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Show MISSING VICTIMS SUPPOSED FOUND LIMES OF DEAD MEN TIED WITH WIRE; GRUESOME DICCOVEKY MADE ON FERRY Soldiers Stationed Several Miles Away; Identification Likely to Bo Difficult, Correspondent Correspon-dent Asserts Phreveaiort, La. The bodies of two men in high state of decomposition, beleved to be Watt l;iaie!s and Thwu-ns Thwu-ns V. liicluirds, massing victims of the Morehouse re'b of last August, were fud near tfie Eastland ferry on Lake I.a Fotircke, which separates Morohonso ud KichhiiNi parishes, a-c-eordig t the reports. The limbs of the ile-ad men were tied with wire. They came to the surface as the result re-sult of a big charge of dynamite exploded ex-ploded by unidentified person. The todies were nude except for belts and a portion of the trousers One man's head was gone. It is thought that those who used the explosive ex-plosive left without tcnowning the bodies bod-ies had come to the surface. A ferryboat had broken from Itc moorings and drifted a cons'derabl-distance cons'derabl-distance downstream. The bank near where the boat was accustomed t( landing was badly torn up. Man1' dend fkh were on the surface of ttie water. The nearest paint where soldier were reported stationed is said to Be several miles from the place of the dynamiting. Owing to the condition of the bodies it is beleved it will be difficult to re move them and that identifcation wi'1 be diffcult, unless there are marks on the belts. Right men had been stationed a' Cooper lahe, which was pnrtially drag ged. Shortly after 1 o'clock Frid"-jnorning Frid"-jnorning several men were seen somf ' distance from the shore, wading aben in a shallow spot. Keveral shots were fired at then-and then-and the men disappeared. Cooperlalte Is surrounded by dens-swamps dens-swamps in on inaccessible part c Morehouse parish, and it hns beer Darned as the spot where the bodle of the two misvtng men, Major Watt Daniels end Thomas Fletcher Rich ards, might possibly have "been throwr by thoir kidnappers, according to re ports made by private detectives. |