The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1898-09-17
STARVING SAILORS RESCUED
THE wHALERs ARE ALL SAVED
The Bear Reaches 81. MiehaeIs VIVA
0ae Hsnarea ana sfxteen whai-
ers Frem the vessels IN the Zee
Paei<-Their ships Were Lest.

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San Francisco, Sept ia special from
ST Michaels, Alaska, August Is, Via Vie.
toria, B. C., September y, says:
The revenue cutter Bear arrived IN port
this afternooa WITH ZIG whaIers belonging
10 the vessels Of the feet that were crush
ed IN the ice pack while in winter quar-
ters of Point Barrow on July IS.
She was the frst vessel Of the season to
arrive. She found the surviving mem
bers of the steamers Orca and Jessie II.
Freeman and the schooner Rosario and
took them on board, giving them the first
square meal they had enjoyed in many 4
day. The rescuing party found that pro-
visions on the Belyidere, Newport, Jean
nette and Fearless, the vessels which had
escaped destruction in the ice foes, were
getting low. Each vessel was given q sup
ply sufficient until the arrival Of tenders
from the south.
On August II, having fulfilled her mis-
sion Of rescue and RELIEF, the Bear started
south on her journey to ST. AfichaeIs with
the lI6 whalers whose ships were lost.
Shortly after her arrival at Point Barrow
the Bear was caught in the ice and the
pressure was % tremendous that some cf
her planks started and preparations were
made for abandoning the ship.
Fortunately the pressure subsided, but
the Bear was unable to free herself from
the pack for 10 days after first being
pinehed
Fears Were False.
San Francisco, Sept. ia special from
Seattle says:
The news brought down by the revenue
cutter Bear contradiets the resent alarln-
ing reports of wreckage Of ships and loss
Of lives when the ice jam broke this year
in Bering sea. On the contrary, the YES
sells Of the feet which were seaworthy be-
fore the breakup Of the ice are all ft for
service, and there has been but one
death among the whalers since the disas-
tiers Of the autumn of 1897. In that case
the victim fell a prey to an old standing
complaint
Gsing BACK TO the North.
Neah Bay, Wash, Sept l3.-The rev
enue cutter Bear touched here on her wav
down the coast. She has on board Lieu.
tenants Jarvis and Berthold and DR..
Campbell, composing the relief party, and
81 members of the crews of the vessels
that were wrecked, including the crew II
the schooner Louis j. Kenney.
When the men came aboard the Bear
after she reached Cape Smythe, there
were ll9 in ALL Twelve Of these exchanged
places with like number from the Fear
less and is shipped on other vessels of the
whaling feet Two shipped on the Morn
ing Light at KOtEebne sound, six shipped
ON some of the Yukon river steamers
when they reached St Michaels, and two
others shipped on the English ship nIalIa
at Dutch HarbOr.
Besides the loss Of the Orca and Free
man last fall. the schooner Rosario was
the only other vessel that was crushed in
the ice The other vessels-the Newport.
Jeanette, Fearless and Belyidere-are ali
out and either on their way down or have
continued on their whaling cruise. The
which went into Herschel isl
and last fall when she found she could
not get out, is known to be safe.
Captain Newth of the Jeanette, who
was taken i'll at Cape Smythe, came down
on the Bear, having turned his vessel over
to Thomas Ellis and Charles Brewer.
The Bear reports that petty officer Of
the whaler Rosario committed suicide BY
drowning last spring. and in June Phi
Mann of the Jessie Freeman dropped dead
OF heart failure. Gray OF the Jeanette
died of droPsy. A Siberian and a jan
Anese attached to the feet also died since
the feet was last heard from.