The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-08
MYSTERY IN A CAVE
INTERESTING RESULT OF EXPLOR-
ALTON IN OKLAHOMA.

Full of Human Bones-Rising and Re
ceding Water is Found to be Boiling
Hot-Current Of Air Leads to the Belief
that there is an Opening ON the OppO-
site Side.
Guthrie, o. T., Sept. 7-(SpeciaL)-
| Great interest attaches to the explora-
ton of the wonderful caves in the Glass
or Gloss mountains in western Okla
| homa. This week the exploring party
from Waukomis found chamber in the
bowels Of the mountain full of human
bones. The Imagination alone must
/! offer an explanation of the find.
The exploring party from Waukomis
is headed by J. J. Hoffman, and he
| writes back to the local papers as fol-
| lows:
Il will give you a short write-up
about our last weeks work. AS stat
ed before, we were baff1ed until our trip
to your town for We did rot have tn,
necessary rope to make IacIers or trail
our way back and work through the
numerous caves or rooms without get
| ting lost. We have now overcome all
| these troubles and are getting down to
real work. Our first effort was to ex-
| plore the depths of the deep opening in
| the rocks and try and find the cause of
| the rise and fall of water at intervals
| of every fifteen minutes. When one of
| our men went down he reported that It
was quite warm and he Seneved that
water came from a hot spring On in
veStigation he found the water so hot
| that he could not hold his hand in it
| but for a short time. The escaping
| steam from water, no doubt, is the
cause of the spring to rise at different
| times and cause such roaring noise.
We drew our man up as the roaring
| commenced, for fear something unusual
would happen, but it again went down
and was calm and still. Then two
| parties We're let down and they found
that there was a cave bearing off in
Southwesterly course, but on account of
water running through it they did not
traverse it only for short distance.
BY chance the light was thrown on the
far wall about fifty feet down and there
was large opening as if it was a cave.
Men were hauled up and after two
hours time we went around to the open
ing on the east side of the cave and
followed up until we came to where we
had seen the mouth of the cave fifty
feet down. We then rested. eat our
lunch and let one man down. When
opposite the opening he gave the signal
and we held him to his place until he
was on solid footing. Then another
man was let down with instructions to
explore this cave for four hours time.
When he should return, give signal and
be drawn up. We waited patiently for
four hours but no return and was think
ing of letting down the third man when
signal was given to hoist away. Soon
they were with us again, and reported
that there was a constant draught
through the cave, proving beyond a
doubt that on the other side of the
mountain there was an opening. They
say they must have traversed quarter
of mile and in many places with diff
ficulty on account of the uneven floor
of the cave. All at once they seemingly
came to the end of the cave in very
which was covered by human bones.
On looking at the roof of the cave they
saw an opening, the walls of which
were perpendicular and they could not
go further. They were of the opinion
that the skeletons of those men had at
some time been thrown from the above
opening by some one years ago. To
to dust. Well, that ended the search
at this end of the cave, and we moved
camp and at present are exploring for
an opening on the other side.
EDITOR SIMMONS SUCCEED.
Now comes the news that Simmons,
editor of the Manchester Journal, has
been pounded kicked and punched with
"a big piece of iron in very cowardly
manner, being hit when he was not
looking for it and almost killed by one
Charles f. Collins of Cameron, Kan.
1t seems that the brutal passion of Col
Inns was aroused over a write-up in the
Journal over the victory of the Man
chester townsite people wherein Col
Inns brother-in-law, Morrison, played
a part as a contestant for the land.
1t was simply a news matter, and
Simmons said nothing but the straight
truth and in doing so did not injure
the character of Morrison. Simmons
would have been justifiable in shooting
his brutal assailant at once, but as edi-
tors are not blood thirsty, the animal
still lives.
Editor Simmons own account Of the
affair is as follows:
"A most cowardly and uncalled for
murderous attack was perpetrated up
on the person of the editor of the Jour-
nal on Friday last at Cameron by Chas.
E. Collins, who has charge of an i'm.
plement store at that place.
LAS is our usual custom once each
week, we had gone to Cameron to mail
our papers. and were returning home
when Collins called up into his place
of business in a seemingly friendly
manner. He was leaning against the
door casing of door which opens into
a small room inside the main building.
with his right hand and arm hidden
from our view. When we approached
within two or three feet of him he be-
gan a TRADE of abuse upon US for our
write-up of his brother-in-law, Nor
vic decision
Manchester townsitc contest case. We
informed Collins we had never at any
time published anything derogatory of
him and had no quarrel to make with
him. When we started 10 turn away,
and we did 50 he gave us kick and
drew bar of iron from behind the door
casing and thrust the end of il into our
face. inflicting painful wound just
below the right eye. He then drew an
| overland lick, which we partially
guaded off by the use of our right arm,
but the blow was so heavy as to strike
our arm down and We received an ugly
cut on the forehead just above the
right eve. Except for the guard given
this lick, the skull bone surely would
have been crushed.
IN q half inSensible condition we
made our way into Nances grocery
store TO wash and the brute followed
us and bemeaned US 70 all the foul Ian
guage that il was possible for him 10
lay his dirty tongue TO. Other slums
! Of the town gathered and put in an oc-
casional word OF approval Of the
cowardly. rnurderous assault made up
on US, and We expected any moment
for the british desire Of the mob TO
take possession and finish the attempt
ed murder.
we finally made good our escape.