Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-07-18
SAVED FROM Death.
Lieutenant Greely and Party
Rescued by the Relief
i'm Smiths Mound.
Only Six Survive the Arctic
Hardships-The Bodies of
the Remainder Car
reidtO Vt. Johns,
\. r.
A Tale Of the Sufrerings OF the
Lady Franklin Bay EXpedi-
ton.
WASHINGTON. July Il.

WASHINGTON. July Il.
The acting secretaty of the navy has this
morning received a Telegram from St. Johns,
Newfoundland, stated that the Greely relief
expedition has found the survivors of Lieut..
Greely's party, seven men in all.
The names are Lieut.. Greev. Sergeant
Brainard, Sergeant Fredericks. Sergeant
Long, Sergeant Ellison. Hospital Steward
Biederbic and Private Connell. They were
found by the relief ships Thetis and Bear,
near the mouth of Smiths Sound on the 23d
of June.
Sergeant Ellison was much prostrated and
badly frost-bitten when found and died on
the 9th Of July after undergoing a surgical
operation. The relief ships lhetis and Bear
with the survivors, are now at ST. Johns.
Newfoundland. The following telegram was
received this morning at Washington from
Commander SchIey. 1t was dated St Johns.
New foundland, . A. VI.
Hos. W +. CHANDLER:
The Thetis, Bear and Lock Garry arrived
here today from West Greenland. All are
we'll. They were separated from the Alert
l51 miles north during gale. At Q Z. VI.
on June -, five miles on Cape Sabine in
Smiths Sound, the Thctis aud Bear rescued
geant Frcdercks, Sergeant Long, Hospital
Steward Biederbic and Private Connell and
Sergeant Ellison, the only survivors of the
Lady Franklin Bay expt edition. Sergeant
Ellison had lost both hands and feet by frost
and died July 9Th at Godhaven, three day,
after amputation, which had become impera-
tive. Seventeen of the 2G persons compris-
ing the expedition perished by starvation at
the point where they were found. One was
drowned while sealing to procure food.
Twelve bodies of thr dead were rescued and
are now on board the Bear and Thetis. one
EsquimauN. TuruicOCk was buried in Disco
IN acrordauce with the desire OF the inspector
Of Western Greenland. Five bodies buried
in an ice tort near the camp, were swept
away to sea by the winds and currents before
my arrival. and could not be recov, red The
names of the dead recovered, with the date OF
death, are as follows:
Sergeant Cross, January |, 1851
Wederck. an E,quimaux April ).
Sergeant Linn, April 6.
Lieutenant Lockwood. April ..
Sergeant Jewell. April y.
Private Ellis. Nav 10.
Sergeant Rals.on. May %,
Private Whistler, May q
Sergeant lsreal. Nav p.
Lieutenant Bislingbury, June /.
Private Henry, June g.
Private Schneider, June 49,
The names of the dead buried in the ice
with the date of their deaths, the bodies not
recovered, were as follows
Sergeant Rice, April .. 1884.
Corporal SAILOR, June 3.
Private Bender. June l6.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Pavy. June 6.
Sergeant Gardiner, June y. He was
drowned while walking through newly formed
ice while sealing.
Janus Edward, Fsquimaux, April "a.
| would urgently suggest that the bodies
now on board be placed in metallic cases here
for safer and better transportation by sea-
way. This seems to me imperative
Lieutenant Greeiy abandoned Fort Conger
August 9, 1888, and reached Baird Inlet
September 29th following, with his entire
party we'll. He abandoned all his boats and
was adrift 80 davs on an ice foe in Smiths
Sound. His permanent camp was established
October 81, 1888, at the point where he was
fonnd.
During nine months his party had to live
upon a scant allowance of f0sd brought from
Fort Conger and from Cape Isabella, placed
there b, Sir George Nsrss in 1875. but found
much damaged by the lapse of time That
cached bv Bebee at Cape Sabine in 1882, and
a small amount saved from the wreck of the
Proteus in 1882 and landed by Lieutenants
Darlington and Collwell on the beach where
the Greedy party was found csmped, was also
used. When these provisions were consumed
the party were forced to live upon boiled
sealskin strips from their sealskin clothing,
and on lichens and shrimps preserved in good
weather " hen they were strong enough to
make the exertion. As $4,000 shrimps were
= & hp la hR
was to exhausting to depend upon them to
sustain life entirely. The channel between
Cane Sabine and Littleton island, did not
close on account of violent gales all winter,
50 that 240 rations at the latter port could
NOT be reached. All Mr.. Greely's records
and all instruments brought by him from
Fort Conger are recovered and are on board
From Hare Island to Smiths Sound had
a constant and furious struggle with the ice
in impassible foes. Solid barriers of ice
were overcome by watchfulness and patience.
No opportunity TO advance escaped me, and
for several hundred miles the ships were
forced to run their way throug the ice vary
ing in thickness from three to six feet, aud
when RATED much greater
The Thetis and Bear reached Cape York
June 18th, after passage Of II days IN Mel
vile Bsv. with the two advance ships OF the
Dundee whaling feet and continued to Cape
Sabine. Returning seven days later we fell
in with seven others of this fleet of WOsten
holme island and announced Greely's rescue
10 them that they might not be DELAYED from
their fishing grounds nor be tempted into the
dangers of Smiths Sound in view OF the re-
ward of SIS, 600 offered by Congress.
Returning across Melville Bay we fell in
w;,h the Alert and Lock Garry of Devils
Tbumb. struggling through the heavy ice.
commander Coffin did admirably well TO get
along so far with transport SO early in the
season before an opening had occurred
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