The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-07-24

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The party left the ship Proteus at Lady
Franklin Bay and proceeded ~northward.
Nothing was heard of Greedy and his fol-
lowers for Some time, but finally reports
were received at the war and navy depart
ments that the party were in distress.
An expedition was Immediately sent for
! their relief, which was compelled to return
without accomplishing their purpose, or
even being able to obtain any reliable in
| formation in regard to the fate and where
abouts Of the missing party.
About May the relief expedition, con.
| sisting of the Thetis, the Bear and the
Alert, sailed for their rescue, and the fol-
! lowing is the first news received from
them:
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE Acting
Secretary of the Navy has just received a
telegram from st. Johns, N. F., stating
that the Greedy Relief Expedition has
found survivors of Greely's party, eight
men in all. The following is the telegram:
e. handle secretary 81 the Navy. WASHING:
ton: Thetis; Bear and Lock Garry arrived
s ssps sosedy from from T the Alert SFssn is6 miles ati north Seai
Care Sabine in Smiths Sound. and the Thesis
| Greedy, Sergeant Brainard, Sergeant Fred
| ericks, Sergeant Long, Hospital Steward
BR fi;sen aSs on priy saes, Sonn af ih an Tad SeF FTsnh.
lin Bay expedition. Sergeant Ellison had lost
both hands and feet by frost bite, and
amputafion. which had become imperative.
Seventeen of the twenty-five persons COM
Posing Pos : the re- e1 la,na MSe peri soSnd oy o Star Nss
drowned while. sealing to procure food.
Twelve bodies OF the dead were secured, and
are now on board the Thetis and Bear. One
EgOnimQnX. Tnrneylk. WAS buried at DISCO,
in accordance with the desire Of Inspector of
Mister Guzzland. Five bodies buried In the
ice fort, near camp, were swept away at sea
by; winds and currents before my ar
rfyal, and could not be rescued. The names
are as follows: Sergt. Cross, January l. 1884;
April g.. Lieut.: Lockwood. April 9; sergt,
fsxsas A Ray 81 8: f Prissse h1 WS;is asy N Nay ssrs =:
SeFgt Israel May "a: Lieus kinssbury, June
j JUDE peiy i. H The na s%ae ii f tns Snr scai in the
whose bodies were not discoy;;
8 sfS 1854; CORPORAL ars SAFER sess.a June 3; n Private Ben.
der, June g; Acting Assisting Surgeon Pavey,
SSn rdsrs 81 b Ser 5granrin Gs sSronsb June nee,y Il 0es
April 1. Would earnestly suggest that the
cases here for safe and better transportation.
This appears to me imperative: Greedy aban.
doned Fort Conger Aug: Q. 1883, and reached
odlLu IhhCt 0OPtCAubOA 80 Wv
He abandoned all his boats, and was adrift
His permanent camp was established October
q, 1888, at the point where he was found.
During nine months the party lived upon the
Conger, That catched at Payer Harbor and
| Cape isabella by Sir George Nadee in 1875 was
fomnd' d but ti it. PROVED at to c De %%Sn S SaR ResSee 9 ~
| Cape Sabine in 1882, and a small amount saved
| from the wreck of the Proteus in 1883 and
landed by L~ieutenants Darlington and Cowell
on the beach where Greely's party WAS found
camped. was also discovered and used.
party were forced to live upon boiled seal
| skins, strips from their sealskin clothing,
lichens and shrimps preserved in good
msasee ese maen tne Is T isoe s sSri%ps e1 Msre re 20
quired to make a gill measure, the labor was
too e IN sstir to q Tbe cSa nponI h saem 70 c aus,
| Sabine and Littleton island did not close on
account of violent gales all winters; go that
$40 rations at the latter point could not be
Ali Of Greeley,s records, and all instruments
brought by him from Fort Conger, are recov-
| cred, and are on board. From Hare Island to
! Smiths Sound l had a constant struggle with
ice, impossible, foes and solid barriers OF ice
| No opportunity to advance a mile escaped me.
and for several hundred miles the ships were
forced to ram their way from lead to lead
to six feet, and when RATED much greater.
The Thetis and Bear reached Cape York,
Bay. with two advance ships q. the Dundee
whaling feet, and continued to Cape Sabine.
Returning seven days later feliln with seven
announced Greeley's rescue to them, that they
might not be delayed from their fishing
| Smiths Sound, in view of the reward of $685.
| 900 offered by Congress.
.Retarning across Melville bay, ! fen in with
| Conn did admirably to get so far with trans
ing had occurred. Lieut.. Emory, with the
Bear has supported me with great skillfulness
and unfagging readiness in accomplishing the
| the great duty of relieving Greedy. / would
| ask instructions about. Lock Garry. as the
charter party held by her master differs in
| several respects from mine.
Tho Greedy party are much improved in
health since their rescue, but their condition
was criticahin the extreme when found. and
| in reaching them would have been fatal to all
| now living. This season north is late and
closest for years. Smiths Sound was not open
Melville bay was the most severe for twenty
years. This great result is entirely due to the
| self and Secretary of War in fitting this ex-
petition for the work it has had the honor to
accomplish. w. s. SCHLEy,
Commander.
FRoM LIEUTENANT GREELY
General Hazen, Chief of the Signal Office,
has received the following telegram:
ST. JOINS, N. f., July u.
For the first time in three centuries, Eng
| land yields the honor of the furthest explora-
ton Of the north. Lieutenant Lockwood and
wood Island, latitude 50 deg. "a min., longi-
tude A deg. 8 min. They saw from a two
thousand feet elevation no land north or
northwest, but to the northeast Greenland,
yet extended, lost to view on Cape Robert Lin.
colin in latitude 50 deg; w IS min, l1 naat I'd lag g
By open water on the North Greenland shore,
the party barely escaping drifting into
the Markham route, was adrift one day in the
| Polar Ocean, north of ape Joseph Henry,
and escaped to land, abandoning nearly every.
thing. In 1882 l made a spring and late sum-
mer trip into the interior of Grinnell Land,
discovering Lake Hazen, some sixty by ten
the cape of North GrinnellL Land. drains Rug
s Bsar n'T Bay anS Archer Ford. From nth the sum-
init OF Mt. Arthur, FIVE thousand feet, the
contour of the land west of Conger Noun
tain convinced me that Grinnell Land tends
a db E iS s ssasi from f1 is sseI I,enssnah Ald Eoekw fsrI
and Sergeant Brainard succeeded in crossing
GrinnelLLand, and ninety miles from Beautux
head Of q ford from the Western Sea, tenn
porarily named by Lockwood, Greedy Fiord.
5 s5 %ip .n longitude rs deg. 30 min., lieutenant
Lockwood saw the northern shore, some
twenty miles west, and the southern shore, ex.
some seventy miles distant. They were ap-
parently separate land from Grinnelfs Land.
Lieutenant Lockwood followed, going and re-
turning; on Tice Cape, averaging about $50
feet pcrpendicular face. 1t follows that Grim
nell Land, interior, is ice-capped with a belt
of country some sixty miles wide, between the
northern and southern ice capes.\
In March. 1894, Sergeant Long, while hunt
ing, looked from the northwest side of Mount
Carey to Hayes Sound, seeing on the north
ern coast three capes westward OF the fur
thest seen by Mares in 1876.
The sound extends some twenty miles fur
Their west than shown by the English chart,
but js possibly shut in by land which showed
up across the western end. The two years
station duties, observations, all explorations,
plished without loss of life, disease. serious
accident, or even severe frost-bites, No
one death occurred from it last winter.
GREEDY Commanding.