| Show mysterious VAULTS IN OHIO ollio J jaceson JACKSON jckson OHIO FED fen 21 1859 our villa vilia village e is is full ful of wonder worder and excitement alardin martin marker J W hughes and I 1 washington lorg in digging a grave ili in the cemetery near this village about ten this morning came to a large flat stone about four feet below the sur aoe are which slopped their fui ther progress until they procured assistance and removed the stone from its ita resting place of ages 1 when it was found to have enclosed the entrance I 1 to a suptei subterranean fanean vault all efforts I 1 hus thus f far ar 1 have proved unsuccessful oil on account of the foul air with which it is filled by means of a rake human bones of gigantic dizo alro fue sue have been rived rii ril ed and a small chalu chain of s silver with coins attached to each end the coins though much defaced by time tille have the appearance of those ili in use among the romans in a the days da s of cicero africa nus hus lius rius though there were evident traces of hieroglyphic devices that cannot be deciphered the men at the cemetery have by means of burning straw made light in tile tiie vault and though none have the courage to venture any faither than the en t batice it hai baen dis coverd discovered that there is i immediately to the west of the opening a chamber about ten feet square with steps quite dilapidated down its eastern s de three other chambers branch out of this one to the north one oue to the west and the other to the south we are all curious of course to know when and by whom these vaults were made and filled rev mr air hunter mr armstrong aad and doctor knouff have ex examined them and all gave it as their opinion that thee the e vaults were made by the same people who built the mounds iu in tle tie the nouh ern part of tile tiie he state ane questions t I 1 recent themselves to ev ei ey yone one who mu made mode d e these vaults and filled thern was our country once the home of glints gunts |
