Show River Bed Sinks Crater Yawns as Freak of Nature r Hale Suddenly Appears in Bottom Bottom BottonI Bot Bot- tom tonI of Dry Channel Near Sharon Springs Kan SHARON SPRINGS Kan March l AP AP-A AP A crater formed suddenly Jo Ta the tho bed of ot the Smoky river near i here bero yesterday a. a continued to enlarge f. f night and today It had grown 4 Q a a. diameter of ot feet and to a ai i estimated at feet Peros Per- Per ors os who rushed to the scene scene could for the phenomenon enon t he bed of the river was dry Cry the hole appeared but today lt ilbo twenty-five twenty feet teet of water at the bottom of the crater apparently having come from subterranean subterranean sub- sub streams At first the hole looked like a large well welI with fys sides almost perpendicular Later A-Later ter however the surrounding ground began to sink slowly and some 1 ome of the dirt dropped in from I the the sides until this morning It was shaped shaped something like a funnel The bottom just fell out of or the earth r h. h was the way one man who lives fives nearby described It The first we knew khew about it was when a dense cloud of smoke was seen over the locality Apparently occurrence was local in nature as ast t there was no earthquake Lev LeVel l 1 prairie prairie- prairieland land surrounds surrounds' the J place jace where the phenomenon oc- oc J There are no mines or oil yon l gas wells in this locality to toJ J Which the occurrence could be at- at The cloud of smoke e was seen over the region had disappeared today It is believed to tb have been composed mostly or dust which was stirred up when the e ground gave way ways |