Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-28 | Page 1 | Steamshovel Uncovers 14 Human Skeletons

I . Steamshovel Uncovers 14 Human Skeletons SAN FRANCISCO. CaL. Jane 28 Fourteen human skeletons in plain, well preserved redwood boxes, unearthed by a steamsbovel near tho marine hospltaj here, were held for Identification bv United States army authorities toda if the identities cannot be established each skeleton will be marked unknown" and burled ln the national cemetery at the Presidio. Colonel Thomas A Pearce. Ninth Infantry, who Is directing the excavation ex-cavation work, la of the opinion that the men are mariners who died at the little United States public health service hospital, which preceded the marine hospitals 36 or 40 yeans ago There were Indications, he said, that the shreds of clothing found on the skeletons were from' sea ulnforms of some sort.