The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-08-21

ccal, VIII Out, and No Doubt Now Re-
mains that the Greedy Party We're Com
PEELED to Resort TO CanDibalism to Pre-.
serve Life.
NEW YoRK, August 10.
The 7ln,es in its issue yesterday
says; Although thetruth Of the reported
cannibalism in the Gree camp has been
proved beyond doubt, and Lieutenant
Greely has officially reportedfthe shooting
Of Henry, the officers Of the rcTief expe-
dtion stlll decline to make any statement
of the condition OF affairs at the camp.
The sailors generally talk freely Of the
ghastly scene revealed at the
desolate camp, but only three
or four can speak from actual
knowledge of the condition OF the dead.
Ininterviews with Lieutenant Greedy, pub
llshed 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 1t was understood
that his body was presumably carried
away by the waves. The bones found
near the camp, und which the officers of
the Bear patched up tn the aid of
pieces Of wood into package resemb ing
body, were at first reported as those Of
| Surgeon Payy.fugraG 9i+4s n .u.
The crews and several officers as well
did not know that IIenry's remains were
brought bacE until they saw Schley's re-
port. All thought that the body of the
man executed was lost and that OF the
| Surgeod saved. This point has given rise
| to comment. Some sailors say the bones
OF more than one body were found about
the camp and put in the box with the
bones Of Henry, and that when the I'LL
| GERS agreed on an attempt to keep from
| the public the revoiting facts, all the
| bones about the camp were put together
! as those of one man, and IL was then de-
| cided to report the remains as those OF
Henry. lie was known to be an almost
friendless sailor. DIR. Pavy occupied
higher rank.
| That five bodies were washed away
after having been buried in an ice foe Is
| IA 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 ov the ridge
OF rocks and 100 yards from the
tent, on small buy. The burial p ace
where ten bodies were reported found
was in rear OF the sulnm,r tent,
and distant only thirty or forty yards.
Four of the five men whose bodies we're
reported as washed away died in June,
us follows Sailor, June 81 Pavy, 9Th;
| Gardner, 18th; Bender, 18th. These
deaths occurred at a time wheu the sur
yivors were miserabiy weak-the last
on four days before the rescue came.
Yet if the report forwarded TO Secretary
! Chandler is to he believed, the survivors
instead of carrying their dead comrades
TO the little burial place close behind the
tent took thlm, despite their weak con
dition, to the ice foe 100 yards away
The bodies of three others who died / !
June Kisllngbury, Henry and Schneider
| were recovered. The bodies of Kis-
lingbury and Schneider were not buried,
1t was admitted. Lieutenant Klslingbury
died June l. before any of the iour who
died later in the same month. Yet his
body was buried close by, while the 9th
ers, If the report is to be be.ieved, were
taken 100 yards away.
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 anu
deliver to friends without having all the
truth come out. When st. Johu's was
reached every correspondent reported six
bodies in tae hold of Que 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
IIenry's casket the contents are prlnci-
pally pieces oil wood.
A seaman, one of the crew OF
the Greedy relief expedition claimed to-
day to have been disobeying orders in
telling what he knew of the horrors of
Cape Sabine, and for this reason his
name is not published. The man says he
was one of the party which removed the
dead bodies from the graves behind
Greely's camp. When asked as to The
fate OF DR.. Pavy, who is reported to nave
died OF starvation, he said:
''That story is all wrong. The Doctor
was court-martialed three times, and at
last he committed sui ide. The SIX le-
ton found without head was tn II of DIR.
Pavy. There were marks OF kn fe
on several OF the bones where the flesh
had been cut Off"
add you fad anything that ed you to
believe that others were shot as well
private Henry?n sMr
eyes, we picked up the bodies of two
men, who were found later to have been
court-Imaftialed and shot The teeth OF
one OF the dead bodies were found as
black as coal, and we were satisfied that
the man had been suffering from scorbut,
but no flesh had been cut from the body,
owing to the fact that the poor fellow WAS
diseased when he was put out OF the way,
Unmistakable marks OF pistol shots were
found upon his body"
"How many would you say had teen
washed away?"
"The only one who met death by
, drowning was the Esquimaux. l am
convinced that all the others served as
, food for the survivors who were crazrd
by starvation. shall be ready to appear
before any Investigation which may come
up alter am discharged from the Navy,
and repeat these statements"