Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-07-24
Greedy Relief Expedition Found.

telegram was received at the Navy Depar
ment this morning:
ST. JOHN, n F., July II, 1884.
Hon, Wm. Chandler, Secretary Of the Narl
Washington
The Thetis, Bear and Lockgarry arrive
here to-day from West Greenland. Al
well. Separated from Albert $50 mile
north during gale at 8 p. m. June 22d
five miles off Cape Sabine, in Smith
Sound The Thttis and Bear rescued aliv
Lieutenant A. w. Greely, Sergeant Brain
ard, Sergeant Fredericks, Sergeant Long
Hospital Steward Briderback, Private Con
nell, and Sergeant Ellison, the only sur
vivors OF the Lady Franklin Bay expedi
ton. Sergeant Ellison had lost both hand
and feet by frost bite, and died July 6tl
at God Haven three days after amputation
which had become imperative. Seventeen
of the twenty-five persons composing tn,
expedition perished by starvation at tn,
point where found. One was drowned
while sealing to procure food. lively,
bodies of the dead were rescued, and ar,
now on board the Thetis and Bear.
One Eskimo Turrenik was buried al
Disco in accordance with the desire of the
Inspector of Western Greenland The five
bodies buried in the ice near the camI
were swept away to sea by wind and cur
rents before my arrival and could not be
recovered. Their dates of death are as fol
lows: Sergeant Cross, January 1, 1884
Wederick Eskimo, April s. Sergeant Linn
April 6; Lieut.. Lockwood, April 9; Sergt
Jewel, ,April13 Private Ellis, May 19; Sergt
Ralston, May 23d Priv't Henry, June 6
Private Bender, June 4; Assistant Surgeon
Pavy, June 6; Sergeant Gardner, June IL
Drowned by breaking through newly
formed ice while sealing, Jens Edwards,
(Eskimo), April "a. l would urgently sug-
gest that the bodies now on board be placed
in metallic cases for safer and better trans
portation in a seaway. This seems to me
imperative. Greedy abandoned Fort Con-
ger August 9th. 1883 and reached Baird
inlet September 20, following, with the
entire party. He abandoned all his boats
and was adrift thirty days on ice foe in
Smiths Sound. His permanent camp was
where he was found during nine months.
His party had to live upon scant allow
ance of food, brought from Fort Conger,
that was caught at Payer Harbor and Cape
Isabella by Sir George Mares in 1875, but
found much damaged by the lapse of time.
Of that caught by Beebe at Cape Sabine in
1882 small amount was saved from the
wreck of the Proteus in 1884 and landed
by L. P. Darlington and Colwell on the
beach near where Greely's party was
found. When these provisions were con-
sumed the party was forced to live upon
boiled sealskin, stripped from their sealskin
clothing, and lichens and shrimps, caught
in good weather, when they were strong
enough to make the exeItions, as 1t took
l 300 shrimps to fill gallon mpasurn
The labor was too exhaustive TO depend
upon them to sustain life entirely The
channel between Cape Sabine and Little
ton Island did not close on account of
violent gales all winter, so that the 240
rations at the latter point could not be
reached. All of Greely's records and all
the instruments brought by him from Fort
Conger have been recovered and are on
board. From Hare Island to Smiths
Sound l had constant and furious strug-
gle with the ice. Solid barracks were
overcome by watchfulness and patience.
No opportunity to advance mile escaped
me, and for several hundred miles the
ships were forced to run their way from
cad to lead through ice varying in thick
ness from three to six feet. The Thetis
md Bear reached Cape York June 18th,
after passing twenty-one days in Melville
Bay.
Lieut.. Emery with the Bear has sup
ported me throughout with great skilfull-
less and unflinching readiness in accomp
ishing the great duty of relieving the
freely party.
The Greely party are very much i'm
proved since their rescue, but they were
,ritical in the extreme when found and for
several days after. Sixty-eight hours de-
ay in reaching them would have been IA
al to all now living.
The season north is late and the closest
or years. Smith Sound was not open when
left Cape Sabine. The winter about
Melville bay was the most severe for twen-
y years.
w. S. SCHLEY, Commander.
FROM LIEUT.. GREELY's REPORT.
WASHINGTON, July 17.-Gen. Hazen,
hief signal officer, has received the fol-
owing telegram:
ST. JOHNS, N. F., July H.
For the first time in three centuries Eng
and Yields the honor of the furthest north
vest voyage. Lieut. Lockwood and Segt.
3rainard on May 18th reached Lockwood
sland in lat. S3 deg. "a min, long. A, 5S
They saw from 2, 200 feet elevation no land
lorth or northwest, but to the northeast
Greenland vet extended, and finally lost to
'iew in Cape Robert Lincoln, lat. SO,
nin., 35 Sec Lieut. Lockwood was turned
,ack in 1883 by open water on the
North Greenland shore, after many trials,
be party escaping to drift into the Polar
cean. DR.. Pavey'in 1882. In the follow
ng Markham route was adrift one day in
be Polar ocean north OF Cape Joseph
Ienry and escaped to land, abandoning
early everything. In 1852 l made a
pring. and later, summer trips into the
1terior of Grinnell land, discovering Lake
Iazen, about 60 by 100 miles IN extent,
yhich is fed by Ice Cape of north Grlnnell
md, drains Ruggles river and Weyprecht
ord into ConnYbeare bay and Anchor
ord. From the summit of Mount Arthur
!. 900 feet) the contour of the land west OF
ne Conger mountains convinced me that
Irinnell land trends directly south from
lieutenant Aldrich's far chest in 1876. In
SS3 Lieutenant Lockwood and Sergeant
rainerd succeeded in crossing Grlnnell |
md, and nj ETY. miles from Bear Aleaux
ay, at the head of Anchor ford, struck |
ne head of ford from the western sea |
named by Lockwood Greely |
ord. From The center of the flord |
lat. so min. 80 Sec, long. 7S min. 30
&C. Lieut. Lockwood saw that the north
IN shore terminated some twenty miles
est and the southern shore extended
,me fifty miles, with Cape Lockwood
bout seventy miles distant 1t was ap-
arently the same land they saw from
rinneil Land. They have named the new
nd Arthur Lient. Lockwood followed
-, ,o,,,o 4 ~o+,,r,o1 fo Taa panp which