The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-06-23
The Jeannette's Dead.
FINDING THE BODIES OF DE LONGS PARTY
BURIED IN THE SNOW.

Nkw York, June 10,
The Herald received tonight de-
spatch from w. II. Glider, late with
the Rodgers who sends an account
from Lena Delta, under date of April
II, concerning the finding of the bo-
dies Of De Longs party on March g.
They were in two places, five hundred
and one thousand yards from the wreck
of the scow. Melvilles search party
first started from the supply depot to
follow Ninderman's route from lister
day to Malvey and afterward from
Malvey back toward Usterday. 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 got much further There
they found the wreck, and following
along the bark they came upon rifle
barrell hung upon four sticks. They
set the natives digging on each side of
the sticks, and they soon came upon
two bodies under eight foot of snow.
While these men were digging toward
the east Melville went on along the
bank twenty feet above the river to
find place to take bearings. He then
saw camp kettle and the remains of
a fire about one thousand yards from
the tent, and approaching, nearly STUN
bled upon De Longs hand sticking out
of the snow, about thirty feet from the
edge of the bank. Here, under about
foot of snow, they found the bodies
of De Long and Amber about thirty
feet apart and All Sam lying at their
feet, all partially covered by pieces 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 toward the west. Two
boxes of records with the medicine
chest and flag on staff were beside
the tent. None of the dead had boots.
Their feet were covered with rags tied
on. In the pockets 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 over
the fire and his clothing being burned
through to the skin, which was not
burned. Collins face was covered with
a cloth.
All the bodies were carried to the top
of hill 800 feet high, about forty
versts to the southwest from where
they were found, and there inferred in
mausoleum constructed of wood from
the scow, built in the form of pyra-
mid, twenty-five feet long and seven
feet high, surmounted by cross 22
feet high and foot square, hewn
out of drift-wood and conspicuous at a
distance of twenty versts. The mau-
soleum 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
separated to search the Delta for traces
of Chipp's people. Melville went to
the northwest part of the Delta and
west rs far as the Olenek river, Nider-
man took the centre and Bartlett the
northeast.
Niderman and Bartlett found moth
ing. Melville has not yet returned
the search is to be extended to Cape
Borch va and the bay Of that name.
They expect to finish in time to reach
YakuIsk or Verkhojansk before the
rivers break up.