The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-09-10

The whole crew Of the Solovei and
all her passengers. 81 altogether, had
gathered on deck and were greeted by
us with a resounding hurrah, to which
they responded In the same way.
Their JOY IL not easy to describe. To
drift without aim. almost without
hope. in the darkness and cold Of the
Polar night, with bad and insufficient
food. In cold and unclean quarters.
and in constant dread Of getting so
fur north that rescue would be i'm
possible-that Is an ordeal 80 hard
that II Is not every one who would
come through It entirely unscathed.
Immediately after we arrived the
captain of the Solovei and his wife
and all the passengers, seven in NUM-
her. came on board. They were invit-
Ell into the saloon and treated to re-
freShments, which they evidently APP
preciated. One Of them said II was
like coming into paradise after their
anxieties. The passengers asked leave
to transfer to the SvintOgOr as they
were greatly exhausted and needed
medical attention and better diet. and
was glad to he able to grant their
request. Then we set to work to put
provisions and coal on board the Solo
vel, so that the crew could ut once
prepare a proper meal with something
better to eat and drink than the: had
had in the last few months.
Second Relief Ship Arrives.
About four o'clock in the morning
we were awakened by loud hurrahs
from the crew of the Solovei. who
were lailins the arrival of the Kam-
ia. which had ut last also go. through.
Had the Kana,la not been SO fortunate
as to get into the lane made in the
ice by the Sviatogor. it would have
been hardly possible for her arrive
so soon. Next day we shipped more
conf and provisions on hoard the Solo
vel. and were helped with hearty good
will by the crews Of the two Russians.
This done we started in the after
noon Of June 20 on our homeward voy-
age. the SvtatOgor leading and the
Solovei and kanala following. At
first the ice was loose and fairly easy
to get through. hut afterwards II be-
came closer and more difficult to force.
There was fog. too. which made 1t i'm
possible to keep proper observation Of
the ice conditions. Consequently we
often had to stop fairly long time.
especially rs the fog prevented the
other two ships from keeping with us.
1t was evening on the 21st when we
reached the Kara sea entrance, and
there we were again obliged to stop
for thick fog.
We resumed our voyage Mt . O'Clock
next morning steering for the mid
die Of the Kara strlit. hut ut o:M
y. M. were unlucky enough to ground
| on an unknown santlbank. We mt once
hogan to tranship coal to the Solovei
and kanada in order to get the
Sviatog"r atioat again. and after un.
loading $50 tons Of coal VT Mt last got
her off. A diver from the Kanada ex.
aminetl the ships bottom and pro.
notince,l the damage not serious. So
we continued our voyage to Rielushya
hay. where we handed over more pro-
visions and supplies to the Russians
and took on coal from the Har,le for
our voyage hack to England.
| After a cordial leave-taking from
| ou- friends on the SolOvei and Kama.
da these vessels left us on June %.
| shaping their course for Archangel.
On July we hal completed our coal.
ing md next day at n n, NO houon
our hOmeward voyage.