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Show A "aOt'.NU 1IILCOO. .Natural (.a. stakes Its Escape and t realrs N rare. Imhanapolis, Ind., Aug, 15 A dUjatch from Shelbyvllie, Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, MVK Much excitement ttiil prevails over the recent gas explosion. ex-plosion. Ills now discovered that the whole neighborhood In the vl-ciuity vl-ciuity of tho young volcano is saturated sat-urated with natural gas and the soil Is full of 1L One can run a crowbar down in tbe ground any place and then light the gas w hlch proceeds from tlie Mill In various imabtitlc!. This would Indicate mat tlie gas from the gas welLs has fouud its way below the limetone and In many places fractures in tlie stone icrmlt it to escape into the Kind aud gravel Immediately below the rurfacesoll, which partially prevents pre-vents its eM.'aj Into the air. This tars out tlie theory tliat gas lias been fur Mime time escaping from the sides of the gas well and diffusing diffus-ing llsell In the rand and gravel below be-low the limestone. In Van liuren townthlp, about four miles north of the late eruption, erup-tion, the watir wilts have l-tii Kink twenty to thirty feet, a fear feet Iielon- the surface! toue Gas from the wells three miles away has bruki u Into them and the js-oplo liae abandoned the ute of the water, cams! the wells aud are now i'simj tiii. cas ror. it ix. The whole township m-ciim to Is? filhsl with tlie combustible, and tnc iiiliabitauts are threatened with dk-usfer. dk-usfer. Tliiru Ls no telling when the lighting of a match may not Mou tuoor three townshii into ruiith. ereens. It is altogether probable that the d Illusion of gas In the Mil nioru or Inaatlecls the growing crol. Tlie great ijtie-tloii may yet Iv as to the advisability of sinking gis welts or, if Mink at all, whether other methods meth-ods should uot Ie u-cd to case and confine the explosive. Pockets of gas are no tloulit forming licucalh the limestouc all over the region of the gas Kit. and It 1 only a titii-tlou of time when it will brink forth In territic force It Ls it attii-.tlon as to width is tlie nio-l hazanluus tho accumulc-tiuuofgasin accumulc-tiuuofgasin sjckets, fulluunl by truptions rlmlar to the Waldron blou-KHit, or permitting it to pt-rnu-ate the H1, as It Is now iloiiig in Van Kurt ll aud Noble townsliiis, poisoning the water aud di-easing the air. It is rejortisl by good citizens that today hoys were roasting corn by gasJeLs produced by flicking cam-. dow u ill tlie Mill a few feel in the vicinity of the vokano. Such be lug the case, the citizens will mwii have to alsintrou home and frk-nd. Toe flssiiri-s of the gruun 1 blown to atoms Monday are now flllirig with water, through which gas occasion, ally foret-s Its w ay. |
