Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-08
NEW ENGLAND.
Massachusetts.

Found In Snow Hut-An Am eriean Arr
 lists Awful Discovery A Corpse
 Watched Over By a Dying IdiOt-A
 Possibility That They Were of Chipp's
 Party.
 BOSTON, Jan. 7.-The Globe publishes copy of letter from MT. D. l.. West to 8 friend in Pittston. It was thought, from the similarity of names, that the parties discov- cred by MT. West were the men lost from Lieutenant Chipp's boat. The letter is dated Filipposki, Siberia, July 3l, 1882, and, after describing a trip to the Sgerma mines in search of brother-in-law, who had just left describes how he was lost in the Gulf of Khetanza. He tells of bowI-like snow val ley which was on the opposite side from a cliff on which he was standing, and looking further he saw that the crust was broken by footsteps The letter then continues: 'tAt the bowl vas evidently the door of a snow hut, and, half expecting to see 8 grizzled Yakout appear there, I was on the point of retracing my steps when my eye was attract ed by pole planted above the entrance to the hut and at the top of the pole faded piece of bunting. did not stop to reason about the meaning of this impromptu flag, but was soon at the snow hole, and, looking into the cairn that opened there, gun, some boxes, an axe and other odds and ends met my gaze. A smouldering fire was distin- guished, and, pushing aside Q curtain of raw hide, I entered the cairn. Among some furs and blankets lay two men asleep. I could not see their faces, but it was appar- ent that they were not natives. Touching one of the sleeping forms with my foot he hnfnrQ i'm of white man. On the features was look of such despair and terror as one seldom wit nesses, and which, then witnessing, I can never efface from my mind. The pinched lips moved with broken and sickly attempt at smile, and the great bloodshot eyes that looked out from the sunken face gleamed with the fire of ferocious beast. An un- kempt beard, long shaggy hair and a hide ously disfgured nose seemed to belong to 8 demon rather than to man or beast For several minutes those eyes were fixed on mine and then, as the silence was becoming embarrassing, I asked in English who he was. In answer he only stared. I repeated the question in French, in German, in Russian. No answer. But at length the man took his eyes from my face and glanced at his com rade. I thought that the other man, if awakened, might perhaps be more communi- cative and turned my gaze on the sleeper. Stepping to his side bent over him an in- stant and then I started back. The stranger was far away and the frozen body was at rest in it's last sleep. The man grinned in a most diabolical manner in return for my look of horror, and shrunk away from his eyes, as weak and tottering he struggled to rise. As he partially shuff1ed off the bag in which he had slept was more horror stricken than before to see that he had no feet and that his right arm was missing''
 Mir. West then described how he remained with the man until he died, but was not able kO rraf i,ofor fu1 i, Ho goes on to say 'I performed the last sad offices for the dead one, finding that his feet and arm had dropped off, after freezing, from the effects of gangrene. EHow he must have suffered! His companion had ap- parently been dead some days. Both had been young men. Both were terribly frozen. Looking over their effects I found nothing to indicate the identity of those who had been lost. Something impelled me as I was leav- ing the hut to turn back and take last look, with the idea of finding some memento of the dead. At first came upon nothing worth bringing away, but under the fox skins I discovered an English Bible. The name written on the fyleaf was
 A. KUEHNE
 '1 had written thus far when, on looking over the Bible above referred to, I found this legend scrawled with a pencil As near as I can decipher it, it is a record of the his tory of the shipwrecked sailors while on
 
 page of the New Testament. The writer was evidently man unused to writing, and there IS but little more than a bare chronicle in the words, which will copy verbatim
 live reached land here and will wait till Warmer, Builded Snow House October. Nothing of other boats Crews. Flares plenty, thermometer broke and cold reckonedD
 Jan'y the 9 Star died. All sick
 22 Name not cecipherabls, but begins with w., Died
 27 Dth died. Peter kild wolf
 Mar the SharVen.
 'sThat is all. The interrupted record has no further language. There are no traces of any other writing in the book. The names of at least four of the castaways were: "A. Kuehne, Star, Peter or Peters, and Sharvell." The letter is signed David l.. West, ;" an American artist who resided in Paris for several years.
 The following are the names of those who formed the party in the second cutter from the Jeanette, under the command of Lieu tenant c. w. Chipp: Lieutenant c. W. Chipp, Captain W. Dunbar, Albert Sweet Star, - Shawen and Albert Kaihne.
 SALEM, Mass, Jan. 7.-Raymond L. New comb, one of the rescued Jeanette party, said to day in regard to the Chipp party that there was remote possibility of the letter of Dr. West being an account of his i'll fated companions. It has been the opinion, said MT. Newcomb, of all the survivors of the Jeanette that the second cutter foundered in the gale of the 12th of September, 1881, but if not there was 8 possibility that they might have been driven te the westward