The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 27, 1897, Page 2

a2 HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1897 Conneil, one of the six survivors of the ill- fated expedition, to-night. He said: “I can only speak for mysel; and who- | ever says that I knowingly ate any bodies of my dead comrades lies, and he had better not so state to me. What oth- | ers may have done thev can state for themselves. After the suffering Iendured Ithink it a shame that I should be ac- cused of such a crime, and I believe that a thorough and searching investigation should be instituted by the proper author- ities. If cannibalism was practiced it was | not done so operly, and I have no positive knowledge that itdid occur. If it dida Congressional investigation should be had atonce and the guilt and blame fixed upon the guilty parties, if there were such, that the stigma of such a charge shall not | rest upon those who were innocent by both thought and deed. The charzeisa| terrible one for an innocent man to rest under, and knowing I am innocent I court the fullest investigation. 1 would disdain to purchase life at any such price.”’ This ended the interview with Mr. Con- nell and he exhibited great fecling in speaking of the charges. While he could | not be induced to hint at any wrongdo- | | ing on the part of his comiades there is no doubt that these disclosures do not come as & sarprise to him. He must bave had silent suspicions that one or more of the dead bodies of his comrades were not buried in the little graveyard on the hill. | When the rescuing party came to recover | the bodies of the dead there were two that were not accounted for. Itisa matter of | record that two bodies were not buried in the cemetery, but those disposing of them ciaimed to have buried them in a crack in the ics. What an investigation may dis- | close is mere conjecturs, but for the sake of the innocent it is hoped if guilt exists that it may be fixed where it baicngs. The five survivors in addition to Mr. Conneil of this place are General A. W. Greely, Washington, D. C.; Captain D. L. Brainard, New Orleans; Julius R. Fred- erick, Weatber Bureau, Indianapolis, Ind.; Francis Lonz, Weather Bureau, New York City, and Henry Beiderback, Cus- tom-house, New York. - | HOW GREELY’S PARTY SUFFERED Story of Starvation and Death at Cape Sabine as Told by a Survivor. Maurice Connell Relates the Ter- | rible Battle With Cold and Hunger in the Far North. RED BLUFF, CaL., Sept. 26.—Few men have had the experience of passing through th» portals of life and into the dark shadows of death, then to be trans- | ported back to the sunsrine and beaury of recovered exisience after months of pri- | vation and inten-e suffering which was | far worse than death itself, Such was the experience of Maurice Connell, one of the | six survivors of the famous Greely expe- | dition, which sailed from St. Johns, New- | foundlard, July 8, 1881 The expedition was sent out by the United States Govern- ment ior the objeci of scientific research in the arctic regions. The expedition was composed of twenty-five men and | reached the latitude of Sl deg. 44 min. | north in a chartered vessel. On August3, 1881, the ship returned to the United States and left the party at that point, which is now known as Fort Conger, Grinnell Land. During the spring of 1882 the party had placed the American flag at the most northerly voint ever reached by man— 83 degrees 24 minutes. A ship which had been intended io reach the party during | the summer of 1882 with more provisions, and also to return the sick to the United States aid not reach the party on account of the heavy ice to the southward of Fort Conger, but nothing daunted this party of brave patriots made preparations again in the spring of 1883 to piant Old Glory still nearer the north pole. The success of their plans was frustrated by meeting with open water in the month of April, and their further advance had to be aban- | doned. Attention was then turned to ex- | ploration to the westwara, and the party succeeded in reaching the western ocean directly across Grinnell Land. The party landed in the north in 1881 with but two years’ provi-ions, and in the summer of 1833 thess had been aimost ex- hausted. Preparations were made to re- treat, which was commenced August 8, 1#83. Up to this time the party was ex- tremely successful in explorations and observations, having accumulated a vast amount of data; during this time there was no sickness or fatality and the entire twenty-five men were well and strong. This was surprising when the fact is known that they lived in darkness for five months of each year with the temperature down to70deg. below zero. The retreat was undertaken in three small open boais and a small steam launch. Unless meet- ing a ship on the way the party knew that it would be necessary to travel 800 miles before reaching relief. As