Show WARNED IN TIME 0 ogden den people bae have been often aroused by the statement that a vast body ot of natural gas lies un ler the earths shell in this region an and d many promises lue have been made that capitalists ita lists would bring the gay gas to the surface for bueland fuel and illuminating purposes squire funge 1 has even gone no so far aa to bore a veil well and utilize this cheap force indis in his kitchens and parlors but we have jut just rescued receive 4 a timely warning through lathe the cincinnati gaz tie lie which may put a sudden stop to injudicious efforts in thia this direction according to the learned ohio paper there was in in chim china two hundred years barg ago just such Bucha a craze crize about natural gas as wo we have li lie in in tha the unite I 1 states to day gas wells were eunk sunk with a much faill and vigor as tile celesti ali j acre ere capable of but owing to a gas explosion that killed tc loveral eral millions of people and tore up and destroyed a uri lare e dis tritt of country leaving a larne large inland beit known on the maps as lake foo chang the boring of any more gas wella wells yas then and there prohibited by b law it seems according to the chinese history that man many large 1 argo irgo and licary aca pressure gas wells vera were struck aud awl in some districts were ere sunk stink near to each other gas ga 11 was a lighted slighted as soon as struck a is ilono done in this country it is is bated that one well with its usual pr pressure eure k bv v induction thic tion or bick isack draught pulled doan down into tile earth the burning gas of a email small well resulting in a dreadful explosion of a laro largo district destroying tile inhabitants thereof lake foo chang reals rests on the district tile same catastrophe is i imminent in in this country unless the laws shall restrict further developments in in boring so many wells should a similar ex cx lon occur there will w ill bo be sueh such an U upheaval caval aa as will darf dwarf tile most terrible earthquake ever c cr known n tilt country along the gas belt from toledo through th ohio indiana and kentucky will bo be to the depth of to 1503 feet and flopped over like a pancake leaving a chasm thru through tigh winch which the waters of lake ene erie will come hattling down filling tile ohio and valleys allea an and blotting them out forever |