The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-03-02
STORY Of
RESCUE OF CREELY
How Polar Explorer and His
Men Were Saved From
Freezing to Death.

Frank B. COPY, who ha been writ
ing a series of three articles for the
American Magazine N the Greedy ex-
petition, contributes many new facts
and items OF interest concerning that
il~l-starred expedition which heretofore
have not been made public. In the
current issue Of the magazine there
appears h last Of these articles and In
1t Mr.. COPY describes the dramatic
rescue OF h seven survivors who q
day later would have all been found
dead. The actual moment Of rescue,
the writer describes as follows:
In the evening all the men were In
their bags. waiting fer death. Greedy.
Frederick, Biederbick, Ellison and Con-
nell were under the fallen canvas OF
the tent. Brainard and Long were
under the fallen canvas Of the adjoining
unconscious state which was the pre-
Jude of death. The other six men
supremacy Indifferent to everything, lay
idly doing.
But the evening still was young
when, seemingly from a distance, there
came a sound that forced itself upon
heir attention.
"Once came the sound! Twice came
the sound! Three times came the
sound! Each time 1t was a long, In
sistent soreech.
AT first it was annoying. But with
The second repetition Of the screech.
Brainard and Long sat up and looked
ut each other!
From under the canvas of the tent
came the complaining voice of Greedy:
":Bratnard, did you hear It?
"'Yes, SIR
"What was ft?'
II Think am pretty sure that 1t
was the whistle of a steamer
"Greely asked Brainard and Long II
they could get out from d theil
canvas, and report If anything was to
be seen. They said they felt able te
climb to the high, rocky point on the
ridge where Brainard had set a signal
flag.
"tDo your best said Greedy.
Slowly n painfully. Brainard and
Long crawled up the narrow path in
the snow to the point which command
ed a broad view.
There was much open water, but
nothing was to be seen on it ave the
old monotonous foes and bergs.
Long said they must have been mis-
taken in the nature Of the sound they
had heard. Brainard agreed.
after a few minutes, Brainard,
chilled through, said he would go back
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 ne would
leave it 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 be in Payer harbor, which, Just
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.
Blederbick, 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.
"ShuI IN! he ordered: .a.:a &c. 3a
die in peace
so one 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
bale n hearty man.
".Greely! Greedy! Are We there?'
There was no ~mistaking the voice,
with it's Scotch-Irish 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,
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