Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-07-24
GLORIOUS NEWS.

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And Among Them Lieutenant Greeley
Himself
wAsHiNeroS, July l7.-lO:3O
a. m.-[Special] IA dispatch has
just been received at the Navy
Department confirming the report
that eight of Lieut.. Greeley's
party have been found alive and stat
ing that Lieut. Greeley Is the only
officer found. The party were found
by Lieut.. Emory, of the 'sBear' and
are now at St. Johns.
-t- SEVENTEEN DEAD. AN!H ...
ST.. JOHNS, N. F., July l7.-Ac-
cording to the lates. information sew
enteen' Of Greeleys party were dead
apd eight are alive, Lieut.. Greeley be-
ing among the latter.
PARTICULARS OF THE RESCUE.
WASHINGTON, July l7-[Special1 =
The following is a copy of the tele-
gram received at the Navy Depart
ment:
"ST. JOHNS, a. m, July II.
To Hon. w. E. Chandler, Secretary
of Navy: .. .al.'.
"The Thetis, Bear and Lock Garry
arrived here to-day from West Green
land. All well, They separated from
the Alert $50 miles north during a
gale.
Ats m. of June IL, five miles
off Cape Sabine in Smiths, sound the
Thetis and Bear
RESCUED ALIVE
Lieut.. A. W. Greeley, Sergeant
Brainard, Sergeant Fredericks. Ser
geant Long hospital steward Beider-
back, private Connell, and Sergeant
Ellis, the only survivors of the Lady
Franklin Bay Expedition.
Sergeant Ellison had lost both hands
and feet by frost bite and died July
sixth, at Godhaven, three days after
amputation, which became imperative.
Seventeen of the twenty-five per-
sons composing the expedition
PERIsHED BY STARVATION
at the point where found. One was
drowned while scaling to procure food.
Twelve bodies of the dead we're res
cued and are now on board the Thetis
and Bear One Esquimaux, Turnevik,
was buried at Disco, in accordance
with the desire of the Inspector of
Gizzllland Five bodies, buried in
the ice fort near the camp, were swept
away to sea by the wind and sand cur
rents before my arrival. They could
not be recovered.
THE NAMES OF THE DEAD.
Recovered with dates are as fol-
lows: ....
Sergeant Cross, January l, 1884.
Wederick Eskimo, April 5.
Sergeant Him, April 6. :.
Lieutenant Lockwood, April g.
Sergeant jewell, April IL.
Private Ellis. May IS.
Sergeant Ralston, May %.
Private Whistler, May "a.
Sergeant Israel, May u.
Private Henry, June 6.
Lieutenant Kingsbury, June l.
Private Schneider, June l6. 're
Names of dead buried in the Ice fort
with the date of their death where the
bodies were not recovered, are as fol-
lows:
Sergeant Rice, April 8.
Corporal Salem, June 8,
Private Bender, June 6.
Sergeant Gardner, June II.
l would suggest urgently that the
bodies now on board he placed in me.
tallic cases here for safer and better
transportation in sea way. This ap-
pears to me imperative.
> Greeley abandoned Fort Conger
August 9, 1888, reached Baird Inlet
September 20, following with the en-
tire party who were all well. He
abandoned all his boats and was adrift
for thirty days on an ice foe in Smith
Sound. His permanent camp was es-
tablished October 81, 1883, at the
point where he was found. During
nine months his party had to live up
on a scant allowance of food brought
from Fl. Conger that was cached at
Payer harbor and Cape Isabella by
: Sir George Mares in 1875 but much
damaged by lapse of time; that cached
by Beebe at Cape Sabine in 1882, and
small amount.saved from the wrecked
Proteus in 1883, and landed by Lieuts.
Darlington and Cowell On the beach
where Greeley's party found the camp
When these provisions were con-
sumed, the party was forced to live
upon boiled seal skin, strips from their
seal skin clothing, linchens and
shrimps, preserved in good weather
when they were strong enough to
make the exertion. AS 1900 shrimps
were required to fill a gill measure the
labor was too exhausting to depend on
them to sustain life entirely
The channel between Cape Sabine
and Littletown Island did not close all
winter on account of violent gales, so
that 240 ratlons at the latter point
could not be reached. All of Greely's
records and all the instruments brought
by him from Ft. Conger were recov-
orod and ara M, hoard