The Portland daily press., 1882-06-21
DE LONGS FATE.
A Lonely Mausoleum Upon the
Lena Delta.
DETAILS OF THE FINDING OF THE
PARTY.

LONDON, June 20.-Mr. W. H. Glider, the
Herald correspondent with the Rodgers, sends
the following Dispatch dated Lena Delta,
| April u, 1882:
| melville found the bodies of De Longs
| paray on March %. They were in two places,
| 800 and 1000 yards from the wreck of the
scow Melville's search party first started from
| the supply depot (here two words are unintel-
| ligible) to follow Ninderman's route from Us
| terdaa to Matvey, and afterward from Matvey
tepee is again unintelligible.) They stopped at
the place which Ninderman and Noros passed
the first day after they left De Long, feeling
sure that the others had not gone much furth-
er. There they found the wreck, and, follow
ing along the bank, they came upon rifle bar
rel hung upon four sticks (here six words are
unintelIigible.)
"They set the natives digging on each side of
the sticks, and they soon came upon two bodies
under feet of snow. While these men were
digging toward the east, Melville went on
along the bank, 20 feet above the river, to find
aplace to take bearings He then saw camp
kettle and tho remains OF fire about thous-
and yards from the tent, and, approaching,
nearly stumbled upon De Longs hands stick
ing out of the snow about thirty feet from the
edge of the bank. Here, under about a foot
of snow, they found the bodies of De Long
and Ambler about three feet apart, and All
Sam lying at their feet, all partially covered
by lieces of tent and few pieces of blanket.
All the others except Alexia they found at the
place where the tent was pitched. Lee and
Knack were close by in cleft in the bank to-
ward the west. Two boxes OF records, with
the medicine chest and flag on a stall, were
beside the tent
ssNone of the dead had boots. Their feet
were covered with rags, tied on. In the pock-
cts OF all were pieces of burnt skin and OF the
clothing which they had been eating The
hands Of all were more or less burned, and it
looked as if when dying they had crawled into
the fire, Boyd lying the fire and his cloth,
ing being burned through to the skin, which
was not burned Collins face was covered
with a cloth.
ssAll the bodies were carried to the top of a
hill 800 feet high, about 40 versts to the SOUTH
west from where they were found, and there
inferred in a mausoleum constructed of wood
from the scow, built in the form of pyramid
% feet long and high, surmounted by a cross
% feet high and foot square, hewn out OF
driftwood and conspicuous at q distance of 20
versts. 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 separ-
ated to search the delta for traces of Chipps
people. Melville went to the northwest part
of the delta and west as far as the Olenek Riv-
er; Ninderman took the centre, and Bartlett
the northeast. NiDdermann and Bartlett
found nothing Melville has not yet returned.
The search is to be extended to Cape Borchaya
and the bay of that name. They expect to fin
ish in time to reach Irkutsk or VerhoJansk be-
fore the rivers break up If they do not finish
before that time they will have to retreat to the
foot of the hills and mountains with the natives
until the water falls, as the whole of the delta
is covered with water in the Spring to height
of four feet, and in some places to twenty feet
above the level of the river. Otherwise they
would have buried the dead where they found
them"
THE DEAD.
There were IL occupants of the first cutter
under Lieut. DeLong. OF these, Nindermann
and Noros left their comrades to obtain assist
anee and were cared for by the natives. Hans
Erickson seaman, died on Oct. Z, as appears
from Belongs records, subsequently, discover
ed. The following are the IL men remaining,
whose bodies were discovered by Engineer Mel
vile as related by Mr.. Glider: Lieut.. George
W. De Long DR.. James M. Amber, Zero me
j. Collins, Henry Knack. Adolf Dressler, Carl
Gortz, Walter Gee ,Neils Ivorsen, George Boyd,
Alexia, All Sam.
The following were the occupants of the
second cutter, search for which is being con-
tinued: Lieut. Charles W. Chipp, Capt. Will
liam Dunbar. Alfred Sweetman. Henry War
ren, Peter johnson, Edward Star. Albert
Kaihne.