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Show SPRING OF DEATH. Trospectors Discover Remains of a Party Tolsoncd by Arsenic In W-iter of a Desert Spring. San Dernnrdlno, ( al , Nov 17 A party of prospectors headed by Henr) tnell, who Is well known all over the lesert mining district has nnlved here bringing word or the discovery In southern Nevada of the temalns nt several people supposed to have been a part) of prospectors Arnell and tarty have been prospecting prospect-ing In Nevada and were on their way to this city Intending to come by the way of Norman Hptlngs When neni what they supposed was Timber noun lain they were iittiut ted to u spring by the luxuriant growth of vegetation mound It which lould be seen for miles Upon rearing the spilng th) vveto startled to fin I first n part (f n human skeleton and i little further on the remains of sevctal other skellons fhowlnglthat quite a party had perished per-ished V , Mthough the finding- of n human i skeleton on the elesei Is not un event I that creates much ex Itement the dls-over) dls-over) of the remclns or an mtlre pirty i uused much wonder among the pros pectois. and especially when thev weie eo neir a vvntct suiply The mute of their death was soon revealel however No sooner had the me mbt rs of the part) drunk nf the water fiom the rprlng than they were seized with cramps, some of the men suffeilng In tensel) Suspecting that the water contained a mineral pobon Vinell cuu Honed his mini unions not tp drink any more nud stalled foi this city biiug-Ing biiug-Ing with hltn samples of the water The water was analyzed bv n ilicmlst and proved to bo heavily chatged with or-senk |