The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-25
JUST IN TINE,


of Them Dead-Seventeen Members OF
the Expedition Killed by Starvation
After Most Unheard-of Sufferings.
WASHINGTON. July lS.-The following
telegram was received at the Navy Depart
ment yesterday morning:
ST. JOHNS, N. f., 8 a. m. July 17.-Hon.
William E. Chandler, Secretary of the
Navy, Washington: The Thetis, Bear and
Lock Gary arrived here to-day from West
Greenland, all well. They were separated
from the Alert $50 miles north, during
gale, at 9 p. N. June %, FIVE miles
Sound. The Thetis and Bear rescued
alive Lieutenant A. w. Greedy, Sergeant
Brainard, Sergeant Fredericks, Sergeant
Long, Hospital Steward Beiderback, Pri-
vate Connell and Sergeant Ellison, the only
survivors of the Lady Franklin Bay Expe-
dition. Sergeant Ellison had lost both hands
and feet by frost-bite, and died July 6.
at Godhayen, 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 One was drowned
while sealing to procure food. Twelve
bodies of the dead were rescued and are
now on board the Thetis. and Bear.
Lieutenant Greedy abandoned Fort Con-
ger August 9, 1888, and reached Baird In
let September 80 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 Octo-
Der 81. 1888, at the point where he was
found. During nine months his party had
to live upon scant allowance of food
brought from Fort Conger and that
cached at Payer Harbor and Cape
Isabella, by Sir George Mares, in 1875,
which was found much damaged by the
lapse of time; that cached by Beebe at Cape
Sabine in 1882 and a small amount saved
from the wreck of the Proteus in 1888, and
landed by Lieutenants Darlington and Col
well on the beach near where Greely's
party was found. When these provisions
were consumed the party was forced to live
upon boiled seal, strips from the sealskin
clothing and lichens and. shrimpS caught in
good weather. when they were strong
enough to make exertions. AS it took 1900
shrimps to fill a gallon measure, the labor
was too eXhausting to depend upon them to
sustain life entirely.
From Haze Island to Smiths Sound had
a constant and furious struggle with ice in
impossible foes, but the solid barriers were
overcome by watchfulnesS and patience. No
opportunity to advance 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
greater. The Ihetis and Bear reached Cape
York June Is, after passage of
twenty-one days in Melville Bay,
with the two advance ships of Dun
dee whaling feet and continued to
Cape Sabine. Returning seven days later,
they fell in with seven others of this feet
off Wostenholm Island, and announced
Greely's rescue to them that they might not
be delayed from their fishing grounds nor
be tempted into the dangers of Smiths
Sound in view of the reward of $25, 900
offered by Congress; Returning across Mel-
vile Bay we fell in with the Alert and Lock
Gary off DEVILS Thumb, struggling through
heavy ice. Commander Coffin did admira-
bly, to get along SO far with the transport so
early in the season before the opening had
occurred.
Lieutenant Emory, with the Bear, has
supported me throughout with great skill
fitness and unfinching readiness in accom-
plishing 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 days
after. Forty-eight hours delay in reaching
them would have been fatal to all now
living.
The season North is late, and the closest
for years. Smiths Sound was not open
when [ left Cape Sabine. The winter about
Melville Bay was the most severe for
twenty years. This great result is entirely
due to the unwearied energy of yourself and
the Secretary of War in fitting out this ex-
petition for the work it has had the honor
to accomplish.
(Signed) w. S. ScHLEY, Commander.
WASHINGTON, July 18.-General Hazen,
chief signal officer, has received the follow
ing telegram:
ST.. JOHNS, N. F., July 17-For the first time
in three centuries England must yield the
honor of having reached farthest north.
Lieutenant Lockwood and Sergeant Brainard,
on May ID, reached Lockwood Island-lati-
tude, SO min. "a Sec, longitude, A min. sec.
They saw from two thousand-fOot elevation
no land to the north or northwest, but to the
northeast Greenland yet extended, and was
lost to view in Cape Robert Lincoln, latitude
So min. So sec, longitude SO min. Lieutenant
Lockwood was turned back in 1883 by open
water on the north of the Greenland shore,
his party barely escaping the drift into the
Markham route was adrift one day IN the
Polar Ocean, north of Cape Joseph Henry,
and escaped to land by abandoning nearly
everything. In 1852 made spring and later
summer trip into the interior of Grinnell
Land, discovering Lake Hazen, some sixty
by ten miles in extent which, fed by the ice
cape of north Grinnell Land, drains RuggleS
River and Weyprecht ford into Conybeare
Bay and Archer ford. From the summit of
Mount Arthur, 5000 feet above the level OF
the sea, the contour of the land west of the
1nnONF Mountains mr.
-Grinnel Land tends directly south fro
Lieutenant Aldrichs farthest point in 1879.
In 1883 Lieutenant Lockwood and Sergeant
Brainerd succeeded in crossing Grnnell Land
and ninety miles from Beatrux Bay, the head
of Archers ford, they struck the head of a
ford from the Western sea temporarily named
by LOCKWOOD Greedy ford. From the center
of the ford, in latitude 80 min. 80 Sec, lOngi-
tude rs min. 30 Sec, Lieutenant Lock-
wood saw the northern shore termin-
ate at point some twenty miles west,
some fifty miles, with Cape Lockwood some
seventy miles distant, apparently separate
the land from Grinnel Land. / have named
the new land Arthur Land Lieutenant Lock
wood followed, going and returning. an ice'
cape averaging about one hundred and fifty
feet perpendicular face. 1t follows that Grim
nell Lands interior is ice-capped, with belt
OF country some sixty miles wide between the
northern and southern ice-cape.
In March, 1884, Sergeant Long, while hunt
ing, looked from the northwest side of Mount
carey 10 nay SOUND, seeing on the northern
coast three capes westward of the furthest
seen by Mares in 1876. The sound extends
some twenty miles further west than is shown
by the English chart, but it is possibly shut in
by the land which showed up across the west
ern end.
The two years station duties, observations,
all explorations, and the retreat to Cape Sa-
bne were accomplished without loss of life
disease, serious accident, or even severe frost
bites. No scurvy was experienced at Conger,
and but one death occurred from it last win
ter. GREELY Commanding,
THE FARTHEST POINT REACHED.
WASHINGTON, July 1S.--For the first
time in three centuries England yields the
honor of having reached the farthest north
ward point. Lieutenant Lockwood and Ser
geant Brainard, of the Greedy expedition,
OH May 10 reached Lockwood Island, Iati-
tude SO degrees "A minutes, longitude "A
degrees minutes.
RECEPTION OF THE NEWS.
WASHINGTON, July 49, The news of the
rescue of Lieutenant Greedy and several of
his party created much excitement in this
city. The telegram from Commander
Schley was received by Rear Admiral
Nichols, Acting Secretary Of the Navy, who
Immediately communicated its contents
to Lieutenant General Sheridan, Act
ing Secretary of War. They proceeded