The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-16
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NEW YORK, August Is, r=Thee1lmes
says: Although the truth Of the reported
canniballsn in the Greedy camp has been
proved beyond doubt, and Lieutenant
Greedy has officially reported the shooting
Of Henry, the officers Of the relief expe-
dition still decline to make any statement
Of the condition Of affairs at the camp.
The sailors generally talk freely of the
| CHASTITY scene revealed at the
desolate camp, but only three
or four can speak from actual
knowledge Of the condition OF the dead.
In INTERVIEWS with Lieutenant Greedy, pub
lished yesterday, he was reported as say
Ing that Private Henry was shot for steal
ing; that he was never seen again by his
comrades, and that it was understood
that his body was presumably carried
away by the waves. The bones found
near the camp, and which the officers of
| the Bear patched up with the aid of
pieces Of wood into package resembling
body, were at first reported as those Of
| Surgeon Payy.
THE BONES MIXED Up.
The crews and several officers as well
did not know that Henrys remains were
brought back until they saw Schley's re-
port. All thought that the body Of the
man executed was lost and that Of the
Surgeon saved. This point has given rise
TO comment. Some sailors say the bones
of more than one body We're found about
the camp and put in the box with the
bones of Henry, and that when the OIL
GERS agreed on an attempt to keep IRON
the public the revolving facts, all the
bones about the camp were put together
as those of one man, and 1t was then de-
cided TO report the remains as those OF
Henry. He was known to be an almost
friendless sailor. DR., Pavy occupied
higher rank.
Five BODIES EATEN.
That five bodies were washed away
after having been buried in an ice foe is
point in Schley's report generally dis
credited. The summer tent where the
survivors were found was nearly 100
yards from the sea, and behind ridge of
rocks, so that the tent was not
visible from the shore. The winter
camp, where five bodies were re-
ported as buried was over the ridge
Of rocks and 100 yards from the
tent on small bay. The burial place
| where ten bodies were reported found
was in rear OF the summer tent,
| aud distant only thirty or forty yards.
-Four OF the five men whose bodies were
reported as washed away died in June,
as follows: Sailor, June 8; Payy, 9Th;
Gardner, 18th; Bender, 10th. These
deaths occurred at a time when the sur
vivors were miserably weak-the last
only four days before the rescue came.
Yet if the report forwarded to Secretary
Chandler IS TO be believed, the survivors
instead of carrying their dead comrades
to the little burial place close behind the
tent took them, despite their weak con-
dition, to the ice foe 100 yards away.
CONFLICTING STATEMENTS.
The bodies of three others who died in
June--Kislingbury, Henry and Schneider
were recovered. The bodies of Kis-
lingbury and Schneider were not buried,
1t was admitted. Lieutenant Kislingbury
died June l, before any Of the four who
died later in the same month. Yet his
body was buried close by, while the 9TH
ers, if the report is to be believed, were
taken 100 yards away.
THE TERRIBLE TRUTH.
The truth is plain. The bodies were
not washed away. The flesh had been
eaten, and there was not left of the bones
of anybody enough to put together and
deliver to friends without having all the
truth come out. When St. Johns was
reached every correspondent reported six
bodies in the hold of one vessel and seven
in the other Henry's name was given.
Some of his bones are doubtless in the
casket bearing his name, as are probably
bones of others of the men, unless they
were otherwise disposed Of But in
Henry's casket the contents are princi-
pally pieces of wood.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, August l5.--The
disinterment of Lieutenant Kisling-
bury's body, of Arctic fame, from its
grave in Mount Hope Cemetery was
made here yesterday with the consent
and in the presence of W. and John p.
Klslingbury, brothers of the deceased.
ue DISCLOSURES resulting lTOu SUISSE
| autopsy are of the most revolving char
acter. Lieutenant Kislingbury's rela-
| lions had become filled with horrible
| doubts on reading the sensational stories
recently published regarding cannibal-
| ism among the starving members of the
Greedy expedition, and they determined
| to learn the truth by exhumlng the re-
mains and having them examined by COM
petent physicians. Doctors Charles
| Buckley and +, A. Vaudeville yesterday
afternoon made public their sworn state
| ment as to the post mortem examination,
which was witnessed by eight persons.
The massive iron casket was first re-
moved as unearthed to the cemetery
chapel, where the tifty.two iron bolts
which secured the cover were I'M
screwed. An unusual circumstance was
the absence of foul gas in the coffin,
proving that no decomposition had set
In. The mass Of snowy cotton waste
was then removed from the lower por-
ton of the dead mans body. The right
| limb was missing from its socket, and
was found to be fastened under the
left one. When the enshrouded
form had been lifted from its
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