New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-18
Steamer Bearing Macmillan
Party to Croker Land Aground
in Belle Isle Straits.
CRAFT MAY BE TOTAL LOSS
Wireless Indicates She Will Not
Be Able to Continue Voyage,
and That Another Boat
Has Been Ordered.

&, the Arctic region. stranded last night
81, Rarge Point forty miles west Of
pattle Harbor i'm the Straits Of Belle
Isle
The Newfoundland revenue cruiser
stella Marie was to-day ordered to the
assistance Of the Diana. She will have
n steam more than four hundred miles
from this port TO reach the disabled
vessel
Fears that the Diana would be a total
loss were EXPRESSED in a message from
Professor Macmillan 10 Job Brothers.
NJ this CITY. the owners Of the steamer.
The message said that the steamer was
fast aground but gave no details Of the
accident
The news Of the strandins Of the
Diana was received this morning. hav-
ing reached here by telegraph from
Bav Of Islands on the west coast Of
Newfoundland. after being relayed TO
that point by a chain Of wireless sta
lions along the Labrador and New
foundland shores. The message gave
no details
Barge Point. where the accident oc-
Cured. is on the extreme southerly
portion Of the Labrador coast and is
about fifty miles east Of the boundary
line separating Labrador from the
Province Of Quebec. There is no large
settlement in the vicinity.
The Diana sailed from Boston after
taking on a quantity Of food and medi-
cal supplies on July .. and after a stop
at sydney. y. 5. sailed north on July
u
The expedition was sent out by the
American Geographical Society and
the American Museum OF Natural His
tory Of New York The explorers are
under command Of Donald g. Mac
MILAN. They planned 10 remain three
years in Crocker Land.
Freeport. Ne. July Nv. g. FoEg Of
this city. to-day received the following
message from his son. Neil Fogg who is
a member Of the Macmillan Arctic eXpe-
diton.
ASHORE. Another boat ordered. but
both safe and well"
The telegram was sent from Red BAY.
Quebec. where it was supposedly received
BY wireless from the steamer Diana.
The elder Fogg and Donald Is. Mac
MILAN are brothers-Iu-law. and 10 Is sup
posed that the both referred 20 as
safe and we'll are Macmillan and his
nephew Neil IL is thought that the
words another boat ordered indicate
that the Diana Will be a loss and that its
outfit is TO be transferred TO another
vessel Foes was graduated from Bow
doin Colleee last month.
Dr. Frederick Augustus Lucas. the di-
rector OF tie American Museum Of Natl-
raj History. had received no word direct
last night OF the reported stranding Of
the Diana. and on that account and also
because the course Of the ship should not
have been SO close inshore as Battle Har-
Dor. he was inclined 10 discredit the re-
port that the ship had run aground. He
said that she should not he anywhere In
the neighborhood OF Barge Point even If
the weather had been thick
When Donald j. Macmillan and his
party left here on July q. 80 was with the
intention Of stopping AT Battle Harbor
after leaving sydney and 10 20 then 10
Hopedale and Oakkak before the Diana s.
nose vas pointed for Greenland. II was
expected that cape York would be
reached August J.
II the cargo Of the Diana can be saved
another snip will carry out the work and
the plans which she began. II both ship
and cargo are lost efforts will be begun
az once 70 finance another expedition. but
this could not be accomplished within a
year al the very least
This statement was made last night by
Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborne. president Of
the American Museum OF Natural His
tory which was = .ather Of the Croker
land expedition. Ur Osborne was a. his
home at Castle Rock, Garrisons-on-the-
Hudson. and talked at length 10 The
Tribune on the accident He expressed
Tear that the entire expedition was lost
First Word from The Tribune.
i was a reporter OF The Tribune who
gave DR.. Osborne his FIRST authentic word
as 10 the strandine OF the ship. This was
contained in a dispatch from Donald 3.
Macmillan. leader Of the party. 10 Job
Brothers. owners Of the steamer Diana,
IN ST. Johns Newfoundland Mr. Mac
MILAN feared that the ship was a total
less
This is a terrible blow 10 our hopes. "
said Dr.. Osborne. Never did an expedi-
ton 20 north better equipped for the
work which lay ahead Of IT than this
Croker Land expedition was. For more
than year we have been preparing for
H. All OF the latest scientific instruments
known were included in the OUTFIT that
had been provided
Many Of these were provided by the
government. others were supplied by con-
Germs which built them especially for us.
ana took live interest IN having every
thing the best When the Diana touched
Al sydney she took on all the supplies for
me dogs and other things which had been
prepared in England, so you can see that
70 lose all OF this is blow 10 us"
Dr Osborne's first solicitude. however.
was Tor the safety Of the party. This
consists Of six scientists. three tourists
sno photographer, besides the crew Of
ten men
" course" he said, the party Is the
hfst thing 70 be considered. I'm sure
uhey are all safe Mr. Macmillan would
nave said something about them II they
were not. The position in which the snip
les Is proba blv very much exposed and