People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1894 — WELLMAN PARTY IS SAFE. [ARTICLE]

WELLMAN PARTY IS SAFE.

The Steamer Ragnvald Jarl Spoken by a Norwegian Sealer. London, July 30. —Carl Siewers, the Norwegian arctic enthusiast, received a telegram from the captain of the Erling, a Norwegian sealer which arrived Friday at the island of Tromsoe, Norway. The captain of the sealer said in his dispatch that when near Amsterdam island, in latitude 84 north, the Erling spoke the Ragnvald Jarl, the steamer which was conveying the Wellman arctic expedition to the edge of the pack-ice. The Ragnvald Jarl, in replying to signals, asked to be reported at the nearest place the Erling touched at, saying that all were well on board. The Ragnvald Jarl had been beset by pack-ice which had delayed her progress considerably. But Wellman and his party were then free of the ice and they should now be well on their way to the north pole.