Show my IS ellit H ta 3 TO relt LU STEAMER ROOSEVELT DAMAGED BY ICE AND HOMEWARD JOUR y 10 NEY WILL BS BE SLOW alow Y i members of expedition all well bu but t look thin and tired peary Es ess specially ally showing the effects aj of the terrible journey northward t AIX st john N F the roose roosevelt el t commander peares steamer was bad ly dani damaged aged 0 by b ice in the north and f may not get to north th sydney before ai L september 25 this is tile the news brought by captain neilson of the fishing steamer taff which has art ar t rived here from battle harbor labrador tile the roosevelt Roop evelt struck a rock while entering battle harbor and wag fast for six hours but not ser foully damaged the taff was in battle harbor when the roosevelt arrived from in id dian harbor the roosevelt put in to 0 take on a supply ot of coal and also LO lt give commander peary an eunity to send details of his tar far north ern ein trip to the united states j while the roosevelt was stranded 0 captain went aboard t to 01 offer his assistance und and was thanked by commander peary and captain bartlett who decided that they would be able to work the steamer tree free at high water captain says that commander peary and capt tain lain bartlett showed him film over the h ship and told him that the pole ole had B been reached when captain asked peary I 1 if f he w was is berta certain I 1 n ho 4 had found the pole the commander declared 1 I got there yoga you an may ay rests rest assured of that when the commander of tile the taff asked peary what lie he phout thought alit of dr 1 I cooks claim peary replied that cooks eskimos had assured him that cook scarcely well went t out of sight or of oi land f 1 said that the roosevelt was badly battered and that her hull jf showed the bruises made by jagged pieces of ice ile he was informed that it was the intention of peary and bartlett to run the roosevelt to assiz harbor where she would remain for ten or twelve days so that the men would not be hampered in their work by stormy weather and that the expedition expected to reach sydney I 1 about september 25 1 the crew of the roosevelt are all 11 4 well but look thin and tired and ac 1 w I cording to captain the most av worn woin looking member of the expedit tion is commander peary himself T was informed that the peary 4 party underwent severe hardships in A I 1 4 tile the final stages of the dash to the pole the expedition encountered J blizzards and according to captain was obliged to kill dogs for food professor marvin was drowned and an eskimo was lost the party jour keyed over COO miles on sledges over fair ice fee conditions although at one j time peary and several of his in men e n ha id d a narrow escape from being car 1 ried away by a breakup break up of an ice floe the roosevelt was moored in lati ii tude during the winter the rigging of the roosevelt pre ra dented a curious sight bout about A forty f musk ox heads and heads of reindeer were suspended to yard arms there are twelve dogs the last 0 of nearly hf taken pole ward when the ship reached battle harbor hor her bunkers blinkers held only five tons ton q P ot of coal at that place she took ort V 11 ll board sixty tons the crew and explorers I 1 are dressed in semi arctic at tire all were very anxious to hear aels adwa of the outside world ft i i H J |