The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08
The Children Of Israel Said to Have
Been Located in Mexico.
Omaha World HeraIdD


While I'm Mexico City, during the
winter, George ". Lininger Of Omaha,
the well known art collector who re-
Gently returned from Mexico, made the
acquaintance Of Colonel j. @. Tucker,
former United States consul 10 Marti-
niQue, who related TO him a strange
story of a race Of people who live
in an underground city in Central
America.
In some unknown way, he relates,
Colonel Tucker received information
about a race who live in cities cut out
of the rocks in the mountains of Cen
trail America, in an out-Of- the-Way
place, very difhcult to reach, and which
no stranger had visited before him and
returned alive. He decided TO inves-
tigate- After reaching a certain point
/ Colonel Tucker had to travel 500 miles
! through wild jungles, carrying his
/ provisions on a pack mule, and en-
during many hardships on the way. As
, ne neared the hidden city his every
movement was watched and reported
/ to the high priest Of the tribe dwell
/ ing there, but no harm was offered
l him. When, in the jungles, he shot a
{ pair of lions which had been killing
/ the natives he did an act that turned
out to be the very thing that gave
him their friendship and protection.
/ He was welcomed by the high priest,
/ who spoke good English, and was
shown through this wonderful city,
/ hewn out of the solid granite rocks I'm
/ the mountain side. To the uninitiated
/ the surface of the mountain gave no
/ clew to the city concealed within 1t.
I lit was entered by secret passages,
/ cuuuiuRly concealed by natures handi-
I work, and which led TO large, com
/ modiOus rooms, handsomely furnished,
mostly in OLD mahogany. Passages led
/ to hundreds Of other rooms. and 70 a
! large hail. in which the strange peO-
! pie met and held meetings, while
/ smaller openings for ventilation went
( upward, ending among the rocks and
/ jungles above, so arranged that the
rain could not enter.
/ The tradition among these curious
/ people was that they originally came
I from a country far away and that
their mission was to Outwit their enc
I mics, which I'm the beginning, pur-
/ sued them. At all entrances there were
/ side rooms, from which, at a moments
notice, deadly gases could be let loose
upon any hostile invaders who might
I enter, and which would Kill them i'm
/ stantlv, while by sliding doors of stons
/ the gas would be kept from entering
[ the city.
These dweHers i'm the bosom Of the
I rocks are agriculturists, and cultivate
I the valleys, raising corn grain, fruits
I and vegetables. They do not keep
themselves barred from the knowledge
of the world, but send their young
men. silently and secretly, to the big
cities of the world who return with
the information obtained Some of
+ these men never get back home, being
slain enr0ute through the dangerous
{ jungles which are infested with tribes
Z who rob and kill.
The light Of the sun, moon or stars
never enters their underground city.
except through certain openings by
which they study the mysteries of the
[ night skies, but they use electricity
for lighting purposes, a science they
have learned by keeping i'm touch with
the outer world through their young
men.
Colonel Tucker believes these people
are part of the lost tribes Of Israel
He has many old parchments they gave
him which he has been unable to find
anyone TO deCipher for him, but
which he hopes TO have read by SEINE
one OF the great scholars of the world
when the mysteries they contain in
their time stained hieroglyphics viii be
made plain. thus revealing to the
world. perhaps. the strangest. story
that ever linked the dim past with
the living present.