Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-01
PLAN RESCUE Of
KARLUK'S CREW
Canadian Government May
Charter Boat for Captain
Bartlett.

SEATTLE, June Gable Dispatch
as from st. Michael and Nome.
Alaska, indicate that when yilhjal-
muir Stefanssons exploring ship
karluk was crushed in the Arctic,
near Herald Island, northeast Of
Siberia, January 16 last. the men
saved all their instruments, eupplies,
dogs and food, and left only the
crushed hulk and its coal cargo
When they headed cast over the ice
to camp on Wrangell Island.
The experience of the Karluk
proves that the drift of the ice sheet
from Point Barrow is not northerly
as has been supposed, but westerly
both Stefansson and Amundsen had
believed that a ship entering the
pack at Point Barrow would be car
rled across the pole and to Green
land. Probably the ship wrecked
mon passed the winter in comfort,
saFing dogs to carry them on hunt
ii.S expeditions
Ii Is expected that the Canadian
x"e"fEiueat will authorize Captain
RNOert =. Bartlett, who is at st.
h.!char'. where he arrived after a
dog team and sea journey from
"rangml island, to engage a ship to
80 l. ;he island and bring off the
r.ghteer men marooned there. Bering
Sea IS now navigable over its whole
area. and the whaler Herman, the
relief ship most available, should be
able to enter the Arctic zone. The
Harluk's men will be landed at
Nome, whence they may take
steamer to Seattle. 1t Is not likely
hat they can reach Nome in time 10
board vessel bound for Point Bar
row, from which place they could
strive to join the second division of
the Stefansson expedition at the
mouth of the Mackenzie.
Probably the Canadian government
will send dispatches down the Mac
kenZie river by canoe to Stefan6son,
S notifying him of the loss of the Kar-
lux. Destruction of the Karluk will
not interfere with the more practical
part of the expeditions work, which
was the survey and charting of the
passages at the mouth of the Mac
kenzie and the geographical survey
of the islands thereabout, that are
believed to contain copper and coal.
1t was planned to have the Karluk
sail or drift north from Point Barrow
in search of the polar continent,
which most Arctic explorers believe
TO exist, but knowledge gained by
tlG INdiiNh SCltHliSlS VI ttG ulGC-
ton of the drift is expected to show
that such a project is not feasible.
Stefansson and his southern division
are ready for a busy summer at the
mouth of the Mackenzie and the adj
Jacent islands.
LONDON. June From st. Mi
ehael Island, in Alaska, Captain Rob-
ert A. Bartlett has sent to the British
government details of the loss of his
ship, the Karlulx, in arctic ice, and of
his own solitary journey over 500
miles of ice to get help for his endan-
gered companions.
Not man of the Stefansson ex-
petition Of twenty-four was killed or
injured when the ice closed on the
KarluS on January 16 near Herald
Island, northeast of Siberia. Captain
Bartlett's companions are safe on
Wrangell Island. They are well pro-
visioned, have f1rewood. and are in
territory where game abounds.
Captain Bartlett's brief. self effac-
ing but comprehensive report was
sent to the naval department of the
Canadian government, at Ottawa,
and cabled to the government here.
Bartletts Report.
when the Karluk was crushed in
the ice on January 16, 1918, and
sunk" Captain Bartlett reports, mo
one was endangered There was
ample time to transfer supplies from
the ship to the ice. l was able to
save large part of our scientific
equipment. Food supplies, sledges.
dogs, clothing and necessaries were
removed rapidly from the ship.
THE party made camp on the ice,
which remained firm. I sent two adj
vance parties with dog sledges to
Wrangell Island, 100 miles distant
from our position. Under my COM
mand the main party followed few
days later. We reached Wrangell
Island safely a few days later after
a rough journey. Supplies were
stored and a permanent camp made
on Wrangell Island.
II then started across the ice with
dog team and with food reckoned
to last me for the journey. My
course was toward the Siberian
coast, which l reached safely over
the frozen sea. | followed the coast
line to Ennora harbor.