the party was made up of volunteers from the regular army and composed of | the temperature was below zero. “THE RESCUL,” JUNE 23, 1884. In this picture Maurice Connell is in the “‘sleeping bag’’ on the left, and the surgeons are forcing Connell did not recover consciousness until on board the steamer Thetis. brandy between his lips. | men who were mured to hards ips in | miles south of Cape Sabine. Upon es- fightinz Indians on the frontier, they were | caping from the ice the party was con- better soldiers than sailors and men fear- | fronted with worse conc ard on water, After | as the land was a dreary waste covered thousand hair-breadth escapes those | with ice and devoid of vegetation, except twenty-five adventurers reached a point|the hardy lichens which grew out of the | less on land but aw forty-eight miles due north of Cape Sa- bine, where Lieutenant Pearv found the relics of the expedition mentioned in THE CALL yesterday. their way through narrow lanes of water which separated the land from the vast mountains of ice that extended for | nundreds of miles north and south, but at the point mentioned the ice closed in upon them. For thirty-three days they were helpless and driited with the ice-floe wherever the wind and current would drive.it. They ndoned and lost all of their boats but the one wiaich Mr. Con- | nell had in charge. Several aitempts were made to reach land over the ice, but when almost successful the floating ice-pack would be driven back into the sea by furi- ous cales from the sou.heast. When starting to retreat for Fort Con- ger on August 8, 1883, it was necessary to | take as much coal as possible. The launch | as well as valuable instruments and records and only provisions for twenty- six days could be taken. clothing and provisions for each man was ! limited, and twenty-five days had elapsed when the party found itself in the icepack without food or fuel except what was oh- tained from the seals killed in the open leads in the ice. Winier had set in and Their clothing was very scant, and, having no shelter, their sufferings became very great and their condition weakened, but all the men were yet alive. After giving up all hope of escaping from the ice the party ‘was carried against the land, forty-five PRIVATE MAURICE CONNELL, One of the Six Survivors of the Greely Expedition. This drawing was made from a photograph taken in 1883, soon after he returned from the Arctic, and he has never had a picture taken since. They had been groping | | in the ice. 1itions than before, heart ot the granite rccks. It was a prospect to make the bravest hear quail. yet these true soldiers of the republic never gave up hope and at onc: began preparations to build srow huts, which they realiz d would be their lust resting place unlessa rescue party reached them, as shey had no prov sions of any kind, except a few seals that could be shot and captured in the rapidly freezing poois Two men were sent north to Cape Sabine, to see if any record of a re- lief expedition could be iound there. After four days they got back tocamp weary, exhausted and almost succumbed to starvation. Thev brought news of a relief expedition shat was wreckel near Cape Sabine in the previous June. The suivivors had retreated to the south and the supplies sunk with the ship, except ys. These were deposited among the | rocks and considerably scattered. It was move north to Cape Sabine to live upon the rations found, as long as they should last, in the hope of rescue. They arrived at Cape Sabine about November 1. The sun had left, and continued darkness had ! set 1n, the temperature then being far be- low zero and all avenues of escape by water closed. A house was made of snow and loose rocks. The boat was used to partiaily cover the hut and the mast and oars were cut and vsed as rafters to support the sail and boat as a roof. sixteen feet long and eight feet wide and the floor was the frozen lake. On this floor were la’d what men call “'sleeping bags,”” made out of buffalo robes with the hair sewed inside and large enough to hold two men. Tuiere was but one thick- ness of the buffalo robe between the bodies of the men and the ice and the same over them. The only fire lighted was for a few minutes to thaw ice into water whan their scant meals were prepared. In the sleeping bags it was necessary for & man to keep hitting his feet together to keep up the circulation, and when sleep would foliow weariness from this exercise dreams of food in plenty haunted the minds of the poor starving mortals. Many a time Mr. Counell awoke with a start, dreaming that he was putting a piece of cake to his mouth, and the in- tense disappointment nearly drove him frantic. Sleeping on the ice among the filth of the hur, the continual exertion to keep warm both in and out of the sleep- ing-bag, the {rantic gnawings of bunger and the mental agony at the apparent