Show MINE GIVES UP ITS SECRET A mystery almost forgotten is solved un t ates aati of men ali he digap intent ln thirty tl two arn ARC ago I 1 oi tell abote the detally Detal orites lk leg S fato fate ori our deserters la in IS e 1 flit hats ace wa iva n to 1 colliers W va feb aj S J 9 f fd d the atu tu 1 much excited over it a aou would id it is claimed Lc clears lears up tip a A thirty two years standing the soa sk CT aft catt of four human beings having been dia covered in an abandoned coal mine one mile from here David Snyder has explored the old mine which has not been worked since the sixties and discovered ja the human bones one of the skeletons was wa tilting sitting upright against a ledge edge B a sid side tills this skeleton was wag found a flask it t contained notes explaining t fie mysterious disappearance of I 1 ewing benjamin ayers To elson and J joe oe thir thirty ty for or f ago the notes were written irL a but are well preserved they react me rne follows atu november 2 1863 should thin this ever reach the outside world let it be known T that we giving name namesake sare prisoner crisone F s here owing to the caving ln in of the mine we are deserters and were hiding were ife re when the mine caved iri in foo cl d alap an p water all gone we are doomed as no one 0 outside A is aware of furj whereabouts 4 ahli A about the eighth day of ou r imari I 1 ment i november 4 john ewing and tom ackelson have just killed ben ayers are eating him I 1 have already eaten my boot leg the rho water I 1 fifthe 11 the mine is N terrible our Ouro oil ilis is getting scarce air becoming foul I 1 only know the day of the month by my watch november 6 ewing has j ju u C ackemon Ack ehon cut off one of his I 1 fe eating it IN and fotr 11 ff tr ing his hii dirk knife like a maniac november 7 1 I ani am now alone with the dead I 1 had to kill ewing in self defense I 1 have juil ju eaten my other bootleg boot leg am ain sleepy v good bye I 1 in close this note in tills this flask to preserve it it possible so that if ey ever er found our sad fate will be known jf JOSE several of ilia old resi residents depts here remember these men it ats was generally believed they had been killed in battle |