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A Snake lt;xhoul.JsTheJmost horrible snake story of the season comes from Benton county, and is told by the Lafayette Courier as follows: “There is a large snake, measuring fifteen feet in length, as large in circumference as a good-sized stovepipe, with evea of lire, adorned witbjhorne underneath fully ten inehe long, ia the cemetery west of Oxford Benton county, Ind. It has been seen by at least a,dozen people, and the supposition is that it subsists by feasting upon the dead bodies interred therein. Rumors of such a rep-tileJinhabitiDg Jthe ‘city of the dead have been afloat for two years but until recently they have not been believed. ;A gentleman of Oxford, whose word was never known to be doubted saw the snake the other day,and although he found and pickedup a club, he became frightened at its mammoth, size, and instead of entering into a battle with it he took to his heels and without looking back to see if was after- him, ran breathless to his home. At first he gave some excuse for 'his hurried and excited arrival but at last related hisexperience. There is a certain amount of distress among the citizens of Oxford, who have relatives buried in the cemetery,'over the general belief that the reptile is living upon the dead bodies. The gentleman who informed the Courier reporter this morning of the matter says that on investigation there have been found large holes leading down into the graves. It is with a feeling of horror, accompanied with a shudder, that the people of Oxford have learned of this unnatural being. Those who have seen it, describe it as being of frightening appearance with its fieryeyes, horn sand mammoth site. Hone have seen itbut that at the first glimpse their hair seetced to raise on their very heads, and their hearts to almost stop beating at the sight of the terrible creature.”
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Logansport Journal
Logansport, Indiana, US
Tue, Sep 03, 1889
Page 3
Full Page
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Kevin S.
CA 14 Feb 2022
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