Show TELEGRAPHIC Sel VllJC o Story Washington 13 Melvillei testimony before the Jeannette board this morning was a continuation of his account of the trip after leaving the vessel and included an account ot tto loparation on the last night they wars together His boat was a faster gailer than tae others but he had the others keep astern of DeLong boat On this occasion owner be had in running with the storm and lOS gotten ahead Ho saw Da Long making signals to them to stop and he attempted to do to lowering the tails of the boat This however cared the wave to data in Do L ng made aaother gesture which ha understood te mean to go on and not risk swamping the boat by flopping Ho therefore heisted tho sails and soon paued out of sight of the other boats nITer seeing any of tho oceupanta again until BO fouojd De Longiparty fiaad on the Lena delta After Bailing for some time out of right of the others ho remarked to Banon bower who eat betide him that ho thought they ought to hear to and wait for the others to come npv Danenhower replied Yes Mellville she ought to have been hove to before this They made a drag and after much troabla hon te and drifted until the storm ended next day when they again made sail for the coast Sfais is the first statement from any person that Danenhower thought they ought to have stopped the boat sooner after the separation occurred oc-curred A letter from Minister Hunt at St Petersburg to the secretary of war dated October 24 lays the caskets for the remains of De Long party have arrived there and were admitted free at the custom hOl sand s-and they have been forwarded by express ex-press to Orenburg He says he had no news from Harber and his associates And begins to fear that adverse weather may Interfere with the execution of their mission to bring back the remains of the party r IT |