Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1915 — Hebron’s New Waterworks Well Condemned by Authorities. [ARTICLE]

Hebron’s New Waterworks Well Condemned by Authorities.

Hebron recently finished putting in a system of waterworks, the supply coming from a deep well, and the water has just been condemned by the authorities of the state laboratory, for the reason that it contains a large per cenj of chlorine, which, according to the report, makes it unfit for consumption, and is said to be caused by more or less gas which was found in the hole when the drilling was being done. At one time when the drillers were working the gas was so strong that it became ignited in the building and the explosion badly injured three persons. Chlorine, according to (the authorities, is one of the elementary substances commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas two and a half times as heavy as air, of an intensely suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous.