The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-23
DE LONGS SAD FATE.
u he Discovery and Burial of the Bod
les of the Brave Lieutenant and
His OVV-ExpIOrers-They Were
Found Under Eight Feet of Snow.

he Discovery and Burial OF the Bod
les of the Brave Lieutenant and
His OVV-ExpIOrers-TheY Were
Found Under Eight Feet of Snow.
The New York Herald correspondent, with
the steamer Rodgers, sends the following dis
patch from the Lena Delta, under date Of
April u:
Melville found the bodies of Belongs party
March %. They were in two places, 800 and
1000 yards from the wreck of the scow. Mel
vIle's search party first started from the sup
ply depot there two words are unintelligiblel to
follow the Nindermen route from Yesterday
to Walvey, and afterward from Walyey back
toward Yesterday 1.-THE following SEN
tence is again unintelligible.1 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 bank, they came upon
a rfe-barrel hung upon four sticks. Here six
words are unintelligible.l They set the ma
tives digging on each side OF the sticks,
and they soon came upon Two bodies I'M
der eight feet Of snow. While these
men we're digging toward the east Melville
went on along the bank twenty feet above the
river, to find place to take bearings. de then
saw camp-kettle and the remains OF fire
about a thousand yards from tent, and, ap-
preaching, nearly stumbled upon Belongs
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 belong
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
others except AIexia they found at the place
where the tent was pitched. Lee and Knack
were close by in cleft in the bank toward tho
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
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 and his cloth
ing being burned through to the skin. which
was not burned. Collins face was covered with
cloth. All the bodies were carried to the top
of hill 200 feet high, about forty versts to the
southwest from where they were found, and
there inferred in a mausoleum CONSTRUCTED
of wood from the scow, built in the form OF
pyramid twenty-five feet long and seven
high, surnounted by cross twenty-five feet
high and foot square, hewn out OF drift
wood and conspicuous at distance OF twenty
Versts The mausoleum was covered with
stones, and is to be sodded in the spring. Inc
cross is inscribed with the record and names OF
the dead, cut in by the search party.
Alter completing the tomb the party sepa-
rated to search the delta for traces OF Chlpps
people. Melville went to the northwest part OF
the delta, and west as far IS the C.erek river.
NInderman took the center and Bartlett the
northeast Nlnderman and Bartlett found
nothing. Melville has not yet returned.