Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1884 — RESCUED JUST IN TIME. [ARTICLE]

RESCUED JUST IN TIME.

Lieut. Greeley end Six of His Party Found Off Cape Sabine, fa Baritk’s Sound. The Remainder of the Party EBed by Gold and Starvation—Terrible Tales of Suffering, The following dispatch from Commander* Schley to the Secretary as the Navy tell* the story of the rescue es Lienl Greeley and his six surviving comrades: _ _ St. Joints, N. F„ Jnly IT. Tbe Hon. WiUtam chandler. Secretary of theNavy, Washington: Thetis, Bear, and Lock Garry arrived here today from West Greenland. An welt Theyset anted from the Alert 160 miles north ifarinf a gale. At 9 p. n»., June 22, five mßes bff Cape Sabine, in Smith's Sonnd, the Theda and Bear reecr,e 1 alive Lient A W. Greely, Sergt Brainard. Sergt Fredericks, Sergt Long, Hcapttafe Steward Beiderba k, Private O nnell.and Sergt Ellison, the only survivors of the Lady irankUn Bay expedition. Sergt Ellison had lost both, hands and feet by rroat-btte, a 4 died July 6 at. Godhaven, three days afte ampnuitioa, which, had become imperative. Seventeen of twentyfive persons composing the expedition perished, by starvation at tue point where found. One was drowned while seating toprocure food. Twelve bodies of the dead were rescued and are now on board the Thetisand Bear. Esquimau Turnevik was buried at Disco, in accordance w th the desire of the inspector of Western Greenland. Five bodies buried in ioe near the camp were swept away tosea by winds and currents before my arrival and, oould not be recovered. The names of the dead reoov-. red, with dates of death, are as follows: Sergt. Cross died Jan. 1,1884; Wederiok (Eapdmau), April 6; Sergt. Linn, April «; Lieut. Lockwood, April 9; Sergt Jewell, April 18; PrivateEUla,May 19; 8e gt Balaton. My 23; PrivateHenry, June 6; Private Sohneider, June 18. Thenamea of the dead aud buried in the ice fort, , with the date of death of those whose bodies - were not recovered, are as follows: Sergeant . Bice. April9,lßß4; Corporal Bolen, June :i; Private Bender, June 6; Assistant Surgeon Pavey,. Junes; Sergeant Gardner, June 12, diowned by breaking through newly tanned ioe while sealing; Jens Edwards (Esqnim&a), April 24. I would urgently suggest that the bodies nowon board be placed in metalllo oaace here for safer and beet r transportation in a sea way. Greely abandoned Fort Conger Ang. 9,1883, and: reached Baird Inlet Sept. 29 following, with tbsentire party well. He abandoned all his boats,, and was adriit thirty days on an iee floe in. Smiths Sound. His permanent eamp wan established Oct. a, was, at the paint, where he was found. During nine monthshis party had to live upon a scant alLwanoe of food brought from Port Cong- r; that cached at Payer Harbor and C*pa Isabella by Sir GeorgeNares in 1876 bnt found much damaged by lapseof time; that cached by Beebe at Cape Sabine in 1882; and a small amount saved from he wr-*ck of the Proteus in 1883 and landed by Lieuts. Gai Hngton and Colw 11 on the beach near whereGreely’s party was fonnd. When these provisions were oonsumvd the party was forced »e live* upon boiled seal-skin stripped from the sealskin clothing, and 1 chens ana shrimps procured in good weather, wh-n they were strong enough, to make exertions. As it took IJWO shrimps tofill a gallon measure, the labor was too exhausting to depend upon them to sustain life entb> ly. The channel between CVpe Babble and Littleton Island did not Is? on account of violent gale* all winter, so that 240 rations at the latter point could not be reached.

