The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-08
ANOTHER INDIANA GAVE an.
Accidentally Discovered, and Found tc
Ee Inhabited by Wild Man.

Accidentally Discovered, and Found to
Ee Inhabited by Wild Man.
VERNON, IND, April 5.-This is one OF
the Oldest towns in Indiana, and is sur
rounded by rock ribbed hills whose rugged
ness renders them quite romantic.
Years ago a subterranean cavern was
reported to have been discovered by a man
named Barnes, residing near here, in which
he claimed to have explored a snort distance
and discovered a large, tail form, somewhat
resembling that OF u human being, but
appea ing to be naked and covered with q
growth of hair Barnes was so frightened
that he fled from the presence of the being,
whatever it was, and was 30 ridiculed when
re told his story that he carried with him to
the grave, few years later, the secret of
the location of this cave.
The story has now been revived by q
startling discovery made yesterday by Alex
ander Shepherd, q real estate dealer who
was showing farm to a prospective pur-
chaser. Gong up deep ravine whose bed
is covered With stone for long distance,
they accidently discovered small entrance,
or hole, behind large stone, which APP ar
emily led into the ground underneath large
hill. Procuring a lantern from a neighbo
they entered the opening with some diff
Guilty and soon found themselves inside a
large and lofty cavern. toe rooms glittering
with stalagmites aud stalactites, like other
caverns of its character Astounding in South
ern Indiana. After vending their way
through numerous apartments, each more
elaborate and beautiful than the one just
gone through, they stopped TO gaze on tue
magnificent spectacle that greeted them on
every hand
Suddenly their awe-Inspired admiration
turned to horror, and their hair stood on
ED as they discerned only a few fest from
them the huge form of what seemed to
them to be gorilla, or some human shat g /
being resembling a wild man, naked, and
covered with apparently, coat Of grizz y
brown hair. After geziug on the intrud srs
cultural sound and went ambling off into
the deep. impenetrable darkness of the
cavern. 1t appeared to be over 6 feet in
hight.
After this strange being disappeared, the
explorers turned TO the right and discovered
what appeared to be a store-room, which
was found to contain piles Of potatoes, cora
and wheat, and bones Of fowls, and in ans
other roo u, adjoining this. were found
numerous bones, dry with age.
For long time, almost nightly, strange
noises had been heard in the locality Of the
deep wood surrounding this subterranean
cavern, and all attempts to fathom the IN S.
terry proved failure. No one could ever
see the source of the noise, and dogs refu ed
to follow the trail. Farmers in the locality
were losing their products almost nightly,
and no ole knew where they went. 1t
seemed that in making its nightly incursions
it always followed the stony pathway Of the
stream leadl & to the cavern, and this &C.
counted for the failure to trace him to his
hiding place.
Years ago wild man INHABITED Trimble
county, Ken, and later Jefferson county,
this state, adjoining this (Jenningsl county,
and for some years now no trace Of him
has been found. This being is believed to
be the slme one by some.
The discovery has made great neighbor-
hood excitement, a I'd large party IS being
organized to explore tho tabYrinths Of the
mysterious cavern and fathom the mystery
of its occupant.