Logan Republican | 1905-03-22 | Page 4 | Like Mont Pelee Horror

LIKE MONT PELEE HORROR. Cataclysm Believed to Have Overwhelmed Over-whelmed Prehistoric Race. A catacylsm llko that of Mont Pclce, In which 30,000 peoplo perished and ships wcro burned in tho harbor, is believed to have overwhelmed tho prehistoric pre-historic roco that built the groat ruins on Montezuma mesa In Now Mexico. Articles unearthed in these ruins Indicate In-dicate that tho peoplo lived beforo tho last lava flow and wcro wholly de-stroked de-stroked by the heat and noxious gases during nn eruption. In Dener there is a valuable collection of relics discovered dis-covered by f'apt. C. A, Dcane. Among tho articles aro a number heretofore unknown, even to tho closest student of archaeology, and having no counterpart coun-terpart In any museum or educational Institution. Among such Is a mass of carbonized corn, fused together by ot-bldlan ot-bldlan or volcanic glass, clay roofing burned to tho density and color of hard-burned brick, having on ono sldo the adhering lava and on the opposite op-posite sldo tho impressions of polo that supported tho roof of n ruin which Capt. Ueano unearthed on the margin of a great lava field. 1