Evening star., 1899-02-11
NOT ANDREE'S REMAINS.
Brother of Missing AerOnaut Dis
credits Story From Siberia.

MALMO, Sweden, February 1.-THE
brother of Prof. Andree, the missing bal
loonist who attempted to cross the arctic
regions, has Informed a local newspaper
that he does not believe the report received
by way of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, that the
remains of Andree and his companions and
the car Of the balloon in which he left
Danes Island, of the Spitzbergen group on
July ii, 1897, have been found between
Keno and Pit, in the Province of Yeniseisk
He says that locality is cultivated and
that it appears incredible that the corpses
and the car of the balloon could have been
there a year and half without having
been seen before this. Furthermore An
dree's brother points out, in stormy wealth
er the bodies would almost certainly have
been separated from the wreck of the bal
loon.
A dispatch to the New York Herald from
Krasnovarsk, Siberia, yesterday says:
gold mine owner here named Monastyrs-
chin has received a letter saying that
tribe of Tunguses Inhabiting the Timur
Peninsula, North Siberia, recently inform
ed the Russian police chief of the district
that on January last, between Komo and
Pit, in the province of Yeniseisk, they
found cabin constructed of cloth and
cordaSe, apparently belonging TO a balloon.
Close by We're the bodies of three men,
the head of one badly crushed. Around
them were several Instruments the uses
of which were not understood by the Tun-
guses. The police chief has started for
the spot to investigate, as it is believed
that the bodies are those of the aeronaut,
Herr Andree, and his companions.
What Gen. Greedy Says.
Gen. A. w. Greedy, chief signal officer of
the army, when shown the dispatch re-
lating to the reported finding Of the ex-
plorer Andree and his companions, said
that there had been so many reports of a
similar nature that it was hard to give an
oplnlon as to the authenticity of any par
ticuiar one till further investigation had
proved or disproved the facts as stated.
He said, however, that if, as alleged, the
bodies were surrounded by scientific instru-
ments and the cabin was built of wreckage
from the explorers outfit there should be
10 trouble in establishing the identity of
the bodies and whether they were those of
Andree and his companions of some
other party.
Gen. Greedy addressed the Geographical
Congress in London about two years ago,
shortly before Andrea started on his voy-
age lEto the unknown, speaking by request
particularly on the hazards aud possibilities
CT the expedition. Andree was present and
after the meeting had a long talk with the
American explorer Gen. Greely said at
that time that he thought the chances were
against finding wind currents that would
carry balloon over the pole, and pre-
dicted that the voyagers would land rather
to the eastward. Supposing the present
story to be accurate, the landing must have
been made just trifie south of east from
Spitzbergen
With the maps in the department II is
impossible TO definitely locate Komo and
Pit, the two settlements nearest the scene
of the disaster, the probability being that
they are tiny villages of huts in the midst
OF the northern waste and too small to ap-
pear on any map. The fact that the bodies
were found unmutilated by animals does
not indicate that the death of the explorers
was at all recent, as the Timur peninsula
is such a barren waste that it is hardly
likely that wolves or bears would make
permanent home there or ever visit ex-
cept, perhaps, when ON the trail of reindeer
that occasionally drift into that desolate
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