The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-07-01
The Finding OF the Remains Of Lieu.
tenant DE Long and Party.

LONDON, Ju o ~.
W. H. Glider, tho New York Herald CORE
spondcnt with liodgcr, sends the following
dispatch.
LEsA DELTA. April u, is'2.
Melville found the bodies of no Longs party
on Mnrch - They wcro IN two pluce., Ave
hundred und one thousand yards from tho
wreck or the scow. Mcvillc's search pp..
irst started from the supply depo' nov
two words nrs tinntelllgilis, d, IA.
Nindcrmnn's route frpr. '~y ~ ~
yey. and nfterw~.- from Mhlvry back tp
warl us,',sdy. Crhe fol owing scntencc
IA e..dn uniptclllgibeJ lie stopped at 4
place which Nindorinan nnd Noros passod
the first day after they left Lieutenant do
Long, feeling surc that tho others hal moi
got much further. They found tho wreck,
and following nlong the bank. they canic
upon n rifle barrel hung upon four sticks
lIicrc six words are unlntelligiblol They sol
natives 10 digging on each side Of the sticks,
ana they soon came pRYRGilc iHe HsIs s''r men were
digging toward the east. Melville went on
along the bank, twenty feet above thu river, TO
find place 10 take bearings. lie then saw q
camp kettle and the remains Of flro. about a
thousand yards from thn trni, and approached.
Iio nearly stumbled upon DO Longs hand
sticking out OF IN, snow, about thirty feet
from the edge Of the bank. Here, under about
n inot Of snow, they found the bodies Of do
Long and Amhcr, nl,out thrcs feet apart. AZ
soin lying at their feet, Nil partially covered
by pieces cf tcnt and few pieces Of blanket.
All the others, except Alexia, they found nj
the place whore the tent WIS pitched. Lcc and
Knock wcrr close by In q cleft IN the bank, 10.
wari the west. Two boxes ~ records with a
medicine chest and ling on stat
were beside the tent. None OF the
dead had boots. Their feet were covered
with nlgs tied on. In the pocket, of all were
pieces ~ burnt skin AMI of dothng, which
they had cntcn The han Il Of all were more
or lees burnt AMI II looked M n, when dying,
they had ofnwicd Into the iirr. Boyd was ly-
Ing over tho frc, his clothing being burnt
through 10 the skin, which WIS not burned.
/ Collins face wis covered with cloth. All tho
bodies were carried 10 the top OF a hill three
hundred foet high, about nifty vcrsts 10 the
southwest from whore thoy were found. and
there in,rrrcd In mansoleum constructed OF
WOOD from the scow. built IN tho form u a
pyramid, twenty-five feet long and seven feet
high. surmounted BY erou twenty-five feot
high and foot square hewn out OF driftwood
and conspicuous ut distance of twenty vcrst2
Tho maIrolsum was covered with stones and
IL Ia bo sodded IN tho spring. Tbs cross Il In
soribcd with tho record and names Of tho
dead, cut IN py the search party.
THE SEARCH roR cHiPrs' PARTY
After completing the tomb, tho party seps
rated 10 search tho dcIta for traces Of ChIpps'
people. Melville went 10 tho northwest part
Of tho delta. and west n far ne the Osnsk
River. Ninderman took the center and Dart
lett the northeast Nlndorman and Bartlett
found nothing, and Melville has not yet re-
TUNED. Ths search Il 10 BE- extended 10 Cape
IIorrhaye and the hay of that name. They er.
pert to finish In tims 10 rnach Yakufsk nr
yerkhagausk before the rivers break up. n
they do not finish before that time. they will
have 70 rmnln nj tho foot Of tho hills and
mountains with ths natives until the water
falls. Tho whole Of tho delta Il covered with
sater In the spnnF 10 the height Of fuot and
In some places 10 twenty feet above tho lesei
uf the rivers. Otherwise they would have
buried the dead whorr they fpund thsm.
There wern fourteen occupsnt. Of the hrst
ruiter. under Lieutenant D. Long. OF these
Sn1efman and Noro- left their comrades 10
obtain assistance and were card for BY the
natives. Erickson. seaman. died October I,
as appears from De Longs record subsequent
ly discovered. Tho following arc the eleven
men remaining ~hose brides were discovered
by Melville. ss relatcds Lieutenant George W.
d. Long. Dr. James. ". Amhlcr. jerome J.
Collins. Henry Knock. Adolf Dre~slar. Carl
Darfr, waliar Ice, NeiIs fustscn. George
Doyf. kletin AMI An Hcim. The following
~ere the occupants a the second cutter, the
srarrh for which !. bcinr continued; Lrutrn,
ant Charie. W. Chlpp-. Captain william Dun
har. Alfred sweetmsn. Henry wsrrpn. Peter
johnson. Edwsrd star and Albert Kaihne.