The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-15
Like Banquo's. Ghost, 1t Will Not
Down, Nor Hide It's I'm
canny Shape.
Further Particulars Of the Dreadful Strait
to Which the Greedy Party We're
Reduced to Prolong Life.
4 Broad Hint AS to What Became Of the
Missing Bodies Said to Have
Gone Adrift.

NEW lOkhj august lt,-Iue tunes
says: The remains Of Private Henry,
shot at the Greedy camp, June 6, were
found by the rescuing party quarter Of
a mile beyond the tent of the starving
men, There was hardly anything left
but pile Of bones, stripped Of nearly
every trace OF flesh except some OF the
lower part Of the trunk. The head could
not be found. The bones were placed in
bag. With the remains Of six others
on board they were deposited in box
two feet long. A day or two after the
squadron began the homeward trip the
officers determined 10 remove all suspi-
con of cannibalism, and prepared the
bones for burial. Sticks of wood were
procured, and to these, lifted to the prop
er length, the bones were tied until all
were as nearly in place as it was posi-
bic to get them.
THE HEAD WAS MIS- ING
and a block of wood was made to do
duty in its place. Then this frame work
in the shape Of man was tied to plank
and wound with cotton cloth as the other
bodies had been. 1t was then surrepti-
Ously placed in one OF the alCoho! filed
tanks with some of the other. 1t was
this bundle Of wood that was brought TO
New York, claimed by friends Of Henry
and buried. 1t is doubtful if those hand
Ing the remains at st. Johns had any sus-
picion that one of the bundles was LARGELY
made up Of wood. The body of Sergeant
Cross, who died January Is, when taken
from the grave, showed.
so SINGS OF DECAY,
yet Of Henry, who died only sixteen days
before the relief arrived, there was moth
ing left but few Aesh.ess bones. The
head had probably been thrown into the
sea TO prevent Identification, Ia this
work OF the officers of the Bear it was
not possible TO remove all traces Of tie
bullet by which Henry met his death.
Flesh was cut from the bodies of the 9TH
or dead as the pangs Of hunger grew too
strong for the survivors, but with Henry
freshly killed it was different. The men
COOKED AND ATE THE FLESH,
and by this means life was sustained until
rescue came. The burying ground and
the cape, where ten bodies were reported
as found, was back Of the camp and away
from the water. Five bodies were re-
ported by Commander Schley as having
been buried in an ice foe near the camp,
from which they were washed out to sea.
IL was supposed, SO reported, that
the survivors were unable, from
weakness, to bury the dead in the gravel,
but q comparison OF dates in Commander
SiDley's report to Secretary Chandler
shows that the body Of Lieutenant Lock
wood reported as having died on April
Q, was recovered and brought home,
while the body of Sergeant Rice, who
died on the same day, had been buried in
the ice foe and washed away to sea. The
other four reported as carried away by
the waves died in June. Ii all the facts
are told it is not improbable that
THE CANNIBALIsM
began much sooner, and was more extern
siye than has been supposed, and OF so
horrible character that the officers of
the relief expedition did not dare to bring
the remnants OF the five bodies reported
as washed away, with them. 1t is stated by
several sailors that pieces of human flesh
were found about the camp, One of the men
took one of the pieces on board the ship,
where he was compelled to throw it over
board. Before reaching st. Johns the
crews of all the vessels were called ait,
and warned to say nothing of the expe-
diton, nothing Of its success or failure,
and nothing OF what they saw in the Arc
tic regions.
The fact that the caps were not re-
moved from the heads OF the dead bodies
on board the Thetis, and that not even
the sailors were allowed to look beneath
the screen, is another evidence of the
fact that the bodies bore evidences of
mutlaton by knives, and that the head
OF Private Henry was missing.