The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-11-24
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and gave publicity TO the story that
Andree's balloon party had been nassa~
cred BY EskimoI in northern Canada
The story came to him from his nephew.
Mr.. Aston, who 10 In charge Of the
Hudson Bay company's post at Fort
Churchill, ON the west side OF Hudson
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Aston wrote that : party OF four
white men far north were shooting deer
in the summer Of 1898, when some Els.
kimos who were approaching and did
not see the deer thought the whites
were shooting 1T them, and thereupon
killed two Of the whites with arrows.
The other two ded, pursued by natives,
and it 10 not known whether they e.
capped. Different parties Of Eskimos
brought, practically the same story to
Fort Churchill, and one Of the Stockby,
brothers, who was hunting musk oxen,
saw the bodies Of the two white men.
described their appearance, and. told
what they wore. The fact was accept
Cd by the whites Of that: region a.
proof that 1.-The arctic aeronauts had
met . tragic fate in northeast Canada.
Aston wrote to Rear Admiral Campion:
You will no; doubt be greatly surprised
to learn of the loss OF the Andree e.
petition up north: Campion accepted
this superstition as correct and wrote
to the London Times: "Mr. Aston has
been there five years and talks Eskimo.
and, from what he relates, all hope OF
the ballooners must be given up, I
fear, although the other two may b
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The factis, however, that there were
only three men in tho Andree party;
none of them was MIDI aged, nor was
thyre knickerbocker suit in the out
TT, as described by Mr.. Stockby, who
saw the dead bodies. The victims OF
this tragedy were probably hunters
who had gone far north ON their own
responsibility.
Two messages and relic Of the An
dree party are all that have been re-
,ceived since the aeronauts made their
descent on July IL, 1897. The relic may
prove to be much more significant than
the messages. On September H., 1897,
carrier pigeon lit on the whaling yes
sci Fa:ken, and around its neck was
tied brief message from Andree, writ
ten two days after his ascent, report
ing oil well and giving his position as
east and little south Of his starting
point. On May IA last year q drifting
buoy was picked up ON the north coast
Of Iceland, in which was another brief
message from the explorer, written
only seven hours and Atty five minutes
after his ascent. On,September Ii, last
year, another of Andres riftiEg buoys
was picked up on the north sidesoi King
Charles island, northeast of, spitzbss,
gen: It was the so1caled nort1r poE
buoy, which the7explorers was to drop
when he passed the. northpole. It.Nasss
taken to Stockholm, where it wax
opened on October in the preaencep9
some members Of the government end
experts in arctic navigation The .tNbts
was empty, much to the disappoint-
ment Of the explorers friends. y !
Prof. Nathorst declared that the buoy
could not have been carried from the
pole to King Charles island blythe sea
currents. Some persons expressed the
opinion that the buoy had been thrown
out empty from the balloon; but there
was no evidence that this was 10. The
finding Of this buoy will have one, Inn.
portant result. An expedition will be-
sent north in the spring to search for
traces of the lost explorers 1t King
Charles island and the surrounding re.
gion. 1t is argued that the explorers,
would not throw; an empty buoy over
board and that the chances are against
its having been accidentally lost. No
current would have been likely TO lodge
It on the north coast Of King Charles
island, and the fact that it was found
there makes it not improbable that ii
parted from the balloon in that neigh.
borhood and that other relics may be
found in the same region and help 10
determine the fate Of the expedition
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