The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-17
Evidence That DR.. Pavy Did the
Carving Of His Dead for His
Living Companions.
That After His Own Death the Scalpel
Fell Into Ulskillful HandS-Contents
Of Kislingbury's Stomach,
The Horrible Theory OF the Slaughter.
Pen Not Accepted by General
Hazen.

NEW YORK, August lGth.-Untll the
death Of DR.. Octave Payy Of the Greedy
party, June 9Th, the flesh cut from most
OF the bodies was removed by hand
skilled in dissection. A few of the bod
les had the ileshy portions cut away en-
tireIy. But with the majority the work
had been SO we'll done that casual OBJ
server would never have suspected with.
out other evidence, of which there
was plenty, however, that the
survivors had been reduced
to cannioalism, and had for long time
been subslsting principally on the bodies
OF their dead comrades. Ii Is not coin.
cIdence that the body Of Dr.. Payy, with
those OF two others who died after him,
should be reported as washed away.
With Surgeon Payy gone the scalpel could
not be used. Before the bOllcs had been
left with little mark of the terrible work
done. After his death the survivors were
forced 10
DG>MEMBER THE BODIES,
and denude them Of flesh in such way
as to leave nothing but bones. So these
uniOrtunateS were reported a. buried in
an ice Toe and washed away, and 10 the
list was added Sailor, who died June 3,
aud Sergeant Rice, who died AprA ..
On most of the bodies the Scalpel
was passed under the skin, the
skin laid back, the flesh removed,
the skin pulled back in place
and the edges joined, ~ there
was no external evidence Of the
work. No one in the party except the
surgeon could so skillluIly remove the
flesh and leave the skin intact. How
Payy met his death has not been eX.
planned, but it was probably by the
knife. With him gone, and every day
the pangs Of hunger growing more I'M
bearab.e, the caution Was relaxed and the
survivors ate OF human flesh however
they could easiest secure 1t.
IN TIE LAST DAYS
before relief came all sense of honor and
Of feeling had been lost. Long was the
strongest Of the party, and was able to
walk TO the launch. Fredericks had con-
siderable strength left, and c!ambered
on board the ThetIS almost un4ided. 1t
was seldom the men stood upright.
They crawied about on their hands and
knees, and when Brainard was uu-
dressed on the Thetis his knees were
found calloused to 4 thickness Of over
half an inch. In the midst Of such
horrors it was wondered by the
rescung party how Greedy and
his companions kept their reason.
About the camp were scattered bones Of
the dead, and dissect-d and mutiIated
bodies were half exposed in the burial
plot back of the tent. 1t was scene at
which the rescuers shuddered. The
bodies Of those who died natural deaths
were not mutllated where death had been
caused by disease. As to how many
died OF scurvy, accounts differ. All did
not die of starvation. tits feared others
met death as Henry did. 1t is known
that court.martials were frequent in the
camp.
PAVY WAS on TRIAL
three times. There were diSSeltionS
among the men until, weak in body and
mind by privation, each did all he could
for the others, but the last struggle for
life became single-handed. 1t was each
man for himself.
The officers of the relief vessels still re-
fuse to say anything on the subject. The
sailors talk freely, but some of the scenes
they describe are too revolving for repe-