St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-08-02
GREEDY FOUND.


Arrival of the Greedy Relief Expedition al
st. Johns, Newfoundland with Lieutenant
Greedy and Six of HIS Party Living and
the Remains of Twelve of the Others, Who
Suecumbed to Starvation and Hardship
Two Days More Would Have Finished the
Entire Party.
WASHINGTON, D. G., July II.
The NAVY Department has received a
telegram from st. Jon2, N. F., to the eff
feet that the Thetis succeeded in finding
the Greedy expedition, eight Of whom
were alive, iaciuding Lieutenant Greedy,
and seventeen dead.
The following is copy of the tele-
gram received at the Navy Department.:
"ST. JOINS, N. F.. Q A. M, July II,
1884.-Hon. w. E. Chandler, Secretary
of the Navy, Washington: The Thetis,
Bear and Lock Garry arrived here to-day
from West Greenland. All well. They
separated from the Alert $50 miles north
during gale at p. m. June %, five
miles off Cape Sabine in Smiths Sound.
THE RESCUED MEN.
"The Thetis and Bear rescued, alive,
Lieutenant A. w. Greedy, Sergeants
Brainard, Fredericks and Long, Hospital
Steward Beiderback, Private Cornell and
Sergeant Ellison, the only survivors of
tue Lady Franklin Bay expedition. Ser
geant Ellison had lost both hands and
zts.t Dy frostbite, and died July 6 at GOD
Haven, three days after amputation,
which had become imperative.
THE PERIsHED.
HSeyenteen of the twenty-five persons
composing the expedition persisted by
starvation at the point where found. One
was drowned while sealing to procure
food. Twelve bodies of the dead were
rescued, and are now on board the
Thetis and Bear. One Esquimaux,
Turneyik, was buried at Disco.
WASHED OUT TO SEA.
teFfye bodies were buried in the Ice at
a point near the camp, but were swept
away to the sea by winds and currents
before nv arrival and could not be recov-
cred.
NAMES OF THE DEAD.
"The names of the dead recovered,
with the dates of death, are as follows:
Sergeant Cross, January l, 1884.
Turnevik (Esquimaux) April 8.
Sergeant Linn, April 6.
Lieutenant Lockwood, April g.
Sergeant Jewell, April ~.
Private Ellis, May 10.
Sergeant Ralston, May %.
Private Whistler, May "a.
Sergeant Israel, May 81.
Lieutenant Kingsbury, June l.
Private Henry, June 6.
Private Schneider, June Is.
The names of the dead buried in the
ice, with the date of death, where the
bodies were not recovered, are;
Sergeant Rice, April 9, 1884.
Corporal Salen, June 3.
Private Bender, June s.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Pavy, June 6.
Sergeant Gardner, June IL, drowned
by breaking through newly formed ice
while sealing.
Jeno Edwards (Esquimaux1, April 4.
CARING FOR THE DEAD.
81 would urgently suggest that the
bodies now on board be placed In metal
lie cases here for safer and better trans
portation in sea way. This appears to
me imperative. Greedy abandoned Fort
Conger August, 9, 1883, and reached
Baird Inlet on September 29th following
with the entire party.
HOW THEY LlYkDs
ssHe abandoned all his boats and was
adrift thirty days on the ice foe in Smith
Sound. His permanent camp was estab-
lished October 81, 1888, at the point
where he was found. During nine months
the party lived upon scant allowance Oh
food brought from Fort Conger. That
cached at Payer Harbor and Cape Isa-
bella 10y Sir George Mares in 1875, was
found but much damaged by the lapse OF
time. That cached by Beebe at Cape
Sabine in 1882, and small amount saved
from the wreck of the Proteus In 1883,
and landed by Lieutenants Darlington
and Cowell on the beach where Greedy
party was found camped were also
found.
LIVING ON SEAL SKIN.
"When these provisions were consumed
the party was forced to live upon boiled
sealskin strips from their sealskin cloth
ing. Lichens and shrimps were procured
in good weather when they were strong
enough to make the exertion, but as ], 300
shrimps were required to make gallon
measure, the labor was too exhaustlng 70
depend upon them to stain life entirely.
| The channel between Cape Sabine ana
Littleton Island did not close on account
of violent gales all winter, so that 24O ra-
lions at the latter point could not De
reached.
A PERILoUs VOYAGE.
"All of Greeley's records and all the
| instruments brought by him from Forl
| Conger are recovered and are on board.
| From Hare Island to Smiths Sound
| had constant furious struggle with 1ce'
| ImnasSable foes and solid barENrs of ice
were only overcome by watchfulness and
patience. No opportunity to advance
mile escaped me, and for several hundred
miles the ships were forced to ram thei1
way from lead to lead through ice vary