Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1916 — FIND BABY ALLIGATOR IN POND. [ARTICLE]

FIND BABY ALLIGATOR IN POND.

It has long been known that East Tennessee had practically everything to be found in any quarter of the earth, but a recent discovery in Clinton brings to light the fact that it also has alligators which live in subterranean streams. Workmen who were excavating for the new buildings of the Magnet knitting mills in this city last week set off a blast which uncovered a subterranean pond or stream, and from the w'ater was taken an alligator 20 inches in length, and very much alive. How the reptile came in the water under the town is something which no one knows.