From Hare Island to Smith’s Sound I had a. constant and furious struggle with the toe in. Impassable floes. SbUd b xriers were overcome by watchfulness and patience. No opportunity to advance a mile escaped me, and for several hundred miles the ships were breed to ram. their wav from lead to lead through ice varytny in thickness from three to six feet, and when, rafted much greater. The Thetis and the Bear reached Gape York June IS, after a passage of twenty-one days in Melville Bay, wife two advance ships of the Dtmoee whaling fleet, and! continued on to Gape Sabine. Returning seven, days later, we fed in wife seven others of thisfleet off Wostenbolm Island and announced Gre fly’s rescue to them that they might not be* delayed from their fishing grounds nor betempted Into the dangers of Smith's Sound in. view of the reward of $25,000 offered by Congress. Returning across Melville Bay, we fell In. with the Alert ani Lock Garry off Thumb, struggling through the heavy ice. Commandbr Coffin did admirably to get along; so tar with the transport so early In the season before the opening bad o curred. Lieut Emory, with the Bear, has supported me throughout with great skillfulne-s and unflinching readiness in accomplishing the gre o duly of relieving Greely. Tue Greelv party are ve y much), improved sinoe the rescue, but their situation was critioal in the extreme when found and for* several days after. Fotty eight hours’ delay in. reaching them would h.ve been fatal to all whoare now living. The season in the nor his late,, and has been the closest for years. Smith’s Sound was not (p nwh n I left Cape Sabine. The wintrt about Meiviße Bay was the mostSevere lor twenty years. W. t>. Schley, Commander. • The Greely party reached the highest latitude ever attained by polar explorers, namely, 83 deg. 25.5 min. The coast of Greenland was carried up to 83 deg. 35 min. Interviews with Lieut. Greely and other survivors of the unfortunate arctic colony* elicited the following facts:

After passing two winters at Fort Conger inscientific research, Lieut. Greely, with hiawhole party intact, broke np the encampment and commenced a southward descent. Thiswas acc mplished amid great perils from gdea ot wind, ice-nips, and otter casualties. Cape Sabine having been reached, a temporary home was built o- stones md cover d bjr the boat's sails brougut along by theparty. On the 2flth of September winter* quarters were estab ish. d at Cfepe Sabine. The commissariat had bee-omc very meager,, and the cache of provisions left by thoProteus last year but po rly supplemented, it. The steam launch had become ra-it in the iee a few weeks pre.ious and had to*be abandoned during the whole winter. The first havoc, in the i auks was early in January, when one of the men dropped off with scurvy. On the Btb» of April Lieut. Lockwood and Mr. Rice, thephotographer, succumbed alter a heroic attempt had been made to secure about two hundred pounds of meat supposed to be cached at a place named Bad Creek, distantabout fifteen miles from the encami mentIsrael, the astronomer, perished May 27. Lieut. Kislingbury died June 1, and Dr. Pavy, the naturalist, slep In «. e&th June 26. Not one of the victims realized that death was near. They all died a tranquil, painless death. The two Esquimaux also perished, one of starvation. The other was drowned, his kayak being pierced by some newly formed k« Ap.il 17, thus ontting off all hope o. getting any supply of seal meattor ibe starving explorers. The Esquimaux were most faithful and devoted followers and helpers of Lieut. Greely. Ellison was rescued and safely brought onboard the steamship Bear, where he died a few* days subsequently. His is an ex raordimry instance of human endu ance. While away someten miles fro-n bis hut me day last winter thetempera ure suddenly fell to 48 degrees below zero. His hands and feet w-ra irozen to the very bone, ana he was dragg d by his comradesin an almost dying o nditim to his hut. Hisfeet and hands w re literally amputate 1 bv the incisive frost, ani in this terrible state he livedthrough tbe dismal months that intervenjd between that time and the rescue.

A Washington dispatch states that President Arthur, iu conversation with somefriends, said he was very much gratified atthe finding of Lieut. Greely and the remnant of his party. He added: This is the last of arctio ex- editions as far asI can prevent hem. None of them has ever' paid for the extreme suffering and loss of \ aluable lives they have and 11 ink t isabout time that tome ottur nalon try them for* awhile. President Arthur, in previous conversations, has characterized the whale business; as a species of “arctio insanity. * There is general recognition sf th 9 fact that some one is responsible for the deith of the members of the Greely expedi.ion who died from cold and hnnger, and a g -n----eral expectation prevails that a court of inquiry will be ordered when the Secretary of War returns, to place this responsibility where it belongs.

Vanderbilt’s household expenses are said to reach $250,000 a year. About 40,000,000 pennies were coined in the United Slates last year. A telephone fifteen yean cM has been discovered in New York.