The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-09-03
THE ARCTIC
4 sERcEANr,s srnA1ollrI sronY

a sEnGEANT's STRAIGHT sTon,
About the Rcseue Of the dreely Pnrty-Th
Dinlculty OF Getting There -Cnnnihallsu
Utterly Discre.ilted-rhe Tale Of tho
Diaries TsQ Another Tale. ~
i, WASHINGTON, September o.-Privat
John Lindquist, troop G, Eighth Unite'
States cavalry, leaves hore this mornin;
for San Aptonio, Texas. TO join his com
mand, in which he enlisted last Saturday
lie arrived here last Friday, having beer
discharged the day before, at the Brooklyl
navy yard, from the Bear, one OF tho
Greedy relief squadron, in which he scrvet
rs seaman in the successful journey t
the frozen zone. lie is a young Swcde
who had previous experience In The Arctic
and when the Grcely relief expedition WI,
organized volunteered to go, aud was
specially discharged Tor that purpose from
the troop in which he has now re-cnlisted
In 1874, when only, fourteen years Of age,
he shipped. on board y the steamer
Sophia, with Professor Nor,lel,skjold,
the famous Swedish explorcr,:TSS6r the
cruise which that slvant made 10 Spitz.
bergen and along the east coast OF Green
land to study the coast line formations and
the glacial action. Yesterday, before lcav-
ing, he talked at length OF his Arctic cx-
pericncc. In 1870 he went from Iceland
to tho Alexandre glaciers, which cover al-
most the whole OF the East Greenland
coast, and passed the winter OF lS14.5
there. The lioe ice there III 1876 was no,
rs heavy nor as strong us that met this
year by the relief squadron, this being
much harder and thick and being less rot
ton on the surface. This yer the ice was
very hard and tho ships had rough work
going through it. The Bear was the best
worker in tho ice, us wien she was RAM
med on she would rise so us TO split it
while the Thetis wonl.l strike sharp and
fair and had to smash her way.
~ 5frHE ARcrIc's-pANGER. (.
THE Arctic and one or two ofithe1other
whalers tl,at were with us crossing Mel
vile bay, would slide. up on the ice like
the Bear did. ave didn't send down our.
spars for the ice work." said Lindquist.
Nothing but the top-galant ynnls, and
when VIC would strike the ice, the spars
would buckle forward Jus ii they would
jump out, but we didn't carry anything
away. Several times We struck 50 hard
that it jolted men out Of their hunks in
the forccastle, yet Capt. Emory stayed up
in the Gro nest at the foretop..allant head
all the time, although it looked lis il the
casE wonll fetch away every iimc We jam
med. 1t shook him up pretty hard, but
he stayed there all the time. While VIC
were working through Melville bay, some
OF the witaicIs were most OF the time in
the lead, with the flagship, the Thctis,
close a Ter them, while We kept gaining on
them little every day. Just before we
got TO Cape York Capt. Emory spied out d
lead to the westward, and away we raced
and got ahead OF all but the Tliotis, Which
We closed up to, anil two of the wha!ers,
and would have beaten them all, but >wc
had to follow the flagship. Ab we Cape
forkwc struck open water, and mighty
soon passed the Dundee ship After that
We had only DRIFT ice, ana pushed right
along to Littleton Island, and then crossed
to the westward, where We found Greedy.
TIE DEAD or THE PARTY. y n.
After We left Cape York Lieut.. Colwcll,
with myself two other sailo-s, and an
Eskimo went out on the ice to talk TO an
Eskimo from shore, but he told us his
people had heard nothing OF Greedy, and
the Thetis picked us up and took lis from
Coniclc rock to r1ittlcton before we rot
back on the Gear.. When We, found the
party at the camp most OF the dead bodies,
eleven OF them, were laid out in row Just
the same as in soldier cemetery, on the
bare rocks above the sea level, near the
winter camp, and covered over with small
stones to Keep of the foxes. Two other
bodies were found close by the tentfwhere
we found the living ones One was also
carefully covered up, but the other, Sny-
der, who died the day before we rot there,
was uncovered, his mates being too weak
to take care Of the body. ! saw tile bod
les Of Cross, Snyder, Lieut. Kislinsburv,
and Whistler, and there was nothing
about either OF them that looked rs Il
they had been mutilated. The faces and
hands were pinched and shriyeled ur,
like u drowned man S or 4 washerwoman's,
from the rain and melted snow. Every.
one of THE bodies found WIS lying in Just
the same order in the. surface erayes as
described in record OF deaths and burials
that we found at the camp. 49,.
no cASSIBALIJM. (,
a.''I can hardly believe in their eating
each other, for nothing on the bodies ,ha.
Isaw showed any such thing. The bodies
lay publicly on deck in the iorecastle, and
any one could look at them that liked that
sortof thing There wasn't any effort made
to hide anything atall, and thebodies were
out in alcohol as soon as the tanks could
be got ready" JtyS 4 a. !, L.'
"My troop In the Sth cavalry is Can't.
Foote'S, the same one I was in before /
went with Capt. Schley, and is stationed
ut San Antonio, Texas. /. Gen. SIcEeeyer
the adjutant general, gave nc special au-
thority last Saturday to re-cnliSt in my
own troop, and / don't,inye toFgo to;n
rendezvous, but so 10 Texas myself. We
had thcjhest king OF. Eol,iccrs OH our ship.
We couldn't have hadhetter they picked
through the whole navy,s! Lieut.. Emory
surprised the sailor men, though. while
we were. in New York, before starting, and
again as soon rs we got back, lie was such
a dandy that we thought hefWasn,t any
'e.ood,' 6utSas soonsas We. .eot,up north he
showed us that he was sas good n sailor;
as any Of US, and knew all aHout his busi.
ness He SURPRISED IFS. Gt3t{ i5E StliiIS.s
81 IA STORY OF THE, DIARIES. .5i
Stealing Stealing Food clnimcd to bcsa Common
i5,& ThinE-No Cnnnibnllsll,. rs; u l5Ets
WASHINGTON %. g, september2 AIrmy
officials who recently read lanions Of the
diaries al the lGrely party said, to-day,
they reveal Q more serious condition OF
aaaiIs than the survivors will admit. II
that frou.tl>nt