The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-07-25
RESCUED AT LAST.

Tho Remainder OF the Greedy Party Res
sceed-On,y Eight out of Twenty-Five
Found A,ive-Stories OF Privation and
Suffering.
WASHINGTON, July 17.-The Acting
Secretary of the Navy has Just received a
telegram, from St Johns stating that the
Greedy Relief Expedition has found the sur
yivors of Greely's party, eight men in all.
The survivors of the Greedy party num-
bered seven men instead of eight as previous
~ reported. Their names are Lieutenant
A. w. Greedy, Sergeant David F. Brainard,
Sergeant Julius Fredericks, Sergeant Francis
Long, Sergeant William A. Ellison. Hos
pital Steward Henry Bierderbeck, Private
Morris Connell. They were found by the
relief ships Thetis and Bear five miles off
Cape Sabine, in Smiths Sound. Sergeant
Ellis was very badly frost bitten and
died at Goodhaven July 8, after undergoing
surgical operation. Relief ships Thetis
and Bear with the survivors are now at St
Johns, n. +.
.r.+.. DETAILS. To-.
The following telegram was received at
the Navy Department this morning.
ST. JOHNS, n. F., ga. INTO Hon. VIM.
z. Chandler. Secretary of the Navy, Wash
ingtOn: The ''Thetis, Bear" and ''LOck
Garry" arrived here to-day from West
Greenland with all well. She separated
FROM the "Alert' one hundred and fifty
miles north during gale.
At 9p m, June %, five miles off Cape
Sabine in Smiths Sound, the Thetis and
Bear rescued alive Lieutenant A. w. Gree
ly, Sergeant Brainard, Sergeant Freder-
icks, Sergeant Long. Hospital Steward
Beiderback, Private Cornell and Sergeant
Ellis, the only survivors of the Lady Frank
lin Bay expedition. Sergeant Ellis had lost
both hands and feet by frost bite and died
July 6 at GoOdhaven. three days after an
amputation which had become imperative.
Seventeen of the twenty-five persons
composing the expedition, persisted by star
walton at the point where the remainder of
the crew were found. One was drowned
while sealing to procure food. Twelve
bodies of the dead were rescued and are now
OIL board the Thetis and Bear One Esquimo,
Turvevik, was buried at Disco. i'm accord
ance with the desire of the inspector of
Western Greenland.
During nine months his party had to live
upon a scant allowance of food brought
from Port COnger that was cached at Payer
HarbOr and Cape Isabella by Sir George
Mares in 1875. Part was found much dam
aged by the lapse of time, and that cached
by Beebe at Cape Sabine i'm 1882, and a
small amount saved from the wreck of the
Proteuse in 1888, landed by Lieutenants
Darlington and COlwell, and the beach near
where Greely'S party was found.
When these provisions were consumed the
party was forced to live upon boiled seal
skin stripped from their seal skin clothing
and lichens and shrimps caught in good
weather, when they were strong enough to
make the eXertiOn, as it took thirteen hun
dred shrimps to fill a gallon measure the
labor was too eXhausting to depend upon
ITEM to sustain life entirely.
The channel between Cape Sabine and
Littleton Island did not close on account of
violent gales all winter, so that two hundred
and forty ratiOns at the latter point could
not be reached. All Greely'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 and furious struggle with the ice
in impossible places. The solid barriers
were overcome by watchfulness and pa
thence. No opportunity to advance a mile
escaped me, and for several hundred
miles ships were forced to ram our way
from lead to lead through the ice, vary
ing in thickness from three to six feet
and when RATED much greater. The Thets
and Bear reached Cape York, June Is, after
a passage of twenty-one days in Melville
Bay, with two advance ships of the Dundee
whaling fleet, and continued to
Cape Sabine. Returning seven days
later we fell in with seven
others of this fleet off WOstenholme
island, and announced Greely's rescue to
them that they might not be DELAYED from
their fishing grounds nor be tempted into
the dangers of Smiths sound in view of the
reward of S25, offered by Congress.
Returning across Melville Bay we fell in
with Alert and Lock Garry" Off Devils
Thumb struggling through a heavy ice
Commander Coffin did admirably to get
along so far with transport so early in the
season before an opening had occurred.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE news of
the rescue of Lieutenant Greedy and several
of his party created much excitement in
this city. The telegram from Commander
Schlcy was received by Rear Admiral Mich
OILS, Acting Secretary Of the Navy, who
Immediately communicated its contents to
Lieutenant General Sheridan, Acting Sec
rotary of War. They proceeded to the
White House and showed the telegram to
the President, who has taken deep in
tereSt in the expedition and expressed
great cOucern at the sad death of so
many of the party. A copy of the telegram
was telegraphed to Secretary Chandler at
West Point, and to Secretary Lincoln at
New York. The families of Lieutenant
Greedy, Lieutenant Commander Schley and
Lieutenant Emory Were also informed of
their rescue. Rear Admiral Nichols to-day
autographed Commander Schley at St.
Johns, as follows: use your discretion
about the care and transportation of bodies.
Report by wire when to sail for New York.
The department send most hearty congrat-
ulations to yourself, officers and men,"
THE PARTY.
The Greedy expedition was composed of
the following persons: AdOlphus w,
Greedy, First Lieutenant Fifth Cavalry,
Acting Signal Officer and Assistant; mar
ried; wife's present residence, San Diego,
Cal. Frederick F. Kisslingbury, Second
Lieutenant Eleventh Infantry, Acting Sig
nal Officer; widower; two children.
James b. Lockwood, First Lieutenant
Twenty-third Infantay, Acting Signal
Officer, Washington, ID. c.; uEmar-
ried; is a son of General Lockwood
(retired) United States Army. DR.. Octave
PaTy, medical officer; married; wife's adj
dress Maryville. Nodaway County, Mo.
Edward Israel, Sergeant Signal Corps, Kala-
mazoo, Mich; unmarried; born at Kalama-
zoo, Mich. Winfield c. Jewell, Sergeant
Signal Corps; unmarried; born at Lisbon,
n. II. George NJ. Rick, Sergeant Signal
Corps, Washington, ID. c.; unmarried; born
at Sidney, Nova Scotia. Hampden
s Gardiner, Sergeant Signal Corps,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, unmarried,
born at Philadelphia. David c. Ralven, Ser
geant Signal Corps; unmarried; born at
bloomfield, Ohio. William ii. Dress, Ser