The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-29
ARCTIC PARTY :
REPORTED 81 II.
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Macmillan Expedition, 2s,
in Search of Crockerla q
Reaches Civilization =
at Last.
GONE FOR FOUR YEARS
First Ship Wac Wrecked on the Coast
Of Labrador and Relief Ships
Were damned In the
Ice.

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NEW YORK, May 2s.-All the mem.
bers Of the Macmillan -Crockerland ex-
pedition are safe, according to a cable.
gram received in Brooklyn today from
the Shetland Islands.
The expedition, headed by Donald
| B. Macmillan, sailed from New York
on the steamship Diana, July third,
1913. After the greatest hart~hips.
during which some members perished
and others were sent out in search of
relief, several attempts were made to
rescue those remaining.
| The cablegram received today at
the Museum of Natural History stated
that Harrison ]. Hunt was returning
to Copenhagen, Captain Conner and
| A. w. Scott are at Etah with Mac
MILAN and Ekblaw is at Disco. The
relief steamer "Danmark" wintered
at North Star bay.
Existence Of Crockerland, which Ad-
Fmiral Peary said he saw in the dis
tance while on one of his dashes to
the north in 1905, will probably be de-
cided by complete report Of the now
rescued explorers.
On his return, Peary described see
! ing what he thought was land from a
point in the icy Businesses OF the
north. In July, 1913, the American
Museum Of Natural History organized
an expedition under Macmillan to
search for and explore this unknown
land. Two years later Macmillan re-
ported to civilized port that no
trace Of the supposed land could be
found. Macmillan thought he saw the
vanished continent for two days, but
he attributed Pearys report and his
first impression as being due to
mirage.
In the original party were MacMil-
Ian, Professor Maurice Tanqueray, Of
the Kansas State agricultural college,
Ensign Fftzhugh Green, Harrison j.
Hunt, W. Elmer Ekblaw, J. G. Small
and Jerome Lee Allen.
Professor Hovey joined the expedi-
tfon later.
coast of Labrador on July II, 1913.
Transferring to the Erick, the trip
was continued until that vessel be-
came frozen in. The Cluett was sent
from New York as a relief ship in De
cember, 1918 and picked up the party
The Cluett later became jammed in
the Arctic ice.
Professor Tanqueray left the party
on a sled and after trip via Copen-
hagen reached New York June 20,
1916 Ensign Green also left the
party and got to civilization The fate
Of the remainder of the expedition has |
been in doubt since that time.
All Members Safe.
NEW YORK, May 29.--All mem
bers of the MacMillan-C -Crockerland !
expedition are safe and well, none !
died during their four year isolation !
in the frozen north and two Of the /
explorers are already enroute to civil |
trip across an icy desert This was |
Museum Of Natural History !
which backed the enterprise The !
was from Dr. Hunt, sur |!
geon of the party. He sent 1t from |
Thors Haven in the Farce Islands, |
where he has arrived on the steamer |
on his way to Copen- |
hagen.
The message said:
Macmillan, Conner, Small, Hovey
at Etah. Steamer Danmark in North !
Star bay. Ekblaw at Godhaven."
Terse as 1t was the cablegram gave
those in touch with the expedition an
inkling of the story behind it, bring
ing to civilization another romance
Of the north, tale of three years
hardship and suffering.
Etah where most Of the party re-
mains, is the northernmost head.
quarters of the expedition The
steamer Danmark reported at North
Star bay, is $50 miles south of Etah.
but within easy sledging distance.
The Danmark was. the last relief ship
to aid the lost explorers.
1t carried a years provisions, which
have probably. been sledged to Etah,
thus relieving the hunger of the men
who have just emerged from the long
Arctic night.
Leaving their companions at Etah. |
DR.. Hunt and w. Elmer Ekblaw,
geologist of the expedition, travelled
1,5OO miles by sledge across frozen |