Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1878 — Another Kentucky Cave. [ARTICLE]

Another Kentucky Cave.

The Paducah Sun tells of a recently discovered cave on the farm of Mr. Henry O’Brien, of Lyon county. The cave is in‘the high bluffs that overlook the Tennessee river. Mr. O’Brien and his neighbors explored it the other day, and they were horrified to find seven skeletons tenanting the darkness. The Sun says from their surroundings, and the fact that the mouth of the room in which they were found had been almost entirely obstructed by debris, which must have been many years in accumulating, it is probable that the bones are those of some early aborigines of the Ohio and Tennessee valleys. Tno appearance of two of the skeletons would indicate that a fearful tragedy had been enacted in the gloomy recesses of this subterranean cavern, for one of them lies across the other, and the bony fingers of both hands yet clutch the throat of the supposed victim. The walls of the room in which the skeletons were discovered are as smooth as if they had been finished with a chisel. Outside of the bones, though, not a vestige of anything that would indicate that the cave had ever been occupied by human beings remains.