Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-20

New YORK, June 19.-The following is a
special cable dispatch to the New York
Herald:
LONDON, June 1e. 1852.
W. H. Gilden, the Herald correspondent
with the Rogers, sends the following dispatch,
dated Lena Delta, April u, 1882: Melville
found the bodies of Belongs party March
23d. They were in two places, 500 and 1000
yards from the wreck OF the scow. Mel
ville's search party first started from the
supply depot to follow Ninderman's route
from Yesterday TO Malvey, and afterward
from Malvey back toward Yesterday. They
stopped at the place which Ninder-
man and Noros passed the first day
after they left belong, feeling sure
that the others had not got much
farther. There they found the wreck, and
following along the bank they came upon a
rihe-barrel hung upon four sticks. They set
the natives digging on each side of the sticks,
and soon came upon two bodies under
eight feet of snow. While these men were
digging toward the east, Melville went along
the bank twenty feet above the river to find
place to take bearings. He then saw q
camp-kettle and the remains of a fire about
a thousand yards from the tent, and, APP
preaching, nearly stumbled upon belongs
hand sticking out of the snow, about thirty
feet from the edge of the bank. Here under
bodies of DeLoug and Amber, about
three feet apart, and All Sam lying
at their feet, all partially covered by
pieces of tent and few pieces of blanket.
All others, except Alexia, they found at
place where the tent was pitched. Lee and
Knack were close by in a cleft in the bank
toward the west. Two boxes of records,
with the medicine chest, and flag on a staff,
we're beside the tent. None of the dead had
boots on their feet were covered with rags, tied
on. In the pockets of each were pieces of
burnt skin and of clothing which they had
eaten. The hands of all were more or less
burned, and it looked as if when dying they
had crawled into the fire. Boyd was lying
over the fire and his clothing burned through
to the skin, which was not burned. Collins's
face was covered with cloth. All the bodies
were carried to the top of the hill, 300 feet
high and about forty versts TO the southwest
from where they were found, and there in
TERED in a mausoleum constructed of wood
from the scow built in the form of a pyra-
mid, twenty-five feet long and seven feet
high, surmounted by cross twenty two
feet high and foot square, hewn out of
driftwood and conspicuous at a dis
lance OF twenty versts. The maus-
oleum was covered with stones and
is to be sodded in the spring.
The cross is inscribed with the record aud
names of the dead cut in by the search party.
After completing the tomb the party sep
arated to search the delta for traces of
Chips people. Melville went to the north
west part of the delta, and went far as
the Oleneke river. Ninderman and Bartlett
found nothing. Melville has not yet re-
turned. The search is to be extended to Cape
Borchsya and the bay of that name. They
expect to finish in time to reach Yakutsk or
Verkhozansk before the rivers break up. If
they do not finish before that time they
will have to retreat to the foot OF the hill
and mountains with the natives until the
water falls, as the whole of the delta is COW
cred with water in the spring TO hight of four
feet, and in some places TO twenty feet above
the level of the river. Others wise they would
have buried the dead where they found them.
There were fourteen occupants of the first
cutter under Lieutenant belong. OF these,
Ninderman and Noros left their comrades
to obtain assistance, and were cared for by
the natives. Erickson, seaman, died Octo-
Der 9TH, as appears from D<LoDg's records,
subsequently, discovered. The following are
the eleven men remaining, whose bodies were
discovered by Engineer Melville: Lieuten-
ant Geo. w. belong, DIR. james NJ. Ambler,
Jerome J. Collins, Henry Knack, Adolph
Dressler, Carl Carr, Walter Lee, Neil
Ivatsen, George Boyd, Alexia, and All Sam.
The following were occupants of the second
cutter, search for which is being continued: