The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-07-24

The intrepid Polar Explorer with
Six Of His Men Rescued BY
tho Bear and Thetis.

Six Of His Men Rescued BY
tho Bear and Thetis.
Eighteen Members OF the Expedition
Having Died q Sacrifice to the
Moloch OF the North.
WASHINGTON, July IL The following tele-
gram was received at the navy department this
morning:
| St Johns, N. r., July II, 9 d MO the
Hon. William H. ChandleE secretary of the
Lock-Garry arrived here to-day from West
Greenland. All well. Separated from the
!, Alert 100 miles north, during gale At9p. m.
June q, five miles off Cape Sabine, in Smiths
sound, the Thetis and Bear rescued alive Lieut.
A. w. Greedy, Sergeant Brainard Sergeant
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 July 6 at
Goodhaven, three days after amputation, which
had become imperative. Seventeen of the
persisted by starvation at the 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. One
Eskimo was buried at d 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. 1, 1884; Sergeant Linn,
April 6; Lieut. Lockwood, April, o; Sergeant
Jewell, April IL; Private Ellis, May 10; Ser
geant Ralston, May 3d. The bodies of two
buried in the ice fort near the camp were 8 wept
away to sea by winds and currants before my
arrival, and could not be recovered. They
were: Private Henry, June 6; Private Schnei-
der, June 49, The names of the dead buried
In the ice fort with date of death, whose bod
les were not recovered, are as follows: Sergeant
Sailor June 3; Private William Bender, june g.;
Gardiner, June IL; 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 in metallic cases here for
safer and better transportation In a sea-way
This appears to me imperative. Greedy aban-
doned Fort Conger Aug. s, 1888, 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 Smith g
Sound. His permanent camp was established
Oct 81; 1883, at the point where he was found
a 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 it to be much damaged by the lapse of
time, and that cached by Beebe at Cape Sabine
in 1882, and small amount saved from the
wreck of the Proteus in 1888 and landed by
Lieuts. Darlington and Colwell on the beach
near where Greelys 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 800 shrimps to fill gallon meas
ure the labor was too exhausting to depend up
on them to sustain life entirely. The channel
between Cape Sabine and Iittleton Island did
not close on account of violent gales all winter
SO that the 24O rations at that point could not
be reached All of Greely's records and in
struments brought by him from Fort Conger
are recovered and are on board From Hare
Island to Smiths Sound had constant and
furious struggle with ice in impossible foes
Solid barriers were overcome by watchfulness
and patience. No opportunity to advance a
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 OF twenty-one
days in Melville bay, with, two ad-
vance ships of the Dundee whal-
turning seven days later, We fell in with
seven others of this feet off 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 $25, 600
offered by congress- Returning across Mel
ny, of DEVILS Thumb, struggling through
heavy ice Commander Coffin did admirably
to get along SO far with transport SO early in
the season before an opening had occurred.
Lieut.. Emory, with the Bear, has supported
ma throughout with great skillfulness and rin
pobi in, liobi f1,o
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 days after Forty-eight hours
delay in reaching them would have been fatal
to all now living. The season North is late and
the coolest for years. Smiths sound was not
open when we left Cape Sabine. The winter
about Melville bay was the most severe for
twenty years. This great result is entirely due
to the unwearyiDg energy of yourself and the
secretary of war in fitting out this expedition
for the work it has had the honor to &C
complish.
[Signedl ]. s. ScHLEY, Commander.
LIEUT.. GREEDY REPORTS.
General Hazen; chief signal officer, has re-
ceived the following telegram:
st. Johns, N F., July 17-For the first time
in three centuries England yields the honor
wood and Sergeant Brainard, May Is, reach
ing Lockwood Island, latitude 50 min. "a Sec,
longitude A min 5 sec. They saw, from
two thousand feet elevation, no land north
or northwest, but to the northeast Green
land yet extended, lost to view in Cape Rob-
ert Lincoln, latitude 50 min. 35 sec, and lon
gitude 50 min. Lieut.. Lockwood was turned
back in 1888 by open water on the north
Greenland shore, barely escaping drifts
into the Polar ocean. Dr. Payy, in 1882,
following the Markham route, was adrift
one day in the Polar ocean north of
nd fO 1orl
abandoning nearly everything 1n1SS2 made,
in the spring and later in the summer, trips
into the interior of Grinnell land, discovering
Lake Hazen, some 90 by 10 miles in extent,
which is fed by the ice cape of north Grinnell
Land, drains Ruggles river and Weyprecht ford
into Coneybeare bay and Archer ford. From
the summit of Mount Arthur, 5000 feet, the
contour of the land west of the Conger noun
tains convinced one that Grinnel Land tends
directly south from Lieut. Aldrich's farthest
point reached in 1876 In 1883 Lieut.. Lock-
wood and Sergeant Brainard succeeded in
Beauteaux bay, head of Archer's ford, struck
the head of a ford from western sea, tempo
rarily named by Lockwood, Greedy Ford
From the center of the ford in latitude 80
min. 30 Sec, longitude 7S min. 30 sec., Lieut..
Lockwood saw che northern shore termination,
some twenty miles west, and the southern shore
extending some fifty miles, with Cape Lock-
wood some seventy miles distant apparently
separate land from Grinnell Land. We have
named the new land Arthur Land. Lieut.
Lockwood following, going and returning on
the ice, found that the cape averaged about
one hundred and fifty feet perpendicular face.
1t follows that the Grinnel Land interior is ice
capped with a belt of country some sixty
miles wide between the northern and
southern ice capes. In March,
1884, Sergeant Long, while hunt
ing, looked from the northwest side of Mount
Carey to Hays sound, seeing on the northern
coast three capes westward Of the furthest
seen by Mares tn 1875 The sound extends
some twenty miles further west than shown
by the English chart, but is possibly shut in
by land which showed up across the western
end. The two years station duties, observa-
tons, all explorations, and retreat to Cape
Sabine, were accomplished without loss of life,
disease, serious accident or even severe frost
bites No scurvy was experienced at Conger,
and but one death from it occurred last
winter. [Signedl GREELy,
Commanding.
Verdict In the " ard Trial.
Grand Forks Special 18th: The aIl-absorb-
ing topic to-day has been the verdict of
mot guilty" in the Lair case. The iury
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