The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1898-09-17
SAVED MANY LIVES.
The Trip of the Revenue Cutter
Rear to Behring Sea was
Well Timed

| San Francisco. Cal. Sept ia spe-
| 2Ial to the Examiner from Seattle says
| mat news brought down by the revenue
| cutter Bear, which has just arrived AT
| Seattle, contradicts the recent alarming
| reports of wreckage of ships and loss of
lives when the ice jam broke this year
in Behring sea. On the contrary the yes
se!s of the fleet which were seaworthy
| before the hrea k-up of the ice are all fit
for service now and that there has been
but one death among the whalers since
| The disasters of Of the autumn of 1891
In that case the victim fell prey to an
! Did standing complaint.
Brought II6 Whalers.
y Chronicle dispatch from st. Michacls.
Alaska. August p tVia Victoria, B. c..
Sept. IL. says: The revenue cutter
Bear arrived in port this afternoon with
IL" Whalera belonging to the vessels of
thc ilett that was crushed i'll the lee
pack while IN winter quarters off Point
Barrow on July 2S. being the first YES
SCI of the season to arrive. She found
thA surviving members of the steamers
orca and Jessie H. Freeman and the
schooner Rosario and took them on board.
giving them the first square meal they
lad enjoyed III many day.
lhe rescung party found that provis-
ions on the Belvidcre. Newport. Jeannettc
and the Fearless, the vessels which cS-
capped destruction on the ice foes. We're
getting very low. Each vessel was given
a supply sufficient to last till the arrival
9f tenders from the south
HaVlng finished her work of relief the
Bear started south on her journey to St
.lichacls with the 116 whalerS whose
ships were lost. Shortly after her ar
rival at Point Barrow. the Bear was
I hI i
50 tremendous that some of her plankS
started, and preparations We're made for
| abandoning the ship. Fortunately the
pressure subSidcd. but the Bear was un-
able TO free herself from the pack for
thirteen days after first being pinched
Ncah Bay, Wash. Sept. 13-Thc Bear
touched here on her way down the coast
l,r. Call is on board also ninety-one
members OF the crew of vessels that were
wrecked i'll the ice. When the men came
aboard the Bear after she reached Cape
Smythe. there We're 1l9 in all. Twelve
ii these exchanged places with Il number
from the Fearless and eighteen shipped
on other vessels of the whaling fleet
Two shipped on the Morning Light at
kotzobue sound, three shipped on some
If the Yukon river steamers when they
reached st. Michacls and two others
shipped on the English ship Ilala 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 IL
the ice. The other vessels, the Newport,
Jeannett", Fearless and Bplvidcre are all
out and either on their way down or have
continued on their whaling cruises The
Wamdcrer. which went into Herschel
island last fall when she found she could
not get out is known to be safe. The
captain of the Icannettc. who WAS taken
Ill t'1m1 Sp1ytl4 q ra M
having turned his vessel over to Thomas
Ellis and Charles Brewer. The Bear re
ports that the petty officer of the whal"r
Rosario committed suicide by drowning
last spring, and in juneau. Phil Mann OF
me jessie Freeman dropped dead of hear:
faiIUr". Gray Of the J"annette died of
dropSy. 4 Siberian and Japanese at
fached to the fleet also died since the fleet
was last heard from.
The Cruise Of the Bear.
st. Michaels. Aug. 26-rhc Boar lrf:
ST. NiChaels for the North on july , TO
rescue nIne miners whose boat. Il large
steam launch, had been wrecked five
miles south of Cape Ramauoff. While
making the trip from Rampart City on
the Yukon river to 81. MiclIaels for pro-
visions and supplies All the miners
Wer saved and the Bear proceeded on hcr
way 10 Point Barrow. On the way Soy
eral stops We're made and bills contracted
by Lieut.. Jarvis of the overland relief eN-
prdltion were paid in goods wanted by
the natives
At Point Hope Lieut.. Bcrthoff reported
hat the thlrty-four reindeer which had
Strayed from tn" Laps herd while cross
ng hotzehue sound on the ice 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.
Capt. Sherman. of the wrecked whoIer
,rca boarded the Bear at Point Bay.
lie reported the wreck of the Rosario
and the serious condition of the Relvi-
1er". 1t being Impossible for the Bear to
pass the ice barriers. food was sent to
II" Relvlderc's men by natives in skin
boats in charge of Lieut. Hamlet. who
successfully accomplished his mission and
reached Point Barrow only eighteen
hours after the Bear arrival. At Cape
Smythe. on July ~ the crews of the
wrecked steamers Jessie II. Freeman and
Urea and the schooner Rosario were
taken on board the Bear and given the
hrSt square meal they had eaten for
many day.
The Newport. Fearless and .Ieaunctte ar
rived before August ;, when the Bear be-
came fast in the ice, where she remained
tor thirteen days. ii being found impossi-
bic - blast her way ont. Stores were
>leds.
Finally. on August Il. the Bear got
iooSr from Jhc Ice and with the rescued
whalers started on her way south. 4
stop WAS made ut Point Hope on the 2Oth.
where the schooner Louis j. Kinney was
found on the beach where she had been
wrecked the day before Her officers and
crew were taken on board. After making
several stops the Bear arrived at St
Michacls on August - and left today.