Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1891 — An Island of Skeletons. [ARTICLE]

An Island of Skeletons.

A party of explorers from Sail Francisco lias just returned from the Island of San Nicholas, which lies some seventv miles off the coast of California, opposite Monterey county, Avhitlier they went with a view of locating some lund claims. 'They report that they found tho island covered Avith the bones of human beings. For a distuncc of five miles the beach Avas literally covered with skeletons. They estimated that at least 5000 bodies must have been buried there. In the interior of the island they found a rude hut buried to the roof in sand. They concluded that it was not Avortli Avhilc to locate their claims on these bare roeks and human bones.—[Picayune.