Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-07-24
GREEL.Ev,
Commanding.
The following dispatches we're sent
10 ieut Greedy TODAY:

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those who without fapll of yours, are dead.
Your family are well and in San Diego.
Signed W. b, HAzER.
To Lieut. Greeley, St John
Your dispatches are most satisfactory and show
your expedition TO have been in tho highest de-
gree successful in every particular. This fact Is
'''' al 60 60 y '''' o'7'''''' ". B. HAzrn.
WEST POINT, n. T., July 1.-THE
following dispatca was forwarded by
Secretary Chandler:
Commander ". s. Schley, S. Johns n. r:
Receive my hearty congratulations and thanks
for yourself and your whole command for Your
ing our dad and dying countrJmen. The
hearts Of the American people go ont
with great affection TO Lieut. Greeley and the
few survivors Of this deadly peril. % FOR them
unremittingly, and bid them be cheerful and hope
full on account Of what life yet has in store for
them. Preserve tcnderly the remains OK tse he-
role dead Prepare them according to your
Judgment and bring them home.
W. K. CHNsDLKR,
Secy Of Navy
WASHINGTON, July 17.-Mr. George
KEENAN,, of this city, the well known
Arctic traveller and author, who has
taken am active interest in the recent
attemps to relieve Lieut. Greeley's
party, and who went before the Arctic
relief board last spring to urge the of
fering of such rewards as would Sc
cure the cooperation of whalers in
the search, was asked tonight by an
associated press reporter what he
thought of the news just re-
ceiyed from ST. Johns. He
replied it is a story of remarkable
and her ole achievement in the field,
followed by disasters due tosincompe-
tence in Washington. If Greeley and
his party had all returned in safety to
the United States as they might have
done had they been properly support
ed, their Arctic record in the point
Of skilfull management and their
success would have been unparalleled
No other Arctic expedition has ever
spent two consecutive winters and q
part of the third in such high lati-
tudes and achieved such results with
out a casualty or a single case Of Sc
rious sickness. If Lieut.. Greeley had
found at the mouth of Smiths
Sound the shelter and food
which he had right to
expect there, he would probably have
brought his entire party back to the
the United States in perfect health
after three winters spentin the highest
northern ATTITUDES which has ever been
reached and after a series of shedding
campaigns which for boldness and
skillful execution have rarely if ever
been surpassed.
PoUGHKIEPsIE, KY, July 17.-Sec.
rotary Chandler was found at Edward
Kinsleys residence, at West Point
this evening reading dispatches from
acting secretary at Washington re-
lating to the Greeley rescue the same
as it appeared in the early evening
edition He said he desir ed not to
be interviewed in detail. In
reply to questions he said
have nothing additional to
communicate to the press. The news
is sad, and yet it is fortunate that
some OF the party has been rescued.
1t seems they did not begin to die of
starvation until April, as the report
sAows they went from January list to
April without any deaths. | had
some expectation of hearing from
them as soon as this. l think the
ships have done remarkably
well to get out so soon. 1t
is a pity that Lieut.. Darlington
! did not remain at Littleton Island
after the Proteus was lost, in accord
ance with instructions, for he would
have been rejoined by the Yantic
with provisions and supplies, and
would have rescued Greeley and his
party entire at Cape Sabine.
ST JOINS, N. f., July 7-On ar
rival at the anchorage of the relief
squadron to-day, the associated press
correspondent interviewed Lieut..
Greeley and other survivors of the
Arctic colony. The following facts
were disclosed: After passing two
waters at Fort Conger, ia scientific
research. Lieut.. Greeley, with his
whole party intact, broke up their en-
campment and commenced a south
ward descent. This was accom-
plished amid great perils from
gales of wind, ice nips and
other casualties. Cape Sabine
having been reached, a temporary
home was erected. built of stones and
covered by tha boats sails, which
were brought along by the party.
On the 29th of September winter
quarters we're established at Cape Sa-
bine. The commissariat had become
very meagre and a cache Of proyis
ions left BY the Proteus last year, but
poorly supplemented it. the steam
launch had become fast in the
ice q few weeks previous and had o be
abandoned during the winter TnC
first havoc ia the ranks was early IN
Jan, when one of the men dropped oil
with the scurvv On April 9tH Lieut.
Lockwood and Blr. Rice photograph
+ en-, succumbed after a heroic attempt
to secure for their starving comrades
abo3, geo pounds of meat supposed to
he caahed at q place named Bad Greek
distant about Is miles from the en-
campmert Israel Astron persisted
Mas III Liegt Klslen died June lst
and Dr. Pavev, a naturalist slept ia
death June 9th. Not one Of the vic