Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-10-07
DEsERET EVENING NEWS SATURDAY, OCTOBER i 1892

nres " llemas. In the ruins that have
ncit stood the exposure uf the ugps
many Interesting specimens OF the ccra-
mic art have been found Oilaa Of all
shapes and sizes. urna containing the
ashes OF the dead. and lars partly allied
with parchcd corn and beans are found
IN a remarkable state of preservation
" seems ~ n the entire city had been
swept by n Hood and the onrthon houses
melted down or shaken by an earth
quake and topplo into q thousand
Easements. giving the inhabitants bare
W llmc 20 escape.
Few Of the skeletons that the anna
teur explorers have taken out show
signs % mutilntIon or broken honcs
The people appear 20 have dled Of SUMO
cation or some natural cause that left
no mark upon the frame. In several
spots whore houcH have been found
deeper dirflng has brought 10 llght
large quantities Of bone dust uH fine and
llght na Eunpowder. In one spot near
Iomre, several tons of bone dust have
Been founc recently lying In what APP
rcarcd 10 have been "a trench some
seventy foot LANG and two faot deep.
nine feet below the surface of the sun
baked cHrth. The cdgea VI the deposit
OF bono dust were broken and uneven.
10 that II could not mark place N
BURIAL Does u consist Of the remains
N animals or the dust N human
% funeral rites or were
THE BODIES DEPOSITED
there by some great hood that came
over the land without wurning7 Tho
majority of the skeletons discovered In
the ola Valley are I'M rood condition,
aud % r. not easy 90 reconcile this fact
With The finding " the great deposit Of
The ruins. which may rtIli b. traced
NJ the great communal or holy struC-
iurs IN the ceutrr ~ each of the larger
ptehlsioric cities. are furnishing most
abundant material Tor research by the
exploring scientists. At Los Muertos
this building is believed. from the OUT
llnc % ruins 90 have covered nn acre,
The Smithsonian cthunlorlHia have rpn-
ION 90 believe that the Hlto u this tem-
Hic II rich IN buried relies which will
cvanl many facts concerning the mys-
lerIous race which lived and died there.
The famous ruin. pre-Columhlnn
structure In Casa 0randc. also In the
ella Valley. gives one mn ldcn uf what
these communal structures may have
been. The Casa Gmule ruin was very
much nH q o. now. when Coronado and
boo couqulrtadoreH marched into Ari-
coma from Mexico In 1870. Il ID COM
HoFcd ~ huge blocks ~ earth averaging
Pour feet long and two feet thick
The largest buried town In tho CHA
Valley IN one that WIS uarti" un'strthcd
10y the Gushing expedition In iNs9 II Il
known az los AnlmoH. The streets
may be traced by the cru-bllnR walls
stlil projecting above the drifts ~ sand.
Here skeletons have been dug up. and
from their posture and the fact that tho
wallis ~ the building opened outward In
falling. there iH reason 60 believe ihnt
nn earthquake Killed thousands o. resi-
ieuta ~ Los Aulmna, while those who
survived fHd FOR their lives never 90 rec
turn Household utensils have been
found there undiatuthci. and chlldrcn's
lkcictorH have been found IN heaps
showing that they were Governing In
'oHr In q corner when death came upon
them.-Ncw York sun.