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Show FIRE IN A COAL MINE, Million Dollars' Worth or Properly Imperiled In llis Flames. A Village Tl.rri.lmnl YMIIi llr.lrnc tluu nil. I llir. iMhnlillnuta Terror ;mrtrktn. Ho.NF.Ymu.Hii;, I'a,, March 18. The Houeybrook Dilue look flro several montiia ago. burning away tbesu-lurts tbesu-lurts and closing the opening. It was supposed to have burned Itself out, but It Is now burning Mercer than ever. Tbe surface near the drippings Is so bested that water llowliu over It Is Immediately dried up. Urave apprehensions appre-hensions are felt for tho surrounding mines, as tho lltes are liable tu eat luto the; workings. Millions) uf dollars of coal property Is lni erllid. Tbe village of Honeybrook, Immediately over the mine, Is menaced by Ihecollapio ol the earth. Fissures aru already run through town from which quantities ol smoke and gassss are escaping. The 1 eople are In u stalo of terror. |