Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-08-21
THE TERRIBLE TRUTH,

serve Life.
NEW YORK. August 16
The Times In its issue yesterday
says: Although the truth Of the reported
cannibalis,n In the Gree,y camp has been
proved beyond q doubt, and Lieutenant
Greedy has officially reported the shooting
of Henry, the officers of the relief expe-
ditfon 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 Lieutenaut 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
q body, were at first reported as those Of
Surgeon Pavy.
The crews and several officers as we'll
did not know that Henry's 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 OH
GERS agreed on an attempt to keep from
the public the revolving facts, all the
bones about the camp We're 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.
That five bodies were washed away
after having been buried in an ice foe is
a point in Schley's report generally dis
credited The summer tent where the
survivors were found was nearIy 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 Say. The burial Place
was in rear of the summer tent,
and 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; Pavy, 9Th;
Gardner, 18th; Bender, 10th. These
deaths occurred at q time when the sur
vivors were miserabiy weak-the last
on. y four days before the rescue came.
Yet If the report forwarded to Secretary
Chandler is toebe 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.
The bodies of three others who died 10
ne-Kislingbury, Henry and Schneider
were recovered. The bodies of Kis-
and Schneider were not buried,
it 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 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
truth come out. When st. johns was
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-
paliy pieces of wood.
A seaman, one of the crew of
The CREEPY 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
late Of DR.. Pavy, who is reported to have
lied OF starvation, he said:
"That story Is all wrong. The Doctor
was court-martialed three times, and at
asst he committed sui ide. The skele-
ION found without head was that of DR..
Pavy. There were marks OF n knife
IN severaIof the bones where the flesh
lad been cut off,"
s'Did yon fad anything that ed you to
believe that others were shot as well
private Henry?"s
eyes, we picked up the bodies of two
men, who were found later to have been
and shot. The teeth of
me of the dead bodies were found as
hack as coal, and we were satisfied that
he man had been suffering from scorbut,
tut no flesh had been cut from the body,
,wing TO the fact that the poor fellow was
diseased when he was put out of the way
marks OF pistol shots were
Quad upon his body"
Elbow many would you say had been
washed away?'
"The only one who met death by I
browning was the Esqnimaux. I am
that all the others served as
God for the survivors who were crazed
" starvation. shall be ready TO appear
'efore any investigation which may come
lp after am discharged from the Navy,
md repeat these sts,fenents."
sY 81 H. PoRTsMosTH, N. H., August 10. III
Surgeon Head, U. s. A., arrived to-day
o taAc chsrge Of the Greedy survivors.
secretary Chandler has issued strict or ~
ers that none of the survivors be inter. u;
iewed.
1t IS expected that all of the bodies Nv
nried will be exhumed to see how far
be cannibalism extended. &a
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Three-Carsf Monte Man shot. 81
KANSAS CRY, NO., August Is.
Viii . circus was performing at WIchs
%, Kas., man mounted uppna horse IS
ode mp TO the main entrance Of the tedtIfI
nd shot three shots at ai three-ca