| Show A IN the weekly leader of march 14 1895 published at kentucky cou contains taine the following brief account of and comment upon the ibe finding of a number of skeletons or mummies la a cave lo in the vicinity it will be noted that the leader writer to la somewhat reckless rec klees in his hie use of adjectives as lor for instance pe petrified trifled 21 an ledl avian aj etc out the atle tact fact ut the nod bud itself li Is interesting enough to voke evoke charity f tit r toe ordinary ab luxuriance ibur I 1 lu u des crip tion that thai always attends comment the marvelous marve louf the I 1 ern em beaus as aa follows john bachelor accidentally discovered thursday on the dr terrill farm near petersburg boone county ky a small cavern in which were found four petrified human bodies they were in a sitting position and had bad been wrapped in bandages of some mft material resembling cloth but which crumbled to pieces when touched the bodies were small in stature and of dark complexion and looked like egyptian linum mummies mies it has long been known that thai an n antediluvian burying ground existed in this locality and on many previous ocoa occa ions bodies have been exhumed similar to those so ao recently found the indications sustain the theory that this section of the country waa inhabited by a peculiar and extinct ram race of people who dwelt in the blue bine grass regions and along the banks ot of the murmuring ohio many years before the foot of the red man pressed its ancient soil several years ago half a dozen bodies similar to those recently discovered were found in the same locality and dr sutton ot of aurora secured one of the bodies which he kept on exhibition in his office at aurora ind |
