Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — Town Is Disappearing. [ARTICLE]

Town Is Disappearing.

Eisleben, the Thuringian town which was Luther’s birthplace, is gradually fading from view. One by one the streets are being abandoned, and the houses crack and fall into ruins, owing to subterranean disturbances brought on by the big hollow spaces made in salt mining for many centuries. The other day nine houses tumbled in. The geologist, Prof, von Fritsch, in Halle, says there is no doubt that the salt layers in the soil underlying the town are in process of dissolution consequent on subterranean inundations. The town is now appealing to public charity, for one-half the inhabitants have lost their all.—Chicago Record.