Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-07-17
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCHEs.
GREELY'S PARTY FOUND.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE Acting Sec
rotary of the Navy has just received tele-
gram from st. Johns stating that the Greedy
Relief Expedition has found the survivors
of Lieut.. Greely's party-eight men in all.
LATER.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE survivors OF
the Greedy party number seven instead of
eight as previously reported.
The following telegram was received this
morning from Commander Schley:
ST. JOINS, n. F., 8 a. m. July II, 1854.
Hon. ". +. Chandler, Secretary Of The Nary,
Washington, ID. c.:
Thetis, Bear, and Lock Garry arrived here
to-day from West Greenland, all we'll; sepa-
rated from Alert one hundred and fifty
miles north during gale. At 9p. M, June
22d five miles off Cape Sabine in Smiths
Sound, Thetis and Bear rescued alive Lieut..
A. w. Greedy, Sergeant Brainard, Sergeant
Fredericks Sergeant Long, Hospital Stew
ard Beiderback, Private Cornell, and Ser
geanl Ellison the only survivors fthe Lady
Franklin Bay Expedition. Sergeant Ellison
had lost both hands and feet by frost bite
and died July 9th ut Godhaven three days
after amputation which had become impera-
tive Seventeen of the twenty-five persons
composing this expedition persisted by star
walton 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, Turnevik was buried at Disco in ac-
cordance with desire of the Inspector of
Western Greenland. Five bodies buried in
the ice fort near the camp were swept to
sea by winds and currents before my arrival
and could not be recovered.
Greedy abandoned Fort Conger August
9th, 1883, and reached Baird Inlet Septem-
Der 10Th following, with entire party well.
Abandoned all his boats and was adlift for
thirty days on ice foe in Smiths Sound.
His permanent camp was established Octo-
her 2lst, 1888, at the point where he was
found. During nine months his party had
to live upon a scant allowance of food
brought from Fort Conger, that cached at
Payer harbor and Cape Isabella by. Sir
George Mares in 1875. but found much
damaged by lapse of time, that cached by
Beebe at Cape Sabine in 1882, and small
amount saved from the wreck of the Pro
teus, in 1888, and landed by Leutenants
Darlington and Colwell on the beach where
Greedy s party was found camped. When
these provisions were consumed the party
was forced to live upon boiled sealskin
strips from their sealskin clothing, and
Iichens and shrimps, preserved in good
weather, when the party were strong enough
to make exertion. As 1900 shrimps were
required to fll gallon measure the labor
was too exhausting to depend upon them to
sustain life entirely. All Greely's records
and all instruments brought by him from
Fort Conger are recovered and are on board.
The Thetis and Bear reached Cape York June
18th after passage of 81 days in Melville Bay,
with the two advance ships of the Dundee whal.
ing fleet aud continued to Cape Sabine
Returning across Melville Bay they fell in with
the Alert and Lock Garry of Devils Thumb, strug
Cling through heavy ice. Commander Coffin did
admirably TO get along SO far with the transport
so early in the season before opening had &C.
Cured. The Greedy party are very much inn
proved since their rescue. but were critical in
the extreme when found and for several days after.
Forty eight hours delay in reaching them would
have been fatal to all now living. The season
north is late and the closest for years Smiths
Sound was not open when left Cape Sabine. The
winter about Melville Bay was tho most severe for
twenty years.
tSigned.l W. s. ScHLEY, Commander.