Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-10
GRAPHIC STORY OF
RESCUE OF GREEDY
How Polar Explorer and His
Men Were Saved From
Freezing to Death.

Frank Il. COPY, who has been writ
Ing a series of three articles for the
American Magazine on the Greedy ex-
petition, contributes many new facts
and items OF interest concerning that
i~ll-starred expedition which heretofore
have not been made public. In the
current issue of he magazine there
appears the last of these articles and In
1t Mr.. COPY describes h dramatic
rescue of the seven survivors who q
day later would have all been found
The actual moment or rescue,
the writer describes ~ fellows:
In the evening all the mon were In
their bags, waiting for death. Greedy,
Frederick, Biederbick, Ellison and Con.
nell were under the fallen canvas OF
the tent. Brainard n Long were
under the fallen canvas OF the adjoining
shelter. Connell had passed into the
unconscious state which was the pre-
Jude Of death. The other six men
supremacy Indifferent to everything, lay
idly doing.
But tho evening still was young
when. seemingly from a distance, theirs
came a sound that forced itself upon
their attention.
"Once came the sound! Twice came
the sound! Three Zines came the
sound! Each time 1t was a long, In
Sistent sCreech.
AT first it was annoying. But with
he second repetition Of the screech
Brainard and Long sat up and looked
9t each other
From under the canvas of the tent
came the complaining voice Of Greedy:
"FBrainard, did you hear 1t?
Eyes, SIR
what was itT
al Think am pretty sure that 1t
was the whistle of a steamer
"Greely asked Brainard and Long IL
they could get out from under their
canvas, and report If anything was to
be seen. They said they felt able to
climb to the high, rocky point on the
ridge where Brainard had set a signal
Tag.
"Do your best said Greedy.
SLOWLY and painfully, Brainard ana
Long crawled up the narrow path In
The NOV to the point which command
ed a broad view.
There was much open water, but
nothing was to be seen on 1t save the
old monotonous foes and bergs.
Long said they must have been mis-
taken in the nature OF the u they
had heard. Brainard agreed.
After a few minutes, Brainard,
chilled through, said he would go bach
and report to Greedy. Long, who was
more warmly clad, said he would stay
up there a while longer.
'Brainard crawled back into his bag,
fully believing that he never would
leave II again and fully resigned TO the
prospect.
Presently Biederbick began to argue
that the fact that no ship was to be
seen from the point above them did not
necessarily indicate that they had been
deceived in believing that the sounds
they heard were those OF a ships
whistle. He suggested that the ship
MIGHT he In povar horAAr ~htch 3,ycf
to the south of Cape Sabine, could not
be seen from their ridge.
Greedy aroused himself sufficiently
to say that he did not consider this
probable.
"Biederbick, however, went on argu..
Ing in his persistent German way that
help was near. AT length Greedy, whose
nerves were a wreck and whose mind
was fast giving way, turned on Bieder-
bick and cursed him for making a dis
turbance.
Shut upi lie ordered; and lei us
die in peace
$50 once more there was quiet.
Lying outside in his bag. Brainard
vaguely wondered If he ever again
would see Long.
Presently he heard footsteps.
Someone was coming.
TT could not be Long.
whoever was coming was running.
God! he was running!
Then came a shout-the shout Of a
hale and hearty man.
"'Greely! Greedy! Are We there?'
There was nc mistaking the voice,
with its Scotch-Iris accent. The voice
was that OF James w. Norman, Ice
master on the Proteus when that
steamship transported the Greedy ex-
petition to Lady Franklin bay three
years before.
"As Norman shouted. two big ships
Of the United States navy were anchor,
ting just at the foot OF the ridge"
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