Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-28
THE POLAR REGIONS.
Extracts from the Log of the Loeb
Garry of the Greedy Relief
Expedition.
The Finding of the Greedy Survivors
Battling With the Ice,

New YORK, July 2'.-Ihc ioiiowlhg
details from the log of the steamship
"I.och Garry" of the Greedy relief
expedition were furnished by Ensign
| w. II. Chambers, who was In com
mand of the vessel during It's cruise
to the Polar regions:
On our first day out from st. Johns
II heavy fog set In and we encountered
large iceberg. Steering out OF The
way we lost sight Of the Thetis, and
could only resume our position by the
sound of her whistle.
May Is, when we were of Cape
Farewell, we met the first great
quantity of Ice and we Were obliged to
SO ahead slowly.
May % we sighted Sisco, but had
much difficulty In finding the harbor.
The island was covered with Ice and
snow and the. landmarks were invisi-
BILE. We left God Haven May 81 Mt .
u. M, and steered through the Ice
along the coast to point about ten
miles below Hare island. Here we
found the Ice 80 thick we were COM
PEELED TO lay TO. Lieut.. Schley sig.
nailed for me to 20 to God
Haven and walt for favorable
opportunity with an east wind TO pro-
coed to Upernavlck.
We left God Haven the second time
May ~ and encountered more Ice
through which we pushed our way
and found the Thetls lying to at Hare
island, having been unable to blast u
passage through the Ice. Next morn
ing the whalers Arctic and Wolf joined
III and we started ahead. The
and we experienced great di,i-
and several times narrowly
we were afraid to back very much for
the wheel WAS only Il four-bladed east
iron one, aud Ind we broken blade 1t
would have been all up with us. We
tluallv succeeded In going ahead aud
the Wolf followed In the opening We
made. The Thetis was now out of
sight and we set our course for Come
mack Fiord. Here we sighted the
iUetis ttu Illllts uieNu, we over
hauled the Thetis May the 2sth, and
Capt. Schley hailed us
aud said, 500 to upernavik,
calling at Propin. fyou meet the
Bear coal her with despatch
During the fog which came on we
got into a false lead, and while re-
turning To open water TO Try another,
met the Thetls and proceeded together
in the midst of y binding snow storm
which lasted all night, TO Upernavlk.
On. our arrival there, May 20, we
found the Hear and coaled her. The
vessel remained In the vicinity for
nearly week, when the
Thetis and Bear proceeded northward
while we waited for The Alert, which
arrived June Ia.
The governor Of Upernavik told |
us there was no hope of getting
through Melville bay, ~ the season |
was unusually close. We left with the
Alert June ~, aud reached Berry isl.
and June q. We went ahead, pushing
through the ice all the way and June
% reached Horsehead. Here the Alert
got nipped In the ice and In trying
TO get her out we lost 80 |
much time that the neck had
become ilnpenetrable. We lay
bemmed In the Ice or Duck island
I'LL June ~. We worked all night the
18th, blasting and saving Ice, aud
finally got way In the open water.
June S0.--We are Off Wilcox head
where We had more hard pushing to
get 10 open water beyond Devil
Thumb. While busy here We sighted
the Th.tls aud Bear coming toward
Us and knew at once from signaling
that the Greedy explorers had been
raced and that the survivors, II any,
were on board for Capt. Schley would
never come back without having ac.
his work. We returned
% open water and thick fog set In
md II was some time before / could
get on hoard the Thetis and learn the
news Of the rescue. We then pushed
outh with all haste possible aud ar
lived at Upernavik July ~. Capt.
'chley there dispatched the Alert and
och Garry Ia God Haven while the
Nhetis and Bear put into Upernavik,
he former to shin her broken rudder
nd the latter 20 get coal. At God ,
iaven the Alert's machinery was re- ,
aired and We buried there one OF the !
.squtmsux Of Lieut.. Greely's party.
eft God Haven with the Alert Ia tow. 1
OF the coast of New fpundlaud we
u gale and our steel bar I