Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1899 — PROBABLE FATE OF EXPLORER ANDREE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PROBABLE FATE OF EXPLORER ANDREE.

News of the discovery of the bodies of three men and the wreckage of a balloon near the base of the Kena mountains, in Siberia, seems to remove all doubt as to the fate of Explorer Andree and his party. The location of the wreckage would indicate that the balloon, after sailing a short distance to the northward, on leaving Dane’s Island, on July 11, 1897, was caught by counter currents and swept to the southeast. The Russian Government has dispatched a party to bring in the bodies and equipment, and until its return nothing definite will be known.