Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-07-06
The Finding of the RemGips Of Lieu.
tenant De Long and Pariy.Y

LONDON, June 10.
". n. Glider the New York Herald CORE
spondent with Rodgers, sends the following
dispatch: r.
lt3 F LENA DELTA, April IL. 1852
Melville found the bodies of De Long party
on March 49, They were in two places, I've
hu ndred and one thousand yards from the
wreck of the scow. MelvilIe's search party
first started from tho supply, depot. (here
two words are unintelligible), to follow
Ninderman's route from Yesterday to NAL
vey, and afterward from Malvey back to
ward Yesterday. fThe following sentence 4
is again unintelligibie.) He stopped at al
place which Ninderman and Nonns passed
the first day after they left Lieutenant DE :
Long, feeling sure that thefDthers had not
got much further. They found the wreck,
and following along the bank, they came
upon q rifle barrel hung upon four sticks.
Here six words are uninteliigible.) They set
natives to digging on each side of the sticks,
and they soon came upon two bodies under
eight feet of snow. Whiieg these men were
digging toward the cast, Meivil went On
along the bank, twenty feet above the river to
find place to take bearings He then. saw a
camp kettle and the remains of a fire, about q (
thousand yards from the tent, and approached. I
He nearly stumbled upon De Longs handf
sticking. out of the snow, about thirty fe6A-
from the edge of the bank Hers under about
foot of snow, they found the bodies, of De i,
Long and Afnbler, about TIRES feet apart, All
Sein lying at their feet, All partially covered
by pieces eftent and anew. pieees Of blanket.
All the others, except Aiexia. they found at
the place where the tent was pitcned q Lee and
Knock were close Sc ny in Glefs in the bank to-
medicine chest and Gag on stair
were beside the TENT None Of the
deade. had sbsotsnF har feet wefS Fere6H
with rags tied on. III the pockets, Of air were
pieces of burnt skin and of clothing, which
they HAD eaten. The hands Of aii were smores
or less burnt and IT. looked ssif, when dying,
they had crawled into the fire. Boyd was.lY6(
ing over the fire, his clothing being bus2r
through 70 the skin, which was not abur ed.
Collins face was covered with cloth, All the
bodies were carried to thS top Of Z hill three
hundred feet high. about fifty yersts to the
southwest from where they were found. and /
there inferred in rnausolenm constructed sdf
wood from the scow, built IN the form OF a
pyramid. twenty-five feet long and. seven feet
high, surmounted by 2 cross twehty-tw fest
high and foot square hewn out of driftwood
and conspicuous Mt distanceof twenty vcrsts.
The mausoleum was covered with stones and
is to besodded in the spring. The cross is in
scribed with the record ana names Of the }
dead, Cit iniby the search party. Il i
THE SEARCH FOR CHIPS PARTY.
After completing the tomb, the party sepa-
rated to search the delta for traces of Chips
people. Melville went to the northwest part
of the delta, and west as far as the Olensk
River. Ninderman took the center and Bart
lett the northeast. Ninderman and Bartlett
found nothing, and Melville has not yet re-
turned. The search is to be extended to Cape
Borchaye and the bay of that NAME, They ex-
pect to finish I'M time to reach Yakutsk or
Verkhazausk before the rivers break up. If
they do not finish before that time. they will
have to remain at the foot of the hills and
mounts MS with the natives until the writer
falls. The;whoIe of the delta Is covered with
water in the sprinG to the heightof SESot and
in some places to twenty feet abop the level
of the rivers. Otherwise they would have
buried the dead where they found them.
There WIRE fourteen oocupanfssof the first
cutter, under Lieutenant De Lou1 OF these
Ninderman and Noros left their comre0aa.to
obtain assistance and were cared forsbY the
nativest Erickson, a seaman. dfed Uctobar 7.
as appears from De Longs record subsousnt-
ly discovered The Following are the ei0Se rem
mon remaining. whose bodies were dsscovdred
by Melville, as related: Lieutenant Georgd W.
De- Long, DR.. James. NJ. -.Asnbler, Jerome j.
Collins, Henry Knock, Adolf Dressler.. Carl
Gartz, Waiter Lee, Neils Lustscn.g George
Boyd, A1exfn and All Seim. Tho following
were the occupants of the second cutter, the
search for whichts being continued: Lieuten.
ant Charles w. thfpps, CAPTAIN William Dun
BAR Alfred Eweetulan. Henry Warren, Peter
johnson Edward sfzr snd Alnsl1 + p
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against prize-fghting She may never
enforce it, butshe didn't want % babe
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