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Show MO A DEN OF SNAKES. Rectors lave an Exciting and Dan-gerous Dan-gerous Encounter With Eeptiles. ' EPHEUM'S INOEEDIBLE MEANNESS. jiaciu&ati Building Associations A Dove ' Luncheon The Way . Good Enough, Prospectors in Winston county had a most exciting encounter with reptiles, the particulars of which have just be-ome be-ome known. It i3 well known that for Ljs a snalte den has existed in that Luiity, and travelers have told of the rk'ible number of huge snakes to 00 i L under a certain rock. Climb up to , px-g above the den, and seemingly ihouKmdsof snakes appear below, writh-i,ir writh-i,ir alwvi as if in agony, entwined about h other in an indescribable mass. . If a stuiio is dropped down into this den an odor arises which, it is stated, almost renders those above unconscious. A party of prospectors visited this not-pdden not-pdden and ouo of them, having heard Tae story of the sickening odor emitted i-om these reptiles, concluded to test it ,nd dropped a stone. The odor was uoro sudden than usual and stronger Han ever known before, and the pros-Kctor, pros-Kctor, it appears, being unable to repel re-pel its effects, became diszy and fell into he make den below. His horrified ompanions looked over the precipice .jrlsawbim fall among the snakes and hen supposed that he was kiZfcd. But ,ben he struck the shelf of rock which cm occupied by the snakes ho rolled oif md fell, his body striking the branches if a tree, where he lodged. As he fell rom the den it was seen that a snake ras clinging to his arm, another around jj body, and still another around his eg, but in some almost miraculous way heso were all knocked off by the branch-6 branch-6 of the tree which he full into. His companions ran at once to the bot-m bot-m of the mountain, then went back to ho tree, which they climbed, and found 69 unfortunate man alive, but uncon-.ions. uncon-.ions. They took him to a neighboring ibin, and it was found that, while he tat considerably bruised and had a bro-en bro-en arm from the fall, none of the snakes jd bitten hira in any exposed part of ie body, and he was not injured by his lirilling experience except, as stated, rom the fall. Alabama Cor. St. Louis ilobe-Democrat. |