Show AN AIT ST PIERRE City Buried by a Volcano discovered In Western New Mexico Now York Times The destruction of St Pierre has solved soh d a n mystery for the cowboys s of the Rio San Francisco valley vaney in New Mexico Ever E r since the capture of G Con r animo permitted the cattlemen n to oc c occupy cupy copy the tb extreme western part par t of this nus territory the cowboys have haye been dig digging digging ging for fot pottery in the homes of an extinct race of Indians that once lived Jived along the Rio San Francisco i These homes were dugouts cellars with stone walls built bunt into the llie second 00 bank or bench of the river valley alley The pottery differs rom from that of the din cliff clUff dwellers d well s and It is very beautiful J But when digging the dirt dl t from the theold theold J old dwellings the cowboys immediately noticed that it was not like that in which the dwellings were The soil of or the bench where many of ot the he dwell dwelt dwellings lags ings are found is 16 i a a gran gras granite granIte Ito ite Ite while hUe that used in filling mUng the tho old d homes was a soft sott black loam fit for a market garden One had to travel far fardown fardown fardown down the valley to find hind such soil ll as that Then as they cleaned cle ned out put the old dugouts the cowboys began to find skeletons In queer positions An old man had been buried apparently whIle white he sat leaning against a house hou e wall with a pipe in his mouth Near him a papoose e wrapped and tied on a piece of oC bark In Indian fashion had been stand standIng lug Ing against the walL Elsewhere a a woman Roman had bad been buried as she knelt behind a metate or cern grinding stone One On hand Was as on the stone and the other in Ina a bowl of oC corn cornand cornand cornand and the corn though blackened was ras 88 recognizable Plainly this man with the papoose and the woman bad TtA died diM suddenly and unexpectedly Other skeletons were found showing that death came caine so swiftly that no move moe I could be made while some were piled pilM up as if there had bad been a rush for th tb house entrances when death occurred Seeing the lava on Oft the hilltops and mesas round about the stream tream it was 81 easy to Imagine that an outflow of oC set auf locating gases from some some volcano had killed the Indians Indiana even een though 1 square mites miles of territory show certain proofs of ot this remarkable slaughter but the unsolvable mystery was th tho fact that these old homes hom homere were ere hilled filled with a kind of or earth not found near at hand If It every one in inthe inthe inthe the pueblos was killed and that was as U plainly the case who filled the homes If Indians Indiana had come from other parts of the territory to fill till them they would Koul i have hare prepared pr pared the dead for burial in inthe inthe inthe the usual fashion Moreover no man maD could have ha e shoveled dirt Into the rooms ms and filled them without disturbing the pose of many man of or the dead who 00 l be beyond beyond e yond question had been buried as th tbt felL feU now everybody caa esa ea the matter As at St Pierre a blast bias las lasof of gases struck dead every eYe soul in th valley of the Rio San Francise A v tremendous t flow of mud came next and ani ri It flooded those homes and aDd very like Uk t filled the valley full When all that tha L was waa over the rains began washing lIt Ut the valley and in the course Ju e of j jand pa a and centuries since the mud mua mu has be r cleaned from the old arid granite a abut ii i but it remains of course In the cl c cellar r like Uke homes where a prehistoric ra r lived and made beautiful u things fJ I everyday use and were a breath as they followed f their Ut J oi course of life as were ere the J j 1 1St St Pierre Perre i |