| Summary: | Rescuing Record Claimed By Bear: Noted Coast Guard Cutter Reports At Nome -- Saved Seven Steamers. RESCUING RECORD CLAIMED BY BEAR: Noted Coast Guard Cutter Reports at Nome—Saved Seven Steamers. NOME, Alaska, July 17. -- The coast guard cutter Bear, which rescued Roald Amundsen's expedition ship Maud from a precarious position in the ice near Cape Serdze, Siveria, arrived here yesterday with the news that the Maud had been towed to within 100 miles south of St. Lawrence island, in Bering sea, and is proceeding under sail toward Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Arrangements have been made by wireless for the coast guard cutter Unalga to tow her from Dutch Harbor to Unalaska. While cruising in eastern Siberian waters the Bear rescued the crew of the wrecked American schooner Gertrude a few miles from East cape, Siberia, where the Gertrude was beached in a sinking condition. The vessel was a total wreck, they reported, and a large cargo of trading goods practically a total loss. The Bear also rescured from St. Laurence island Dr. F. R. Bruning and Dell Bishop, who were ship-wrecked there last fall after they had drifted about for days in a frail boat in one of the worst storms of the season. They spent the entire winter on the island, subsisting on food furnished by the natives. Bishop was brought to Nome and Dr. Bruning was landed in Siberia. Leo P. Harris, a member of the Burnham party, en route to Siberia to hunt sheep and to prospect, returned to Nome with the news that Russian officials at Emma Harbor had refused the party permission to land. Two other members of the expedition are remaining at St. Lawrence island awaiting result of another attempts to secure the required permission to prospect. A. L. Johnson of San Francisco, a member of the Siberian expedition, which sailed from Nome last year on the schooner Casco, later wrecked in northern Bering sea, returned to Nome on the Bear. He suffered many hardships last winter in mushing across the barren tundra from Chaun bay, Siberia, with news of the discovery of gold, silver and tin at that point. John Norberg, Carl Lofdahl and Julius Silverman, all of San Francisco and members of the ill-fated Casco expedition, spent the winter at the mouth of the Amagutma river, near North cape, Siberia, Johnson reported. The other members of the expedition wintered at Cape Serdze, Chaun bay and Kaluychian bay. Other arrivals on the Bear were G. F. Hausler and Ernest Huhn of San Francisco, the two members of the crew of the schooner Esperanza wrecked at Chaun by last year.
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