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Show PETRIFIED MAN FOUND Beckley, West Va., May 20. Coal miners digging In a mine of the East Gulf Coal Company, unearthed tho body of a petrified man. Tho fossil is a perfect specimen of the human body and apparently that of a whtto man. Tho petrified man was found several sev-eral hundred feet below tho surface and In a spot where, so far as Is known, no whlto man had over before been. Former owners of tho land could glvo no explanation of the body's presenco. Tho fossil was placed on exhibition In tho ofllco of tho coal company with tho liopo that some clow might bo obtained to tho man's Identity. |