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Show EARTH'S CRUST J)PENS AFTER HPLOSION THAT CANNOT BE EXPLAINED WHITMAN, Miss., Jan. 21. Two fissures in the earth about three feet deep and a few inches wide and running for a distance of three quarters of a mile are the only evidences of a mysterious explosion which shook this town just before daybreak today. Houses were shaken violently and crockery was broken in several residences. A number of persons, aroused by the explosion, began searching for the cause at daylight. In a meadow they found a crack in the earth's crust about three feet in depth and two or three Inches wide. They followed fol-lowed It for three-quarters of a mile before they reached the end. Later they discovered another fissure of the same description about seventy-five feet away from the first and parallel with it. An explamrtion of the.expiosion.ls lacking. |