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Show 1 EXPLORERS REPORTED LOST IN LID OF SNOW AND ICE Three Members of the Anglo-American Arctic Expedition Left the Ship In February and Have Never Re- j turned. Athabasca Landing, Canada. News of tho probablo loss of tho schoonor ' Duchess of Bedford, tho ship belonging; to tho Anglo-American Arctic expedition, expedi-tion, which hnd hopes to find a now continent north of tho Mackcnzlo rlvor, was brought hero by Alfred Harrjson, I who has been beyond tho Arctic clr- 1 clo for two yenrs nnd v.'ho camo hero A , on tho steamer Midnight Sun. Mr. -fev" Harrison says Ernest StofansBon of B Harvard university, nfter whom tho expedition has been called, himself brought tho news of tho loss of their boat to Herschcl Island. Ho also , ,. brought the news of tho disappearance ill of three members of tho party and ex- l pressed tho fear that thoy had mot k death In the frozen north. i 1 Tho missing men nro Cnptnln Mlk- - - kelson, n Dane, Ernest Loffllngwcll of Chlcngo nnd J. Mnrks. Thoy loft the ship In Februnry, with sixty days' provisions, for tho supposed land of tho north, and had been gone seventy days nnd no nuwa had been received fronr them. One of their teams of dogs had returned re-turned and It In feared tho party will never bo heard from ngaln. Tho schooner Duchess of Hertford, StofanB-son StofanB-son thought, had probauly sunk. Tho ship had tilled with water, probably from tho Ice strain, but they had been nblo to remove everything of vnluo to the main shore. |