Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-13
ARCTIC HORRORS.
A slekening story of Canntbalissn
 Among tfae Gresly Survivors.

Among the Greely Survivors.
 NEW YORK, Aug. fe-1'he Times con talned this morning shocking story to the | effect that the men of the Greedy expedition | who died were eaten by the survivors, and | that Private Charles B. Henry, a young l German, was shot for stealing food and then | eaten. The story rests upon rumors and the I gossip of the sailors upon the Thetis and l Bear It Is given color of truth by the re- fusal of the officers of the relief expedition to deny or confirm it. According to the | published story, the suspicious of the friends of the dead men were awakened by the eK- trerne care taken to prevent anyone from seeing the bodies. It was understood that the bodies were found in a horrible eendi- ton, and after being wrapped in many thieHhesses Of eleth were placed in metallic collins at st. Jehhs According te the g6s= sip of the sailors 8f the expedition, the bones of the dead were really found stripped of ali flesh, each bundle of bones wrapped in i blanket and marked with the name, 1t has been published that after the game gave out early in February the party lived principally on sealskins, liehens and shfimps, As matter of fact, it is alleged, they were kept alive on human flesh. When the Teseuing party discovered the half-HtarVed sur
 vivors, their first duty was to look to the two men who were insenHible from
 cold and privation, even to the point
 of death One of them, a German, was
 wild in his delirium "Oh, /" he shrieked, as
 the sailors took hold of him to lift him ten
 derly, "don't let them shoot me as they did ,al I I-3II Henry wasi Don't let them do it. Don't
 Don't" The sailors were mortified, but at
 once reported the mans words to Commands CT sehley When the horrible reality was brought out before ah Investigating commit
 tee, asserted Commander sehley in= strueted two or three gentlemen, among whom was Df, Ames, the sufl
 geen of the Bear, to make careful ex4 animation and put their conclusions in writ ing, This was done, and the reports are
 now in the hands of the Navy department. Lieutenant Greedy was decidedly averse to | having the bodies of the buried dead disturb ed, He thought it wise, they had been | buried so long, to let them remain in their | Arctic graves. Commander Sehley did not | agree with him, The bodies were dug from their graves in the little hill just back of the | permanent camp established in October, 1885, | Most of the blankets, it is averred contained
 nothing but heaps of white bones, many of ! them picked clean.
 Charles B. Henry was without any rela- tives in this country and joined Company E, | Fifth cavalry, in Cincinnati. Driven-to de- | spair by his frightful hunger Henry saw an | opportunity to steal little more than his share of rations and he made the attempt | He was found out, it is said, and shot for his crime. In the published official report the death of this man is set down as having oo- cured on June G. When the body was found his hands and face, though shrunken,
 were intact and recognizable; but nearly everywhere else, the sailors say, the skin had | been stripped from him and the flesh picked | from the bones. bullet hole was found in the skin.
 A reporter went to the navy yard this I morning and found Commander Schley. "I have absolutely nothing to say about the re- port" said that officer courteously, but | firmly; "nether has anyone under me" Gossip about the navy yard accepted the | horrible story true.
 ! The story Believed In Washington. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-The detailed sen | sational story of cannibalism among the sur vivors of the Greedy party was the chief topic
 of conversation here to day. No additional positive information bearing upon tho dis puted facts can bc obtained tonight from
 army and navy officers. Both Admiral Nj
 ehols, acting Secretary of the Navy, and Chief Signal Officer Hazen, who of all mon here ought to know, stoutly deny that there | iH any evidence on file here to confirm the story. General Hagen denies emphatieally the statement that upon his arrival at Ports
 mouth Commander Sehley imparted to him and Secretary Chandler tho horrible secret. \ He also contradiets some other details but while admitting that in Portsmouth he heard rumors of oannibalism having been resorted | to by the survivors, does not say that he ! lieves that part of the story. On the con | trary he stated tonight to n United Press re- porter that he would not be surprised to hear after an investigation that something of the \ sort had happened. The story is quite gen | orally believed here tonight although no- | body has any positive information on the | subject. Army and navy officers and others say it would be strange if there had not been ! some cannibalism among the Greedy party \ during the several weeks immediately pre- | ceding the rescue. Under similar circum- I stances cannibalism had occurred and must | be expected and Lieutenant Greedy and Gap
 tain Schley are credited with desire to sup press the sickening details until forced to dc | so by an official investigation.
 Secretary Chandler Holds His Tongue
 PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Aug. 12.-In an in
 terview on board the Tallapoosa this evening
 Secretary Chandler said he had read the re
 port in the New York Times, but positively
 refused to make any further statement o1
 hold any further communication on the mat
 ter He seemed considerably agitated. Ar
 interview with the survivors was positively
 refused.
 DuIlness In the Glass Trade.