The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-06-15

BRINE into which the body he'd been
rudely thrown. The face was one o.
great beauty, and though discolored bg
the process, still showed that It was the
face of one who IN life had known nc
want, and upon which the cares Of life
had left no traces. Alongside of it.
naked as was the first, lay the body OF q
large negro, in an advanced state Of de-
composition, the black skin in large clots
slipping from its place, and revealing the
discoored fesh. AS the body fioated to
the surface with that OF the woman, the
short, kinky wool, 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 pressin 6
against the body of the negro was that OF
an old man, bis feet encased IN rough,
! filthy wooden socks, the body naked, the
eyes sunk deep in the sockets, the mouth
opened and filled with the liquid IN
which it fosted, the features distorted
and discolored beyond recognition; the
shaggy, gray whiskers, cut close, were
loosening their hold and slipping from
the face.
SHOCKING.
AS old Negley made dive at the body,
preparatory to hauling 1t out OF the vat,
q stalwart student whom he had pressed
into the service, began to remove the
bodies, in order that we might see
whether or not those for whom We
searched were there. SEEING the first
roughly by the head and shoulders, his
assistant grasping the feet, the body
was lifted to the edge OF the vat, and
without word of caution or show OF
tenderness, or even the consideration
human would use toward dead animal,
it was tumbled rudely to the stone floor,
the beautiful head which had been pill
lowed on some manly bosom striking
hard upon the stone floor; the shapely
limbs and well-rounded form thrown
prone into the cellar filth aud bones, and
the golden, streaming hair, sodden with
the filth of the vat, fslling as veil upon
and over the body, hiding it and the
lace from its shame.
He followed with another and another,
until within few minutes there lay upon
the filthy stone floor, mingled with the
bones and fragments of the apartments,
pile of twenty CHASTITY corpses OF all
sizes and colors, ages and conditions; the
old, the young, the emscisted, the we'll
rounded figure, the shspen and mis-
shapen, black and white, psuper and
honored citizen alike in one promiscuous
heap.
Then he reached down again, and
seizing q half-sunken, ill-shsped object,
he dragged it to the surface, exposing the
BODY OF beautiful woman Of about
thirty, the abdomen ripped open, the
limbs twisted and disfgured, and the
black, streaming hair floating in the wa
ter about the head. Drawing II from the
water he threw it suddenly upon the
heap OF corpses, and as it struck, an IN
fsnt sf perhaps seven months fell from
the womb. Snatching 1t up with ghoul-
ism leer and an expression beyond des-
cription, his assistant held 1t up to full
view, and with hesrtless laugh asked If
that was the one OF which we were IN
search. For perhaps sn hour longer
this iendish, sickening work went on
until the vsLs were exptled, and no less
that forty corpses lay IN heaps upon the
hoor, Of all sexes and nationsltles,
thrown promisculously together with
out the least order, sickening
mass of human corruption. The skin
slipping from the limbs and bodies
where they had been roughly handed,
the hair falling from the heads, or sat-
ursted with brine, dripping its filth upcn
the bodies below, the dead, distorted
meanin sless faces looking out through
the dim, ghastly lamplight in all forms
and in sll terrible positions Of counten-
ance on the fiends, who were dIsportiDg
with their sacred flesh.
BODIES IDENTIFIED.
Then the work of inspection began.
Col. Snelbsker carefully inspected all the
bodies which bore resemblance to the
dead for whom he sought, and succeeded,
he thinks, IN identifying several of them.
Young Devins' body he has very ac-
curate description OF, and has found one
which so closely corresponds with it that
there seems 10 be little doubt, from the
description, that 1t is the one long sought
for. The peculiar msrks-the scar
upon the leg, the missing teeth, the pecu-
hsrity OF the foot-all are plainly
observable, and lead him to believe that;
his search has been successful. At least
he feels sure that he has found several,
perhaps a dozen or twenty, of the bodies
from Cincinnati or immediate vicinity.
In regard to Devin's body, he, although
feeling sure that 1t is here, is not yet
sufficiently certain that the decomposed
and disagured mass found is the one
wanted, and will await the arrival of
relatives of the deceased, who will per-
hsps be better able TO decide.
OF the other bodies he feels confident
that several are already recognized, and
it ia possible very many others will be.
OF the Faculty, we have not seen a
single soul Some of them are believed
TO Lave taken an active part in pro-
curing these subjects abroad, even par
tcipsting in the work themselves, and
il is expected that there will be some
further interesting and very startling de-
yelopments within few days.