The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-26

help; With Eindcmann and Fireman James
II. bartlett of his own party, he returned to
lcring greatly from exposure and scarcity of
food: He sGcured tho log no, book IF the lean,
a cache. but the DE Long party could not 10
found. Three. weeks of effort made Il: evident
that the members of the party must have OH
died. MIR. Melville returned to Belun. where
be remained until sprinE, and then resumed
~. 1892. III" bodies of the De Long party, with
the exception of those Of H.. II. Erichsen, sea-
and Erickson had been buried in the river and
their remains could not be secured. Engineer
IN Chief Melville thus describes the interment
II selected a fiat spot on the top of a little
whale-back rock between three and four hun
TO work to dig II hole in the rock in which TO
vet we're 1dR ire e Gr" with H Inn aid an ]nat aH n To- s]5" brsnt
up the old tiathoat to get timber to make a
box. The box. when completed. had inside
two feet deep. We hauled all this timber
from the ~liatboat, over to Mat Way. and on
t~S 'p inches in ia" dia,nottr and 'i fifty " Feet long mnF.
and hauled that to Mat Way. with which to
make NAL feet a crH f"ss Of cut t 3 pioss twenty;
make the cross arms. we made the cross
doing the work. Bartlett. in the mean time,
carried tho box, up on the mountain after
m mi%as' had an ns ; "" tSo Work II: of Anew hewin s'n oat
the cross. the interpreter and myself worked
the end of 1t into the hut and cut the inscrip-
Lieut.. De Long first to the southwark, head to
the west, feet to the east; latd Or. Amber
Dressler, Boyd, lverson. HACK, and All Sam.
THE bodies were placed as tho names were
Snt on Cnot the y, yer tdm P "ib t 3o Of the G =, that Of
ward. covered the bodies with old tent cloth
and pieces Of rag. and the tomb or box proper
hauled some large round timer and laid II
around the base Of the box. and shored tho
cross with diagonal braces from the edge CT tho
box. / also erected q r~idGepole and logged it
into the vertical portion OF the cross, and Sith
some round ti,G3rr, from four to seven inches
built mp II regular pyramid over tho tomb. |
then quarr!ed out sufficient stones 10 cover the
whole tomb with pieces of from 100 to 200
pounds In weight AT the base and smaller pieces
at the top and sides. The cross arm was then
This fnishcd the burial ~
1t Is proposed TO dup!icalo this tomb In every
respect In WOodlnwn Cemetery, to which place
the bodies OF De Long and most Of his com,
panlons were removed In the winter OF 1884
mains OF George ": Dc Long, Lieutenant Com
mander, commanding, the jean"tte; Walter
Lee; mschinisti Il T.; kGGk, seaman c A.
The remains of Pr. James NJ. Amber, sur,
family burying grounds at his old home in
Yirgini@i those ~ Jerome J, Collins. VINO rep
Ireland, and the body OF George w Howl
second fireman, IA now In a Philadelphia
graveyard. The only difference between the
monument proposed Ia he constructed md
hat which marked tho original tomb of the
lie Long party will he that the cross will he
OF cast bronze instead OF timber.
The proposition 10 erect a tomb similar to
that built over the remains OF De Long and his
one" said Enuiucer-in thief Melyiiie. F''onr
people should not forget the faithful services
of these heroic dead. Til three white men and
original gave their timo and labor and sui
fered torture from the freezing OF their hands
and faces 10 construct this rude cross away he
yond the bounds Of civilization within sight OF
the place where the explorers perished In their
brave endeRYOr 70 reach suecor."