Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — A Street Danger. [ARTICLE]

A Street Danger.

Tho chief engineer of the London Gas Company has found that in some streets tho pavomont of wood blocks laid on conoroto now forms a kind of arch capablo of supporting traffic, while in many places the earth has settled away to such an oxtent that a man can crawl under the pavomont. This is made a serious maltpr by the fact that the space botweori the soil and tho concrete proves to be filled with a mixture or gas from 1011% mains and air, a mixture vary liable to reach explosive' proportions! and lobe accidentally ignited,when tho streotmighl bo blown into tho air.