The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-29
THE JEANETTE.

Eleven BOdles OF De Longs Party Pound.
New YORK, June 22.-The following
is a special cable dispatch TO the New
| York Herald:
LONDON, June 22-W. s. Glider, Her
| aid correspondent, with the Ragus, sends
the following dispatch, dated Lena Del
| Ia, April IL:
Melville found the bodies of De
Longs party March 23d. They were IN
Two places, 500 and 1000 yards away
from the wreck of the scow. MelYille's
search party first started from the sup
ply depot there two words are uninteI-
from Ustsrday 10 Malvey, and after.
wards from Malvey back 10 Yesterday.
(The following sentence Is again unin-
ieliigible) They stopped At the place
where Hinderman and Noros passed the
first day after they left De Long. feeling
sure that the others had not gone much
further. There they found the wreck,
and following along the bank they came
upon a rifle barrel hung upon four
sticks. (Here six words are unintel-
ligible.l They set the natives digging
on each side of the sticks, and they soon
came upon
THE TWO BODIES.
under eight feet OF snow. While these
u4C41 bOW oAA LhC Ce@Sb 21AIA-
vile went ON along the bank, twenty
feet above the river, to find place to
take bearings. He then saw a camp
kettle and tie remains of a fire about q
thousand yards from the tent, and APP
preaching, nearly stumbled upon De
Longs hand sticking out of the snow
at least thirty, feet from the edge of the
bank. Here, under about a foot of sn ow
they found the bodies of belong and
Amber, about three feet apart, and All
Sam lying at their feet, all partially
covered by pieces of blankets. All the
others, except AleXia, they found at the,
place where the tent was pitched. Lee
and Knack were close by in q cleft in |
the bank toward the west; two boxes of
records, with the medicine chest and |
flag On staff were beside the tent. |
None of the dead had on their boots. |
Their feet were covered with rags tied |
on. In the pockets of all were
PIECES OF BURNT SKIN
aud of clothing which they had eaten. |
The hands Of all were more or less burnt |
and it looked as if when dying they had |
crawled into the fire, Boyd lying over |
the fire, his clothing being burned |
through To the skin which was not
burned. Collins face was covered with |
cloth.
of hill 800 feet high, about forty versis |
TO the southwest from where they We're |
found. and there inferred in q mauso |
leum constructed OF wood from the |
scow, built in the form of Il pyramid %
feet long and z feet high, surmounted |
by a cross % feet high and foot square,
hewn out of drift wool and conspicu- |
GUS at distance of twenty versts. The
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 |
Ia search the delta for traces |
of Chips people. Melville went to the
northwest part of the delta and west as
far as the Olerek river. Ninderman
took the centre and Bartlett the north |
east. Ninderman and Bartlett found |
nothing. Melville has not yet returned. |
The search is to be extended to Cape |
Borchaye and the bay of that name. |
They expect to finish in time to reach |
Yakutsk or VeFkhosansk before the |
break up. If they do not finish before |
that time they will have to retreat Ia |
the foot of the hills and mountains with |
the natives until the water falls, as the |
whole of the delta is covered with wa
LCi AZ ~ ing " a uClSul vi iOul fOCb All |
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 fourteen occupants of the |
first cutter under Lieut.. belong. OF
these Ninderman and NOros left their /
Ia obtain assistance, and were |
cared for by the natives. Erickson, sea-
man. died October It'll, as appears from
Belongs records, subsequently discov-
cred. The following are the eleven men
whose bodies were discover
ed by Engineer Melville, as related by
DR.. Glider: Lieut.. Geo. W. belong. |
DIR. James NJ. Amber, Jerome J. Col
Inns. Henry Knack, Adolph Dressler,
Carl Corr, Walter Lee, Neils IvotsOn,
Geo. Boyd and Alexia All Sam.
The following were occupants of the
second cutter. search for which is being
Lieut.. Chas. w. ChIpp, |
Capt. VIM. Dunbar, Alfred Sweetman,
Henry Warren, Peter johnson, Edward
Star and Albert Kaihne