The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-07-24
LIEUT.. GREELY LIVES;
1ightssn Members Of the 1xped1tios
Having Died Sacrifice 70 the
1Iolooh Of the North.

WASHINGTON, July H. The following tele-
gram was received At the navy department this
morning.
St. Johns, n. F.; July II; %. INTO the
Hon. William E. Chandler, secretary Of the
Navy, Washington, D: C.: The Thetis, Bear and
Lock Garry arrived here to-day from West
Greenland All well. Separated from the
Alert $50 miles north, during gale. Atop. M,
June p, five miles of Cape Sabine, in Smiths
4. W Greedy, Sergeant Brsinard Sergeant
Fredericks Sergeant Long, Hospital Steward
Beiderbeck, Private Cornell and Sergeant Eli
son, the only survivors of the Lady Franklin
bay expedition Sergeant Ellison had lost both
hand and feet by frost bite and died July 6 1t
had become imperative. Seventeen Of the
twenty-f five persons composing the expedition
perished by STARVATION at tho point where found
One was drowned while sealing to procure food
Twelve bodies Of the dead we're rescued, and
sre now on board the Thets and Bear. One
in accordance with the desire Of the inspector
Of Western Greenland The bodies of six, with
date of death, were received as follows:
Sergeant Cross, Jan. 1, 1884; Sergeant Linn,
April, 6; Lieut.. Lockwood, April, 9; Sergeant
Jewell, April -; Private Ellis, May 49,; Ser
AWAY to sea by winds and currants before my
arrival, and could not be recovered. They
were: Private Henry, June 6; Private Schnei-
der. June l8 The names of the dead buried
in the ice fort, with date of death, whose bod
S leg were not1ecoyered, are as follows: Sergeant
Assistant Surgeon Pavy, June 6; Sergeant
Gardiner, june H.; drowned by breaking
through the newly formed ice while sealing.
Jens Edwards, Eskimo, April a.
would urgently suggest that the bodies now
on board be placed in metallic cases here for
This appears to me imperative. Greedy aban,
doned Fort Conger Aug 8, 1883, and reached
party we'll He abandoned all his boats and
was adrift thirty days on an ice foe in Smiths
sound His permanent camp was established
During nine months his party had to live upon
scant allowance Of food, brought from Fort
Conger, that was cached at Payer Harbor and
Cape Isabella by Sir George Fares in 1875, but
found it to be much damaged by the lapse Of
time, and that cached by Beebe at Cape Sabine
wreck of the Proteus in 1883 and landed by
1ieuts. Darlington and Colwel on the beach
near where dreely's party was found When
their provisions were consumed the party was
forced to live Upon boiled sealskins stripped
from sealskin clothes, and lichens
1
they were strong enough to make exertiona
AS it took !, 300 shrimps to fill gallon meas
ure the labor was too exhausting to depend up
on them to sustain life entirely. The channel
between Cape Sabine and Littleton Island did
not close on account of violent gales all winter
so that the 24O rations at that point could not
be reached All of Greely's records and in
struments brought by him from Fort Conger
are recovered and are on board From Hare
Island to Smiths Sound had q constant and
furious struggle with ice in impossible foes.
Solid barriers were overcome by watchfulness
mile escaped me, and for several hundred miles
the ships were forced to ram their way from
lead to lead through ice varying in thickness
from three to six feet, and when RATED, much
thicker. The Bear reached Cape York June
days " IN MslvRs s''i Sss, with tT t%S ss
vance ships of the Dundee whal-
ing fleet, and continued to Cape Sabine. Re-
turning seven days later, we fell in with
seven others of this fleet OF Wostenholm is-
land, and announced Greely's rescue, that they
might not be =. delayed from their fishing
Smith sound in view of the reward Of $25, 900
offered by congress. Returning across Mel
vile bay we fell in with the Alert and Lockgar-
~, of DEVILS Thumb, struggling through
heavy ice. Commander Coffin did admirably
to get along. so far with transport so early in
Lieut. Emory, with the Bear, has supported
ma throughout with great skillfulness and un
tllnching readiness in accomplishing the great
duty of relieving Greedy. The Greedy party
are very much improved 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 oil now living. Tho soasou North 10 Lotto and
the coolest for years. Smiths sound was not
open when we left Cape Sabine. The winter
a how
twenty years. This great result is entirely due
to the unwearyiDg energy of yourself and the
secretary of war in fitting out this expedition
for the work it has had the honor to &C.
complish.
[Signed] ]. g. SCHLEY, Commander
LIEUT.. GREELY REPORTS.
General Hazen, chief signal officer, has re-
ceived the following telegram:
St. Johns, N F., July l7.-For the first time
in three centuries England yields the honor
of reaching the farthest north-Lieut Lock
ing Lockwood island, latitude 50 min. "A sec.
longitude a min. 5 sec. They saw, from
two thousand feet elevation, no land north
or northwest, but to the northeast Green
land yet extended, lost to view in Cape Rob-
ert Lincoln, latitude 81 min IS sec., and Ion
back in 1883 by open water on the north
into the Polar ocean br. Pavy, in 1852,
following the Markham route, was adrift
one day in the Polar ocean north of
Cape Joseph Henry, and escaped to land,
abandoning nearly everything. 1n1SS2 made,
in the spring and later in the summer, trips
into the interior of Grinnell land, discovering
Lake Hazen, some GO by 10 miles in extent,
which is fed by the ice cape of north Grinnell
Land, drains Ruggles river and Weyprecht ford
into Coneybeare bay and Archer ford From
the summit Of Mount Arthur, 5000 feet, the
contour of the land west Of the Conger noun
tains convinced one that Grinnel Land tends
directly south from Lieut. Aldrich's farthest
point reached in 1876 In 1883 Lieut. Lock
wood and Sergeant Brainard succeeded in
crossing Grinnen Land, and ninety miles from
Beauteaux bay, head Of Archer's ford, struck
tho head of ford from q western sea, tempo
rarily named by Lockwood, Greedy Fiord.
From the center of the ford, in latitude 50
min: 80 Sec, longitude 70 min. 80 sec, Lieut.
Lockwood saw che northern shore termination,
some twenty miles west, and the southern shore
extending some fifty miles, with Cape Lock
wood some seventy miles distant. apparently
separate land from Grinnell Land. We have
named the new land Arthur Land Lieut.
Lockwood following, going and returning on
the ice, found that the cape averaged about
one hundred and fifty feet perpendicular face
It follows that the Grinnell Land interior is ice
capped with a bolt of country some sixty
miles wide between the northern and
southern ice capes In March,