Buried Alive

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 152, 14 September 1928, Page 1 (Supplement)

Buried Alive

The mummified bodies of more than* 100 Mexican men, women, and children have been found in a mountain cave near Chihuahua, Mexico, by a wandering goatherd searching .for wild honey. Some of the bodies are apparently in an attitude of prayer, and others have distorted faces a though the victims died in agony. Tt was first believed (says Reuter) that they were entrapptvl by an earthquake and died of starvation, but investigation showed that the bodies had been bound together with thongs attachori to the thumbs, and there is much speculation as to who in the* troubled his tory of Mexico could have inflicted such a barborous death on them. The general opinion is that they were placed in their living tomb about the time of the Spanish conquest. One body, perfectly preserved, was taken to n neighbouring village, and is now exhibited in a shop window. Federal of ficials have intervened, however, and have ordered all the bodies to be sen! to Mexico Oity for examination.