Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-07-18
FINDING OF GREELY.
STORY OF rar RESCUE
Only six Survivors OF y Party OF Twenty
aye-rnc scientific Rcsuits Achieved
Tho Relief expedition.

GTeCly and several OF his party has created
much excitement in Washington.
The telegram from Commander Schley
was received by Rear Admiral Nichols,
acting secretary of the navy, who imme-
diately communicated it's contents to
Lieutenant General sheridan, acting SEQ.
retsry Of war. They proceeded to the
White House aud showed the telegram to
the president, who has taken decp inter
est in the expedition and expressed great
concern at the sad death of 80 many Of the
party. a copy OF the telegram was telo-
graped to Secretary Chandler, at West
Point, and to Secretary Lincoln, at Now
York.
The families OF Lieutenant Greedy, Lieu
tenant Commander Schley and Lieutenant
Emory were also informed of the rescue.
Rear Admiral Nichols telegrsphed to
Commander Schley, ut St. Johns. as fol.
lows " II SO your discretion about care
and transportation Of bodies. Report by
wire when ready to sail for New York.
Depsrt ment sends most hearty congratu
latiOnS 10 yourself, officers and men,
Lieutenant ereely's Report.
General Hazen has received the follow.
ing telegram from Lieutenant Greedy:
ST. JOuN's, n. F., July li.-Chief Sig
nal Officer, Washington Braiuard, Bier.
derbick, Conncll, Fredericks, Long and
myself, sole survivors, arrived to-day,
having been rescued at point of death
from starvation by relief ships rhetis and
Dear, June %, at Camp Clay, northwest
oG Cape Sabine. All nov IN good health,
but weak. Sergeant Ellison, rescued,
died JuIy s; Cross died last January
Christensen. Linp, Rice, Lockwood,
lowell and Edwards in April Ellis. Rails.
ton, Wisler and Israel In May kiSling.
burg, SAILOR Henry, Bender, Pauy, Gard.
ner and Schneider IN June. Abandoned
Fort Couger, August Q, Fiozen 10 pack
of Victoria Head, August 30 Abandoned
steam launch September IL, eleven miles
northeast Of Cooked Hat Island. When
on point Of laudipg were three times
driven by southwest storms into kane's
sea. Finally landed, September 20, in
| Baird inlet. Learning by scouting parties
| of Proteus disaster, and that no provisions
had been left for US from Cape Isabella
| to Sabine, moved and established
winter quarters at Camp Clay, halt way
between Sabine and Cooked Hat. luven.
tory showed that, by daily ration four and
| one third ounces meat seven bread and
dog biscuits, four ounces miscellaneous,
party would have ten days full rations left
| for crossing Smith Sound to L..leton
1
Sound remained open the entire winter,
rendering egossiug improbable. Game
failed, despite daily hunting from early
February. Before sun returned only jOC
pounds of meat obtained. This year
minute shrimps, seaweed, sassafTas, rock
lichens aud sealskiu were resOrted to fOl
food, with results as shown by number o
survivors. Last regular food issued MAY
IA Only $50 pounds Of meat left by Gar
liugtOn compelled me to send in NOvembe
four men to obtain IA pounds Englis!
meat at Isabella. During trip Els)i
froze solid both hands and feet
and lost them all, surviving, however
throughout the terrible winter and sprinl
until JulyS s. Survivors owe their lives L
indomitable energy of Captain SUhley ant
Lieutenant Emory, who, preceded by thre
. and accompanied by five whalers, force
their vessels from Cperuavick throug
, Melville Bay into North Water at Cap
/. York with the foremost whaler. The
gained yard whenever possible, and al
ways held it. Smiths Sound was crossed
and party rescued during one of the mos
violent gales have ever known. Boat
handled only at imminent risk of swamp
i:g. Four of US then unable to walk, anC
could not have survived exceeding twenty
four hours. Every care and attention
gwen US Saved and bring back copies
meteorological, tidal, astronomical, magnetic
pendulum aud other observations alsC
pendulum, Yale and standard thermome
ters. Fory. eight Photographic negatives
collection OF blanks and Photographic
proofs. Eskimo relics and other things
necessarily abandoned. Thelis remains
here five days probably.
GREELY, Commanding.
GreeIys Great success
General Hazen also received the follow.
lGg telegram from Lieutenant A. w
| Greedy, of same date as above
For the first time iu three centuries
England yields the hoHor Of tho farthes
Notth. Lieutenant Lockwood and Ser.
geant Brainetd on May l3 reached Lock
wood lsland-latitude S3 "a, longitude
A 3 They saw from :, 200 feet elevation
no laud north or northwest, but to north
east Greenland, Cape Robert Lincoln
latitude 50 35, longitude SO. Lieutenant
Lockwood was turned back IN 1889 by
open water on North Greenland shore
party barely escaping drift into pOlal
ocean. DR.. Parry, IN 1852, following
Markham's route, was adrit one day il
polar ocean north of Cape Joseph Henry
and escaped to land, abandoning nearly
every ything. In 1882 / made a spring anC
later 4 summer trip into the interior o
Griunell land, discovering Lako Hazen
some sixty by ten miles IN extent, which
fed by ioe crops of North G.lnneil land
drains Ruggles river and WeypTech
Ford in ConybeaIe bay and Archer
FlOrd. From the summit Of Noun
Arthur, 5000 feet, tho contour CT IanC
west Of the COnger mountains convinced
mo that Grinnell Land touds directly
south from Lieutenant AldrlGhs farthes
! IL 1876. ln 1888 Lieutenant LOckw
and Sergeant Brainerd succeeded in cross
ing Grinnell Land, and ninety miles from
Beatrix Bay, the head Of Archer's Fiord
struck tho head of a ford from the West
ern sea, temporarily named by Lockwood
e Greedy Fiord From the centre OF thu
: ford, in latitude 5000, longitude 7s 80
Lieutenant Lockwood saw the northern
shore termination, some twenty mile
west, the southern shore extending SOM
q hty miles, with Cape Lockwood som
; seventy miles distant, apparently a sepa
5 rate land from Grinnell Land. Lieutenau
l Lockwood followed, going and returning
on an ice cap, averaging about l5O fee
per perpendicular face. It follows tha
the Grinnell Land interior is ice capped
with belt OF country somo sixty mile
. wide between the northern and southern
Joe capes.
In March, 1884, Sergeant Long, whi
hunting, looked from the northwest sid,
| of Mount Carey to Hayes sound, seeinl
on the northern coast three capes west
ward of tho Iurthest Eaen nv Narpa 1,