Show whaling fleet la in danger nw now bedford mass june 29 letters received in this city from her schel achel island land bring the intelligence that tha three of the staunchest steamers steamer of the sn san Fravi francisco cisco whaling fleet were wen caught in the tee ice off the mouth of 0 the th mackenzie river last september and anc could not make a harbor these ves sels aels the mary D hume captain wil liam haggerty hag gerty the jesse 11 freeman captain W S P porter and the fear lets less captain james mckenna were frozen in the ice while trying to malc make a harbor they were in no danger during the winter but the letters letter tate state that during june when the ice pack breaks up the vessels will have a hard time of it and the chances are that all three will be crushed in the ice it if so the lives live of from to men will be in dan ger the whaler were short of pro visions and the crews had to haul supplies from herschel island over lee ice on dog sledges to the vessels |