Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-13
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that the dead had been dcyorired. The
surgeon laid out the bodies, ms well as at
tended the sick. Other officers of the Bear
and Thehs were non-committal. Tom Ma
ioney, sailor on the Thetis, said: mo.
that story amt true. | never heard of it
before until you showed il To me. l was
| one of the men in the boat that scaled the
| ICY shores and found Greedy and his men,"
! " You knew all about that the dead bodies
were buried in shallow holes in the
ground2' " helped 10 lift them ont of
Their graves. They were so light you could
! hardly believe that men were in the wraps
They weighed NJ most twenty pounds each :;
some were little heavier. The bodies
were not of flesh, but the flesh was shrunk
up and the skin drawn over the bones like
parchment. They were not frozen. They
were rolled IN blankets, with their names
on the blankets"
ANOTHER INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL HAZHN.
WASHINGTON, August 10Th. The follow.
| ing Is another interview with General
! Hazen:
" Is the report that Captain Schley took
you and Secretary Chandler into his vessels
! cabin, and informed You that the survivors
! had eaten their associates. false ?' was asked.
That story is untrue
There is no truth, then, in the remain-
der OF the published stories that the bodies
were eaten ?'
q" will not say they arc not true. | have
hut casually glanced NJ the published
story, other than at those portions which
DENY"
DID y"u hear any rumors while at
Portsmouth that the dead mcu had been
,ltrn""
here were rumors uf that kind stinat
Ny official position wUuiiu not permit me to
give ;hc facts in the ease
There are facts then g"
Il can answer thg, / had q long inter
view with Lieutenant O,rrcly. bUs the sub.
jet ct eating the bodies was not referred
to. j can imagine = ease Whom cluUibal-
-sm would bc jus,.Gablc. ana il would be
case where men ar, starving
" Do you eNc'tSc cannibalisn in the
Greedy casc2'
" Under the circumstances, It would be
eNpuSablc.n
" Has Secretary Chandler received any
report relative to this subjCct2'
" Not that know Of; I have received
none"
" Is the repor; that private Henry was
shot, and afterwards ,atcu, lalsc?'
There Were rlmors at Portsmouth that
hc bad been killed and ;lC survivors had
eaten his body, but I decline TO give any
facts in his case that might know
viii the Shooting be q subject of inycs-
iigation by the War Dcparment?"
" Not necessarily. Men are shot every
day III mutinies and 10 investigation is
made; under some circumstances it mights
be proper"
" Will there be any investigation Of tho
reported eating Of the bodies 2''
An investigation could not be made
either by the War or Navy Department.
That Is Z matter Congress win have to look
into, then all the facts will be presented
and until then nothing viii be given out
OTHER STATEMENTS.
WASHINGTON, August 12th.-Thc sensa-
tonal reports of Cslnnibalism among the
Greedy party, printed in the New York
Times, created some excitement here Act
ing Secretary of the Navy, Admiral
Nichols, denounced the story as untrue
from beginning TO end. He said there was
no records in the Department, nor any.
where else that he knew of. that would lend
shadow Of eol0ring to sUch report He
had not heard from the Secretary OF the
Navy for several days, and there had been
| no communication on the subject referred
| to sent 70 the Department at any time.
| Acting Secretary of War, Tweedale, stated
that no report and no intimaton had been
| received ut the War Department which
would tend To confirm the story.
! Both army and navy officers among
| themselves did not view it as an impossi-
| bilty by amy means. Said navy officer
| in the corridor of the Navy Department
| Though there is no reason | know of for
! believing the story, the fact that there are
no records To substantiate il does not dis
| prove il at all. Look al il as true. Is there
anything improbable about it? You and
| ! standing here, with all the comforts
| about us, view such things with dread and
horror; bUt. you must remember those
men were reduced to such condition that
their moral faculties were blunted. They
would be considered, in fact, irresponsible
| agents. Selfpreservation was their only
! thought, and they could not be expected to
! mOralizc upon it.
| Commodore Earl English, who was pres
! cnt at the reception and saw the survivors
! and officers OF the relief expedition says
! that he believes the story TO be totally un-
| true.
! Lieutenant Purcell, of the Signal Corps,
| said he did not believe q word of the story.
| He thought there was no occasion for the
! Greely people to eat human flesh because
! they We're not starving. Those who died,
! did not die Of starvation, but of exhaus-
tion and exposure. II was not like men in
| perfect health being suddenly deprived of
! food and dying of starvation. The Greely
! party did not suffer the pangs of hunger
sufficient 10 cause them 70 eat human
| flesh.
Army officers look upon the matter
| philOsophically. Among them the story
was generally credited, although nobody had
any information on the subject. The Off
GERS said that under similar circumstances
| Cannibalism had always occurred, and must
be expected. Men under such circumstances
can hardly be regarded as responsible be-
| ings. 1t is thought consistent with all that
| is known, that Lieutenant Greely and Cap
tain Schley agreed to suppress the sicken-
ing details until officially brought out.
! THE STORY WITHOUT DOUBT True
NEW YORK, August 13th.-It is now
| known that the horrible story OF cannibal-
ism was in two or three newspaper offices
| yesterday, and in an evening newspaper
| Monday afternoon, where, in the interest
| of civilizati'n- il was suppressed. Ofcourse
| the story, wild and improbable as it seemed
at first, is without the slightest doubt true
and believed by all