Evening journal., 1901-09-30
CrueSOmc Graveyard Exhibit
III Centre Of City
SKULLS SURMOUNT BONE Pile
GraVeS Give Up Their Chastity Con-
teats and NelghbOrS Score
Careless KOrkmen

Of the dead. with total disregard Of the
Jaw protecting the public health, and
without semblanoe of moral decency,
is the work beins done at Eleventh
and French streets by some person in
the employ Of Patrick Fahey.
The scene Of his operations is the old
burying ground at that place, and the
presence of so many skeletons there
has appropriately named the spot "the
place OF a skull" Families In the
neighhorhood are agihted consider
lably and are hoping that the police
Twin nut a stop TO the exhunimg of the
bodies. and that right early.
Human bones are being dug from the
leraves i'm which they have been resting
lfor more than a century. and are being
Ipled like the bones of so many cattle
I'm place exposed to the view Of al
who pass that way. During these
bright moonlight nights persons going
lal1ng Eleventh street have their nerves
severely tried by having 10 gaze upon a
dozen or more erinning skulls sur
mounting q confused mass Of bones
that once contributed 10 make up the
frames Of human beings. That it Is
disgusting and an outrage TO civiliza-
tior Is the general eXrlesslon of ciu-
lzens who have looked upon the CHASTITY
land revo ting spectacle
lsKEIET ONs ARE DUMPED TO.
GETHER.
Without the slightest attempt al
keeping the bones Of each body to-
gother. they are exhumed by pick and
lshovel and piled together on a hill just
back of the cellar that is being dug.
they look like pile in a bOneyard
that is about to he used in making
phosphate Complaint has been made
TO Mr. Campbell who has charge OF
the men doing the excavating. and be
promised il Is said, to get boxes or
barrels into which to put the bones as
they are dug from the earth. but he
has failed to keep his promise.
THIRTY OR FORTY SKELETONS.
At q glance twenty-fourl skulls can
be counted on the face Of the bone pile
and from a rough estimate there must
be forty human beings represented by
the mass Of bone material Owing 10
the dry and sandy condition Of the
lgrcund the bones are we'll preserved.
their homes. only 10 be sent scurrying
back 10 the lot by their horrihed par
ents.
From many of the skulls grown pepl
ple as well az children, have knocked
cut the well-preserved teeth and have
kept them as sickening and ghostly
lrelics OF the harbarism Of Wilmington
in the year 1901.
TRYING ON NEGHBOR'S NERVES.
More especially trying is this state
of affairs to Mrs. NJ. j. Blest. whose
lhcusa windows look right out upon
1.-THE hill. in which the bones are piled
with such ruthless abandon. Neither
lday nor night can Mrs. Blest look cut
lof Der windows without looking at a
lgrinning skull What makes this more
trying On Mrs Blest is that she has
lost her husband by death within the
last year. and her sorrow is brought
before her more forcibly every day by
these reminders Of the grave.
When talked to On the subject thi-
Imorning, Mrs Blest's eyes filled with
ltears as she said:
Those bones have been there OF
some Of them, ever since the men be-
gan TO dig that cellar, and I donl
think that IL is right I cannot look oul
of my window without seeing them
land il makes me so nervous that
can hardly stay in my house I think
THAT they might put a canvas cover
lover them, for when / look out I can
,nct help wonder if my husbands re.
mains ever will be treated in such an
outrageous manenred by people who
profess 10 be Christians Even
little children have brought skulls over
here TO me, and people are becoming
afraid TO come by this corner al night =
ANOTHER NEIGHOR SPEAKS.
Joseph Woodman, 65 years ola who
has lived in Wilmington for IS years
said:
1t is a disgrace TO the human race
and is the worst disrespect l have ever
seen shown 10 the deaa. They dig ths
skeletons up and throw the bones on
the pile. Relatives Of the dead repre-.
scented in the pile may have purchased
the right to be buried in that spct
thinking no doubt that their bone.
would be allowed to remain undisturb
ed. l saw them dig into a grave tha.
lcontained two skeletons. They had evi
IDENTIFY ben the bodies Of man and wife
One Of the bodies was found face down
and the other lay on its back This
of course. points TO a burial alive ol
else peculiar custom Of those days
lCust0m or no custom. husband or wife
made no difference 70 These desecraters
of the grave. The last ties we've torn
asunder, and the bones consigned tc
the common heap"
CONTRACTOR HAS BEEN WARNED
II las not been many months since
itaSse same parties were restrained
from throwing the bones out on the
icity dumps by Secretary Cahiu ,of the