
The Thetis, Bear and Lock Garry arrived
here to-day from West Greenland. All are
well. We separated from the Alert $50
miles north during gale. At 9 p. m. on
June 22, five miles off Cape Sabine, in Smiths
Sound, the Thetis and Bear rescued the fol-
lowing alive: Lieutenant A. W. Greedy, Ser
geant Brainard, Sergeant Fredericks, Ser
geant Long, Hospital Steward Beiderback,
Private Cornell, Sergeant Ellison. They are
the only survivors of the Lady Franklin Bay
hands and feet by frost bite, and died July
at Godhaven, three days after amputation,
which had become imperative
Seventeen of the twenty-five persons com
posing this expedition persisted by starvation
at the point where found. One was drowned
while sealing to procure food. Twelve
bodies of the rescued were found and are now
on board the Thetis and Bear. One Eskimo
Turnevik was buried at Disco in accordance
with the desire of the Inspector of Western
Greenland. Five bodies, buried in the ice at
a fort near the camp, were swept
away to sea by winds and currents
before my arrival, and could not be
recovered. The names of the dead re
covered with date of death are as follows: Ser
geart Cross, January LIST, 1884; Wederick,
Eskimo, April 9Th; Sergeant Linn, April 9th;
Lieutenant Lockwood, April 9th; Sergeant
Jewell, April 18th; Private Ellis, May 10Th;
Sergeant Ralston, May 23d; Private Whistler,
May oath; Sergeant Israel, May 9th; Lieu
tenant Kingsbury, June 1st; Private Henry,
June 9th; Private Schneider, June 18th. The
names of the dead, buried in the ice at
the fort, with the date of death, whose bod
les were not recovered, are follows Ser
geant Rice, April 9th, 1884; Corporal Salem,
June Sd; Private Bender, June 10Th; Acting
Assistant Sergeant Pavy, June 18th; Sergeant
ing through the newly formed ice while
sealing: Jams Edwards, Eskimo, April Gath.
1 would urgently suggest that the bodies now
on board be placed in metallic cases here for
safer and better transportation in a sea way.
This appears to me imperative.
Greedy abandoned Fort Conger on August
8, 1888, and reached Baird Inlet on Septem-
Der Goth following with the entire party we'll.
He abandoned all his boats and was adrift
for thirty days on an ice-foe in Smiths
Sound. His permanent camp was estab-
ished on October 81, 1888, at the point where
he was found. During nine months his par
ty had to live upon scant allowance of food
brought from Fort Conger, that catched
at Prayer Harbor and Cape Isabella
by Sir George Mares in 1875, but
found much damaged by lapse of time; that
cached by Beebe at Cape Sabine in 1882
and a small amount saved from the wreck of
the Proteus in 1888 and landed by Lieuten-
ants Darlington and Colweu on the beach
where Greely's party was found camped
When these provisions were consumed the
party was forced to live upon boiled sealskin
strips from their sealskin clothing, ichens
and shrimps, preserved in good weather
when they were strong enough to make ex-
ertion. As 300 shrimps were required to
fill gallon measure, the labor was too ex-
hausting to depend upon them to sustain
life entirely.
The channel between Cape Sabine and Lit
Teton Island did not close on account of VIC
lent gales all winter, 80 that $40 rations at
the latter point could not be reached. All
Greely's records and all instruments brought
by him from Fort Conger are recovered and
are on board. From Hare Island to Smiths
Sound, had a constant and furious struggle
with ice in impossible foes. Solid barriers
of ice were overcome by watchfulness and
patience. No opportunity to advance a
mile escaped me, and for several hundred
miles the ships were forced to ram
their way from lead to lead through
ice varying in thickness from three to six
feet, and when RATED much greater. The
Thetis and Bear reached Cape York June 10,
after passage of twenty-one days in Melville
Bay with the two advance ships of the Dun
dee whaling feet and continued to Cape Sa-
bine. Returning, seven days later, fell in
with seven others of this feet off Wosten-
holme Island, and announced Greely's
rescue to them that they might not
be delayed from their fishing grounds
nor be tempted into the dangers of
Smiths Sound in view of the reward of S25,-
600 offered by Congress. Returning across
Melville Bay we fell in with the Alert and
Lock Garry off DEVILS Thumb, struggling in
heavy ice. Commander Coffin did admirably
to get along SO far with the transport so early
in the season before an opening had occurred.
Lieutenant Emory with the Bear has support
ed me throughout with great skillfulness and
unfinching readiness in accomplishing the
great duty of relieving Greedy. l would ask
instruction about the Lock Garry, the
charter party held by her master differs in
several respects from mine.
The Greedy party are very much improved
since the rescue, but were critical in the ex-
IRENE when found, and for several days
after. Forty-eight hours delay in reaching
them would have been fatal to all now living.
The season north is late and the closest for
JodIS, OOuuC Was uOG open WAOH L
left Cape Sabine. The winter about Melville
Bay was the most severe for twenty years.
This great result is entirely due to the I'M
wearied energy of yourself and the Secretary
of War in fitting out this expedition for the
work it has had the honor to accomplish.
w. S. SCHLEY, Commander
Later in the day General Hazen received
two kilograms from Lieutenant Greedy con-
tanning additional particulars of the hard
ships and sufferings endured by the party
since last August, as well as a summary of
the results of their explorations during the
past two years. The first of these dispatches
read as follows:
ST. JOHNS, N. F., July II, 1884.
To the Chief Signal Officer, Washington:
Brainard, Biederbeck, Council, Freder-
icks, Long and myself, sole survivors, arriv-
ed to-day, having been rescued at the point
of death from starvation by the relief ships,
Thetis and Bear on June % in Camp Clay,
northwest of Cape Sabine. All are now in
good health but weak Sergeant Ellison;
who was rescued died July s.
Cross died last January; Christensen,
Linn, Rice, Lockwood, Jewell and Edwards
in April; Ellis, Ralston, Whistler and Israel
in May; Kistingbury, Major, Henry, Bender,
Pavy, Gardiner and Schneider in june We
abandoned Fort Congcr August 8, and were
frozen in pack off Victoria Head on August
80. We abandoned the steam launch on
September 10, eleven miles northeast of
Cocked-Hat Island. When ON the point of
landing we were three times driven by south
west storms into Kane Sea- Finally we land
ed September 30, in Baird Inlet. Learning by
scouting parties of the Proteus disaster and
that no provisions had been left for MS from
Isabella to Cape Sabine, we moved and estab-
lished winter quarters ut Camp Clay, half
way between Cape Sabine and Cooked Hat
Island. An inventory showed that with
daily rations of four and half ounces
Of meat seven ounces of bread
and dog biscuits and four ounces miscellane-
GUS the party wonld have ten days full ra-
tions left for crossing Smiths Sound by Lit
tleton Island March LIST. Unfortunately
Smiths Sound remained open the entire
winter, rendering crossing it impossible
Game failed despite daily hu nting from earl
in February Before the sun returned. only
five hundred pounds of meat had been OBJ
tanned This together with minute shrimps,
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