The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-07-25
LIEUT.. gREIEIg LIVES.
TAs Intrepid Polar Explorer with
Six of His Men Rescued by
the Bear and Thetis.
Eighteen Members OF the Expedition
Having Died a Sacrifice TO the
Moloch of North.

morning;
St Johns, N. F., July IL, 8 a. MO the
Hon. William e Chandler, secretary of the
Navy, Washington, D. c.: The Thetis, Bear and
Look-Garry arrived here to-day from West
Greenland All we'll Separated from the
Alert $50 miles north, during a gale. At9p. M,
Jun %, five miles off Cape Sabine, in Smiths
sound, the Thetis and Bear rescued alive Lieut.
A. ". Greedy, Sergeant Brainard 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 Jrly o at
Goodhayen, three days after amputation, which
had become imperative. Seventeen Of the
twenty-five persons composing the expedition
persisted by starvation at the point where found
Twelve bodies of the dead were rescued, and
are now on board the Thetis and Bear. One
Eskimo was buried at a village called Disco,
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. l, 1884; Sergeant Linn,
ADrll, V, lltuI, LUCK Opu,A pEI, bs pcTRchDb
Jewell, April 10; Private Ellis, May 10; Ser
geant Ralston, May %. TIL bodies of two
buried in the ice fortnear the camp were swept
away to sea by winds and currants before my
arrival, and could not be recovered They
were: Private Henry, june o; Private Schnei-
der, June Is, The names of the dead buried
in the ice fort, with date of death, whose bod
les We're notrecovered, are as follows: Sergeant
Sailor June 3; Private William Bender, June q;
Assistant Surgeon Payy, June @; Sergeant
Gardiner, June 70; 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 m metaliIc cases here FOR
safer and better transportation in a sea-way.
This appears to me imperative. Greedy aban-
doned Fort Conger Aug. 8, 1883, and reached
Baird Inlet Sept 20 following, with the entire
party well. He abandoned all his boats and
was adrift thirty days on an ice foe In Smiths
Sound. His permanent camp was established
Oct q. 1888, at the point where he was found
During nine months his party had to live upon
q 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 il to be much damaged by the lapse Of
time. and that cached by Beebe at Cape Sabine
in 1882, and a small amount saved from the
wreck of the Proteus in 1883 and landed by
Lieats. Darlington and ColwelI on the beach
near where Greely's party was found. When.
their provisions were consumed the party was
forced to live upon boiled sealskins stripped
from sealskin clothes, and ichens
and shrimps caught in good weather when
they were strong enough to make exertions.
AS it took 1860 shrimps to fill q 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 die
not close on account OF violent gales all winter
SO that the 240 rations at that point could .ot
- .oo.lrl All - Craalvaur rnacr1aN and IN
struments brought by him from Fort CongeI
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
and patience. No opportunity to advance q
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
Is, after a passage or twenty-one
days in Melville bay, With two adj
ing feet. and continued to Cape Sabine. Re.
turning seven days later, we fell in with
seven others OF this feet of Wostenholm is
land, and announced Greely's rescue, that they
might not be delayed from their fishing
grounds nor be tempted into the dangers Of
| smith sound in view of the reward of $4,000
| offered by congress. Returning across Mel
! Vile bay we fell in wiki ia Alert and Lockgar-
/ nv. of Devils Thumb, struggling through
heavy ice. Commander Coffin did admirably
To get along so far with q transport so early in
the season before an opening had occurred.
Lieut. Emory, with the Bear, has supported
ma throughout with great skillfulness and I'm
flinching 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 dsyys after. Forty-eight hours