Show curiosities of natural gas one writer asks whether it is ba to bore the earth too much ile diew 60 guinea mes tb the e earth to be a hollow colw sphere filled with a gaseous eo stance called by us natural go i resor that these TW he thinks tapping doirs will cause disastrous dis asmus e resulting from the lighted Si W coming coining in contact with that is escaping caping ea E earthquakes a rth bates hessy be ut acta aCT 1 are probably caused a by created by the flowing out gas the earth to a bau compares floated and k kept ept distended by tho thy 00 the interior which if exhausted vt V aa cause the crust to collapse bot t tile the motion of the earth in its oft t cause it to lose its place among 16 tte heavenly bodies and fall in S another writer thinks that boring guld be prohibited by stringent awa he too thinks there is a pos fis 1 of an explosion though ww another cause should a dis occur the country along the M gebelt belt from toledo through ohio a Uana and kentucky will be abed up to the depth of twelve or leen hundred feet and flopped er like a pancake leaving a chasm which the waters waterson of lake e W will ill come howling down fill the ohio and mississippi valleys TOU blotting them out forever still aw another theorist has invests med ww the gas wells with telephones asu d delicate thermometers and he ances Sn ces startling discoveries he languished sounds like the bollor boil vt of rocks icks and estimated that a e and a half or so beneath find 6 temperature grature Bra ture of the earth is buo ouo this scientist says a an n im 3 0 cavity exists under fl findlay n adlay f oa that here the gas is stored that 4 below the bottom of the caa A agte ity is a mass of roaring seething anto 1111 11 which is gradually eating 0 tile the rocky floor of the cavern latzes MI u thinning it eventually the teb will reach the gas a terrific ision will ensue and findlay iwa will be blown al wt neighborhood zard ard in an instant such are g ae of the theories gravely pro jaded in respect to this new fuel |