The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-14
RESCUED BY THE BEAR
WRECKED WHALERS BROUGHT
SOUTH FROM THE ICE FIELDS.
Confirmation of the Reported Loss of
the steamer Jessie and Eighteen
Lives-Unfortunate Gold Seekers.

NEAH BAY, Wash. Sept 13-The reve-
nue. cutter Bear touched here to-day on her
way down the coast. She has on board
Leuts. Jarvis and Bertholf and DIR. Call.
composing the relief party. and ninety-one
members of the crews of the vessels that
were wrecked. including the crew of the
schooner Louise j. Kenney. Besides the loss
of the Orca and Freeman last fall. the
schooner Rosario was the only other vessel
that was crushed in the ice The other yes
sells. the Newport. jeanette, Fearless and
Belvidere, are all out and either on their
way down or have continued on their whal-
ing cruise. The Wanderer. which went into
Herschel island 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 Smyth, came down on the
Bear. having turned his vessel over 10 Thos.
Ellis and Charles Brewer. The Bear reports
that the petty officer of the whaler Rosario
committed suicide by drowning last spring.
and in June Phil Mann of the Jesse Free
man, dropped dead of heart failure Gray.
of the Jeanette, died of dropsy. Siberian
and Japanese attached to the fleet also died
since the fleet was last heard from.
letter from ST. Michaers says: THE
Bear left St. Michaels for the north on July
5, to rescue nine miners, whose boat, a large
steam launch, had been wrecked five miles
south of Cape Ramauoff, while making the
trip from Rampant City on the Yukon river
to st. Michael's for provisions and supplies.
All the miners were saved and the Bear
proceeded on her way to Point Barrow. on
the way several stops were made, and bills
contracted by Lieut. Jarvis, of the overland
relief expedition, were paid in goods wanted
by the natives. At Point Hope Lieut.. Berth
off reported that the thirty-four reindeer
which had strayed from the Lapps herd
while crossing Kotzebue sound on the way
to Point Barrow, had been brought to Point
Hope, and that although several had been
killed for food the herd had increased by
the birth of fawns to forty-nine. He re-
ported the wreck of the Rosario and the Sc
rlous condition of the Belvidere. 1t being
impossible for the Bear to pass the ice bar
rier food was sent to the Belvlderes men
by native in skin boat In charge or
Lieut.. Hamlet who successfully accom-
piShed his mission and reached Point Bar
row, only eighteen hours after the Bear
arrival there AT Cape Smythe, on July y,
the crews of the wrecked steamers Jesse III.
Freeman and Orca and the schooner Rosario
were taken on board the Bear and given the
first square meal they had eaten for many
day. The Newport, Fearless and Jeanette
al rived before Aug. 3, when the Bear became
fast in the ice where she remained Tor
thirteen days. it being found Impossible TO
blast her way out: Stores We're hoWeVer,
transferred to the whalers on sleds. Finally,
on Aug II. the Bear got loose from the Ice,
and with the rescued whalers started on her
way south. stop was made at Point Hope
on the Nth, where the schooner Louise j.
Kenney was found on the beach, where she
had been wrecked the day before. Her OIL
GERS and crew We're taken on board AFTER
making several stops the Bear arrived AT
st. Michaels on Aug. rs and left on The fol-
lowing day.