Show BURSTING OUT OF A WATER CAVERN IN TH BLUE RIDGE TUNNEL A correspondent of the baltimore sun san writing from taunton staunton jS va aug 14 says A remarkable occurrence took place at the I 1 blue ridge rid e tunnel last night the third set I 1 of workmen were engaged in digging as usual when one of them pat flagan noticed that the texture of the rock before him changed budde suddenly I 1 from hard to soft and the soft was wet S shortly after a stream of water issued from an orifice he had made this was succeeded bya heavy rumbling sound like the cars which so frightened t the hands that they all made for the open air well was it for them that they did sol pol the sound continued to grow louder and louder for some minutes till a crash was heard and immediately a vast stream of water rolled out of the tunnel an eyewitness eye witness says that the head of the stream was at least ten feet high and that it swept carts and barrows before it like chaff 2 1 the stream continued to a perfect river till 12 when it gradually subsided and was low enough at 3 p m to allow us to I 1 make a hasty survey af its cause it seeing seema that there is in the middle of the mountain an immense cavern or pocket in which water from the melting snow lias has been deposited for years and that the line of the tunnel taps tb this is cavern near its centre th the e cavern is of immense extent and will save the state a good deal of money since nature has opened a road through near three hundred feet of solid rock |