Nebraska Victims Of The Stake

At noon to-day the bodies, or rather wliat remains of the bodies, of Mitchell and Ketchum were brought to Kearney. They were found in a shallow grave only a short distance from their funeral pyre. We havenointcntion of at.tenrpting a description of the remains. The English language does not contain words, and we have not command of expressions, strong enough to paint the scène which is illustrated by these charred and mutilated bodies. ' Bepoiis which have been received dnring the past week were suftlcient to cause a cry of indignation to arise from every man in the community, but the reporta are nothing as compared with the reality. j ïhe two bodies lie upon a table in tlie undertaking establishment of F. J.. Switz. They are burned, blackened, and mutilated beyond recognition, des titute of clothing, ears and arms gone, iiesli eut and gashed, musdes contraeted, and a look of horrible agony upon the face of each. The marks of the " loose ropes " are upon their necks. the marks of the hot irons are upon their j wrists, and the marks of the j knifc are upon their bodies. The knife did not cut deep enough to kill, but only deep enough to cause the most excrueiating torture to the shrieking victim. If this aftair were written without foundation in f:ict, and merely tjie ! tion of the most sensatioual novelwriter of this country, it conld not be pictured so horrible as it is. The bodies wore saturated with oil before the match was applied. They were huug ' by their manacled wrists just high enough to keep theni from getting away from their barbarons captors. and then they were mutilated, cut, and gashed, and tortured by flamea lmruing the bare rlesh, from whicli the skin had been removed, until adeath.longprayed for, came to put a limit to their terrible sufferings. We have seen all the horrors oí war, but have uever before seen any sight so well illustrating the devilish ingenuity