New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-08

snakes four days and nights. sleeping rpon the bare
stones but never came upon the small hole. Every
| inch Of the wall was carefully explored. Holes IN
| Vulnerable were found and into every one Hemoor
OF the party crawed ill the body became ugnuy
wedged but none led TO the gallery for winch tne
search was made The writer Is sure that ne crawieo
altogethe: half n mile his face in Shiny openings
so small that when his were once eAtehuc"
straight In front they could not be drawn back 10 MS
side. The style Of locomoton was much Ike that
| OF an eel. once In attempting to go around low
staagmite to enter side opening. the writer STUCK
| fast till DR.. Westmoreand and MIR. saunders puhed
| him out BY the heels.
THE ORGAN LOFT.
The party left nook unexplored on the morning
OF the third day they found the end OF one Vi tc
deepest galleries round hole In tic roof The ne
groes we're sent back for piece OF TIMBER ana up '
the explorers climbed into grand chamber OF mar
veous beauty. that seemed never to have ocen
entered before Wy Long. slender, grace'ui
saactites huns from the grolned ana Vau'teu TUT,
their sharp points endangering the head ana Dach Vi
the explorer who dared stand erect. When THESE
Ssre az never We're Heard p above gr5und Tho
plorers soon found two octaves OF them IN periee.
Jh Hon. anu sweet wee ome Nearer Ms God to Thee
Heart Bowed Down." etc. The chamber was named
the organ Loft. On the following morning, accom-
panied only by two negroes. the writer revise1 a
and IN the roof thought he opening that leu
helped up the side wall salagmites Till he lay
upon a sopng shelf ten feet the writer's head
Now crawl up to the opening TO see how large ~
;" iInshi' lie shouted. "Dat amt no openin'.
It's sqmpn white dzSr %s git down dow nha % m or I'll
put out the light and leave you
Into %SS 1oc 1s s%n ana h@ rat
tied horribly bounced agS'not sta"gmS ana l,s Ig
W my o ise' nen fF yc nCd the e follower t.
shot to the floor then scamperlng up rushed Wildly
and he came back to cling about my knees ana beg beg
me I'm piteous moans TO 20 away. | climbed TO the
S %.d u% ndns. S left IF The the NIP Do%s
with these trophies returned to camp The skulls
the temple was broken rs IL from the blow o,
an axe pick. No doubt murder had been done and
animal rad taken the bones 10 that lonely shell
in the Organ Loft The party decided That The bones
must have been there not less than sixteen years The
.Cap'n' said Rnbe, ef we DON put dem skeletons
back w'.ar dey bIonss ives gwine ter hev trouble
Come Rube.' said cheerfully. Eight the lanterns
going TO find Tho den OF the phantom horse and
the whaugdOOdlc.'
..Cnp'n amt got no business after dem things
JcS' leave out"
Light the lanterns. Rube"
"Cap'n. ain yo gwinc tor put dem bones bacl'"
observation-disclosures, Rube!'
"Cap'n what's dc use Ter light desc lanterns now
Dey's cwIne ont. Dey ain gwne ter burn wild dem
Snndry ihreas Of breaking his head required
to induce him to Hight the Lanterns; That d, ngt me he
hants.7 Who he declared turned him over whenever
he got to sleep.
ONLY DROPS or WATER
oar party expected Of course. to find an abundance
Of water In the cave but 10 dismav, could dis
cover neither spring nor stream. The four bot les We
had taken down on the first day emptlcd before
the next morning and thereafter VIC suffered the
panss Of a raging thirst. The idea OF having coffee
and tea We obliged to abandon. To wash our
faces and hands ont Of the question, and we soon
became as black as the negroes Rube was made water
eatlcrcr. occupation that kept his heart In his
throat all the time. II took him away from the rest
0t tho party. Wherever drip was heard there went
Rubc with his tii cup and his bottle TO catch the
Irccous drops as they secped through the roof trckcd
down nucd stalartitc and fell TO the floor lie WAS
sometimes half day getting cuptai OF wafer ~ %
wc came upon the mufcd sound Of running strnm,
but an impcnerablc wall separated lis from H.. fOr
three days and nights thlrs.d. ON the fourth. rs
We ncared the mouth, our return We stumbled upon
a stream Of the puresi frccstonc water II was IN
niche In the wall and had no visible outlet or inlet
IL must have secprd I'm through the pores OF staace
and sceped GU through the calcarcous rock in which
Far back under tr Organ Loft, in a dry hole near
the bottom OF the gallery turned up with my pros
blood and a. soft and piabc a. dough. II could he
worked and pressed Into all sorts OF shapes with the
fingers. but after an hour OF exposure ecame about
hard stone. In hardening II lost It's brilliant
hue and turned n chocolate brown. By rubbing IL
With t TINT Of the not ae Assn Another curious char
ac,cstIc was q remarkable adhciveneSs that caused
IL 10 SICK generously 10 the tGlGle or the nne'T
or any part Of the body that moist. A noted
surgeon declared that It would make the best mad
stone in the world
II Is donbtfll II the mines OF saltpctre
could hc rropcncd with profit. The intention
now Is 10 build the mouth OF the cave fine
hotel fr- the Northern tourist. The surrounding
beautiful. with mountains
side and the river only n mile and half away. The
tall room Of the Indians could lie urd for dancing
mud the galleries might IL turned into lovers lanes.
We emerged from the cave I'm time 10 meet nj IT'S
mouth relief party that had been sent ont 10
bring back dead or alive. In our rambeS we bad
travelled sixteen seventeen milcs much that
was beautiful. much that was grand much that was
gloomy. The cave Is worth visit.