New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28
HUBBARD'S BODY BACK.
HIS COMPANIONS HERE.
4. Dillon Wallace Tells of Err
pIorer's Death.

On the silvia the steamer WHICH LOOK Leo
midas Hubbard TO Labrador. the body Of the
explorer was brought back 20 NaE-IorN yester-
day. The body was accompanied ~ \. Dillon
Wallace. the New-York lawyer who was with
Hubbard in Labrador, and by George Elson- the
Cree Indian guide Mrs Hubbard was IN New
York, but was not AT tEe pier to meet the silvia
Alonzo e. McLoushIfn directed that the body
Of the explorer BE- sent 10 an undertaken IN
West Observation-Disclosures from y here
It VIII be sent to Haverstraw, where Hubbard
VIII he buried Tomorrow in Mount Reposa
Cemetery.
Both Wallace and Elson are now in fine
health. and show no trace Of the awful expert
ences they passed through in the interior CT
Labrador
Mr.. Wallace told this story Of their ad-
ventures:
Elson Hubbard and left Northwest River
post Of the Hudson Bay Company March -
for the coast. We had muca difficulty in get
ting dogs tor the trip 70 the coast. out finally
factor OF the post, and another by Mr.. DUclCs,
or the French Fur Company.
we had started on The trip inland from Ham
Llgil FaFnor on July 10. lJ-S with cog teams
ana two weeks provisions We then went 10 the
5udsoh BAY COMPANY post on the Northwest
RIVER, where we had been told that We could
get fish net. There we found that they haI
not seen such q thing for years.
-AF, Huboards death may be sad TO have been
4here were plenty of fish in the rivers but the
weather was SO colo that the fish vouId not rise
- - 1-tSh. We hld no shotgun and the two VIM
chesters We carried were no use when il came
70 shoollng grouse or ptarmigan or any OF the
CtHet olrQs which were plentiful and on which
food * eA's--- 'o'
Hubbard was overturned for the work. and
sIe strain at hrs- made him stale" He then
became III from the food that he was Obliged TO
eat, which weakened him to such an extent that
ne was barely able 70 move. When We were re-
HUDSON nd we're
about eighty miles northwest OF the Northwest
River post We pitched q tent for Hubbard ana
gave him practically the last Of our provisions
When We left MIN 20 get help We left behind
with Hubbard two bocclegs. a handful of -four
and some caribou bones that we had already
gnawed half dozen times. FIsCn started for
F Grand Lake and started to make the north
west post That was October II. EIsOn finally
mace the Grand Lake camp, and WIZ four
trappers, went back 70 get Hubbard. They
found him dead beside his open diary which told
or MS sUttertngs from hunger and the efforts he
had made 10 eat the leather buotlegs. The last
entry was dated October IS SO he must have
died the day after Elson and I started for help.
After ElsOn and the trapFe-5 had buried Hub
bard they began TO search for me. They found
me wandering around ia the snow near the
{ Northwest station, with no shoes. no coat no
nat and my rifle gone. and more than half
crazy from hunger, fatigue and cold. Nv Iegs
feet and my face were frozen We reached the
post on November o, anc stayed in a camp
the Henelnesh River until the last Of February.
Ut. George Hardy, the post physician at North
west River post, treated me III this time for
frost bite. Before I recovered I had ID have
several operations performed Hardy died OF
pneumonia soon after 1 left camp
II the four months that lay helpless in camp
ElsCn and his companions made effort after
effort to bring in Hubbard's body. The marshes
were flooded and the heavy snowfall as the
winter wore on kept them from reaching the
place where they had temporarily buried il.
I At the end OF February We made another effort
and succeeded in getting 70 the grave The
body was taken 10 Northwest River. where
great difficulty was met in getting dogs large
and strong enough. Finally we got a team
from the Hudson Bay Company and another
from the French company.
We had ten sledges and ninety-f0ur dogs. II
was 4SJ miles from the post TO the coast. and il
was ten weeks before saw blue water at
Battle HarbOr All the way It an uphill
fghs against snOwstorms. starvation and the
. cold The greater part OF our provisions con-
sisted OF tea and molasses and such small game
as could get on the way.
We met with number OF small parties Of
ratives who gave PROVISIONS and as We
reared the coast We Cl<fEaged to secure q con-
siderable amount Of sal meat. which put new
life into and the DIGS. AT Battle FarbOr We
sighted the ice breaIer Aurora about ten niles
out. We signalled her and she picked US up.
taking Elsou. myself and the body 20 St. Johns
y. F.. where arrived May Il. From
7 there We came 10 Nev-YOrS the Silvia, ar
irving nearly a month sooner than we expected
do This was because we caught The Aurora
o. Battle Harbor. which saved long trip
down the coast.