The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-07-18
FROZEN. E!:!N!l |. OUT. ]
Tho Greedy Arctic Expedition
Heard From at Last,
That ia, What isLett OF the Heroes
Of the Party.
Three Years Among the Ice Noun
rl& tains Of the Pole, 5tas.@
Braving the Intense Rjgors Of tho
Frigtd Zone, X NJ NJ
Three.fOurths Of the Noble Band
Succumb to Hunger,
And Die When the Warm Hand OF
Help is About to Stretch Forth.
That Grim Unattainable Icicle, the
Undiscovered North Pole, i
3sl3lV- ~ --- n aIE. l!f-ts j
Sits on an Impreguable Throne
.a Defying all =
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Who Attempt to Enter Upon the
Sits on an Impregnable Throne
..a Defying all 3S
Who Attempt to Enter Upon the
Frosty Domains Of Uncertainty,

Frosty Domains Of Uncertainty.
And Nothing but Unfeeling Ice
bergs Mark the Graves \ y y
OfThose Who Suffered in the Cause
Of Calculating Science.
WASHINGTON, D. G., July l7.-A dit
patch hes Just been received at the Navy
Department confirming the report thai
eight Of Lieutenant Greely's party have
been found alive, and stating that Lieu.
tenant Greedy is the only officer found
Tae party we're found by Lieut.. Emory, Of
the Bear, and sre now at st.. Johns.
ST. JcnSs. N. F., July l7.-According ia
the latest information seventeen Of Greely'e
party were dead and eight alive, Lieuten.
ant Greely being among the latter.
MEN COMPOSING THE aRERLY pARrY.
The G,eely expedition W.T. sent out 10
establish an advance post Of Arctic obser.
Walton, one Of chain determined upon q,
the Congress held in Vienna in 1878. The
expectation was that Signal Service sta.
ton could be maintained ior several years
at Lady franklin Bay, point to be found
upon all good atleses. The following cf1l.
GERS and men, mostly belonging to the
United States cavalry and Infantry, were
to be the corps Of observation: First Lieu,
tenant, A. W. Greely, Fifth Cavalry, Act.
ing Signal Officer and Assistant; Sec.
ond Lieutenant, frederick F. Kis-
lingbury, Eleventh Infantry, Acting sip.
nal Officer; Second Lieutenant, James 3.
lockwood. Twenty.thhd Infantry, Acting
Signal Officer; Sergeant Edward Israel,
Signal Corps, United States Army, Ser.
Qeant Winfield s. Jewell, Signal Corps,
United States Army; Sergeant Geo,pa w.
Rice, Signal Corps, United States Army;
Sergeant David G. Ralston, Signal Corps,
United States Army; Sergeant Hsmpden S.
Gardiner, Signal Corps. United States
Army; Sergeant VIM. H. Croes, General
Service, United States Army; Sergeant
David L. Brainard, Company L, Second
Cavalry; Sergeant David Linn, Company
G. Second Cavalry, and twelve privatee.
Greely and bis party believed that q. S.
vessel would visit his STATEN eyery summer
to see that all, YVES well, to rsplendish the
supplies, take home the sick, etc. 81
~ THE DlecoyEgY. .,g
The following is copy CT the telegram
relative to the discovery of the Greely
party received at The Navy Department:
ST. JOHNS, N. F., 0,A. NJ, July II, 1884.
Hon. ", E. Chandler, Secretary Of The Nary
Washington: n.
Thetis, Bear and Lock Garry arrived
here from West Greenland. All we'll. Sep.
arated from Alert one hundred and fifty
miles north during gale. At 8 r. n,
June 22d, five miles of Cape Sabine, in
Smiths Sound, ThetiH and Bear rescued,
alive, Lieut.. A. w. Greely, Sergeant Brain.
ard, Sergeant Fredericks, Sergeant LonH,
Hospitsl Steward Bsiderback, Private Con.
nell and Sergeant Ellison, the only euryi.
vors Of the Lady franklin Bay Expedition.
Sergeant Ellison had lost both hands
and feet by ircst bite and died July
G.h at GodhRven, tbree days after anpu.
! tssion; which had become imperative.
Seventeen Of the twenty. FIVE persons com.
posing this expedition Sperished by atarva.
tion Ut the point where found. One was
drowned while ssslirg to procure food.
Twelve bodies .ot the dead were reecued,
and are now on board the Thetis and Bear.
One Eskimo, Turnevik. was buried at
Disco In accordance with the desire Of the
Inspector Of Greenland. Five bodies
buried in the Ice fort, near the camp, were
swept away 10 sea by winds and currents
before my arrival aud could not be recov.
cred. The uameJ Of the dead recovered,
with dates Of death are as follows: Ser.
gent Crot1, January l, 1884; Wedrick, F..
kimo, April 5,b; Sergeant Linn, April Oh;
Lieut.. Lockwood, April 8!b, Sergeant
Jewell, April Il2th;, Private Ellis,
May 10 b; Ss,gsant Ralstou, May 23d
Private Whistler. May 24.h; Sergeant
Israel, May 81; Lieut. Kislingburv, June !,
Private Henry, June Q; Private Schneider
June IS. The names Of the dead buried
in the ice fort, With date Of death where
bodies were not recovered, are as follows
Sergeant Rice. April Q, 1884; Corporal Sa
len, June 81; Private Bender, Juno 9; Act
Ing Assistant Surgeon Pavy, June 6; Sar
geant Gardner, June 10. Drowned !, BY
breaking through the newly formed icl
willie scaling, Jeno Edwards, Eskimo, Apri
f4,h.% I would urgeatty suggest tbRt bodiel
now on bosyd be placed In metallic Gagei
here for sa!sr nnd better transportation Ii
a seaway. This sppea,s to me imperative
Greedy abandoned Fort Oonger, August 8
1883, and reached Baird Inlet 6eptembe
29.h following, with the, entire party
well. He abandoned all his boats and wa
adriit for thirty days on an Ice tioe II
Smiths Sonrd. His permanent camp wa
established October 2lst, 1883, at the poin
where ho wes found; during nine month
his party had to live, upon . scant allow
, ance Of food brought from Fort Ooneer
! that was Coached" at Paper Hsrbor ant
Cape Iesbella by Sir George Mares in 1877
but was found to be much damaged b
lapse Of time. That "eached"" by Beebee q
Cape Sabine In 1882, and q email amour
saved from tho wreck Of the pro.eus i
1888, and landed by Lieutensuts CARING
ton and Cowell on the beach where Greedy
Q rsrty wag found camped." , ;:53.i. M ~
| lz,5. d now THEY LIVED. IS.
! When theae ,prcvlslons were consume
! the party was compelled TO live upon boile
! seal skin strips from their seal skin clothip,
q lichens snd shrimps preserved in 5tt zoo
n wpather whan thew vara atrorv eno,,,,1