The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-07-23
IN THE ARCTI..s.
Lieutenant Creely and Six Of His
Comrades Rescued.

lQg C0Cfctdtf vi tic NAVY to-0dy Ic
ceived a telegram from st. Johns
N. f., stating that the Greely relic
expedition had found the survivor
of Lieutenant Greely's party, sever
men in all. They were found by
the relief ships Thetis and Bear un
der command of Lieutenant Schley
near the mouth of Smiths Sound or
the 22d of June. The Thetis ant
Bear were sent out on the 1st of las
May, and the result of the expedi
ton has created surprise. as it wal
not expected that news would b.
heard from them for some time yet
The news of the recovery of Gree
ly and six of his companions created
great excitement in Washington
and especial satisfaction was felt a
the navy department, although tn,
loss of the seventeen gallant mer
was sincerely deplored. Upon th.
receipt of the news President Ar
thur was informed of it, and tele
grams of thanks and instructions
were sent to Lieutenant Schley a
st. Johns. He was instructed to ust
his own discretion as regards the
preservation and transportation o
the bodies of the dead men.
There is ganeral feeling of salts
faction in the navy department ovel
the results of theexpedition, SO fal
as the objects for which it was sent
are concerned. Lieutenant Greely
telegraphs that some of his mer
penetrated very far north and were
able to gain fine views of the open
polar sea and secure valuable infer.
nation in respect to the topography
of the regions toward the north pole
DETAILS OF THE RESCUE.
WASHINGTON July 1.-THE fol
lowing telegram was received this
morning from Commander Schley
SIS. JOINS, N. f., ga. M, July II
Hon. w. L. Chandler, Secretary
of the Navy, Washington: Thetis
Bear and Loch Garry arrived here
to-day from West Greenland, all
well. Separated from Alert 15C
miles north during gale, at 9 p. m.
June %, a few miles off Cape Sab.
inc, in Smiths Sound. Thetis and
Bear rescued alive Lieutenant A,
W. Greedy, Sergeant Brainard, Ser.
geant Frederioks, Sergeant Long
Hospital Steward Beiderback. Pri-
vate Connell and Sergeant Ellison
the only survivors of the Lady
Franklin bay expedition. Sergeant
Ellison had lost both hands and
feet by frost-bite and died July 6, a,
God Haven, three days after ampu-
tation, which had become impera.
tive. Seventeen of the twenty-five
persons comprising the expedition
perished 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 Esquimau.
Turnevik, was buried at Disco, in
accordance with the desire of the in
spector of Western Greenland. Five
bodies. buried in the ice fort near
the camp, were swept away to sea
by winds and currents before my ar
rival, and could not be recovered.
The names of the dead recovered,
with the date of their death, are as
follows:
Sergeant Cross, Jan. 1, 1884.
Wederick. an Esauimau, Apr. 5.
Sergeant Linn, April 6.
Lieutenant Lockwood, April Is.
Sergeant Jewel April II.
Private Ellis, May -.
Sergeant Ralsten, Nav %.
Private Whistler, Nav "a.
Sergeant Israel, MAY n.
Lieutenant Kislingbury, June /.
Private. Henry, June 6.
Private.Schneider; June rs.
Names of the dead buried in the
Ice Fort, with date of death where
bodies were not recovered, as fol.
lows.
Sergeant Rice, April 8, 1884.
Corporal Salem, June 3.
Private Bender, June 16.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Pavy,
June 6.
Sergeant Gardiner, June II.
Drowned while breaking through
the newly formed ice while sailing
Jens Edeuards, an Esquimau,
April "a.
| would urgently suggest that the
bodies now on board be placed in
metallic cases here for safer and bet
ter transportation in a sea-way. This
appears to be imperative.
Greely abandoned Fort Conger.
August 9, and reached Baird Inlet
September 18th following, with said
entire party well. Abandoned all
his boats and was adrift for thirty
days on an ice foe in Smiths Sound;
his permanent camp was establish
ed October 81, 1888, at the point
where he was found.
During nine months his party had
to live upon scanty allowance OF
food brought from Fort Conger that
cached at Payer harbor and Cape
Isabella by Sir George Mares in
1875, but found much damaged by
lapse of time; that cached by Beebe
at Cape Sabine in 1872, and a small
amount saved from wreck of Proteus
in 1888 and landed by I.ieutenants
Darlington and Caldwell on the
beach where Greely's party was
found camped. When their proyis-
ions were consumed the party was
forced to live upon boiled seal-skin
strips from their seal-skin clothing,
liehers and shrimps preserved in
good weather, when they were strong
enough to make expeditions. As
one thousand three hundred shrimps
were required to fill a gallon meas
ure, the labor was too exhausting to
depend upon them to sustain life
entirely. The channel between Cape
Sabine and Sittleton Island did moi
close on account Of the violent gales
all the winter, SO 240 rations at the
latter point could not BE- reached
All Greely's records and all tho in
strum snts brought by him from Fort
Conger are recovered and are on
board. From Hayre Island to