The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1900-12-06
STORY AB0UTANDREE
The Latest Is Supposed to Be Gen;
uine News
if the Accounts BE True tie North
ern Aeronsuts Were Killed by
/ EBkin0a-AnOtheF Ex-
pedItioR.

Rear Admiral Campion, of the Brit
kh navy, is the gentleman who received
snd gave publicity to the story that
Ahdree's balloon party had been massa-
cred ~ Eskimos in northern Canada
The ory came TO him from his repheW,
ArHAiston. who is in charge Of the
Hu scn Bay compauy's post at Fort
thSrchill, on the west side OF HuGSoE.
bay.
Aston wrote that a party Of four
white men far mort b were shooting deer
In the summer Of 1898, when some Is
Zines who were approaching and did
rot see the deer thought the whiteE
were shooting at them, and thereupon
killed two OF the whites with arrows
The other two fea, pursued by natives
End it Is not known whether they e<-
capped. Different parties of Eskiulos
brought practically the same story 10
Port Churchill, and one Of the StockOy
brothers, who was hunting musk oxe1r
Taw the bodies of the two white mer;
described their appearance, and told
what they wore. I he fact was accept
ed by the whites of that region az
proof that .the arctic aeronauts had
met tragic fate II northeast Canada
Aston wrote 10 Rear Admiral Campior-
You will 10 doubt be greatly surprised
10 learn OF the loss of the Andree ex-
petition up north" Campion accepted
this supposition as correct and wrote
TO the London Times: Mr.. Aston has
been there five years and talks Eskimo,
and, from what be relates, all hope US
the ballooners must be given up, 1
fear, although the other TWO may be
aiiVe"
The fact is, however, that there werS
anly three men in the Andree party;
none of them was middle aged, nor wa8
there knickerbocker suit in the out
MT, as described by Mr.. Stockby. Whe
raw the dead bodies. The victims %
this tragedy were probably hunters
@ho had gone far north on their oysss
responsibility.
Two messages snG a relic Of the Az
Free party are all that have been re-
reived since the aeronauts made their
descent on July IL, 1897. The relic may
prove 10 be much more significant than
ibe messages. On September ~, 1885,.
carrier pigeon lit Cd the whaling YES
sci Fslkcn, aud around its neck was
tied brief message from Andree, writ
TeH two days after his ascent, report
ing all well and giving his position AZ
east and n little south of his starting
point. On May II last year a drifting
buoy was picked UP on the north coast
Of Iceland, III which was another brief
message from the explorer. written
only seven hours and tfty-five minutes
after his ascent. On September II. last
Year, another of Andree'S drifting buots
Was picked up OH the north side Uf King
Charles island. northeast of SpitzbcrI
gen. 1t was the so-called north pole
bnoy, which the explorer was 10 drop
when he passed the north pole. 1t was
taken to Stockholm, where it Via
opened on October in the presence %
.sUme members of the government and
experts III arctic navigation. The tube
MAS empty, much 10 the disappOint-
meDt of the explorers friends.
Prof. Nathorst declared that the buoy
r0uld not have been carried from the
pole 10 King Charles island by the sea
currents. Some persons expressed thd
opinion that the buoy I'D been thrown
5It empty from ,. butkhere
VAS no evidence The
finding of thi Re inn
portant Tesu Ein be
sent north inn fch for
charles island and TIE surrounding re-
Fion. II is argued that the explorers
would not throw an empty buoy cveTS
hoard and that the chances are against
It's having been accidentally lost. No
current would have been likely to lo6ge
it ON the north coas; OF King Charles
island, and the fact that it was found
there makes IT not improbable that 1t
parted from the balloon in that neigh
borhood and that other relics may be
found in the same region and help to
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