Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-25
Wires From Indian Harbor
That He Is on His Way.
JEANNE RESCUED GREW
Six Starving Men From Wrecked
Snowdrop Picked Up.
THEIR CONDITION DESPERATE
Ono Man, With dangrene in Frozen
Foot, Left With Eskimos In
Far North.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
The following telegram was received late
last night from Harry Whitney. the New
Haven sportsman, who went north with
Peary and later was seen by DR.. Cook
and was told Of Cooks discovery of the
pole:
Indian Harbor. Labrador.
Via Cape Ray. September "a. 1909.
ITO Harry Benedict, New Haven, Conn:
Rushing home. See you soon. Hard
winter. Wonderful shooting. Have skins
for you. Picked up shipwrecked crew.
Terrible suffering. Notify Frank and
George. HARRY WHITNEY"
Harry Benedict, who received the tele-
gram, is an old school friend of Whitney.
Jeanne at Indian Harbor.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK, September 25.-According
to a dispatch received here this morning
the Peary relief schooner Jeanne. with
Harry Whitney aboard, arrived at Indian
Harbor yesterday.
The shipwrecked crew referred to by
Whitney was that Of the snowdrop. a
Dundee whaling vessel. which went
ashore in Frobisher bay September 20
1908. Capt. Brown and his crew Of six
men were In a state OF starvation when
picked up by Whitney on the Jeanne.
Wrecked Crew on Jeanne.
INDIAN HARBOR tvia Marconio wire
less to Cape Grey. Newfoundland), Sep
tember 25.-After living a year with Es-
kimos and being at times at the point Of
starvation, subsisting, when out Of other
food. on sea weed and flippers Of seals,
o. G. Forsyth Grant, owner OF the Dun
dee whaling vessel the Snowdrop which
went ashore and was destroyed in Fro
b.sher bay at about latitude 81 north,
September 20. 1908. Capt. Brown and six
the way to st. Johns.
They were brought on the schooner
Jeanne, relief snip Of the Peary expedi-
uons which also brought back Harry
Whitney OF New Haven, who spent last
year in the arctic.
Tho Snowdrop, which was Of sixty-two
tons, with an auxiliary kerosene engine
was loaded with skins and oil and ready
to leave for Dundee. There were crowds
of Eskimos aboard the ship being
Cape Haven. where She was driven
ashore in a terrific gale
The anchors began to drag. but the
captain and the engineer stood their
ground until the water extinguished the
fire. The Eskimos and the crew reached
the shore with a small quantity of food
and an effort was made to reach a Whaler
n Hudson bay. The snow was too deep
for an overland trip, and in a whaleboat
the crew started across Hudsons strait
for Labrador, but were driven back by
the gales and snow.
Would Not Kill Dogs.
Then. without any food supplies, the ma
tives and white men lived on such seals
as they could shoot on the ice; some days
it as impossible to get any. In March
there was a blizzard lasting twenty days
and no one could get ten yards from the
snow igloos.
They lived during that time on sea
weed. accumulated for such an emer-
gency. Seal skins were fed to the starry
ing dogs. which the natives would not kill
food, James Steel. the mate, at an Eski-
mo camp at the head Of Frobisher bay,
during the blizzard. used blubber for light,
for heat, as well az food.
Capt. Brown is one of the best known
Scotch captains He was master Of the
Windward, which brought Nansen back
from his arctic expedition In 1885. He is
stxty-two years old and suffered severely
from cold and exposure. but he and the
others found by the Jeanne were in good
physical condition.
During the spring. when seals were on
the ice, and later, when deer could be
shot. food was more plentiful. but every
one was on an allowance Of one biscuit a
Aor hno 1A, I'D Hpvs ID 4 -
meat supply had been low. and was re-
plenished by polar bears killed forty yards
from the station q few days before the
Jeanne arrived.
Desperate Condition Of Crew.
Two Of the crew. Alexander Richard
and William Morrison, had left the sta
ton in December for Mica Bay Island.
in Hudson bay. Morrison had frozen
both feet and sangrene had set in on
one foot. Part of the other was ampu
tated by Eskimo women. but it did not
stop the gangrens. He was in a bad
condition. being cared for by Eskimos
when the last news came from him in
July.
When the Jeanie arrived at Cape Haven
and arranged to take the crowd to st.
Johns a gasoline launch went to Frobish-
er bay to try to find a trace Of Morrison
ana DTlne MN OacA, 30 tHdt he cOulo re.
ceive medical aid, but no trace was found.
II alive he IL with tho natives undoubt-
eddy far back inland obtaining the win
ter's supply OF meat. Richard crossed
Hudson strait In some way and went
south from here in ono OF DR.. Grenfers
boats.
Grant and his companions did not sus-
pect until the Jeanie arrived that they
were being mOurned as dead. Last win
ter q bottle was found on the coast Of
ireland with the message that the Snow
drop had hit an iceberg. and was sink
ing.
When the ship did not arrive this was
accepted as confirmation Of the message,
which was a hoax. No bottle was sent
adrift and could not drift from Frobisher