The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-08-23

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aafft fne
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The fHu To- itf iasus itttmtl
saYi AtHoalh ihe truth 1i che f.p1fled
HaHHibillsm 10 tha uoo , camp hif btaa
= avol byluth Doubt aul iluW Nual
Grugly hisuiiiaIHiy fopoItgu iho shooting
ui llonfJ lho nGlcrfs II she Relic. otps
iitlUn sNl. decline 90 misp nny filiemoot
n iho condition ol nn,lIs at tho cimp
fho sailor. g.noruy lik itsoy u tHa
ghIstJ treln fryelIel at lhe
d,somi camp, but only three
of luuf can .prat iJum ur'ut
know edge pi lhe condition Of lhi dead,
lninipfvcws uuh ldrultua Gfpcly. pub.
llAlul yesterday, hr Wa. reported as say.
ug That rrytr llouty vas shot for steh-
mgi that he was never seen again by bis
comrades, aud tnt " WIS understood
lhat Dis body wns presumably carried
away by thr waves The bones found
urIr tic ca up, 90 watch th, ollIacrs Of
lhe Boar patched o. " Ia the aid OF
pi,c oi wool Into package fcscmb lng
hpdy we've at nr,t reported 10 Those Of
surgeon ltWy.
iir cfcws aud several OH 'crs NJ well
lid not KNOW tnut ll,urtr umins were
Drought haca until thry saw Schuy's rc.
ppgf, AZ thought that The body ui tn
man executed was iust uud thnt Vt the
Surg o. saved. This point has gwen rise
10 comment, some sailors saJ The bones
ul more than one body were found ahou
he camp and put In the box with the
bones Of Henry and that when the OH.
cprs agreed on an attempt to keep from
the public the rco.ting facts, all the
bones about the camp were put together
ns those Ol one man, aud 1t was then tie
clted to report the remains us those o.
telry. lie was know to be an almost
Irirud,ess ,alIOr, Dr, Pdyy occupied u
higher rank.
l1at nyt bodies were washed away
after having been buried In an Ice hoe is
, point N scbcy's report generally dis.
credited Ths summer tent wncro the
SURVIVORS were found was nearly 100
yards from the sea, anI behind ridge o.
| rocks, 80 that the tent was not
| visible from the shore. The winter
camp, where live budt were re-.
| ported as buried was oy r the ridg
ui rocks aud 100 yards rom th
tent, on small bay. The burial p ace
a. hft Ia tIlsas funArI.sI InttuH
was In rear vi the summ,r tent,
aud distant only thirty or forty yards
| Four Of the five men whose bodies were
reported as washed away died In June,
as loluwsi Sailor, June 5; Payy, Gthi
| 6ardn,r l2thi Bender, 10Th. Thesc
| death, occurred at q time wheJ lhi sur
| ytyOr. werc mlscrab weak IN last
| IN four days before Tic rescue came
Yet II the report forwarded 10 Secretary
| Chandler Is to bu beheyrd, the SUR ivurs
| instead Of carrying their dead comrades
| 10 the little buliai place close behind the
teut took lh m, despite their weak con.
ditl0u, to the Ice Hoe 100 yards away.
The bodies Of three others who died
JuLe-- KisllBgbnry, Henry aud Schneider
were recovered The bodies Ol kis.
Ing1ury and Schneider were not buried,
| II was admitted. Lieutenant kisiingbury
died June |, before any oi the lour who
u Il inter In the same month. Yet his
body was buried close by, while the 9th.
ers, II the report Is 10 be be icyed, were
taken 100 yards away.
The truth l. pIaiu. The bodies were
not washed away. The flesh had been
eaten, and there was not left oi the bone,
OF anybody enough 10 put together aud
deliver to friends without having all thu
truth come out. When 81. johns was
T ached every correspondent reported SIX
bodies In the hold OF one vessel aud seven
IN the other. lIcnry's name was given
Some of bis bones are doubtless lu n
casket bearing his name, rs are probably
homes Of others Of tho men, unlcs, they
were Otherwise disposed Of But Ia
licnry's casket the contents are princl'
pally pieces oi wood.
A seaman, one OF the crew OF
the Greyly relief expedition claimed 10
day to have been disObeying orders In
| telling what he knew Of the horrors 0l
| Cane Sabine, and for this reason his
name l. not published. The man says b.
was Que Of the party which removed the
dead bodies from ;be graves behind
Hrrely's camp. when asked as to tn
tate oi DR.. Payy, who is reported 10 have
| died Of starvation, h. saids
"That story IL all wrong. The Doctoi
wa. cOutt.maftialed three times, aud al
.ast he committed sui lJe. The sk'Ie.
ton found without head was thIt OF DR.
payy. There were MARKS Of kui,
on several ol the bones where the flesh
had been cut on"
"D.d you md anything that ed you to
believe that others were shot as well
private llrnfyf"
"Ycs, We picked up the bodies Of tw,
men, Nh1 were found later u have been
cuurt.nattiiiu1 aud shot The teeth d
one of the dead bodies were found a.
black a. c0ai, and we were sitl' ilsd thai
tho man had been suffering irUm scorbnl
but no flesh had been cut from the body
owing b. thc ( that the pour fellow WI,
dis, ased waen hs was put out vi the way
unmistikabls MARKS pf pistol shots were
fJurd upon bis body"
"llOw many would you say had keei
washed awayf"
.'Thc only one who met death b.
drUwuing was the Esquimaux. an
convinced that all the Others served a.
iuod Tor the survivors who were erazPt
by starvation. shall be ready to appra
before any Investigation which may cont
up alter am discharged from the Navy
aud repeat these statements"
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