Show o. o 1 MUMMiFIED BODIES fOUND IN MEXICAN CA VERN Entombed While Alive Members of ing Party Think BONDS ON HAND Speculation Aroused as to Time of Deaths CHIHUAHUA Mexico April April 28 AP The AP-The The mummified bodies cimore of ci more than a hundred men man women warner and children discovered in a mountain moun tain lain cave near San Juan Nepomuceno ceno reno bore silent witness to their living living liv liv- ing ng incarceration The men who braved the tho foul atro air o of t the cavern declared that even oven the bodies of the women and children showed that their hands had been bound together with strings about thumbs Tho sharp contraction contraction tion ion of the muscles of the face o of one ne body which was removed to tc this his city seemed to show that death had md come only after Intense suffer suffer- In ing ng The searchers hers said they ha had baa glimpsed a second cave leading ou out o of f the first in which they believed h JR e. e l 1 I they hey were unable t. t to explore because I o of f lack of or oxygen GOATHERDS MAKE FIND The discovery that some at least of ot if those who had died had been bound quashed a 3 first theory that the thc band had been wiped out Inome in some some ome natural tragedy such as the blocking docking of or the cave entrance by an earthquake Instead arose the tho speculation speculation spec spec- as to who In the troubled history o of Mexico had Inflicted this death Two young youns- goatherds who were hunting for wild honey stumbled on the he mummies Some W were re ranged along long the walls the tho majority were I squatting on the floor while others were ere In more distorted postures I The youths frightened hurriedly left ft the cavern and rushed to the nearest town San Juan Nepomuceno I ceno eno to notify the authorities The mayor maor organized an exploring exploring ing rig party which found beside the thc bodies objects resembling knives and nd tomahawks as well weli its as large bundles believed to have ha contained clothing lothing ONE NE BODY REMOVED One body perfectly preserved al although although al- al though two teeth dropped out as ns It Itras Was Vas ras being brought here was re removed removed re- re moved loved to the village villaS and turned over ver to Deputy Juan Chavez It later Lter was brought here and is being exhibited in a store window National Na Na- a- a Lonal officials have ordered it tent sent to Mexico l City for study in an ef effort ef- ef fort rt to learn tho time in which these peoples copies lived and the manner of their deaths Some believe they were placed In inide their ide living tomb as early as ns the Spanish vanish conquest |