Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-05
DEATH IN THE RAyINE.

Il diSpatch from CoflntD, Ky, says :
Ia the year 1917, about one mile from
where Corinth, KY, is located, some
men engaged in making counterfeit
money made their home in q cave,
which is found in the ravine, subse-
quently known as "Dead Mans Hol-
Iow."
At the brow of q hill, over which was
the "old state road" that leads from
Cincinnati to Lexington, this cave is
found. Five streamlets, from different
directions, pour their sivery threads
Of water into natures chasm, making
u musical monotony. AT the left Of
he ''old state road" was a cavern,
about 10 feet deep and so by
~ leet in diameter, over which
huge rock hung, providing shel
ter for the occupants. Here was
found their tools for counterfeiting, and
bunks on which their families slept.
Just beyond stood an old country tav-
ern where intoXicants were kept and
where travellers spent the night on their
trading journeys to and from Cincin-
natl.
1t was the custom in those days for
farmers and traders to drive cattle and
hogs through Kentucky and along this
old state road, and return on horseback
with money on their persons. Many
traders as far south as Winchester,
Danville and Richmond went to market
in this way.
In the fall of 1928, young man by
the name of Alternately, from central
Kentucky, was returning from Cincin-
natl, having sold large drove of cat
tie. and stopped at the tavern.
a plan to murder the man was FORM
ed, and at midnight they made raid,
broke into the tavern, and went to his
room, but Alternately had fled. He was
tell, with piercing black eyes and at.
tractive manner, and won the heart OF a
daughter of one of the would be MUIR
derers. She had learned their plan,
and revealed it TO him, with whom she
fled through the wilderness for safety.
In those days Kentucky was but thiny
inhabited and ten or twenty miles of
wood intervened between houses.
They were overtaken and both were
brutally murdered. Their bodies were
carried to and hid in the cave, where
the compositions of limestone preserved
them for some years. Abernathy it is
said had 81 800 on his person.
The killing of one Of the inmates OF
the den caused some dissatisfaction
which resulted in another murder, and
thus the mob was broken. These bod
les were seen years afterward and had
retained almost perfect form. The
country tavern was still place for
frolic and revelry. Gambling and
dancing were incessant evils.
George w. Henry, aged II, from
whom the reporter received most OF his
information, said that 65 years ago, as
he was going home from dance at the
inn, on passing the cave his horse was
frightened and ran mile before he
could stop it. He heard noise like
roaring thunder, which was frightful
and he could not tell what the noise
was. He said: II would swear to that
in any court"
Other old and reliable citizens tell
many stories of ghosts and hobgobblins
connected with their visits to "Dead
Mans Hollow"
During the civil war John Beard was
killed by soldiers, some of whom will
read this article and recall the heinous
looking place that has haunted them
for these years, and his body was cast
into the cave, but found and removed
later.
1t is impossible to get negroes to so
near the Hollow" after dark; they in.