The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-07-28
RELIEF EXPEDITION
sENr AFTER ,xpLoaIa oa1ELY.

Q Ths Story Of Thsir struEsfs 10 Reach the Part
!. Piowias through HieId' Of les-rhs perils
0 Of Arctic SA,tsstioa-rhs riadtas OF
I ths hssafvlrors-rhs Voyage Home.
NEw YoRx, July 27,-The following d,
tails are from the log Of The s.eanshi
Loeb Gary Of the Greedy relief exped
ton, are furnished by Ensign W. +
Chsmbev. who was in command Of tn
vessel during Its cruise to the Polar re
gionA All tGB8 GE - !
On our first day out from St. Johns
heavy fog set in, and we encountered 4
large iceberg. In steering out Of the VS.,
we lost sight Of the Thetis and could ocl,
resume our position by the sound Of hel
whistle. May 10h whea we were Of
Cape Farewell we met the frat Rresl
quantity Of Ice, and we were Obliged 10 &c
amend slowly. 72u : -.1 Fa,,<,.
On NAV 22d we sighted, Disco, but had
much difficulty In tiodisg harbor, The
island WAS covered with Ice and snow and
laud marks were invisible. We lei. God
Haven May 24.h at 0 A. II. and steamed
through the ice along the coast to point
about ten miles below Hare island. Here
We iound the ice go thick we were com.
PEELED to lay to. Lieutenant Schley signaled
for me 10 20 back 10 G I'd Haven and wait
for q favorable opportunity with an east
wind to proceed to Upernavlk. III I
PUSHING THROUGH THE ICE. IT.
We left God Haven a second time on
May q, and encountered more ice, through
which We pushed our way and found the
Thetis lying to at Hare 1sland, having been
unable to pass through the ice, Next
morning the vbaleIs "Arctic" snd "Wol,n
oined US and we started ahead. The ice
was heavy and very hummocky, and we
experienced great difficulty in making
progress and several times narrowly ca
capped collision with the "Wolf.". We
were afraid 10 back very much for our
propeller was only four bladed cast
iron one, and had We broken q bIads ii
would have been all up with ia. We
finally succeeded in gaining headysy
and the "WolW followed In the opening We
made. The Thetls was now out of s,pht
and We set cur course tot 0 ,menack fl III.
Here We sighted the Tneus ten miles
ahead. We ovsrhauled the Thstis NAV
2S.h. Captain ecnley hailed US and SAG:
ITO to UpernRvik, calling at Proven. II
you meet the Bar coal her with dispatch"
Daring the fox which came on We rot into
q false lead, and while returning to open
water to Try another, met the Thetis and
proceeded together ia the midst blind
Ing snow storm, which lasted ali nivht
Upon arrival ut UpernAvlk. May 2S. we
found the Bear and ooaled her. .f1t
ANOTHER START. z
The vessels remained in the vicinity for
nearly week when the Thetis and Bear
proceeded northward while we waited for
the Alert, which arrived June Il b. Tbs
Governor Of Upernavik told us there was
no hope of getting through Melville Bay.
IS the season was uuusuADy cloee. We lett
With the Alert Juns 2iss and reached
Berry Island June 23l. We went ahead
pushing through the ice all :. Inc
way, and on June -25:h reached
Ho,seshead. Here the Alert got nippsd in
the ice, and In trying to gsI her on, we
lost 30 much time that the neck had be.
come impenetrable. We lay jammed in
the ice Oft Drick Island till june 20 We
worked all night on the 2S.h blasting and
saving ice, aud foally Yot away into open
water June 80. We were of Wilcox hsad
where w had more hard pushing to pe. TO
open. water beyond DEVILS Thumb,
~ ~ THE RESCUE. -.
While busy here We sighted the Tbetis
and Rsar coming tuvard us. and knew at
once from signalling tha. the Greedy ex-
plorers had been traced, and that the sur.
vivory, il sny, were on board, for CAPTAIN
Schiey would never had come back with.
out having accomplished his wo,k, We
returned 10 open water and thick fog sst
in, and 1t wss some time before could 20
on bosrd the Tnslis and learn the news Of
the rescue. We then ppshsd south With
I'll hAste possible and arrived At
Uperneylk on the 81 OF July. Captain
Schley there dispatched the Abort and
Loeb Garry to God Haven while the Thetia
and Bear put in at Uperuavik, the former
to ehift her broken rudder and the latter to
coal. At God Haven the Aler,'s machinery
ysu fspsiFedt and VIZ buried there one Of
the E:qnimA1 Of t:sutsnpnt alealy's
party. ( We lei, God Haven with tf1a Alers
in tow. OF the coast OF Newfoundland
we encountered gale and the s:eel barrier
psstel three ti9ea, The Alert was foslly
cast adrlfs july ID. WI dropped anchor
atSt. Johns al pA.A. .i;' 4 ~ ,ia'