Show re trifled lit in lown iowa the petrified i remains of a huge hug ge animal in havo have been discovered near percy la ia by a man named S R dawson danson dan son it was lying beneath the surface eon on tho the bank of the ilia des moines river liver tile the total len lenth length th of tho the body measures without tho the beald head over forty feet the head was detached from tile tho body and when discovered w was a r some distance away from it at nine nina feet from the end of the tail it measured our inches in width in support of his theory that this is the petrified remains of some extinct monster mr dawson in describing the find shows that it is entire entirely lv unlike tho the stone formation in the vicinity A spar of quartzite formation was discovered in tile the locality where the blood vessels and intestinal canal should be and another formation was found in other parts the remains were in a bed of dark blue tono stone surrounded py by petrified remains of insects and aid other animals mr dawson is confident that the monster belonged to the carboniferous age Dem orests monthly |