hopelessness of rescue made the living envy those who had died leaving mes. sages for those at home in case of rescue. The agony snd suffering of Mr. Connell and his comrades is best told in his own langnage. When asked as to the occur- rences at Cape Sabine he said: “No language of mine can adequately portray the horrors of those eight months from November 1, 1883, to June 22, 1884, while grappling with grim death at Cape Sabine. The provisions, which were hardly sufficient to iast forty days, were limited so us to last sixty days, and were then again extended to last till March 1 “Fr April 1% to the time of the res- cue, June 22, not a morsel of civilized food had entered my mouth, Dnring thattime my bill of fare consisted of the few lickens 1 could serape from the rocks and the cin- ders made from sealskin clothes of both enough to last the Greely party focly | | determined that the entire party should | Tne supply of | The hut was about | the living and the dead, with soup occa. sionally made from sealskin thongs. The | first death in the party occurred in Janu- } ary, and from that time until within two days of the rescue eighteen brave spirils had taken th flisht. My condition, ac- cording to Commander Schley’s reporr, | was as follows: ‘Private Connell’s condi- tion when found was desperate and criti- cal. Hewas speechlessand breathing with difficulty; he was cold almost to the waist. His eyes were fixea and glassy in appear- | ance. Stimulauts wers administered by the surgeons after their arrival with con- giderable difficulty, although Colwell ven- tured to anticipate them on account of his extreme condition. 11s heart was pulsing irregularly, his temperature was quite | low, while his face was swollen beyond | recognition. From his eyes and the cor- ners of his mouth offenzive humor was | emitting. He was virtually saved from the jaws of death.” 1 had no recollection of the rescue. As I learned aiterwazd, one of my com- | panions, Beiderback, had made the state- ment that he had heard a ship’s whistle. | Lieutenant Greely could not believe this, and to appease Beiderback, who he thought was becoming delirious, which was the condition affecting all before death, he asked Brainard and Long to go to the cliff overiooking the ocean to see if a ship was in sight. Brainard returned and reported nothing in sight. Long went farther, and upon looking down on the water washing the shore saw, to his great joy, a ship’s steam launch fiiled with | healthy and vigorous men from the Thetis and Bear, which sailed from New York the previous Apr.d under Commander | Winteld 8. Schley and Lieutenant W. H. | Emery, United Siates navy. Long’s firs: act was to roll down an inclined glacier, and whan he strack the launch he said, ‘Give me some hardtack,’ meaningship’s biscuit, and would give no information until he got the hardtack. He then told the officers of the locaiion of the camp. The first words heard by the occupants of the tent were; ‘Cheer up, boys; we are here to re:cue you.” “We had left our winter hut in May and moved 500 yards up the bill to avoid the thawing of the ice. All the instru- meuts and . lics spoken of by Lieutenant Peary were left 1o and around the oid winter hut, and in the excitement attend- ing our rescue, and being virtually use- less, they were eft behind.” Notwithstanaing his great suflering and privation in the Arctic, Mr. Connell is vet enthusiastic on exploration in the far north. He says the aiscovery of the north pole can be of no value to the hu- man race, but the Arctic region in general presents a valuable field for knowledge whicb, he thinks, would indirectly be of interest to the scientific worll. He states that the most valuable collection of nat- ural history of those regions is stored in the house they livea in at Fort Conger, three miles north of Cape Sabine. He be- lieves that this collection can be recov- ered, and, with a properly equipped ship, would be eager to lead an expedition and guarantee the recovery of the collection, The expense of the expedition would be more than repaid by the recovery of this vast fund of research and information, in- cluding the individual diaries of each member of tne party, which in itseif would be a treasure. When Mr. Connell was asked, ‘‘Has the Government done anything 1o reward you and the other survivors?” he said: *Oh, yes, the Government rescued me and I am thankfal. I wasonly a poor private, you know. Greely was rewarded by being general, and another of the party was made a captain in the regular army. “Bat, Mr. Connell, you are in the Gov- ernment service?’ ; “On, yes, I am allowed to earn my liv- ing the same asany other man in the weather service?”’ “By the way,” he added, ‘“‘they thought my salary was too much at $1300 per year and last month reduced it to §1200.” While Mr. Connell would cast no reflsc- tions on those in command, taere is un- doubtediy much unwriiten history con- nected with the disaster that overtook the ill-fated Greely expedition which would place the events that occurred in a far d.f- ferent light from the published reports. The version of affairs would be greatly al- tered, no doubt, by the records which lie buried at Fort Conger, and should they ever be recovered there will be recorded a new history of the Greely expedition. DIET SABBATH i NEW ORLEANS Fever Situation Said to Show Much Improve- ment. Fifteen New Cases Recorded, but No Deaths Since Friday. Bed-Clothing and O-her Articles of Infected Houses Burned in the Streets. NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 26.—To-day was the quietest of the week in New Orleans, ana the fever situation, in spite of the appearance of rather a large num- ber of new cases, may be said to have shown much improvement. Fifteen cases | were recorded on the books of the Board of Health, but there were no deaths and there have been no deaths since Friday. The authorities received reports during the evening from nearly every patient that is under treatment, and they ware ali to the effect that the cases are doing well, 2nd that no patient 1s in any immed danger of dissoiution. Some forty cases were reported to-night as being rapidly on the mend and a number of them wiil be discharzed during the week. Oze of the most dangerous cases that has appeared was dircharged to-day. It was that on Madison street, in the neigh- borhood of the French Market, where the conditions were considered to be such as to warrant fear that the disease would spread. Unusual precautions, however, were taken by the authorities to quaran- tine the case and improve the sanitary | conditions of the neighborhood, and the fever in that vicinity seems to have been stamped out completely. At Oaklani Park detention camp all the refugees who bhave been given quarters were declared to be well, no sickness hay- ing vet appeared in the camp. To-day’s record of new cases is as fol- lows: E. Toma, G.G. McHardy, A. Goldman, Lou Lawior, Micaael Dwyer, James Gray, Percy and Stsie Matson, — Bronson. Andrew and Miss Pizzo and a servaut, Arthur Blake, Emuma schlosscher, Mrs. W.'H. Witliams. The new cases are as usual scattered. The most prominent among them are Mr. McH>rdy. a wealthy insurance man, and Mrs. Williams, wife of General W. Williams, a well-known newspaper man. There are now four cases in the Williams residence, but they are a!l reported to be doing well. E. Toma is the brother of the man who died of yellow fever last week and lives in the same premises. A num- ber of children are among the new cases. Professor Metz to-day burned in_the street the pedclothing and other articles in the house in which the man Serres died on Constance street, the clothing first having been subjected to formalde- hyde disimfection. Som-= lossis being suf- fered by the poorer clusses whose effects have been burned. Professor Me!(z said to-night that he was hopeful of getiing the city 1o make an ap- propriation to cover just such cases of dis- tress. Professor Meciz has placed these generators at the railroad d:pots, and baggage is beins prumptly and thor- onwhly disinfected before 1t is put on irains, 1. local charity organizations are tak- ing steps to relieve all cases of destitution that are presented. The Board of Health supplies medicines and the charity hospi- tal phy<icians, and the charity organiza- tions will try to provide food for the poorer clacses. Mrs. A. McCubbage died this morning in Ocean springs of yellow fever. She had veen sick several days and ber case had already been reported, There huave been no new cases at Ocean Spring<. Reports from the detention camp say that about ten refugees from New Orleans have arrived tliere and eizh- een irom Biloxi. There is no sickness in the camp save one case of ;sciatic rheuma- tism. The pitients tn the hospital, a mile away from the camp, are recovering. The Board of Health of the State offici- ally announces the status of affairs in New Orleans, as regards the yellow fever, to be as follows: During the twenty-four hours ending Sun- day, September 26 af 9 . ), there we:e: Cases of yellow fever, 17; deatis, none; total cases to date, 138; total deaths irom yeilow jever to date, 17. Hereaiter it is proposed to aunounce the number of premises rel@ssed from quaran- tine, also the number of phtients ¢ as well, &. R. OLIPHAX Louisiana State Board ¢ WALTER C. Fi Mayor of New Orieans. The Board of Health has received ad- vice of a case of yellow fever at Tallulan, La. The board will hold a meeting to- morrow to consider the guestion of quar- antining Galveston. L 0 ONE DEATH AT EDWARDS. A Few More Strides and the Whole Town Will Be Stricken. EDWARDS, Miss., Sept. 26.