Bisbee daily review., 1914-06-18
KARLUK ON HER FIRST ANNIVERSARY LOCKED
 IN POLAR REGIONS
Brief History of lll-Fated Ship on Which Stefanson Made
 His Expedition.

whaling steamer Karluk flagship of the Canadian governments Arctic ex ! ploring expedition under command of | Vilhialmun Stefanson. sailed from Victoria, B. C.. for Nome, Alaska, She is now locked in the polar ice or sunk beneath it
 After buying dogs and supplies at Nome and stopping at Port Clarence, Alaska, to make the final distribution of men and cargo among the three vessels of the fleet the Karluk pointed toward Boring strait June 20. 1913 She encountered in the Arctic the heaviest ice ever known In mid summer, and was unable to make the stop which she had planned at Point Barrow, the northernmost projection ! of Alaska. She was carried east off the point to longitde 15O, and On Sept 10 was apparently frozen fast for the winter. Ten days later Stefansson, feeling sure that the ship was in her winter cradle. set out for shore with two white men. two Esldmos and dog teams to hunt caribou Co provide the
 Karluk with fresh meat On Sep tember 22 violent gale sprang up. which broke the ice When Stefansson and his companions retrned to the shore at Beechy Point September 2S the Karluk was not to be seen. The hunters proceeded to Point Barrow. ond on arrival there were told by an old Eskimo that he had sighted with his spyglass the Karluk drifting west. in the first week of October
 ! Stefansson and his associates. seek ing the other vessels of their eXpedi- ton at once moved eastward toward the Mackenzie delta In January of the present year Stefansson was told that am Eskimo had seen the Karluk steaming east past the north end of Richard Island east of the mouth of the Mackenzie river about the middle of October. No white man has seen the Karluk since Stefansson left the ship on September 20 last. and there is an inclination among nayigators to dis credit the reports of EsHmos who said they saw the Karluk after Stefanssou left her
 l Stefansson and Peary have both expressed themselves as confident that the Karluk is safe in the ice. Both have .the utmost faith in the ability of Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, her commander. Capt Roald Amudsen. the discoverer
 of the south pole had planned until
 compelled by lack of funds to abandon
 his pro5ect. to sail to Point Barrow
 with his wooden iceboat Fram next August and permit the Fram to be fro- .z-u n the ice just as the Karluk was. .Amundsen believed that the ice would .carry him northesterly perhaps across .the pole. and would probably deliver him upon the coast of Greenland. Capt
 John Dackand. of Seattle one of the best known of Arctic navigators. whose schooner Trans it was crushed by the
 ice and unk near Point Barrow last summer, fears that the Karluk's sides were not strong enough to withstand - 'the squeeze of the ice The Fran, he says. is built with a hull that would be heayed up by tine ice closing upon it. whereas the KarIuk might be de- .stroyed iu such a grip.
 The Arctic shore is patrollCd by E5. .kimo hunters during the summer and |wrockage from the Karluk if any comes ashore, Is likely to be picked
 up
 Stories placed in circulation last summer, to the effect that Bartlet had
 protested against going north in the Karluk because she was unseaworthy,
 and that Bartlett and Stefansson had
 disagreed concerning Che managemen, , of the expedition, have been emphatic ally denied The best of fellowship among the men has prevailed p On the Karluk after Stefansson and - This comrades went ashore to hunt last
 September were 24 persons, includ.
 ing Captain Bartlett Henri Beauchat'
 anthropologist. Biame Namen .topog- ] rapher; Dr. Alister Forbes-Mackay, surgeon; George s. Mallock, geologist,
 Wm. Laird McKmleos maguetician. and James Mrray. oceanographer. The
 remainder of the party was made up 4 of ships officers and crew.
 The Karluk was pr0Visioned for five years. The Canadian government has ], asked the Russian government to keep
 a lookout for Che ship