| Show A FATAL RAVINE in yellowstone park there is a ravine that proves proves as deadly to animal life as aa that death valley of java where wild beasts perish by the score said henry W MA at the palace hotel the other night the gentleman was connected with the party who surveyed the reservation under tinder the leadership of arnold hague the park geologist while following the streams to trace the extinct hot springs the explorers reached a ravine in which the bones of many animals bears deer rabbits and squirrels were found the presence of the remains caused the party much wonder and the solution of the strange affair was found only when a crow that had bad been seen geen to fly from the side of the valley to a carcass that was yet fresh lit on its prey and almost immediately fell to the ground the death of the bird continued mr mcintyre mcenty re was caused by gaseous exhalations exha lations whose presence in the park had bad been before unsuspected the larger game also met its death by inhaling the deadly gas the ravine is in the northeastern part of the parkin park in the vicinity ot of the ahe mining camp of cooke creek and not far from the UND the mail route all about tac cabout kion gion gaseous exhalations exha lations 0 ons are off which form sulp sulphurous huro ad da in the almost extinct hot J areas of soda butte in river and cache and miller i the ravine was found thle this is rarely visited although lter it admirable spot for garner gamed W however goes unmolested by byj the laws against hunting very severe the road to the has few attractions and add the V to th the e fossil forests and H I 1 n joo seldom make the trip in the centre of a n naps reached by an old elk tr shallow depression that was w the bed of a hot spring pool now dry and is covered slight deposit of salt and t that lag bait that attracts the elk a and oft game of that region the extends for seventy five yards the ravine and is thicker and IH palpable toward the upper gadt creek runs past along the sl valley and boils and bubb bubbles so aej were the tb e outlet of a hot fa spring the water is cold and tz the ringa d i ance on its ile surface is caused hi emission of gas mainly ca acid it also eon contains tabas sulphur particles of that are seen on thai chef of the creek As we went 40 stream the odor of sulpha came very strong and and cb I 1 irritation of the bronchial I 1 sages about eighty yards bl cacote creek were the bonab a dmn large bear and near by K small grizzly decomposed but the skin and hair yet fresh a short distance farther on w betl skeletons of many more eln alfr such as elk and deer and other 1 game squirrels rabbits ba birds insects were lying about in qui ties and the ravine looked aa had been the Isco opel of a dri to which the animals of chef th had been hunted and had been there to die of hunger out jofh of wantonness there were werd wounds apparent on the bodies fore us all the animals had beell by the deadly ada gases afi hung bung a few feet from the surface the gulch the first bear we saw was agi ik way down the gulch where a n is formed to that point to the must have been driven by wind and its deadly nature maj easily guessed when it is bared that the slightest 4 causes a diffusion of etke eth would tend to decrease its ai ansa properties here is the of the oft repeated assertion game was being externals exter exterminated n hunters in the yellow stone not standing the stringent laws aba heo been passed for the C of animals there I 1 ha had seeb it 1 noted doted that each year bows bears dav mountain tigers and other W animals were disappearing from froin uw reservation and it was asserted shuh friends of the people who bid charge of the park were allowed to hunt there in defiance aneo of toe e law there were pro probably lat bodies of wild animals 1 tu the gulch when I 1 was there them atac f though there were skeletons entire J opo va it must not be sup pocol tb were the remains of all awa that thai aad found death in the awa ibbey had accumulated only the I 1 laet rain storm through h a mountain torrent runs ake tajo snows have melted from the mountains or after a hard bard rain ball all things stones bones and bodam tumbled together on their wy to the mouth of the gulch they ahey are carried away in the arps or are left to mark the course t am stream and bleach on the lands I 1 had noticed near the moth hot springs the bodies of atoe and bugs but have never ari Oki buted their presence to the deadly ly agasee that were so rp rapidly idly ipg off the large game of the chronicle |
