Ed Conrad
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 Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 9:21 am Post subject: GIANT HUMAN LEG Found 1,500 Feet Below Ground |
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Here>s an article that appears verbatim from the Shenandoah
(Pa.) Evening Herald daily newspaper in August 1911:
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[quote]FOSSILS FOUND IN MINE WORKINGS
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A remarkable specimen of the "carboniferous era" has just
been unearthed at a depth of fifteeen hundred feet in the underground
workings of the Ellengowan colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company.
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The specimen is very beautiful and is highly prized by Inside
Foreman Gwillym Jones who retained it as a curio.
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Miners at the face of one of the breasts discovered a large
piece of slate with impressions of leaves and ferns deeply imbedded
therein.
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The surface covered by these markings was five feet in length
and of nearly the same width.
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After considerable labor, in which care was taken that the
piece might be take out in its entirely, the workmen succeeded in
their task.
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Several small pieces only were broken from the formation which
was presented to those who took the slate from its natural bed.
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Quite a number of curios have already been taken from these
workings. Several years ago a bunch of grapes, almost perfectly
formed, was taken from this colliery. A trunk of a tree and a portion
of a petrified snake were also found.
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One of the most interesting finds was that in which was
perfectly formed the outlines of a human leg and, judging from the
size, the owner of the member must have been a giant in stature.
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A number of these finds are on exhibition at the offices of
Division Superintendent McDonald and Inside Foreman Jones.
They are objects of much curiosity.
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Ed Conrad
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