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Show ::l!CMI:KIIf 'l 1MG0; STORY JF f . Startling Discovery Made by Prospectors in an Unfrequented Unfre-quented Portion of the State of Sonora. . jj. GOLD IN TRESSES OF WOMEN VICTIMS. S " ' The skulls, 160 of which were In a good state of preservation, nearly all had hair attached, and among the debris were bits of cloth, ribbons of silk and other passementerie, attached to a woman's wardrobe. The hair, where It remained In quantity upon the skull, In many cases was tied with bows of fancy colored ribbon and interwoven into the silken . braids were the gaudy beads set In purest of gold. - ; " prise, came upon a human skull, evidently evident-ly that of a woman, to which was attached at-tached a long silken growth of hair In excellent state of preservation. " Inspired In-spired with this discovery, they continued contin-ued their work, and although not finding any treasure at first they finally uncov-ereda uncov-ereda sight most gruesome to behold. Skull after skull came from the debris of the shattered walls, together with human hu-man bones. Jewelry, glass beads ln gold, and crosses of peculiar make-to which chains of gold were attached Two Bsautiful Bells. Among the dreadful relics of a bygone tragedy were the skulls and bones of little children and many toys of prlml-tlme prlml-tlme manufacture. It was truly a gruesome grue-some find, and was somevhat unexpected unexpect-ed to the treasure-seekers. They tob-tlnued tob-tlnued their labors, however, amid tie bones and grinning skulls, and were finally rewarded by finding two beautiful beauti-ful bells, tarnished by long years .of burial amid the bones and debris. These ' bells, when weighed, tipped the scales at ' 760 pounds, and a piece broken from the edge and sent to an assayer. showed them to be worth $1500 per ton In gold. " The returns showed they were not pure, but still were valuable. Upon them was Imprinted the date, 1770 A. D.. and they had evidently hung in the towers before the destruction of the building. Teeth Well Preserved. Milton and" "Walton" say that after ' finding the bells they ceased operations. ' and that at present the ancient ruins are exactly in the position as related above. They further say that the teeth In the skulls were in a splendid state of preservation, preser-vation, and that they were evidently those of young girls from 1 to 20 years of age. They tried to learn what they could about the ruins and their history, but found none among the scattered Inhabitants In-habitants who had any definite knowledge knowl-edge of their origin or destruction. f Victims of "Wild Apaches. Natives said, however, that their forefathers fore-fathers had told them it had met its un-1-timely end through the raid of a marauding ma-rauding band of Apaches, who had swooped down upon the unsuspecting inhabitants in-habitants and left no one to tell the tale. When and how it happened none seemed to know, but it was evidently long before be-fore the last three generations. The two discoverers brought up sever- al of the skulls, the head Jewelry and the ribbons found In the tresses of hair, from which they were not removed, and the people who came up on the 'same train authenticate all of the facts as re-' lated by Milton and Walton. The ancient ruins lie to the westward of Cos, over and beyond the region known as the Great Mesa. (Special to The Telegram.) DOUGLAS, Arts.. June 13. Charles Milton, a mining man of Sonora, accompanied accom-panied by W. R. Humphries, -a well-known well-known mining- photographer who has Just finished photographing the Phelps Dodge plant at Omacoxar 1 f or the St Louis exposition, have returned to Douglas, Doug-las, and they bring with them a story that reads as startling as any romance or tragedy ever brought out of that historical his-torical land. The story Is one of murder, rapine and pillage, of which only the ghastly evidences are left but which in the day of Its happening must have been a tragedy only, equaled by some of the noted events In history. Ancient Bain Found. Milton says that about ten days ago, while he was prospecting in a wild and Isolated spot some thirty-five miles west of Cos, he came upon the ruins of an ancient mission or convent which, from Its appearance had not known the presence pres-ence of a man for a century past Surrounding Sur-rounding it were the remains of an ancient an-cient pueblo, the scattered remains of which seemed to indicate that some time in the long ago it had been a prosperous prosper-ous and well-populated community. Legend of a Massacre. Milton was directed to the spot by a peon who told him that there was a legend le-gend among his people that a great massacre mas-sacre had occurred there at one time, and that somewhere in the midst of the ruins was hidden a great treasure of gold, silver and Jewels. Excited by the weird tale of the man and only half believing, Milton, accompanied by W. B. Walton, a fellow prospector, started out for the spot designated as the site of the ancient ruins and after a careful search found everything as described by his informant in-formant Marks of a Fierce Battle, His first examination convinced him, he says, that it had at one time been the seat of some ancient religious Institution, Insti-tution, surrounded by a village, and there were evidences upon all sides tending tend-ing to show that its downfall had been caused by violent means. The ancient walls of the main building bear every indication in-dication of having been the scene of some bitterly waged battle and the rack and ruin scattered around lent additional addition-al testimony to some terrible event in bygone years. "Walls Hollowed Out Milton and Walton were intensely impressed im-pressed with the scene, but it did not deter de-ter them from beginning an examination examina-tion of the ruins upon the quest which had brought them there, namely: to find out if it contained the buried treasures of which the peon had told them. In their first exploration work, after removing re-moving the debris from the top of the ancient walls, they found that they were of vast thickness, but had ben either hollow in between the inner and outer walls originally or had been hollowed out for ulterior purposes at a later period.. pe-riod.. , Gruesome Sight of Skulls. They say they began digging in between be-tween these two walls and after attaining attain-ing a certain depth, much to their sur- |