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Show PART OE TOWN SINKS EARTH SETTLES, DESTROYINf 8EVERAL DUILDINQ8. The Settling Was Gradual, and thf People In the Affected Section Escaped Injury, Although There Were Several Narrow ' Escapes. Abnndoned workings In tho Kddy Crcok colliery of the Delaware k Hudson Hud-son company, beneath the very heart ot tho town of Ollphaut, Pa., caved in Friday nftcrnoon nnd engulfed four frame buildings, covering an aggro-gato aggro-gato ground space of ii.OOO feet. Tho settling wns gradual, and people peo-ple In tho affected vicinity escaped. A gang of men and hoys who wero at work in the mine beyond tho fall encountered en-countered a Hooded "dip" or depression depres-sion In the vein while making their way out, and had to swim from ono rise to tho other. The settling began nt 3 o'clock nnd continued thirty mimics. In tho Intervening In-tervening hour, O'Drlen'3 three-story hotel, Mrs. Anna Kvans' double dwelling, dwell-ing, Mrs. Juno Acerly's double store building and Kvans' ana-story barber shop woro ground to debris in tho yawning pit, with the uppermost part of the mound forty feet below tho surface. sur-face. The vein that caved In Is 115 feet below tho surface. Tho property loss Is estimated at $30,000. MOFFAT ROAD BEGUN. Work on the Salt Lake-Denver Short Line Commences at Last. A Salt Lake Tribune special from Denver says: Tho first shovelful of. earth on tho Denver, Northwestern & Pacific railway was turned hls morning morn-ing by n construction gang of graders nt a point eight miles from Marshall nnd opposite South Bpulder Creek canyon. can-yon. There wns no ceremony, but at 7:15 o'clock 200 men, tho gang of contractors, contract-ors, Ormnn & Crook, havo on the field, wow working. Governor Ormnn received tho mes-sago mes-sago from Marshall that work had Btartcd and said: "As rapidly as possible pos-sible wo will havo 3,000 or 4,000 men nt work, and thero will bo no delays. Wo havo started in tho usual way In grading, and tho rock work will comq as we enter tho canyon." The work extending beyond Arvada, and which will form part of the entrance en-trance Into Denver of tho Denver, Northwestern & Pacific, is that of tho Denver &. Northwestern, tho $6,000,000 corporation which is the nucleus,, ot tho inter-urban system of the tramway. tram-way. . . |
