The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-18


Starvation.
Washington, 1.-THE following
telegram Wes recei ed at the Nav!
Department this morning:
1sT. JoHN's, N.F., Gam.
To Hon. Wm. e. Chandler, Secre'
tGry Of Macy, Washington.
The Ihetis, Bear and Lock Garry
arrived here to-day from Yves
Greenland all well. Separated from
the Alert 100 miles nor b during q
gale. st l = M, on June %, five
miles of Cape SABINE, IA Smiths
Sound thu Thetis and Bezr rescued
alive Lieut.. A. A Greeley. Sergt.
Brainard, Sergt. Frederlcks, Sergt.
Long, Hospital Steward Bieder-
back, Private Cornell aud Ser
gea~t Ellison, the only sur
vivors of tins Lady Franklin
Bay expedition. Sergt. Ellison
had lost both hands aud feet by
frost bite and died July 9th, az
Godhaven, three days after the
amputation, which had become i'm
perative. Seventeen of the twenty
five pereOns comprising the exhibit
ton perished by starvat on at the
point where found; one wa, drowned
while sealing to procure foUd; twelve
bodies Of the dead were rescued anu
are now on board the Thetis and
Bear.
One Eskimo, Turrenik, was
buried at Disco, IN accordance with
the desire of the Inspector Of West
ern Greenland Five DO Ties buried
in the ice near the camp were swept
away to sea by wind and currents
before my arrival and could not be
recoveied. The names of the dead
recovered, with the date of death,
are as follows: Sergeant Cross,
January 1st, 1884; Wederick, Es-
kimo, April 5lh;, Sergeant Linn,
April 9Th; Lieutenant Lockwood,
April 9th; Sergeant Jewell, April
18th; Private Ellie, May 10th; Ser
geant Rolston, May 23d; Private
Henry, June 9Th. The names of
the dead buried in the ice fort,
with the date Of death whose bodies
were not recovered are as follows:
Sargent Rice. Arril 8 b, 1884;
Corporal Salem, June Sd; Private
Binder, June 9Th; Assistant Sur
geon Pavy, June 9Th; Sergeant
Gardner, June 18th. Drowned by
breaking through newly formed ice
while sailing. Jens Edwards, Es-
kimo,i pril oath. I would urgently
suggest that the bodies now on
board be placed in metallic cases
here for safer and better transporta.
ton in q eea way. This appears to |
me imperative. Greeley abandoned
Fort Conger on August 9th, 1883,
and reached Baird Inlet September |
goth following, with the entire
party. He abandoned all his Caches
and was adrift thirty days on ice
noe in Smith Sound; his permanent
camp was established Oct 21st, 1888, |
at the point, where he was found.
During nine months his party had |
to live upon a scant allowance of
food brought from Fort Conger, that |
cached at Payer Haroor aud Cape
Isabella by Sir George Mares in |
1875, but found much dam~
aged by the lapse of time. |
That cached by Beebe at Cape Sas
bine in 1882, small amount saved
from the wreck Of the Proteus in |
1883, and landed by L. P. Gartings
ton and Calwell on the beach near
where Greeley's party was found. |
When the provisions were con-
summed the party was forced to live |
upon boiled sea skin stripped from |
their sealskin clothing, and iichens |
and ehrimps caught In good weather
when they were strong enough to |
make exertions. AS It took 1900
shZimps to fill gallon measure, the
labor vas too exhaustive to depend
upon them to sustain life entirely.
The channel between Care Sabine
and Llttleton Island did not close
on account Of violent gales all the
winter, so that $40 rations at the
latter place could not be reached.
All Greeley's records and all in
struments brought by him from
Fort Conger are recovered and are
on board. From Hare Island and
Smith Sound I had a constant and
furious struggle with ice in impas.
sIble foes. Solid barracks were
overcome by watchfulness and pa
tience. No opportunity to advance
a mile escaped me, aud for several
hundred miles ships were forced to
run their way from lead to
lead, through ice varying
In thickness from three to six
feets and when RATED much greater.
The Thetis and Bear reached Cape
York June 18th, after passage Of
twenty.one days in Melville Bay,
with two advance ships of the Dun
dee whaling feet and continued to
Cape Sabine; returning seven days
later they fell in with -even others
of this feet off Wostenholm Island
and announced Greeley's rescue to
them, that they might not be de-
layed from their fishing grounds nor
be tempted into the dangers OF
Smiths Sound In view of the reward