Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-09-18
Tales of wickedness.
A HORRIBLE DISCOVERY.

A HORRIBLE DISCOVERY.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. I5.-A horri-
BILE discovery was made in Chinatown.
Information was given the city coro-
ner that a frishftful stencil was being
emitted from cellar ON Pacific street.
He went and forced his way in, and
found the floor covered with human
skulls and bones partially covered
with flesh, in the last stage of green
putriticauon. Among the decayed
mass worms were era Wing, while the
hoor was wet and Shiny with the liqs
uid exuding from the remains. In an
inner room tho coroner found mum
Der of Chinese engaged in boiling
down the remains Of other bodies,
while other Chinese were engaged in
scraping the boiled bones and packing
them in boxes for shipment TO China.
1t is estimated that the cellar con-
tanned over three hundred dead bodies
which lad been taken secretly from
various cemeteries throughout the
state. As au instance of Chinese in.
genuity it's stated that those in charge
of the operations, fearing that the
stencil from the boiling pots would be
SO great as to attract attention ON the
outside, procured two living skunks
SO that tie odor of the latter might
overcome the former. The coroner
confscated all the remains.
DEEP AND INTENSE EXCITEMENT.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Is. The dis
covery this afternoon of the horrible
wholesale practice which the Chinese
have committed under the very noses
of the city authorities, has created
deep and intEnSe excite ment. The
knowledge that such mass Of putri"
fication was lying exposed in the very
heart of the city, while ut the same
time the drainage and sewers of the
city are known TO be unwholesome
aud filthy, created feeling of fear
for the health of the city after all the
boxes containing the remains of the
dead Cinnamon had been removed to
the morgue.
The city coroner when interviewed
in regard to the matter, stated that
when he arrived at the cellar in which
the boxes were stored and the purified
remains which had still TO be boiled,
were lying, he set to work with q
hatchet to break open the boxes
There were some 80 bodies in all.
Each OF them contained TIN case in
which were carefully rolled up IN oiled
cloths a number OF human bones;
smaller bones and long strips of skin
were wrapped up in a separate parcel
and placed within the larger one.
On the outside Of the box was la
I, IL nd,
the name of the person while living,
so that the remains could be claimed
by relatives on arrival at China.
The most boxes containing remains
were on examination fousd 10 have
come from cities in the interior state.
The remains were shipped from there
to San Francisco in common lead
boxes. Those that come from the
interior are boiled and prepared be-
fore shipment, so that no odor is pre-
ceptible enroute. Only those remov-
ed from the San Francisco cemetery
have flesh still on them when
brought to the preparation cellar. 1t
was the intention 10 have shipped all
those on the steamer City Of Peking
which sails Saturday next 1t is
FuUIDFSu tHdJ LHt SulhtSO companies
Will bring action against the coroner
for the removal of the boxes and re-
mains.
SHOT AN OLD PIONEER
TUCSON. Arizona, Sept. 15.-Louis
Rickbaugh shot Alex Levine, to-day.
The wound is believed 10 BE- fatal.
Levine is an old pioneer of Arizona,
and the proprietor of the beautiful
park known as Levine's park. He is
an uncle of Col. Lamont, private sec
retary of President Cleveland.
ATTACKED BY A MOB OF STRIKERS.
CLEVELAND, o. Sept. 15-This
morning Wallace Kenerson, foreman
Of the galvanizng department of the
Cleveland plate mill Of the Cleveland
rolling mill company, was driving on
his way to work through ward 1S,
when a crowd of nearly 100 Poles at
tackled him and one struck him with a
club. TEereupen Kenerson drew a
revolver and began shooting, dis
charging three Of The chambers of the
pistol into the crowd, one of them he
wounded on the arm. The wounded
man and Kenerson were both arrested
and taken 10 the police station.