Rescue Of The Greely Party

The Grcely party was fouml by the sliips Thetis aud the Bear at 9 P. U. June 22, five miles oft" Cape Sabine, in Smith Sound. Lieut. Greely and six others of the original party of twenty-flve were rescued alive. Seventeeu of the entire party perished froin starvation, and one drowned whlla sealing to procure food. Sergeant Ellison, one of the seveii rescued alive, was badly frost-bitten ar.d died at Godhaven, July 0, after andergoing B surgical operation. Among the number who perished was Sergeant Edward Israel, signal corps, a gradúate of Michigan University, class of '81. It will perhaps be remembered liat the party was landed at Lady Franklin Bay in Aurust, 1881, since which time notliiujf defiuite has been heard trom them. Lieut. Greely's orders were that be should botli make a series of scientilic observations and explore as large in a rea of the Polar región as ie miglit be able. The party were to renain until last f:ill hen a relief ship was : be sent for them. Two vessels, the Proteus and the Yantic, were dispatclied to perforni this duty, but the Proteus, the advunoe ship, was crushed in the ice, the crew having a narrow escajie from death. S'ews of the reseue of the mrvivors reached Washington, July 17.