The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-02-08
E00NEY CAVES HORRORS.
No Nan Ever Saw Them and
Came Out Sane.
Ehe Nysoeuy of Cavern In West VIZ
gan1o UGQntain-Tho Terrible Case OF
xl1nnaller, the Caves Latest
Ay f# Victim.

Victim.
Il stranger should visit Hans Kits
millcx'n cabin now strange story
would Is heard, and the victim Of thu
staxtlint tile would doubtless be point
cd out. Hanse Kitsmiller, the head o.
the family which occupies the LITTLE
cabin 81 he bank Of the Elk river, u
thu viotirn Until recently he wa
coun1dogod one of the most powerful
man - Wobster, and was strong, iron
nsxvod h4fdy mountaineer, capable o,
4o1d1nR ~ his end with the best, at 9
1oG.x A1n1n6 or elsewhere, or Of endur'
I1n9 ~ mount Of fatigue. At present
KitamiIleF lies in the cabin, at times
20 woa1ka child could hold him, and
at o1k6xo 70 terrible In the maniacal
yparonyozno which seize him at inter
valS Tint u takes four or Ave men to
subduo HIM.
sHev 70 hearn tell Nv how Hanse
Kitsmill1r wuz In Ole Looney cave?''
A the one question which Websterite
propounds TO another now at meeting
and II 4 not strange. "Ole Looney
cave" has again claimed victim, and
by IT. mysterious spell, as certain as
mysterious. has destroyed q mans
reason and has wrecked happy noun
tain home.
''Ole Looney cave" is a natural tunnel
extending under a mountain, which,
when entered by human beings, has
never failed to afflict them with the
stranGest form of insanity. What II
holds In it yawning depths has never
yet been explained, since everyone who
has vent0red to explore them has re-
turned - the outer air lunatic, with
reason entirely disenthroned, and an
expression as II sight Of unspeakable
horror hhd been witnessed.
Understanding. as we'll as he did the
certain afliction which was to over
take him II he ventured In the cavern,
Il y surprising that Kitsmiller should
Ihave bcen drawn into 1t, but 1t was
purely an accident. He started from
home early one Monday morning with
ABB Haxdrick, his brother-in-law, to
bring home some venison. He did not
return until late Wednesday evening,
when be was brought home by Hard
rick and overall others, struggling vic.
'lently A spite of his arms being tied
behind him, a raving maniac He was
discove4sd the same day about noon
;wauder1ng along the Gauley river
banks not far from the mouth of "Ole
1oosasy cave" by Hardrick and others.
who had spent Monday and Tuesday
nights - the Kitsmiller cabin. The
days they passed in vainly trying to
discovQw the missing man.
The {atpsy Of how Kitsmiller wan
dsre4 ~ ,the cave is told by Hardrick.
who. ~ MI had been less careful. might
now ~ - the same condition as his
There had been a slight
fall 81 ouow Sunday night, and It was on
account Of this that Hardrick and Kits
miIlor had gone on the deer hunt. Kits
1nillCE'o cabin La near the mouth Of
0uG@e >tu, where It empties into the
Elk Ey0ft In the little Bear Cub dis
tE1co XhoE Elk river at this point, which
- qDo1> - miles from Addison In the
UyT@ ut Of the country, flows at
~ ~ q the Panther knob. On the
~ - of the knob Is the Gauley
Job drains all the country
1lde. The entrance to the
we" Is near the Gauley river,
d it's confluence with Cherry
IT, hunters started out Monday
mornlu1 posed the Elk in q dug
out bel6uging to Kitsmiller and
FOLLOWED The foot Of Panther knob
some distance up the stream. About
e58ht O'clock, Hardrick says, they ran
nexouo he track Of buck in the snow.
IN Hsk had been feeding during the
1Rl1&1 ~ a laurel bed, and had gone
~ . Into thicket of haw bushes
~ ~ imposed the buck was in tn.
4 md while one of the hunters
with cooked rifle, the other
stones in to scare out
er. These had no effect,
awing his hunting knife.
er started in to see II
- not meet with better success
N the game. He was gone some
tlInr Hardr;ck began to get lit
anx0us, when he heard Kitsmiller
and started to him. When he
a him he found Kitsmiller stand
the entrance to cave in the
I'm side, and leading into this
e tracks Of the deer. The mouth
cavern was not more than four
gh, md was as If IL had been
of the solid rock.
Two stopped, debating some time
p do, when Kitsmiller proposed
hey should both go inside and
deer, which, he said, could not