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Show I KARLUK ADRIFT I SOMEWHERE IN II THE ARCTIC SEA 11 Stefansson and Party of Hunt- HH ers Go Ashore to Secure II Fresh Meat; Return to HI Find Vessel Gone. H TWENTY-FIVE MEN IS REMAIN ON BOARD II Anxiety Felt by Explorer, Who Is Planning an Ice Ex- II pedition to Mackenzie HI OTTAWA, Ont., Dec. 8. Somewhere I I within the confinos of the arctic circle I n 18 drifting Yilhjolmur Stefansson 'a Hljfl staunch - little vessel, the Karluk, Eafelj III frozen in an ice pack. But tho loader i of the expedition is not with his vessel III an " nnaware t9 whereabouts, ac-I ac-I H cording to a dispatch received from the I II explorer himself today by George J. Ill Desharats, deputy minister of naval af-lll af-lll fairs and acting minister of marine and HjH Stefansson 's message states that be- H lieving the Karluk safe in the ice in B I longitude west 147, fifteen miles off H fihore, he took a party ashore with him I to hunt. The noxt day heavy gales H I sprang up and then a fog. When tho H M weather clearod the Karluk was not in I M sight and had undoubtedly been carried lltl away by tho wind, which drove tho ice im Pck off shore. HPS So far tho search for the Karluk has 12 been unsuccessful, but as she has a crew I of twenty-five men on board no anx- i icty is felt for its welfare. 1 Message Sent Overland. 9 The message received today was W dated October 30 from Point Barrow, 9 Alaska, and was Bent overland from jl there to Circle, where it was dispatched B on December 5. Tho message reads: fl Tho Karluk, beset by heavy Ice on August 12, in longitudo west 1-17, flf- teen miles on! shore. Ship frozen In M on August -17 and drifted with the, Icq I until September 10. when tho drift I stopped. On September 20, believing I the ship fast for the winter and as it I was necessary to secure fresh meat, I I took Jenues, McConnell. Wllklns ana three Eskimos ashore to hunt. Northeast North-east gales sprang up September 22, with snow nnd fog. When the storm cleared on the 24th the Ice had gene nnd the Karluk with it. The ice un- , doubtedly went west before tho wind. Tho Karluk may possibly have broken free and steamed east, but she probably prob-ably remained fast and drifted west with the Ice. Followed the coast west to Barrow, but tho . Karluk has not been sighted. Tho schooners Sachs and Alaska, with southern party, are-1 safe at Colllnson point. The schooner Belvldcre with cargo of freight and provisions Is wintering win-tering near the International boundary. bound-ary. I am planning an Ice expedition from the 145th meridian to the Mackenzie Mac-kenzie delta, making survey and taking tak-ing sounding for steamer routo. The Karluk has on board a company com-pany of twenty-five. Including Beu-cliat. Beu-cliat. Macbay, Mamen, AIcKinley, Murray and Malloch, with the members mem-bers of the crow and five Eskimos. (Signed) - STEFANSSON. Last Message in August. The last message previous to today's was received from fetefansson early In August. At that time he reported that the Karluk had behaved well in a heavy storm and hud rounded Point Hope on I Those ashore now with Stefansson are Dr. D. Jcnnes of Wellington, N. C, assistant as-sistant anthropologist. Burt II. Wilktns of Montreal, the photographer; B. M. Mc-Connell, Mc-Connell, Los Angeles, Cal.. assistant to Stefansson, and meteorologist. The other scientific men who remain on board the Karluk are Henry Bauchat, mm anthropologist; Alister Forbes-Mackay, mm Edinburgh, Scotland, surgeon; BJarme BJJ Mammon, Chrlstianla, Norway, assistant H geologist; W. L. McKinley.t Glasgow, Scotland, expert In terrcatlal magnetism; mm James Murray. Glasgow, Scotland ocean-V ocean-V ographer; George Malloch, Ottawa, chief geologist and topographer. Power Schooner Wrecked. H The power schooner Mary Sachs, which Stefansson said in his message was safo October 30 at Colllnson point, was wrecked In the Jce off the arctic coast of Alaska some time previous to November 2S, the date on which a letter was re-11 re-11 ceived at Nome. Alaska, from Peter Bar- mm naxd, captain of tho vessel, telling of her lOSS. mm . .The Ice crushed the schooner Into small mm bits and all provisions and scientific In- Wm Btruments were lost. The letter from Captain Barnard gavo no details of the I accident. As nothing was said of any in-Jury in-Jury to the men on the Mary Sachs it was presumed that they were safe. Tho Mary Sachs waH purchased by Stef-anEson Stef-anEson at Nome for the U3e of the southern south-ern party of his Canadian expedition. Sho was a gasoline schooner of 35Q tons, gross register. She carried a crew of three men and was built at Benicia, Cal., In |