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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 284, 27 August 1930, Page 11

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Remains of Andree Party BEING TAKEN TO NORWAY Stockholm, August 25. The corpses of Captain Andree and his companions have been placed aboard the Bratvaag, wrapped in sailcloth, with salt. There are also three rifles, two cases of instruments, harpoons, and fishing tackle, Andree’s altimeter, a diary, and the remains of a bear. The Bratvaag is expected to reach Norway on September 10.

For more than thirty years the world had been wondering what had happened to Andree and his companions. It was a Sunday afternoon, July 11, 1897, that the balloon Ornen left the port of Virgo, Spitzbergen, with Messrs. Andree, Strindberg, and Fraenkel, off toward the North Pole. About the middle of August one of the expedition’s carrier pigeons was killed by a seaman on a fishing boat, between Spitzbergen and the Seven Isles. The bird carried a message: July la, p.m. Good progress toward the north. All goes well on board. This message is the third brought by a pigeon.—Andree. Beyond a report, from Siberia, of doubtful value, that a balloon thought to be that of Andree had been sighted for some minutes on September 14, two months after they had set out, nothing more was heard of the party. Salomon Auguste Andree wae born on October 18, 1854, at Grenna, a little tpwn in the province of Smoiland. The son of a chemist, he became a mechanical engineer. After working for some time as a mechanic, he travelled abroad for future study, and became, at the age of 26 assistant professor of pure and applied physical science at the Technical School at Stockholm, where he had been a student. Two years later he commenced his exploring career, participating in a Swedish meteorological expedition to Spitzbergen. In 1884 he was appointed chief engineer to the patents office. _ Becoming interested in aerial navigation, he made his first ascent at Stockholm in 1893. and later made several ascents to obtain scientific data. One of these ended in disaster in the Baltic, and on another occasion, he was carried from Gothenburg to the Baltic, having traversed the whole of Sweden. . The bodies of Captain Andree and his two companions were found a few days ago by Dr. Horn’s scientific party on White Island, well preserved in the ice.