CANNIBALISM IN A MINE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2176, 19 June 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

CANNIBALISM IN A MINE.

A I^OtILOGNE correspondent wrote to the London Times : — Excavations in the Chancelade quarries, where it may be remembered a landslip occurred iast October, burying a number ot workmen, have b'eeo carried on over since, for the purpose of unearthing the bodies. For many days after the slip was believed to have smothered the workers, smoke was seen to issue from the ruins. Soldiers and quarry men, directed by a party of engineers, worked day and night in -the hope of taking the men out alive. Ever since the work has proceeded, but of late the endeavours were not so vigorously plied. The diggers have now reached the actual spot where the men where ongagad at the time of the Accident, and on penetrating into a gallery out into the stone, the explorer* discovered the body of a young man lying on the ground. PhotojrraphH taken of the position show that a dreadful *tnte of affaire milst have come about when the irion unorushed found themselves entomlied. It appears undoubted that some of the men tried to prolong their litres by killing and eating th«MX companion* in misfortune. A few solitary arrin and limbs have been picked up in their prison, and everything points to ♦hi> fact that cannibalism was resorted to. The ycung man whose body was un> mutilated seems to havo surrived the others, nnd to have died of hunger.