The semi-weekly miner., 1885-02-11
AlYerTible Train Wreck and
eonaagration Following.
MEhael Davitt Snubbed by
/ English Dignitarles
|. at Rome.
IMPORTANT Congressional and
Washington News.
Gbre About the Greely Expedition

| = n ~-~~~s s>e~ SAVSAy A3A8'S~e1SAO@e
/ WAsH1NaToN, Feb. THE Joul
nal of Private Henry, who was
shot for stealing provisions, by orde
Of lieutenant Greely in the Arcti
regiPns, covering a period betweel
| October 's3 and June 81, has beer
made public.
He writes under date of May 3lst a
follows: "He (Whistler) who wa.
loudestln his denunciation of the un
fortunate who was tempted:to purloir
a scrap of meat, was to'day caught il
the commissary having broken ope1
the door and was found with about s
pound of bacon in his pocket"
7 he entry of May 11th is " The
cowardly action in Greedy for want
ing to shoot DR.. P. and drew his rifle
on Bender, called Kislingbury a lia1
and apologized to the enlisted jmen. +"
Four days later is the following J:
Yesterday Biederbeck and Whist
Ter had q row out doors, and some
one stole Ellison's bacon which was
under charge of Lieutenant Greely.
There was terrible struggling. Death
by starvation actually had no terror
for us. We looked on with stolid in
difference upon our coming fate.
A few hours before death, instead of
craving for food, they kept calling
for water and could hardly be con-
trolled or satisfied. All, with one
exception, wele unconscious for hours
before dying. Poor Lockwood came
out of bis bag to stand in the alley
wafIihg for q while in the 'uoon-
shine, distillery going on to get
his p0tation. Ere the rest of US had
their share he requested q repetition
of the dose from the officiating stew
ard, and on being reprimanded by
the officer for asking such thing
from the steward, he turned around
to the doctor and said: well, I
will 60 to the fountain head and he
repeated his demand. On being alb.
refused he dropped to the
floor and hardly ever opened his
mouth again to utter another word"
May 23d. After noting that Whis-
tier was dying. Henry says Il called
in the tent and was informed that
Pavy stole EilisOn's rations and that
an official record conct rning it had
been tamI cred with. II he does die,
he dies the death of miserable cow
ard.n
On May 18th is the following entry:
Poor Kisllngbury is sinking rapid
ly, and the doctor has given him up.
Last night DR.. P. ana LIT. Greeley
had another squabble over medicines.
The majority of us, fourteen, have
given up all hopes of seeing our
friends again, and out few sti have
/ chance aL the 6.nclusion of this ter |
.ible tragedy to be welcomed with |
universal acclamation as worthy |
of Uncle Sam, and as
men who made them-el immortal |
~ their splendid victory and innum-
,Iable sufterings, hitherto incompar-
lble in the annals of arctic explora-
ions and against the laws of n .ture."
The votes of the first four days OF
[une are brief memoranda of tho
Apidly sinking condition of those
eft. These were made just prior to
lis being shot. Extracts from other
liaries show q depiorable state OF
fairs. InsubordlnatiOn prevailed
. a considerable extent and quarrel
leading to olows,
vas not an uncomon occurrence
'ergent Bralnard's diary is in his
ersonal possession and not obtain
ble, and Sergent Cornell declines to
low his diary to be inspected, stat
ng it is written with an express un-
erstanding that no one bat General
Iazen should read it,