Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1914 — NORTH POLE VICTIMS [ARTICLE]

NORTH POLE VICTIMS

Lieutenant Sedoff Dies in the Arctic Region. Stefansson, With Only Two Companions, Starts on Two Years' Jouro ney Into Depths Of Ice-Bound Country of the North. London, England. —It Is reported by surviving members of the arctic expedition headed by Lieutenant Sedoff, which left for the north in 1912, at Archangel, that Lieutenant Sedoff died in a vain attempt to reach the north pole. The expedition wintered in 1912 and 1913 in newly discovered territory and later Sedoff proceeded to Franz Josef land, whence he started for the pole, accompanied by two sailors. The leader fell ill on the way and died. Nome, Alaska. —The gasoline schooner King and Winge, which arrived here from Pdint Barrow, Alaska, brought news that VilhjaLmar Stefansson, the Canadian explorer, with two companions set out from Martin Point, east of the mouth of the Barter river, March 22 with six dogs, a sled, two rifles and plenty of ammunition, heading straight north over the ice in search of new Land. A supporting party of three others accompanied Stefansson 60 days due north on the sea ice and then returned, reaching shore April 16. Before starting Stefansson left orders with Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson, his lieutenant in the Canadian government expedition, to establish a camp for him on Banks’ Land. Stefansson may not be heard from for two years, his associates say. The three men in his party are remarkable ice travelers and expected to be able

to subsist on seal meat, as did the dogs. Their sled is built so as to be convertible into a boat for crossing streams of open water In the ice. The gasoline schooner Polar Bear subsequently went as far east as Banks’ Land, skirting the ice and blowing hfcr whistle continuously, but failed tp find any trace of the tlree men. Andrew Norman of the Stefansson expedition was lost for two days last May and was found by searching parties. He became demented as a result of his sufferings while lost and committed suicide by shooting. This is the first fatality in the expedition as far as known. The story of how Ernest De Koven Leffingwell, the arctic explorer, and Capt. Otto Nahems, a formfer member of the Stefansson party, had traveled from Flaxman island to Point Barrow in a dory was brought here from the arctic. The perilous journey of the pair took 39 days. Both are on the steam schooner Jeanette, which left Point Barrow for San Francisco August 21. Sprague Brooks, an ornithologist from Harvard university, was reported aboard the revenue cutter Bear. He was a member of the Stefansson party and was picked up at Poipt Barrow, where he had been taken from Demarcation point on the schooner Anna Olga. The four-masted schooner Holmes went ashore on Sea Horse island, near Point Barrow, but was pulled oft by the Bear and taken to Point Barrow August 25. The gasoline schooner North Star has been purchased and added to the Canadian exploring fleet. Doctor Anderson sailed from Herschei Island August 16, with the vessels Mary Sachs, North Star and Alaska. The Mary Sachs will go to Banks’ Land direct, and the North Star and Alaska, with Doctor Anderson, will go to the Coppermine river in Union straits, 500 miles east of Herschei island.