The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16
IN PERIL NEAR The POLE.
Fearful Billiards Undergone in the
WildS Of the Arctic Circle.

Dogs in Many Gases Were Frozen
Solid and Often Chopped Out of the
Ice, While the Thermometer Went to
60 Below Zero -A A Tidal Wave
Swept Away Launch and Dory and
Half the Oil Supply.
ST. Johns, N f., Sept 15.-The main
and auxiliary Peary expeditions, with all
we'll on board, arrived to-day from Fall
con harbor, which they left on Aug. 20.
Peary, with Lee and Henson as volun-
teers, remain at the headquarters at Fal-
con harbor, to complete the explorations
next Sc ason. Most of the~expedition last
fall and winter was devoted to
preparations for the inland leo
Journey to independence bay,
which began on March 6, with
party Of eight men, twelve sledges and
ninety-two dogs. Five natives also as
sisted during the first two or three days
of the march. On April 18th Peary,
Baldwin, Entrken and Clark. with
twentyfour dogs and no sledges arrived
at Anniversary Lodge, having advanced
in thirty-one days 1874 miles, and there
cached their remaining supplies and
equipments, leaving Lee and Davidson in
charge of DIR. Vincent, they
having been previously sent back
incapacitated by illness or injury from
further service. Bad weather and a sue
cession Of storms eliminated on March
49,, while twenty-three members of the
expedition We're att camp forty miles
from Anniversary Lodge, at au elevation
Of $500 feet In the equinoxial storm,
which continued for four days, the tenn
perature averaged from IS TO 55 degrees
below zero and reached minimum of so
degrees, and the wind for thirty
four consecutive hours blowing forty
eight miles per hour. The combination Of
temperature and the velocity Of the wind.
II is believed, will break the record and
far exceed that sustained by any other
arctlC exploring party. All of the ex-
plorers escaped serious injury except
| Davidson. whose left foot was frozen, but
has since fully recovered. Many of the
dogs were frozen solid, and others had TO
be chopped out Of the ice. Messrs. Peary,
Baldwin, EntrilIen aud Clark, pushed
on, and in fourteen days were
50 miles further The maximum
days march was IS miles, when the
plague having carried of many dogs and
| Entriken being unfit for travel and the
party 50 ItuuCeu Dy bnt nAfuSnlp6 LneY
had undergone that the plans for the
summer could not possibly be carried out,
and only one-fourth of the distance to In
| dependence bay had been ACCOMPLISHED
when it had been expected that they
| would reach that point ten days earlier
! 1t was therefore decided TO return. The
dogs continued 10 die on the homeward
march, compelling the Abandonment OF
the sledge during last May. On the trip
they surveyed and mapped hitherto un-
known coast line TO Melville bay for $50
miles. Messrs, Peary and Lee are the
first white men to see the location Of and
measure the historic iron meteorite near
Cape York, which they will bring home
next year.
Mr.. Entriken and DR. Vincent made a
sledRe Journey to Littleton Island and
would have reached Kane's headquarters
but for open water.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Peary made a sledge
Journey to Olrike bay Miss Ahnigito
Peary, who was | year old last Wednes-
day, with an Eskimo nurse, the first OF
OF her tribe to come south OF
the arctic circle, returned with
the party. Lieut.. Peary accompanied
the Falcon as far as Cape York,
hoping to send home the meterorite, but
the ice made this impossible. He left the
ship Tuesday morning, Aug. %, off Pelok
glacier, thirty-fve miles north of Cape
York, in an open whaleboat with Henson
and five natives, bound for Falcon thar
Dor, $50 miles distant. Lee mad been in
charge during his absence. When last
seen the boat was standing on her course,
under full sail with fair wind
A tidal wave on Oct. 81, at $50, de-
stroyed the launch anddories, and swept
away more than half the oil supply, Of
which portiCu was subsequently recov-
cred. The burros, carrier pigeons and
launch General Wistar, proved of little
service 20 the explorers. The party at
the lodge is amply supplied and pro-
visioned Tor year, and will be supported
on inland ice next spring by the natives.
The auxiliary expedition despite the
fact that the ice was heavier and
more general than for many years,
accomplished much important work-all
that was in any manner practicable
Communication with Peary was not
opened up until Aug. /, and Falcon har-
Dor was not reached until Aug. 20. Carey
Island, Cape Faraday and Clarence Head
were thoroughly searched and the death
Of the Swedish explorers. Bjorling and
Callesteuous settled. Relics were brought
from Carey Island. A skeleton
supposed TO be that OF
DR. Ohlin, the Swedish representative
with the auxiliary expedition, returns di-
rect from Disco to Copenhagen. The ice
also prevented the proposed explorations
on Ellesmere Land, but the auxiliary
Marty gathered much valuable scientific
data, made a careful study Of many inn
pOrtant glaciers and obtained much new
and valuable material in arctic deep sea
dredging.
PRIEST AND SOLDIER.