Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1878 — HORRIBLE. [ARTICLE]

HORRIBLE.

Tlie search for Devine’s Body in the Medical College at Ann Arbor Keveals a Terrible Sight. [Ann Arbor (Mich.) Cor. CincinnatlEnquirer.] CqL Snelbaker arrived Jier# tttoiglit, in search of the body of Toting Devine, of the body of Scott IlurrisOit. Gaining admission to the the janitor went to three large of dead bodies floating in brine, and the inspection began. First he hurled from their places huge rocks which had been placed above to weigh down and keep in place the bodies. Then, with bared arms, and an expression of fiendish satisfaction, he began reaching down into the vats in search of the bodies. As the weights were removed they floated to the surface, and were seen to be closely packed in tierces in the vats, like so many slaughtered hogs packed for market. First, next to the front, was the body of a young and handsome woman of about 2t, with long, golden hair, matted and discolored by the filthy brine into which the body had been rudely thrown. The face was one of great beauty, and, though discolpred bv the. process, still showed that it was the face of one who in life had known no want.’wnd upon which the cares of life had left no .traces. Alongside of it, naked, as was the first, lay the body of a large negro, m an advanced state of decomposition, the black skin in large clots slipping from its place, and revealing the discolored flesh. As the body floated to the surface with that of the woman the short, kinky wool was falling from the head and the watey, mingled with thegolden tresses of the woman at his side. . Next in order beyond, sad pressing against the body, of the neglp; was that of an old nton, nis feet incased in rough, filthy woolen socks, the body again naked, the eyes sunk deep in the sockets, the mouth opened and filled with the liquid in which it floated, the features distorted and discolored beyond recognition, and the shaggy, gray whiskers were loosening their hold and slipping from the face.

As old Negley made a dive at the body, preparatory to hauling it out of tlie vat, aided by a stalwart student, whom he had pressed into the service, the old man prepared to remove the bodies from the vat, in order that we might see whether or not those for whom we searched were there. Seizing the first roughly by the head and shoulders, his assistant grasping the feet, the body was lifted to the edge of the vat, and, without a word of coution or a show of tenderness, or even the consideration one would use toward, a dead animal, it was tumbled rudely to the stofie noor, the beautiful head, which had been pillowed on* some manly bosom, striking hard upon the stone floor, the shapely limbs and well-rounded form thrown prone upon the qeljar filth and bones, an»l the golden, streaming^uuriitV^V l with rft fi##)# jrat, upon' and the body, Inking Tfc and the,face from its Bhamd. & f He followed fith until within a few minutes “hero my upon the filthy stone floor, mingled with the bones and fragments of the apartment, a pile of about twenty ghastly corpses, of all sizes and colors, and all ages and conditions; the old, the young, the emaciated, the well-rounded figure, the shapen and misshapen, black and

For perhaps an hour longer this fiendish, sickening work went on, until the vats were emptied, and no less than forty naked corpses lay in heaps upon the floor, of all ages, sexes, and nationalities, thrown promiscuously’ together, without the least order or attempt at order, a sickening magy3 of human corruption. The skin slipping fjom the fitnbs and bodies where they had been roughly handled, the Hair fftltfh§; froth the heads, or saturated with brine, drippifig its filth upon the bodies below. The dead, distorted, meaningless faces looking out through the dim, ghaatly iamp-lifchtitf-all forms amt in -all terrible positions of countenance on the fiends who were disporting with their sacred flesh. Then the work of inspection began. inspsoted all the bodies which bore resemblance to the dead for whom he sought, and succeeded, he thinks, in identifying several of them. Young Devins’ body he has a very accurate description of, and has found one which so closely corresponds with it that there seems to be flftle doubt, from the description, that M is the one long sought for. ”*1 Up to Jan. 1, 1878, Colorado, had produoed $72,000,000 in gold and silver.