The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-14
VOLUME xxXIv.---NUMBER As.
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One Hundred mou of the Disabled Arctic
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SAN FRAScIsco, Oct l3.-rhe United
States revenue cutter Corwln arrived to,
day. She had abou! ora hundred Of the
crews Of wrecked Arctic whaIers aboard
Tho Corwin brings news from the Arctic
fleet to the 2O:h Of August. sac reporta
that tho whalers Mabel, and George and
Susan were blown ashore in gale OF wind
on August 10 in Wainwrights Inlet, Ion.
gitude l6' and latitude II. Three of the
crew OF the Susan were lost, viz, William
Lee Copey, August Wilhelm, and James
Evans, seansn. The Mabel is owned by
William Lewis, OF Marblehead. Mass, and
the Susan by Aiken Swift, Of the same
place. These are the only vessels loat
since the report brought down by the
Thomas Pope, nor has the Aset caught
any whales since the report OF that
vessel. During the gallo the Corwin at.
tempted 10 send a boat to the whGler
Abraham Barker, but it capsized on the
way. The officer Of the deck on the
Corwin, seeing the accident, sent another
boat in command OF Lieutenant Kennedy,
who, after hard struggle, succeeded 10
saving the boats crew. The following day
the Corwin lowed the bark Ohio to the
side Of the George and Susan, when all
the oil and bone were nsfsrred. The
sailors OF the two wrecked vessels, one
hundred and seventy-eight in number,
were taken aboard the Corwin and brought
to this city. The majority of them will
start home overland in few days. The
survivors OF the crew OF the wrecked
whaling bark Napoleon, OF New Bedford,
were also taken aboard the Corwin. The
crew consisted OF thirty-six officers and
seamen.
IN A SINKING CONDITION.
After it was ascertained that the vessel
was in sinking condition four boats
we're manned with nine men, there being
scarcely time to getthem lowered from the
dayits and no time TO procnre provisions.
The boats remained together one day and
night, but during the fercs gale, and while
envelopcd in fog on the second day, they
separated. On tho morning of the fourth
day the Corwin picked up ore Of the boats
with eight persons alive aud one dead. In
the afternoon another boat was picked up
with six OF the occupants alive. The two
other boats were not seen again, and 1t is
supposed they were lost. The suffering
from cold and hunger was intense.
twenty-five Of the crew perished, among
them the tirst and third mates. One OF
those refcued, Joaquin Khlus, from whom
the above facts were eiicted, had his feet
badly frozen, and the captain OF the
whaling bark had amputated his toes prior
to his rescue.
THE EXPLORATIONS.
On July the Corwin arrived at Kotzes.
bue Sound, whence the exploration
parties set OUT one under the command
Of Lieutenant Captwell, to proceed up the
Kowak river, the other under Assistant
Engineer McLsnnegan, to proceed up the
une1p.ored Noitak river. The Corwin
then continued northward, coaled at Cape
Sabin August II, turned her course sputh-
ward, arrived ct Motham Inlet August 27,
where she found both exploring parties
who had returned after having euccess-
fully executed their tasks. Mel Lennegau,
who explored Noitak river, reports hsv-
ing met Lieutenant stoney and party at
the upper head OF Eotham Inlet. Stoney
was Just about TO start for the interior.
The Corwin brought mail from Stoney's
party. The vessel left tho Arctic August
2S, and arrived at st. Michael'8September
4; found there Lieutenant II. F. Allen,
Sergeant Robertson, F. w. Ticket, OF the
United States Signal Corps, comprising
the party sent out last year by General
Miles to explore the Copper River aud
the region between it and the Yukon Riv-
er. Here also we found two English tour-
lists. ]. W. Garland and F. B Beatty,
who has made a remarkable trip from
Great Slave Lake across the Mckenzie
River to Yukon and down the latter to
St, Mtchael's. Both parties were taken
aboard and brought here. On September
s the Corwin anchored of Halls Island,
where "a sixteen h1ndred-pouud polar
bear was shot and killed. 1t will be sent
to thesmithsonian Institute. On October
l the vessel finally left 0uualaska for this
port. Daring the trip the health oi all
has been excellent. .
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