The National tribune., 1882-06-24

ing, and that Department closed on the day of
the funeral in respect to the memory of the
deceased
The President has approved the court
martial sentence of Lieut.. Flipper, (colored,) }
convicted of embezzlement, and he will be
dismissed from the army at once.
ADDITIONAL particulars concerning the find
ing of the dead bodies of Lieutenant De Longs
party, who were frozen to death near the mouth
of the Lena River, on the Siberian coast, after
landing from the ill-fated Jeanette, have been
received by cable, adding another dark chapter
to the horrors of that expedition. Engineer
Melville, twill be recollected, made the search.
The bodies were in two places, 500 and 1000
yards from the wreck, of the scow. They first
found the wreck, and following along the bank
they came upon rife-barrel hung upon four
sticks. Digging down they came upon two
bodies buried under eight feet of snow. Mel
vile then saw q camp-kettle and the remains
of fire about 1000 yards away and approach
ing nearly stumbled upon De Longs hand
sticking out of the snow, about thirty feet from
the bank. Here under about foot Of snow
they found tho bodies of De Long and Amber
about three feet apart, and Ali San lying at
their feet, all partially covered by pieces of
tent and q few pieces of blanket. All the
others except Alexis they found at the place
where the tent was pitched. Two boxes Of
records, with the medicine chest and flag on
a staff, were beside the tent. The hands of all
were more or less burned, and it looked as if
when dying they had crawled into the fire ;
Boyd lying over the fire and his clothing being
burned through to the skin, which was not
burned. Collins's face was covered with a
cloth. Ali the bodies were carried to the top
of q hill 300 feet high, and there inferred in
mausoleum constructed of wood from the scow,
built in the form of pyramid twenty-five feet
long and seven high, surmounted by a cross
twenty two feet high and foot square, hewn
out of driftwood. The mausoleum was covered
with stones, and is to be sodded in the spring
The cross is inscribed with the record and
names Of the dead cut in by the search party.
After completing the tomb, the party sepa-
rated to search the Delta for traces of Chipp's
people. Melville went to the northwest part
of the Delta and west as far as the Olenk River.
Ninderman took the centre and Bartlett the
northeast. Ninderman and Bartlett found
nothing. Melville has not yet returned.
TERRIBLE storms have prevailed throughout
the West during the past week, causing serious
loss of life and great destruction of property.
Dispatches from Leavenworth, Kan, st. Louis,
Des Moines and other places, describe the
visitation as perfect tornado, carrying death
and destruction in its path. In central Iowa it
was very severe. The town of Grinnell is
half in ruins. One hundred and fifty houses
were destroyed and some seventy-fve persons
killed. A dispatch from Grinnell says: From
numerous and contradictory stories of startled
citizens we gather the story Of deep roaring
sounds preceding q funnel-shaped cloud. c..
pittman's house was completely leveled, bury
ing beneath Pittman, his wife and three chill
dren, his wife's sister and her little baby. Not
far away was the residence of Mr.. Lewis, an
old gentleman and lady, who were both killed.
From here the storm pursued a zigzag direc-
ton to the north of the city, where after
wiping out the finest residence portion Of the
city, it moved toward the college. The next
building was dumped into a heap of lath and
plaster and broken timber burying beneath it
eight students who rOomed therein, all of
whom were afterwards rescued, more or less
injured, but one subsequently died. In 4 two
story house a Miss Abbie Agard was killed
There is hardly a sign left of the house. In
the vicinity a block which contained nine
houses, all but one was lcveled to the ground
In one house of this block four persons were
skilled. In this vicinity, F. W. Williams
house was unroofed; Prof. Herricks and Mrs
Morris's two houses were punched together The
scenes around the ruins are heart renling
The engine-house, where seventeen ofthe dead
bodies are laid out, presents sight that brings
back army days.