Show MINE GIVES UP ITS SECRET A mystery almost forgotten is solved skeletons Ake letona or of meu men who thirty two twe yaw ase ao found feud with a note Eol the dotso of r the rate fate or of your four deserters in Co colliers liters W va V feb 23 3 people are much excited over crecent find which it Is 1 claimed clears up a mystery of thirty two years standing the skeletons ikel etoni of four human beings having b bien en discovered in an abandoned coal mine one mile from here David Snyder has ex elored the old mine which klch has not been worked since the sixties and discovered covered dl the human bones one of the skeletons was sitting upright against a ledge beside this skeleton was found a flask that contained notes explaining the mysterious disappearance of john ewing benjamin ayers ayer tom eckelson androe and joe thirty two years ago the notes were written in pencil but are well preserved they read as follows november 2 1863 should this ever reach the outside world let it be known thit we gh ing name namesake sare prisoners here owing owan to the caving in of the mine we are deserters and were hiding here when the mine caved in food and water all gone we are doomed as no one outside is aware of aurl our whereabouts this li Is about the eighth day of our imprison november 4 john ewing and tom ackelson have just killed den ben ayers are eating hint him I 1 have already eaten my boot leg the water in the mil e is ie terrible euroll Is getting scarce air becoming foul I 1 only know the day of the month by my watch november 6 biving has just killed ackelson cut off one of hit feel and Is eating it and flourish ing his dirk knife like a maniac november 7 1 I 1 am now alone with the dead I 1 had to kill ewing in self elf defense I 1 have just eaten my other boot leg am sleepy good bye I 1 in in w it if possible so that if ever found our sad and fate will be known JOSEPH several of the old residents here remember these men it was generally believed they had bad been killed in battle |