Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-20
SUBJECTS FOR DISSECTION.
Forty Naked Human Bodies Dragged
from the Brine Watts in Ann Arbor Medi.

cal School.
Chicago Inter- Ocean.
Ann Arbor, Mich, June 12.-Colonel
Snelbaker arrived here tonight, in search
of the body of Young Devine, whose disap-
pearance lead to the discovery of the body
Of Scott Harrison. Gaining admission to
the medical college, the janitor vent to
three large watts, full Of dead bodies, floating
in brine, and the inspection began.
First he hurled from their places huge
rocks which had been placed above to
weigh down and keep in place the bodies.
Then, with barred arms, and an expression
of tiendish satisfaction, he began reaching
down into the watts in search of the bodies.
As the weights were removed they foated
to the surface, and were seen to be closely
packed in tierces in the watts, like so many
slaughtered hogs packed for market.
First, next to the front. was the body OF
a young and handsome woman of about %,
with long, golden hair, matted and discol-
ored by the filthy brine into which the body
had been rudely thrown. The face was one
of great beauty, and, though discolored by
the process, still showed that it was the face
of one who in life had known no want, and
upon which the cares of life had left no
traces. Alongside of it, naked, as was the
first, lay the body Of a large negro, in an
skin in large clots slipping from its place,
and revealing the discolored flesh. As the
body foated to the surface with that of the
woman, the short, kinky wool was falling
from the head and floating in the water,
mingled with the golden tresses Of the
woman at his side.
Next in order, beyond, and pressing
against the body Of the negro, was that Of
an old man, his feet encased in rough, filthy,
wooden socks, the. body again naked, the
eyes sunk deep in the sockets, the mouth
opened and filled with the liquid in which
it foated, the features distorted and discol.
ored beyond recognition, and the shaggy
gray whiskers were loosening their hold
and slipped from the face.
As old Negley made a dive at the body,
preparatory to hauling 1t out of the vat, ala.
ed by a stalwart student, whom he had
pressed into the service. the old man pre-
pared to remove the bodies from the vat, in
order that we might see whether or not
those for whom we searched were there.
Selling the first roughly by the head and
shoulders, bis assistant grasping the feet,
the body was lifted to the edge of the vat,
and, without a word of caution or q show
of tenderness, or even the consideration one
would use towards q dead animal, it was
tumbled rudely to the stone floor, the beau
tiful head which had been rillowed on
some manly bosom striking hard upon the
stone floor, the shapely limbs and we'll.
rounded form thrown prone upon the cellar
filth and bones, and the golden, streaming
bair, sodden with the filth of the vat, fall.
ing as a veil upon and over the body, hid.
ing it and the face from its shame.
lie followed with another and another,
until within a few minutes there lay upon
the filthy stone floor, mingled with the
bones and fragments of the apartment q
pile of about twenty CHASTITY corpses, of all
sizes and colors, and all ages and condi
tons the old, the young, the emaciated
the well-rounded figure, the shapen and
misshapen, black and white, pauper and
honored citizen alike, in one promiscuous
heap.
Fol perhaps an hour longer this fiendish
sickening work went on. until the vats were
emptied, and no less than forty naked
corpses lay In heaps upon the floor, of al
ages, sexes and nationalities, thrown pro-
%miscuously together. without the least or
der or attempt at order, q sickening mas
of human corruption. The skin slipping
from the limbs and bodies where they hac
been roughly handled, the hair falling from
the heads, or saturated with orinc, dripping
it's filth upon the bodies below. The dead
distorted. meaningless faces looking GU
through the dim, CHASTITY lamp-liRht In al
forms and In all terrible positions Of coun
tenance on the fiends who were disporttpf
with their sacred flesh.