| Show A VILLAGE SETTI SETTLINGS jING the town of honey brook pa M menaced by a collapse of eai eaith th honry HONEY apo r pa march IS 18 the houey brook anino operated abed by tho the lehigh and Wilke Wilko coal company pany Y is ia on oil tiro fire again it has boon been several months since fire was iv is first discovered in his chis mine aud and it has been reported beveral times that themire was chit daiil at no time however bo v i devur was 11 it thought to bo be of any co ahe tho present outbreak shows that it is alarmingly ox extensive the surface near tho ripping bt EA is so heated that water w ater flowing 0 over averit it 19 immediately dr dried aed up ud il vork ork on the strip pings will soon have ba vo to bo be abandoned grave ampro x x h hension e aslon i is is 1 felt for the surrounding mines within a radious of four fou miles the veins known as wharton buell mountain and mammoth are NN worked by different differ diffor ont erit coin companies pani ies should dhe the fire spread to any of 0 openings henings the loss will be jm I 1 m onse k billions kil liU jons lions of dollars worth of coal imperilled imperil led the peculiar ita 1 Q f tile the firo fire is that thai tho origin ragin is a it burned so rapidly at 1 I 1 1144 first that the timbers supporting thu tho slope gave away closing tho the opening before tin an investigation could boulade ea every very bofto rt made since to gain access to the mine has been unsuccessful f ul the village of flonoy brook which is directly over tho the in mino ineis is menaced by a collapse odthe of the oarth fissures run through the tows thoy they have boon caused by a settlement of the earth after the slope closed those these cracks ser servo V 0 as chi chimneys 11 in for the escalo of the gas accumulating in the interior so thickly are tile tho vapors that on several occasions it was impossible to see any distance tho the people of honey brook aio aie in a state of terror rocky mountains news |
