The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-24
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The Intrepid Polar Explorer Will: with
Six of His Men 1Asouedtby.s;I
'H"'H the Bear and Thetis. J,
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xoleeh ofthe North. ~>.f
WASHINGTON, July ~ Tho following tele-
gram was received at tho navy department this
morning: e',,~ j, .:.l1. ~ y S!'.uI1:
Hen Veins %s Il F. bS 5S1a T. :s:y e ths
Navy, Washington. D. c.: The Thetis, Bear and
Lock-Garry Arrived here to-day from West
Greenland All we'll Separated from the
Alert $50 miles north, during gale. At9p M,
June q FIVE mites of Cape Sabine, IN SMITHS tt,t
A. w. Greedy, Sergeant Brainard Sergeant
Fredericks, Sergeant Long, Hospital Steward
Beiderbeck, Private Cornell and Sergeant Eli
son, the only survivors Of the Lady franklin
bay expedition. Sergeant Ellison had lost both
hand and feet by frost-bite, and d1eu July 6 at
Goodhaven, three days after amputatlon, which
had become. imperative. Seventeen 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
Eskimo was buried At a~village called' Disco
in accordance with the desire. of the inspector
of Western Greenland The bodies of six, with
date Of death, were received as follows: -,
Ap sis;nt SfRsi SrS;1 ssr an
Jewell, April 1883 Private + ,Ellis, May 10; Ser
geant Ralston, May %. The bodies of two
buried in the ice fort near thecamp were swept
away to sea by winds and currants before my
arrival and could not be reGoyereds sol Ihey
der, June 49, The names Of the dead buried
in the ice fort, with date; of death, whose bod
les we're notrecovered, are as follows: Sergeant
SAILOR June 3; Private; William Bender. June 8;
Gardiner Gardiner: J? Juns s'I IL; dtelvned by breaking
through the newly formed ice while sealing.
Jens Edwards, Eskimo, April "a.
I would urgently suggest that tho bodies now
on board be placed in metallic cases here for
safer and better transportation in a sea- way.
doned Fort Conger Aug. 8, 1883, and reached
Baird inlet Sept 20 following, with the entire
party we'll He abandoned al. his boats and
was adrift thirty days on an ice foe in Smiths
Sound His permanent camp was established d.ns
During nine months his party had to live upon
scant allowance of food, brought from Fort
Conger, that was cached at Payer Harbor and
Cape Isabella by Sir GEORGE Fares in 1875, but
found it to be much damaged by the lapse Of
time, and that cached by Beebe at Cape Sabine
in 1852, and small amount saved from the
wreck of the Protetls in 1888 and landed by
Ieuts. Darlington and Colwen on the beach
near whore Greely's party was found When
their provisions were consumed the party was
forced to live upon boiled seslskins stripped
from sealskin :. clothes, and licnens
and shrimps caught in good weather when
As It took /, 500 shrimps to I'LL gallon heas-
urs the labor was too exha11sting to dependup--
on them to sustain life entirely The channel
not close on account of violent gales all winter
SO that the 24O rations at that point could not
be reached. All Of Greely's records and in
stsuments 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 floes
Solid barriers were overcome by watchfulness
and patience. No opportunity to advance
mile escaped me- and for several hundred miles
the ships were forced to ram their way from
from three to six feet, and when RATED, much
thicker. The Bear reached Cape. York June.
days " in Mevl P{esSi psy, With sd
vance ships off, the Dundee. whal-
ing fleet and continued to Cape sa3n ; Re, re-
seven others Of this feet off .Wostenholm is
land and ANNOUNCED Greely's rescue, that they
might not be- delayed from their fishing
grounds nor be tempted into the dangers OF
Smith sound.in view of the reward of ~, 600
vile bay we foil in with the Alert and Lockgar-
ny, of DEVILS Thumb, struggling through
heavy ice. Commander Coffin did admirably
to get along SO far with transport SO early in
the season before an opening had occurred.
s4..4 IL, hoe tad
ma throughout with great 'skillfulness and un.
flinching readiness in accomplishing the great
duty of relicying Greedy The Greedy party
are very much improved since their rescue,
but we're critical in the extreme when found,
and for several d<ys after. Forty eight hours
to all now living The season North is late and
the coolest for years. Smiths sound was not
open when we left Cape Sabine. The winter
about Melville bay was the most severe for
twenty years This great result is entirely Que ~
secretary CT war IN fitting out this expedition
for the work it has had the honor to ac-
oomplish.
- [Signed] s.. SoHLEY, Commander:
LIEUT.. GREEDY REPORTS.
General Hazen, chief signal officer, has re-
ceiyed the following telegram: =. =
St. Johns, N. F.. July 17.-For the first time
in three centuries England yields the honor
Of reaching the farthest north-Iieut Lock
wood and Sergeant Brainard, May IL, reach
ingLockwood Island, latitude 50 min. "a sec.,
longitude A min. 5 sec. They saw, from
a two Thousand feet elevation, no land north
or northwest, but to the northeast Green.
land yet extended, lost to view in Cape Rob-
ert Lincoln, latitude SO min. IS sec., and Ion
back in 1883 by open water on. the north
into the Polar ocean. DR.. Pavy, in 1882,
following the Markham route, was adrift
one day in the Polar ocean north q.
Cape Joseph Henry, and esoaps1da 70 oaad
in the spring and later in the summer, trips
into the interior of Grinnell land, discovering
Lake Hazen, some 80 by 10 miles in extent,
which is fed by the ice cape of north Grinnell
Land, drains Ruggles river and Weyprecht ford
the summit Of Mount Arthur, 5000 feet, the
contour of the land west of the Conger noun
tains convinced one that Grinnel Land tends
directly south from Lieut. Aldrichs farthest
point reached in 1876. In 1888 Lieut.. Lock
crossing Grinnell Land, and ninety miles from
Beauteaux bay, head Of Archer's ford, struck
the head Of ford from western sea, tempo
rarily named by Lockwood, Greedy Ford -
From the center Of The ford 5 Il sttudS 81
Lockwood saw che northern shore animation,
some twenty miles vest and the southern shore
extending some fifty miles, with Cape Lock-
wood some seventy miles distant. apparently
separate land from Grinnell Land. We have
named the now land Arthur Land. Lieut.
Lockwood FOLLOWING, going and returning on
the ice, found that the cape averaged about
one hundred and fifty feet perpendicular face.
It follows that the Grinnel Lane interior is ice
capped with a belt of country some sixty
miles wide between the northern and
southern ice capes In March,
1884, Sergeant Long, while hunt
ing, looked from the northwest side Of Mount
Carey to Hays sound, seeing. on the northern
coast three capes westward Of the furthest
seen by Mares tn 1876 The sound extends
some twenty miles further west than shown
by the English chart, but is possibly shut in
by land which showed up across the western
end. The two years station duties, observa-
tions, all explorations, and retreat to Cape
Sabine, were accomplished without loss of life,
disease, serious accident or even severe FROST
bites. No scurvy was experienced at Conger,
and but one death from it occurred last
winter. [Signed] GREEDY,
Commanding.
Verdict in the W ard Trial.
Grand Forks Special 16th:-The all-absorb-