Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-10-23
IN THE FROZEN NORTH. |
REPORT or rss ARCTIC EXPEDITION
Tnterss,iaE Detsns oi tho Discovery OF ana
Rescue OF Lthutenant UreeIy ana his
fatty by the ktlisf Squadron.

fa,ty 10y the ktlisf Squadron.
Tho report of Commodore Winfield
sch'ey, of tho expedition under his COM
maud for the relief of tho Ore ely party,
has been submitted to tho secretary OF the
navy, at Washington. Ii cites the orders
under which the expedition was organized,
and then enters upon o graphic narrative
Of the events of tho voyage,
Early on the morning OF June Z, the
ships Thotis and Bear reached Littell
Island, which locality Commodore Schley
terms desired outpost for advance TO the
more perilous dangers of Melville Bay.
Violent gales, snow storms and dense fog
now prevailed, alayiug further progress
but on the morning Of June IL, when |
open water had been observed through
riffs In the fog to the northwest, the lines
were cast of and the voyage was resumed.
The usual peris of Arctic navigation
were experienced upon the northwa d |
journey from this point. Constant and |
| anxious watch was kept for opportunities |
| to make Roadway. Mile by mile q way |
was forced around obstructions and |
| through dangerous and tortuous leads |
| until, on the morning of juno 49, the |
| neighborhood Of Cape York was reached |
| Here communication was opened with the
natives, but no tidings of Greely's party
| could be obtained. Littleton island was
reached on the 2lst OF June, up to which
| time nothing had been heard of the
| ObjectB of the search. The passage across
| TO Payer Hsrbor was made on the after
| noon of the 22d, during heavy gale, and
| the vessels were moved to the ice
| foot with ice anchors. Parties were
started Gs once to visit the cairns and
| cachis at this point in order that no op.
portunity should DO lost to push north
| ward, If no tidiugs of Greedy were to be
found. Some cheers were heard above the
roaring winds by those on shipboard, but
could not be located accurately. In a few
minutes Seaman Yewell made his appear.
ance, almost out Of breath, and reported
that Greedy and his partv were at Cape
Sabine. He brought and delivered to
Commodore Sohley records found by Lieut..
Taupt in a caiTu on Brevoort Island. The
records had beea chiefly prepared by
Lieutenant Greedy in person, and were
found to bear dates OF eight and nine
months previous. The latest paper writ
ten, Sunday, October 81, 1888, was as
follows
My party is now permanently in camp
, Oh the west side of small neck of land
which connects tie wreck Cache Cove or
Bay, aud tho one to its west. Distant
about equally from Cape Sabine and
, Cooked Hat Island. All we'll"
; Shortly alter Tevells arrival, Ensigu
: Harlow signalled from Stalknecht Island
q "Serd fve men. l have found all
Greely's records, instruments, etc."
Z Lieutenant Colwell was now instructed
l TO proceed to the wreck Camp Cache, and
i if cue of the party were alive, to inform
0 them that their relief was ut hand. Com
] modore Schley followed in the Boar,
g leaving the Thetis, with instructions to
; pick up the remaining searching parties,
y | and then follow the Bear.
3 AS the steam cutter reached the wreck
Q Camp Cache, Lieutenant Colwell and Ice
= masters Ash aud Norman discovered Ser.
< geaDt Long reclining on the rocks. Taking
him into he cutter, and learning r1m him
the location of the camp, they went to il
8 and announced t. Lieutenant Greedy the
i. coming of relief. Ice-master Norman re
j | turned to the steamer cutter from the caml
f and took Long of at once to the Bear Ions
Q was too weak TO get OF board himself, anc
d was carried up the side by the crew auc
c placed on o chair in the saloon. Full partic
z ulars having been learned from him in
# few moments Commodore Schey, Will
= Lieutenant Emory, Ensign Reynolds, DR.
q AmeS aud several of the crew Of the Bear
S went ashore, and reached Greely's CAM
o about 2. IN. Lieutenant Colwell nov
/, reported that he found the tent eoverin,
r partly blown down upon them, and that b.
/
of Ash and Norman, and had given tn,
Il survivors some milk and beef extract.
Signal was made to the Thetis to senC
n more officers and men with Ensign Harlow
$ and the Photographic instruments also t
), send clothing, blankets and stretcheIs. T,
n this signal Chief Engineer Melville, DR.
!. Green, Lieutenant Tarrept, Lieutenau
q Lemloy, and Ensign Harrow, of th
!. Thetis, and Lieutenant Usher, of tt,
n Bear, responded, These officers wer
A assigned various duties ia connection will
d the removal of the living aud the dead
n their effects, sc. The doctor
we're left to administer stimulant
to Lieutenant Greedy Sergeant Eli
SOD, Sergeant Brsinard, Hospital Stewart
BiedeEbeck, Sergeant Fredericks, and Pri
q vate ConrGil, who were found alive in tbi
"a wretohed tent, Ensign Harlow photo
- graphsd the tent, the burying ground o.
!" the ridge, and the ice foot near by. .Th
I, camp was located nearly midway between
a Cooked Hat Island and Cape Sabine. |
- was about seventy five feet from the beac
: on a slight elevation aud protected by
high mountains to the southwark. Al
- - the survivors except Long were found il
u the tent, but Brainard, Biaderbeck an
=, FredericEs subsequently emerged and in
20 sisted that they were strong enough T.
~ ~ walk to the boat. It required but shoI
timo to demonstrate their mistake, al
y, they, with the others. were carried upo
70 stretchers.
By eleven p. IN. the survivors were s
far strengthened by stimulauts that o
were removed to tho Ships-Lieutenan
Greedy, Sergeant Branard, Hospita
al Steward Bierderbeck and Private Come
If to the Thetis (; Sergeants Fredericks an
n n Ellis 10 tho Bear. The gale which ha
:, blown all day increased to a hurrican
49, during the night. Work with boat
- - therefore, was both difficult aud dangerous
u With much difficulty the ships were keI
! head to the wind. The frequent squal
10 often drove them off broadside too, an
~ while in such position, without sail, thei
-, rails would be driven almost into the wate
~ Although the shore was distant at tire
hardly one hundred feet. the boats woul
q nearly swamp in traversing that short dl
y, tance. The work of exhuming the bodis
20 of the dead for transportation to tb
~ United States was carried on under th
~ ~ orders of Lieutenant Emory, and q
os o energetically and promptly performed tha
.u the ships were able to start for Pays
~ Harbor at four o'clock on the morning {
=, 40 June 23
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