-—There has teen one death from yellow fever here to- day—that of Mra. Noblin. The following cases are reported since 7 o'clock last night: ‘Whites—Mrs. Levi, Mary Sagler, Mrs. Drum- good, Mr. Duke Askew, Caroline Brown, Mrs. Sadie Martin, Lee Mariin, Esther Harris, Eva Harris, Mrs. Etnel Crister, Dr. W. M. Cham- pion, Mrs. & A. Harrs, Mrs. W. H. Harris, Waverly dson, Mrs. J. B. Graves, Mrs. Pav- enkott, J. W. Berber and the little daughter of J. Boxtel. Colored—Alf Beard, Willie Brown, Annie Maxie, Rosa Sweeger, Sammie Thomas. Now cases to-day, 23; iotal cases to date, 76; deaths for the day,1; total deaths to date, 7. * A new case Hul, that of one, Hill A few more strides and the fever will have stricken the entire town of Edwards. Mr. Cris'er, our only drucgist, was tuken this morning, and Dr. Hunter of the State Board has been wired ior another druc- gistimmune irom the aisease. Oaly three or four cases are considered serious, and these are receiving the best of attention from physicians and expert nurses. Among those taken with the disease to- developed at Champion Ctampion, is a serions Another case is reported at Queen’s promoted from a lieutenant to a brigadier- s A M s day was C. R. Barber, representative of the Associated Press and one of the wealthiest men in Edwards. Some days ago Mr. Barber advised the Jacksou offi e of the Associsied Press that ne feared he was taking the disease, but that it was his intention to sead the news as long as possible. Fred Johnson, an immune operator from Tallulah, AJa., has been sent to take the place of Mr. Barber, and he went on daty to-day. L e DR. WEMAN'S ADVICES. Repor's of Marine Hospital Surg=ons in the fever Distric’. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 26.—Sur- geon-General Wyman of the Marine Hos- pital to-night received the following ad- vices from the yellow fever district: From Atlanta, Ga., Dr. Sawtelle repor's that thers were no yellow fever suspects on the trains and there are no suspicious cases in the ciiy. Two suspects now in the detention camp prove to beall right. Dr. Glennan at Mobile reports that there were five new cases there to-day but no deaths. The urgent need of inspectors of freight disinfection at Montgomery and Thomaston is urged by Surgeon Glennan and he requests authority to ap- point three. He adds that if the New Or- leans baggage is lubeled disinfected like that of Mobile it will not be detmned near Atlanta. Surgeon Kalloc at Cairo, Ill., reports that the temperatures of ail the cases on the Government dredgeboat Alpha were | normal this morning. Those cases in the Marine Hospital will be discharged to- morrow and tnag_1n ‘St. Mary’s Hospital hasalresdy been-discharged as well. Dr. Guiteras, the expert, reports that there isno vellow fever at Talluiah and Delbi, La., where he was sent to investi- ate certain suspicious cases of sickness. There is a case -of fever at California, the wife of & physician, and the infection was traced 1o Edwards, Miss. The settlement is small and scattered and there probably will be no serious resulis. o e ONE ‘DEAIH AT MOBILE. Report More Favorable Than Antlicipated | by Many. MOBILE, Ara., Sept. 26 —The returns at the Board of Health office to-day for the twentv-iour bours ending at noon showed five new cases and no desatiis, with | iwo patients discharged. This leaves | twenty-ane under. treatment. So favorable a report was not looked for by many, for the weather has turned warm again, and thie increase in the number of cases the last two days seemed | 8 a prelude to a serious turn of the out- break. There is, however, no actual change for the worse, the c: on Lafay- ette sireet, near the old Sueliroad, being but a reappearance of the disease in one of the foct where it seemed to be stamped out. is cace is that of Brother Simproinan, | of the Catholie school and orphan asylum, The isolation of the sick man is complete, the seminsry being detached from the school proper. The deaths so far show a ratio of 14 per cent. Another death was reported to- nig fiss Florence Barley, aged 24, residing at Eimira. Sbe was reported yesterdav. ——— Little Change at Biloxi. BILOXI, Mrss, Sept. 26 —The condi- tion of affairs nere to-day is very little changed from what it has been for the past several days. cases reported up to this iime and the sick, with tew exceptions, ure doing well, Edaward Benedict of the Review is re- ported as being critically :ll with the fever. ThLe Board of Health reports: To- tal cases of yellow fever 10 date, 97; new cases, 10: pow nnder ireatment, 56; total yellow tever deaths to daie, 4. Another Drath at Ocean Springs. OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss,, Sept. 2 Surgeon Murray went 10 Scranton to-day, where he attended Rev. Futher Vaw, who died an_bour later. Board of Hea.th re- port: New cases, 1; discharged, 2; death, 1—Mrs. Cubbage. To Cure & Cold in Oue Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. gists rerund the mouey 1f it fails to cure. 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