Indian Skeletons Unearthed
Waco Times-Herald
February 29, 1936
15 SKELETONS UNEARTHED BY PWA WORKERS
Relics of Battle or Massacre 100 Years Ago Being Dug Up at City Disposal Plant Saturday
Relics of a battle or massacre approximately 100 years ago, the bones of 15 Indians were being unearthed at the sewage disposal plant Saturday morning [Feb. 29] by Dr. W.P. Meroney, Prof. Guy Harrison, and a group of Baylor university students interested in archaeology.
WPA workmen at the plant found them Friday, and notified experts. Dr. Meroney says if the bones had been there much longer than 100 years they would be more decomposed than they are now; and that no battles of the magnitude indicated by the mass burial are recorded in that locality since.
One infant's skeleton was dug up; the rest seem to be men, but one may be that of a woman. The shallowest bones were 21 inches down; the deepest 49 inches. The excavators think they may find more during the day. The bodies were apparently piled in pell-mell, without any order, one on top of the other. So far the bones have given no indication of how they died.
February 29, 1936
15 SKELETONS UNEARTHED BY PWA WORKERS
Relics of Battle or Massacre 100 Years Ago Being Dug Up at City Disposal Plant Saturday
Relics of a battle or massacre approximately 100 years ago, the bones of 15 Indians were being unearthed at the sewage disposal plant Saturday morning [Feb. 29] by Dr. W.P. Meroney, Prof. Guy Harrison, and a group of Baylor university students interested in archaeology.
WPA workmen at the plant found them Friday, and notified experts. Dr. Meroney says if the bones had been there much longer than 100 years they would be more decomposed than they are now; and that no battles of the magnitude indicated by the mass burial are recorded in that locality since.
One infant's skeleton was dug up; the rest seem to be men, but one may be that of a woman. The shallowest bones were 21 inches down; the deepest 49 inches. The excavators think they may find more during the day. The bodies were apparently piled in pell-mell, without any order, one on top of the other. So far the bones have given no indication of how they died.
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