Show HORRIBLE TALE Sufferings of the Greely Arctic Expedition JOTS FROM HENRYS DIARY The Horrors of Death from Starvation in the Frozen Regions Irivatgllenrys Diary WASHINGTON February 7The journal jour-nal of Private Heny shot for stealing provisions by order of Lieutenant Greely in the Artic regions covering a period befween October 1883 and June 884 has been made public He writes under date of May 2d He Whistler who was the loudest in his denuncia ion of the unfortunate who was t tempted to purloin the scrap meat was oday caught in the commissary hav a ng broken open the door and was found with about a pound of bacon in his pocket The entry for May 11th is The cowardly action in Greely wanting to shoot Dr P He also drew a rifle on Bender calls Kislingbury liar and pologizes to the enlisted men Four days later is the following Yesterday Biederbeek and Whistler had a row out doors and some one stole Elisons bacon which was under the charge of Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Greely There was terrible struggling Death by starvation actually had no terror forus we looked on with stolid indifference upon our coming fate A few hours before death instead of craving for food they kept calling for water and could hardly be controlled or satisfied All with one exception were unconscious before dy ing Poor Lockwood came out of his bag to stand in the alleyway while the moonshine distillery was going on and was the last to get his portion Ere the rest of us had their share he requested a repetition of the dose from the officiating offici-ating steward and upon being reprimanded repri-manded by the officer for asking such a thing from the steward he turned around to the doctor and said Well I will go to the fountain head and he repeated demand On being absolutely abso-lutely refused he dropped to the floor and hardly ever opened his mouth again to utter another word May 23d after noting that Whistler is dying Henry says Called in the tent and informed that five men made a sworn statement that Pavy stole Elisons rations and that the official record concerning it had been tampered with A W Gif he does die dies the death of a miserable coward cow-ard On May 28th is the following entry Poor Kmslingbury is sinking rapidly and the doctor has given him up Last night Dr R and Lieutenant G had another squabble over the medicines The majority of us fourteen have given up all hopes of seeing our friends again but a few still have the chance at the conclusion of this terrible tragedy to be welcomed with universal acclamation as worthy frontiersmen of Uncle Sam and as men who made themselves immortal by splendid victory and innumerable sufferings hitherto incomparable in the annals of Arctic explorations and against the laws ot nature The notes of the first four days of June are brief memoranda of the rapidly sinking condition of those left These were made just prior to his being shot The extracts from other diariesshow deplorable state bf affair Insubordination Insubordina-tion prevailed to a considerable extent and quarreling sometimes leading to blows was not an unconuuon occurrence occur-rence Sergeant Brainerds diary isin his personal possession and not obtainable obtain-able and Sergeant Connells declines to allow his diary to be inspected stating that it was written with the express understanding that no one but General Hazcn should read it I |