Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-27

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REVELATIONS OF A DISSECTING ROOM.
HORRIBLE STORY FROM ANN EARBoR.
A letter from Ann Harbor, Michigan, dis.
closes the following horrible discoveries made
in the medical college there, after the clue OBJ
tanned by finding the dead body Of Scott Har-
rison, in one of the lower rooms, preparatory
to be taken up to the dissecting room:
Col. Sne!baker arrived at Ann Harbor on
the night of the 18th of June, in search of
the body of young Devine, whose disappear
ance led to the discovery of the body of Scott
Harrison. Gaining admission to the medical
college, the janitor went to three large vats,
full Of dead bodies, floating in brine, and the
inspection began.
First, be 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 6end-
ish satisfaction, he began reaching down into
the vats in search of the bodies. As the
weights were removed they Aoated to the sur:
face, and were seen to be closely packed in
tierces in the vats, like so many slaughtered
hogs packed for market.
First, next to the front, was the body of q
young and handsome woman of about %, with
long, golden hair, matted and discolored by
the filthy brine into which the body had been
rudely thrown. The face was one of great
beauty, and, though dscolored 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. Along
side of it, naked, as was the first, lay the body
of a large negro, in an advanced state of de-
composition, the black skin, in large clots,
slipping from its place, and revealing the dis
colored flesh. As the body Aosted to the sur
face 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 open, and filled with
the liquid in which it foated, the features dis
torted and discolored beyond recognition, and
the shaggy, gray whiskers were loosening
their hold and slipping from the face.
As old Negley made a dive at the body,
preparatory to hauling it out of the vat, aided
by stalwart student, whom he had pressed
into the service, the old man prepared to re.
move 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, his assis.
tant 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 one 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
we'll rounded form thrown prone upon the
cellar, filth and bones, and the golden, stream
ing hair, sodden with the filth of the vat, fall.
ing as a veil upon and over the body, hiding
it and the face from its shame.
He followed with another and another, un.
til within few minutes there lay upon the
filthy stone floor, mingled with the bones and
fragments Of the apartment, pile of about
twenty CHASTITY corpse, of all sizes an6 colors,
and all ages and conditions; the old, the
young, the emaciated, the wellrounded figure,
the shapen and misshapen, black and white,
pauper and honored citizen alike, in one pro-
miscuous heap.
For perhaps an hour longer this 6endish,
sickenng work went on, until the watts were
emptied, and no less than forty naked corpses
lay in heaps upon the floor, Of all ages, sexes,
and nationalities, thrown promiscuously to.
gether without the least order or attempt at
order, sickening mass of human corruption.
The skin slipping from the limbs and bodies
where they had been roughly handled, the
hair falling from the heads, or saturated with
brine, dripping its filth upon the bodies below.
The dead, distorting meaningless faces look
ing out through the dim, ghastly lamplight in
all forms and in all terrible positions of coun.
tenance on the fends who were disporting
with their sacred flesh.
Then the work of inspection began. Col.
Snelbaker carefully inspected all the bodies
which bore resemblance to the dead for whom
he sought, and succeeded, he thinks, in iden-
tifying several of them. Young Devine's body
he has a very accurate description of, and
has found one which so closely corresponds
with it that there seems to be little doubt,
from the description, that it is the one long
sought for.