The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-21
Particulars of the Finding of De
Long and Party
At the Lena Delta, Buried Beneath
Eight Feet Of Snow.
The Bodies Placed in Mausoleun
on the Top of High Hill.
The Search Continued for Lieutenant
Chip and Companions, But
Without Avail.
THE DEAD EXPLORERS.
Particulars of the Finding of Lieutenant
DeLong aud Party.

DeLong and Party.
New YORK, June 10. The following is a
special cable dispatch to the New York
Herald:
LONDON, June 19.-W. F. Glider, Herald
correspondent with the Ragus, sends the fol-
lowing dispatch, dated Lena Delta, April
II, 1882: Melville found the bodies Of
Lieutenant belongs party March %
They were in two parties 500
and 1900 yards from the wreck of the scow
Melville's search party tirst started from the
supply depot there two words are unin-
telligible) to follow Ninderman's route from
| Usterday 70 Malvey, and afterward from
Malvey back toward Usterday. (The fol-
lowing sentence is again unintelligible.
They stopped at the place which Nlnderman
and Noros passed the first day after they
left De Long, feeling sure that the others
had not got much farther
There they found the wreck, and following
along the bank, they came upon rife bar
rel hung upon four sticks. (Here six words
words are unintelligible.) They set
the natives digging on each side
VI NhC SliCAS, anu LleI soon
came upon the two bodies under eightfee
of snow. While these men were digging
toward the east, Melville went on along
the bank of the river to find a place
to take bearings. He then saw camp ket-
tie and the remains of fire about 1000
yards from the tent, and approaching
nearly stumbled 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
three 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 a cleft n the bank
toward the west. Two boxes of records
with the medicine chzst and a flag
on a 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 clothing which they had eaten. The
hands of all were more of less burnt, and it
looked as if when dying they had crawled
ing over the FIRE, his clothing
being burned through to the skink, which
was not burned. Collins face was covered
with cloth. All bodies were carried to the
top of the 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
pyramid twenty-five feet long and seven
high, surrounded by cross twenty-five feet
high and foot square hewn ont of drift
wood and conspicuous al distance Of
twenty vests. The mausolem was covered
with stones, and is to be sodded in the
spring. The cross is inscribed with the re-
cord and names of the dead cut in by the
search party. After completing the tomb
the party separated 10 search the Delta
for traces of Chips people. Mel
vile went 10 the northwest -n. part
of the Delta and West as far rs the Alenek
River. Ninderman took the center and
Bartlett found nothing. Melville has not
yet returned. The search is TO be extended
to Cape Borshaya and the bay of that name.
They expect TO finish in time to reach
Yakutsk or Verkhozarsk before the rivers
break up. II they do not finish befcae that
time they will have TO retreat to the foot OF
the foot of the hills and mountains with the
udtlNco uuIll Tue wafer ldlls. Is the WnOle OF
the delta is covered with water in the
spring to a depth 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.
There were fourteen occupants of the first
cutter under Lieutenant De Long. OF these,
Winderman and Noros left their comrades
to obtain assistance, and were cared for
by the natives. Erickson, seaman,
died October Z, as appears from De Longs
records subsequently discovered. The fol-
lowing are the eleven men remaining whose
bodies were discovered by Engineer Melville
as related by Mr.. Glider: Lieutenant George
w. De Long, DIR. James NJ. Amber, Jerome
]. Collins, Henry Kaack, Adolph Dressler,
Carl Corr, Walter Lee, Neils Ivorson,
George Boyd. Alexy, All Sam.
The following were the occupants of. the
second cutter, search for which is being con-
tinued: Lieutenant Charles w. Chipp,
Captain William Dunbar, Alfred Sweetman,
Henry Warren, Peter Johnson, Edward
Star, Albert Kahne