Margaret Breen, John Breen, Patrick
Breen, Jr., James F. Breen, Peter Breen, Isabella M. Breen, Nancy
Graves, Jonathan Graves, Elizabeth Graves, and Mary M. Donner. The
remainder of the third relief rescued Simon P. Murphy, Frances E.
Donner, Georgia A. Donner, Eliza P. Donner, and John Baptiste. W. H.
Eddy remained in the valleys after making this journey. Wm. M. Foster
traversed the snow-belt no less than five times - once with the "Forlorn
Hope," twice with the third relief, and twice with the fourth. The
fourth relief rescued Lewis Keseberg.
General Kearney visited the cabins at Donner Lake on the twenty-second
of June, 1847. Edwin Bryant, the author of "What I Saw in California,"
was with General Kearney, and says: "A halt was ordered for the purpose
of collecting and interring the remains. Near the principal cabins I saw
two bodies entire, with the exception that the abdomens had been cut
open and the entrails extracted. Their flesh had been either wasted by
famine or evaporated by exposure to the dry atmosphere, and they
presented the appearance of mummies. Strewn around the cabins were
dislocated and broken skulls (in some instances sawed asunder with care,
for the purpose of extracting the brains), human skeletons, in short, in
every variety of mutilation. A more revolting and appalling spectacle I
never witnessed.
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