The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-07-26
GREEDY FOUND.

GREEDY FOUND.
Arrival OF the Greedy Relief Expedition ut |
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. sW #a4stH
WASHINGTON, D. c., July II.
The Navy Department has received a
telegram from st. John, N. F., to the eff |
feet that the Thetis succeeded in fading
the Greedy expedition, eight of whom |
were alive, including Lieutenant Greedy,
and seventeen dead.
The following is a copy of the tele-
gram received at the Navy Department:
"ST. JOINS, N. f., 0 A. NJ, july II,
1sS4.-Hon. w. Z. 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 100 miles north
during a gale at 9 p. m. June %, I've
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 Council and
Sergeant Ellison, the only survivors of
the Lady Franklin Bay expedition. Ser
geant Ellison had lost both hands and
feet by frestbite, and died July at God
Haven, three days after amputation,
which had become imperative.
THE Persisted.
"Seventeen of the twenty-five persons
composing the expedition perished by
starvation at the point where found. One
was drowned while seating to procure
food. Twelve bodies of the dead were
rescued, and are now on board the
Thetis and Bear. One Esquimaux,
Turnevik, was buried at Disco.
WASHED OUT TO SEA.
"Fiye bodies were buried in the ice at
point near the camp, but were swept
away to the sea by winds and currents
before my arrival and could not be recoY-
cred.
NAMES OF THE DEAD.
"The names of the dead recovered,
with the dates of death, are as follows:
Sergeant Cross, January |, 1884.
Turnevik (EsquimauX) April 5.
Sergeant Linn, April 8.
Lieutenant Lockwood, April 8.
Sergeant Jewell, April II.
Private Ellis, May 10.
Sergeant Raston, May %.
Private Whistler, May "a.
Sergeant Israel, May 81.
Lieutenant Kingsbury, June l..
Private Henry, June d.
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 ., 1884.
Corporal Salem, June 3.
Private Bender, June G.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Pavy June 6.
Sergeant Gardner, June u, drowned
by breaking through newly formed ice
while sealing.
Jeno Edwards (Esquimaux), April 4.
CARING FOR THE DEAD.
"I 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, 8, 1888, and reached
Baird Inlet ON September Goth following
with the entire party.
now THEY LIVED.
"He abandoned all his boats and was
adrilt thirty days on the ice foe in Smith
Sound. His permanent camp was estab-
where he was found. During nine months
the party lived upon a scant allowance of
food brought from Fort Conger. That
cached at Payer Harbor and Cape Isa-
bella by 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 a small amount saved
from the wreck of the Proteus in 1888,
and landed by Lieutenants Darlington
and Coweii OH the beach where Greedy s
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 ], 800
shrimps were required to make gallon
measure, the labor was too eXhausting TO
depend upon them to ustain life entirely
The channel between Cape Sabine and
Littleton Island did not close on account
of violent gales all winter, so that 24O ra-
tions at the latter point could not be
reached.
PERILOUS VOYAGE.
"All of Greeley's records and all the
instruments brought by him from Fort
Conger are recovered and are on board
From Hare Island to Smiths Sound
had a constant furious struggle with ice.
Impossible foes and solid barriers of ice
were only overcome by watchfulness and
patience. No opportunity to advance 8
mile escaped me, and for several hundred
miles the ships were forced to ram theiI
way from lead to lead through ice vary
ing in thickness from three to six feet
and when riiteQ much greater.