The Portland Daily Press

DE LONG'S FATE.

Particulars of the Finding of
the Dead
Bodies of his Party.

NEW YORK, June 19.-W. H. Gilder, the
Herald correspondent with Rodgers, sends a
dispatch dated Lena delta, April 12th, giving
particulars of the finding of the dead bodies of
DeLong and party. The dispatch says none of
the dead had boots: their feet were covered
with rags tied on and in the pockets of all
were pieces of burnt skin and of clothing which
they had been eating. The hands of all were
more or less burned, and it looked as if when
dying they had crowded into the fire. Boyd
was lying over the fire and his clothing being
burned through to the skin which was no
burned. Collins' face was covered with a
cloth. All the bodies were carried to the top
of a hill 300 feet high about 40 versts to the
southwest from where they were found and
there interred in a mausoleum constructed of
wood from the scow. After completing the
tomb the party separated to search the delta
for traces of Chipp's people. Melville went to
the northwest part of the delta and west as far
as the Oinek river. Ninderman took the cen-
tre and Bartlett the northeast. Ninderman
and Bartlett found nothing: Melville has not
yet returned. The search is to be extended to
Cape Borchaya and the bay of that name.