Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1896 — A Subterranean City. [ARTICLE]

A Subterranean City.

The “City of the Sa|t Mines” is situated several hundred feet below the surface at, Wlejicska, Galicia. This wonderful subterranean city has a pop. ulatlon of over 1,000 men, women and children, scores of whom have never seen the light; of z ob the surface. This remarkable city has its town hall, a theater and its assembly room, as well as a beautiful church, decorated with statutes, all being fashioned from pure crystallized rock salt. It has well graded streets and spacious squares, all well lighted with electricity. ‘ There are isolated cases in thia underground city, where not a single individual in three or fbqr successive generations has ever seen the sun or has any idea of. how people live on the outside of the earth. Their rock salt houses are said to be petfect sanitariums, and t,he average longevity of the de.iUzens oit of Mines” tp exceed surface ha., iMablUntsefGaUcia. -i