Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-07-24

/ ug telegram was received at the navy
| department this morning:
ST JOINS n F.9A M. July n.
/ Hon. VIM. E. Chandler, secretary of the navy
Washington.
/ THE Thetis and Bear ana Lock Garry arrived here
to-day from Vest Greenland all well. Separated
from the Alert one hundred and fifty miles north.
during a gale. Al Q p. m. Jane 22d, five mitcs
/ BelrIescued alive 1t A.W. Greeley. Sergt Brain
/ ard, Scrgt- Fredercks Sergt. Long Hospital
! Stewart Beiderbock, Private Council, and Sergt.
! Ellison, the only survivors Of the Lady Franklin
/ Bay expedition
! Sergeant Ellison had lost both hasds and feet
By frost bite aud died July 9th at Good Haven,
three days after amputatou, which had become
/ imp rative. Seventeen of tho twenty-five per-
4 sons composing the expedition, persisted By
/ starvation at the point where found. one was
/ drowned while sealing 20 procure food, Twelve
] bodies of the dead were recovered and are now
/ on board the Thetis and Bear An Eskimo was
/ buried at Disco i accordance with the desire Of
I che inspector % Western Greenland Five. as
/ follows; Sergeant Crossed, January iSt 1891;
! W,deck, Eskimo, April s.; Sergeant Linn,
4 April O. Lieut.. Lockwood, April o: Sergeant
/ Jewell, April -; Private Ellis, May 10; Sergeant
/ ROlston May % Bodies burned in a fort gear
I The camp were swept away 20 sea by the winds
and the current before my arrival and could not
! be recovered, with date Of death: Private Henry
/ june o; Private Schneider June 49, Names Of
4 the dead buried IN ice forthwith and date OF
/ Death whose bodies were not recovered are as
I follows: Sergeant Rice, April g. 1884; Corporal
| Salem, June B. Private Bender, June g; Assistant
/ Surgeon Peavy, June Is; Sergeant Gardner, June
/ u Drowned by breaking through the newly
] formed ice when sealing: Genial Edwards,
! Eskimo April "a. would urgently suggest that
4 bodies now on board be placed in metallic cases
here for safer ana better transportation in a sea
/ way. This appears 20 me best Greeley abandon
! rd Fort COnger August 2, 1853 and reached Bacid
Z Inlet September 18th following with the entire
party well. He abandoned all his boats and was
adritt thirty days on an ice foe in Smiths Sound
His permanent camp was established OctOeer 81.
1853, at "A point where he was found. During nine
months his party had 20 live upon a scant allow
a,ce Of food brought from Fort Conger that were
cached at Poyer Harbor and Cane Isabella by Sir
George Mares iu 1873 but found it much damaged
1 by the lapse of lime.
WASHINGTON, July 17.-News was
received here that Lieut.. Greeley and
several of the party created muck ex-
element in this city. A telegram from
/ Commander Schley was received
by rearadmiral Nichols acting secre-
tary Of the Navy who imme dlatedly
/ communicated its contents to Gen
| Sheridan, acting secretary OF war
| They proceeded to the White House
and showed the kilograms to the
| President who has taken a deep in
terest in the expedition and expressed
great regret at the sad death of
/ so many of the party. a. telegram
was telegraphed to secretary
| Chandler at West Point and to Secre-
tary Lincoln at New York, to the
families of Lieut. Greedy, Lieut.. Com
mander Schley, Lieut.. Emory, were
also informed of the rescue.
/ Rear Admiral Nichols to-day tele-
| graphed Commander Schley at ST.
/ Johns as follows: Use your discre
ton about the care and transportation
of the bodies Report by wire when
ready to sail for New York Depart
ment sends most hearty congratula-
/ tions to yourself and men.
GREELEYs REPORT.
Gen. Hazen, chief signal officer, re
ceived the following telegram
ST JsHNs n, f., July 17.-For fine first time in
1 three centuries England Yields the honor for the
farthest north. Lieut.. Lockwood and Sergeant
Brainard, May 18TH reaching Lockwood Island in
latitude So min, "A seconds, longitude "A min, 8
sec. They frop a 1000 feet elevation no
/ land to the nerth or northwest but to the north
! east Greenland yet extended till lost 10 view IN
/ cape Robert Lincoln IN latitude s. min, 80 sec,
/ longitude IS min. Lieut. Lockwood was turned
back in 1888 by open water on the north Of the
Greenland shore, barely escaping drifts out OF the
| Polar ocean DR. Pavy in 1852 following the
| Markham route adritt one day in the Polar
! ocean, north of cape Joseph Henry and escaped
! to ne land abandoniny nearly everything. IN
! 1852 ! made the sprlug and later summer trip
into the interior of Griuaell land discovering
/ hail some 80 by 10 miles in extent which was
| fed by ice Cape OF North Grinnell land drains
Ituggles river and Weyprecht Fiera into Cony-
| bears bay and Archer Fiord. From the summls
/ of Mount Arthur 5000 feet the contour or lana
( west OF the Conger mountain conyiHeed me that
/ Grnnell land tends directly south from Lieut.:
! Aldrch's farthest exploration in 1876. In 1883
| Lockwood and Sergeant BrSinerd SUCCEEDED IN
/ crossing Grinnell land and 80 miles from Beautoux
! bay at the head Of Archers tiord struck the
I head OF a ford from the western sea,
4 temporarily named by Lockwood Greeley flord
( from the center Of ford in lat S0H JOS, long
| ism sss, Lieut.. Lockwood saw the northern shere
| termination some twenty miles west, and south
! ern shore extending some fifty miles WITH tape
| Lockwood some seventy miles distant an appar-
| emily separate land from Grlnneu lana. nave
| named the new land Arthur land Lieut.. Lock
/ wood followed, going and returning on the ICE
/ rha cape averaging about $50 feet perpendicular
face Ii follows that Grnneu land interior IS zee,
| capped with belt of country seme sixty miles
wide between the northern and southern ice
| canes In March, 1884, Sergeant Long, While
/ hunting looked from the northern side OF Mount
Carey 10 Hayes Sound, seeing on the northern
coast three Capes westward OF the farthest seen
( bv Mares in 1876 The sound extends some ~
miles further west than is shown by the English
! Chart but is possibly shut in by land which
! showed up across West England. The Two years
station duties observations, all explorations ana
the retreat 10 Cape Sabine were aecompi.sSh ne
without loss Of life, disease or serious accident
or even severe frost bites. No sclrvy was expert
cnced at Couger, and but one death from 1t &C.
CURED last winter.
Commanding.
A second dispatch for Lieutenant
Greeley is as follows:
ST. JOINS July Il.