| Show Ail Au Under Ground Fire y at i wv is isk isAn is k 1 f An Attraction Ii The dried pent plat bo bog fire which has Sias been cn raging under underground round for forthe forthe tM the pa past t Sl six a weeks C eks at 11 Cross to the amazement of residents in inthe inthe the continued unabated Meanwhile the unusual conflagration a atlon tion 1 h Dr Frederick J Pack Deseret professor of geology I at the University of Utah as a sub surface peat bop boa dried dued by the drouth and ind apparently ignited b by bya a aeed weed aced fire continued to burn bum It ItI will villI continue to burn it is en- en en entirely consumed he said I Reports from correspondents on the cc scene ne Indicate that there is lS no abatement as yet Odorous gases continue to issue from flom the ground Persons Person walking calking over the area are forced to hot foot it off Sticks poked into the ground are immediately charred Holes dug in the ground a n foot flames under the on i aLthe the surface A telephone pole was Voas taken down dom from the subterranean fire region which showed shoved that the blaze was hotter botter at a depth of nine feet the end nd of the pole than near the surface ace Large cracks have ha appeared In Inthe inthe inthe the of the ground D Dwelling Duelling in m the vicinity have hate ha e de- de developed de developed eloped large cracks crack and Dr Pack condemned the home of W Hatch feet from a n pile of old ties tI's where the fire ma may has ha haJ have hae e J 1 originated It appealed appeased that other homes in the vicinity Vo which Inch have also de developed eloped cracks might have hae ha hato e to be abandoned According to G S Hatch old tIme resident and settler of Woods Cross Cros there was Voas a fire similar to this that burned north of the depot about 10 ears cars ago and that i ithe the railroad was vas put through h they had llad to fill in the heat hea heavy heay y swamp swampland swampland land and in one place a skirted st that hindered the work of I d id but it lt was as as taken under I ol i Another old time resIdent reports report that a similar burning took place south of the state in South Bountiful and burned for three years |
