Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-09-01
CUTTER
UNABLE TO REACH
THE CASTAWAYS
Terrible Weather Encount-
cred and the Bear Was
Forced to Turn Back to
Secure More Fuel.

Nome, Alaska, Sept 1.-The United
States revenue cutter Bear. which ar
rived here last night from Wrangell
island after an unsuccessful attempt
to rescue the % castaways from the
Stefansson ship Karluk who have been
on the island since March 10 last, re-
ports encountering terrible weather off
the island, and was obliged to turn
back owing to lack OF coal. Captain
Robert A Bartlett, late master Of the
Karluk, who Is on the Bear. Is greatly
worried about the Karluk refugees,
who had supplies to last them only I'M
til Aug. 10. Even If they have eaten
their dogs they must be near the point
of privation- The Bear Is taking on
coal, and as soon as this work Is COM
pleted she will turn back to the arctic
to rescue the prisoners. Nothing has
been heard from the Russian ice
breaking steamer Taimyr since she en-
tered the arctic to take off the Karluk
party, and there is hope that she may
have succeeded for she Is well equip
ped for the task
Blocked by The Ice.
The Bear, after leaving Nome July
"a went TO Point Barrow, the northern
extremity of Alaska, TO deliver the
United States mail. She then proceed
ed west. Between Wrangell and Her
aid islands, about Is miles from
Wrangell island, she found her way
blocked by mountainous Ice She
cruised about three or four days seek
ing an opening in the ice. During this
time a terrific gale arose, with heavy
snowfall. The Bears rigging was
thickly encased in ice, the decks piled
with snow and the wireless apparatus
broken down by the burden of ice. The
Bear would have continued the battle
but for the approaching exhaustion of
her coal, which obliged her to run for
Nome.
On the Bear we're several sailors from
the whaler Elvira, which was crushed
in the ice near Demarkation point last
fall. The Bear took them aboard at
Point Barrow, where they had been
brought by the whaler Belvedere. Some
of the shipwrecked sailors were taken
to hospital here for treatment.
A heavy southeastern gale is blow
ing here, and the Bear cannot get out
until it abates.
The Canadian exploring ship Karlu1,
under command of Captain Robert A.
Bartlett, was crushed in the ice north
of Herald island Jan. 16 last The ship
wrecked people had time to get out
their supplies, instruments and sheds
in fact, nearly everything of value on
the KarluiS with the aid of the
dogs, of whom they had a large num-
Der, made their way to the uninhab-
tied Wrangell island, northeast of ST.
IBERIA, arriving March 10. Captain
Bartlett. with one Eskimo and q dog
team, made his way over the solid ice
to North Cape, Siberia, then across
Siberia to Whaler bay. and by a steam
whaler to st. Michael.
On Wrangell island are Anthropolo-
gist Henri Bouchat, Topographer
Bjarne Mamen, Surgeon Alister Forbes
Mackay, Geologist George Mallock,
Magnetician William Laird McKinlay,
Oceanographer James Murray, First
Mate Alexander Anderson, First Engi-
neer John Munroe, Second Mate
Charles Barter, Second Engineer Rob
ert Williamson, F1remen F. w. Maurer
and George Broddy. Seamen John
Brody, Thomas Morris, H. King and A.
Williams, Steward Robert Templeton.
Cabin Boy Ernest Chase, three Eskimo
men and the wife of one of them.
The brief arctic summer is ended
and unless the refugees are taken off
in few days they must remain an
other winter.
Captain Bartlett, who has been re-
ported in dispatches from Ottawa as
having suffered frozen hands and feet,
and as being broken in health, was in
robust condition when he left Nome on
the Bear last July.