Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1909 — GATUN EMBANKMENT SETTLES THIRTY FEET [ARTICLE]

GATUN EMBANKMENT SETTLES THIRTY FEET

Movement Occurs at Spot Where Slide Occurred Last Year. Colon, March 26.— A 300-foot section the embankment of.the relocated Panama canal railroad line at Gatun ; < o r.jaia settled about thirty feet at the same spot where the last movement occurred in November last. The slide, however, was to the eastward and not the westward this time. A trestle is now being rebuilt across the depression which will be filled with rock until the former level Is reached. Passenger trains have not been used on this line for several weeks.