The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-09-10
Desperate Battle Fought by Ice.
breaker With Great FIoes
in Kara Sea.
SHIP DRIFTS FOR MONTHS
Captain Gives Plain but Graphic
Account Of Perilous Voyaoe-Ex.
citing Race in Ice.laden Sea
joy Hard to Describe.

InNGon.-t Capt. otto Sverdrup's mar
!alive Of Tie rescue of crew ana pas
>en-arS from the Russian steamship
SuuNei Huudimirovi.cll. which drift
ed hciplr>$lA for months in the Kara
sea. il Il thrilling tale of Arctic adj
venture. Captain Sveltlrups story.
rs printed iii the London Times, fol
lows:
II was in April last that | was en-
trustee, With he task of planning.
eq,lirpn2 .n, leading Il relief en-
petition To The Kara sea in order to
search for ami If possible tn rescue
the crew and passengers on board
the steamship Sn!ovei Houdmrovitch,
which at the rnti Of .Ian,!ary had be-
come janll,ed in the ice outside the
White sea and af;erwarl was carried
IN TIE lee through the Kara straits
into The Kara sea. There the vessel
drif,el dangerously about. She had
left ArclGange! provis!oned for only
two months. and food. coal and fuel
were falling short.
The big. powerful icehrealer Svia-
.s'gur was placed at the disposal Of
the expedition by the British govern
nent and sent over 10 Bergen. Here
she was quickly manned. equipped and
prOvisinne,l for six months. We left
Bergen on May X and arrived ut
TrOmSo on the 18th. There we lny
until June "a very painful period
Of waiting for MS and doubiy painful
for tie Russians hungry and cold on
hoard the Snlovei. who had been in
formed by wireless that we had
started.
At var,'o we shipped ~ tons If sup
plies more. and having left on the
evening nf June y anchored on the
morning Of June I. in Rielusllya hay.
Novava Zelnlya. where we took on
hoard 800 tons Of Goa! from the steam
ship Harde. which had been dis
patched direct from Tr"mso.
Up Against Strong Ice Barrier.
We passed through Kara straits
practically untroubled by ice until the
morning of the 10th. when we en-
countered large mass of old close
hacked polar ice. II was clearly no
use trying tn force Il passage through
this; we had to try to find the newer
n:d more penrtrahle ice which had
t.rifted from the west into the Kara
sen through the strait. We steamed,
therefore. in II nnrthwestprly direction
hut as there appeared no Improvement
IN the conditions VIZ turned about and
went in II sontheasterly direction until
the rn.ar ice was passed.
Then. fortunately. breeze sprane
M from the northeast and made 4 con
, siderable Improvement in the ice con
,.;::onS. Then we steered north In the
direction Of the SolOvei. and abOu,
$50 in the evening according to the
| last position received from her b!
wireless, we r4ckOne,l that we were
within about eight or ten minutes Ills
| tlnce.
On the 18th the weather cleared. mt
| having taken the necessary Observa
tons in the morning and at noon w
| continued our voyage mt l p. m. \
! the same time we received wireless
giving the. position IT the Solovel
which was considerably further nOrtl
than before.
A little later we suddenly caugh
sight Of the Russian iccbreaker Kama
da. steaming after us. She had ha
the advantage Of the strong northeas
wind, which had parted the ice. an
our long wait for the purpose OF tax
ing observations had also helped he
to overtake us. On June II our wirt
less had picked up a call from tn
Kanada to the S0lovei, which cor
nr,ned the rumor We had heard q