Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-07-24
RESCUED /!
Lieut.. Greedy and Seven Companions
Live 10 Tell the Story.
Reports OF the Expedition and Its
Results.

boring seven Instead OF eight as previously re-
ported. Their names are Lieut.. Greedy, sergt.
Brainard, Sergt. Fredtricks, Seret. Long,
rgt. L llsou, Hospital Steward Beiderback,
and private Connell. They were found by the
rclieI ships Thetis and Bear five miles OFF Cape
Sabine in Smiths Sound. Sergt. Edison was
very badly frost-bitten and died at Godbaven
July o, after undergoing a surgical operation.
The relief ships Thetis ard Bear with the sur
yivOrs are now at st Johns, N. F.,
The news conveyed iu the above dis
patch created great excitement
in Washington. For time 1t seemed almost
In possible that the relief xDedition had so soon
accomplished the mission on which 1t had been
sent, but all doubts were set at rest by the re-
ception OF the following detailed report made
by Commander s ghl-y.
ST. JOINS, N. f., July 7,9A NJ.
The Hon. VIM. +. Chandler, Secretary Of the
Navy, Washington, ID g.
The Tnetis, Bear and Lock-Garry arrived
here to-day from West Greenland. AL well.
Separated from the Alert $50 mics north dur
ing gale. At9P NJ June %, tive miles off
Cape Sabine, In Smith's Sound, the Thetis and
Bear rescued alive Lieut.. A. w. Greedy,
sergt. Brainard, Sergt Frederlcks, sergt.
Long, Hospital Steward Beiderback, Private
Conpel ana sergt. + lson, the only survivors Of
the Lady Franklin bay expedition. Srgt.
L lison bad lost both hands aud feet by frost
bite and died July at GodhaveD, three days
after amputatiOn which had become imperative.
DIED FROM STARVATION
Seventeen of the twenty-nine persons CON-
posing the expedition persisted by starvation
at he point where found. One was drowned
while sealing to procure food. Twelve bodies
OF the dead were rescued and are now on
board the Thetis and Bear. An Eskimo, Tur-
nevlk, was buried at Disco, in accordance
with the desire If the inspector Of Western
Greenland. FIVE bodies buried In the ice near
the camp were swept away TO sea by winds
and currents before my arrival and coult not
be recovered. The names OF the dead recoy-
cred, with the date Of death, are as follows:
Sergt. Cross. Jan. l, 1884; Wederlck, Eske-
mo, April 81 Sergt. Linn, April 6; Lieut.
private Ellis, May 49,; Sergt. Ralston, May 90 (;
private Henry, June o; private Schneider,
June IS. The names OF the dead buried In
the ice fCrt with the date OF death whose bod
les were not recovered are as follows: Sergt.
Rice, April 9, 1885,; Corporal Palep, June 3 !;
private Bender, June O.; Assistant Surgeon
Pavey, June O.; S.rgt Gardner, June ";
drowned by breaking through newly foi med
ice while sealing, Jens Edwards, Eskimo,
April "a. would earnestly sugg st That the
bodies now ON board be placed In metallic
cases here for safer and better transportation
In a sea way. Fhts appears 10 me imperative.
DETAILS OF GRsELY's MOVEMENTS.
Greely abandoned Ft.Copg ADJUST 8, 1851,
and reached Bard inlet Sept 30 following with
md was adrift thirty days on an ice Ace IN
Smith's sound. His permanent camp was es
lablished Oct. 81, 1888, at the puint where he
Vas found. Daring nine months his party
ad To live upon tctnt allowance OF fond
brought from n. Couger-that cached 1T
Payer harbar aud Cape Isah liza by Sir Geo
Mares in IS 3, but found much damaged by
the lapse Of time, and that cached by Reebr
A. Cap sabine IN 1882 a small amount saw
I'd from the wreck OF the ProteUs IN 1888 and
landed by Lieut~. Garliugton and Col~ell on
The beach near where Greely's party was
found. When these provisions were cOhsum-
ID the party was forced 10 1--we upon boiled
sealskin stripped from the sealskin clothing,
aud lchens aud shrimps procured In goou
We4ihsr when they we're strong enough 10
make exertlOns. AS IL took l 30 shrimps a.
dill gallon measure the labor was 100 eX-
naustiDg 10 depend upon them for susie
nance entirely. The channel between cape So
Dine and Littleton island did not close on &C
count OF violent gales ali winter, SO that 2iU
ratiors at the latter point could not lie reach
ed. AL Of Greely's re- lrds and all instru
ments brought by him from Fort Conger are
recovered and are on board.
DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE SEARCH.
FIR, IN Hare Island to Smiths Sound had a
constant aud furious struggle with ice ia i'm
pa ible foes. Solid barriers were overcOm
by watcbfulnsss and patience. No opp rtu-
uItv TO advance a mile escaped me, and for
several HUNDRED miles the ships were forced 70
make their way from Lead TO lead through ice
TarN Ing In TIA cKness from three TO six feet, and
when RATED much greater. The Tnetis and
Bear reached Cape York June Is after pas
sage Of twenty.one days In Melville Bay wi b
,wo advance ships OF the Dundee whaling feet
and continued TO Cape Sabine. Returning
seven days later fell inwith seven others OF this
feet of Wosienhoeme Island and Funouuceu
Greeh's rescue 10 them that they might not be
delayed from their fishing grounds nor be
tempted into the dangers Of 5mith's Sound In
vic W OF the reward Of SIS, 900 offered by Con-
gress. Returning across Melville Bay fell in
with the Alert and l. )ck-Garry, of De yils
Thumb, struggling through heavy fee. Com
mander Coffin din admirably To get along So far
with the transport SO carly in the season before
The opening had occurred.
Lieut.. Emory with the Bear had supported
me through with great skillfuness and I'M
ainching IT adiness in accomplishing the great
duty OF relieving Greedy.
CONDITION OF THE PARTY.
The Greedy party has very much improved
since the rescue, but were critical 10 the ex-
treme when found aud for several days after.
Forty-eight hours delay in reaching item
would have been fatal to all now living. The
season north is late and is the closest for years
Smiths Sound was not open when left Cape
Sabine. The winter about Melville bay as
the most severe for twenty years.
This great result is entirely due TO the un-
wearied energies of yourself and the secretary
of war in fitting out this expedition for the
work 1t has had the honor to accomplish.
(Signed) w. SChLEY.
Commander.
AsKETCH OF THE EXPEDITION.
Unlike all previous polar enterprises from
this country, the Greedy expedition was not a
voya aye of discovery. 1t was not even under
taken by the navy, but by the signal service
department OF the army, In accordance with
an understanding reach, Il by toe Information
al Polar commission which held its session at
Hamburg In October, 1879 and again at Berne,
1851, and at st. Pettrsburg in July, 1881. The
plan was TO establish circuit of meteorologic-
al stations around the north pole and as
near It as praclic able, by the several
governments represented for the pur-
pose OF taking observations which might be of
Use In determining the magnetic and metero-
logical phenomena Of the high latitudes and
the course OF the ocean currents. Only eight
stations we're considered at that time. but
eleven In all have been established. One
maintained by Austria upon Jan Mayen island,
TO the northeast OF Iceland; one by Denmark
at Goodhaab; on the western coast of Green
land; one by Germany at Cumberland Sound,
north Of hudson's bay; one by Great Britain
at Fort Rae In the northern part of British
America on the Mackenzie river; one by Rus
STA at the mouth OF the Lena, and another at
Nova Zembla; one by the Netherlands at Dick
son Haven in northwestern Siberia; one ny
Sweden at itzbergen; one by Norway at
Bossekopp on It's northern shore, anu two by
the United States -one at Point Barrow, within
the Arctic oct an To the east OF Behrirg strait,
aud the her or Lady Franklin bay, far to the
north Of Baffiu by, on tue westerly side Of the
channel that leads into the Polar Sea.
To this last mentioned point In altitude about
81 : eur gov rumrDti had sent detachment
of signal service officers aud men from the
| army before the tulrd meeting OF the polar