The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-10-27
CAST ON AN island.
PennsyIvaniaus Wrecked in the
Mediterranean Sea.
AN EXPEDITION INTERRUPTED
The Commission Sent from the Uni
vcrsity of pennsylvania in Search
Of Biblical knowledge Ship
wrccked-A Bad Situation.

PHtLADELpHIA, October 26.-Tht
Babylonian Expedition the University
Of Pennsylvania which left this city fol
the orient early last summer, has beer
shipwrecked in the Mediterranean sea.
The expedition was to have reached
Palestine about the beginning Of October
and would have proceeded thence
directly to the site OF Babylon and
Nineveh, the ancient capitals of Assyria,
in order to begin archaeological excava-
tions. Instead OF being at the present
time engaged in digging up and bring
ing to light the remains Of bygone
civilization, the members OF the expedi-
ton are themselves outcasts on an
island in the Mediterranean sea, with
most OF their baggage and scientific
apparatus lost or seriously damaged, and
with little prospect Of being conveyed to
their point OF destination.
The news OF the mishap reached Prof,
James, Secretary OF the Philosophical
Department OF the University, yesterday
afternoon, through communication
which is from Prof. Il. V. Hilprecht, the
Assyriologist OF the party: It is dated
October . and announces that the steam
er bearing him and Doctors Field, Har.
per and Haynes was wrecked Saturday
night, September 90, on a rock off the
island OF Samos. After thirty-six hours
OF waiting Turkish brigantine took off
the passengers and landed every one in
safety on the island, where they still
were at the date OF the communication.
In conclusion Prof. Hilprecht says
When we shall be rescued from here is |
at present unknown, but we are all well
and happy in our miserable condition,
and the journey will be continued with
equal courage.
The following dispatch is taken from
one OF the German ne Tspapers, and was
received by Prof. Zeidersticker:
"MARsEiLLEs-The packet steamer ST.
ma, which smiled from this port on the |
2lst OF September for Egypt and the Le-
want, was wrecked off Cape Domico, off |
the Island OF Samos. There was fortun-
ately no loss Of life, but it is alleged that
the cargo has been damaged. The Cap
tain OF the vessel, Fenech by name, had |
to make this his last voyage on |
account OF old age. The cause OF the
is not known"
The Expedition sailed on the Fulda
June 90. The Expedition was projected
by Z. W. Clark, the banker, and g. II.
Claree. 1t took shape in meeting held
at the residence OF the Provost OF the
University DR., William Pepper, in No.
vember last year.
A number OF gentlemen subscribed TO-
wards such an expedition and organized |
themselves into the Babbylonian explo-
ration fund.
The staff OF explorers consists of Rev.
Jno. P. Peters, Professor of the Old Tes- |
lament literature and languages in the
department OF Biblical learning in the |
divinity school OF the Protestant Episco-
pal Church in Philadelphia, us director;
DR.. Il. +. Harper, OF Yale College, and |
Prof. II. V. Hilprecht, OF the University
OF Pennsylvania as Assyriologists; Prof. |
John Henry Haynes, who accompanied
the Wolfe expedition in 1885, OF which |
DR.. Ward was the head, as photographer;
Mr.. j. D. Prince, representing Columbia |
College, who goes as assistant to the
Director, devoting himself especially to
the study OF dialects; an architect and
a physician, who was to have been taken
on at Beyrout.