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Show PART 0Jb' TOWN SINKS EARTH SETTLES, DESTROYINC SEVERAL BUILDINGS. The Settling Was Gradual, and thr People In the Affected 8ectlon Escaped Injury, Although There Were Several Narrow Escapes. "v Abandoned workings in tho Eddy Creek colliery of tho Delawaro & Hudson Hud-son company, beneath thn very heart of thctown of Oltphanl, Pa., caved In Friday afternoon nnd engulfed four frame buildings, covering an aggre-tnto aggre-tnto ground spaco of t,G00 feet. Tho settling wns gradual, and pcoplo pco-plo In tho affected vicinity escaped. A Rang of men and boys who wcro. at work In tho mlno boyond tho fall off countered a flooded "dip" or dopres-klon dopres-klon In tho vein while making their way out, and had to swim from one rlso to tho other. '- Tho settling began at 3 o'clock and continued thirty mlnues. In the Intervening In-tervening hour, O'Brien's three-stosy-hotel, Mrs. Anna Evans' doublo dwoll-lng, dwoll-lng, Mrs. Juno Acorly's doublo store building and Evans' one-story barber shop wcro ground to debris In tho yawning pit, with tho uppermost part of tho mound forty feet bolow tho surface sur-face The vein that caved In Is' 115 feet below tho surface. Tho property loss Is estimated at $30,000. |