Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1882 — The Fall of a Nevada Mountain Peak. [ARTICLE]

The Fall of a Nevada Mountain Peak.

Homer Index. About 11 o’clock Thursday morning the whole town was startled by a terrible roar and ajar like an earthquake, which sent people flying out of their houses in all directions. A glance up the side of Mount Olsen revealed the cause of the phenomenon. One of the sharp peaks of foliated granite near the summit, loosened by the late raius, bad toppled over and was rushing down a steep ravine directly toward the center of the town with appalling force, crushing and grinding every thing In its pathway. For a few mln* utes it looked as though several houses were doomed to inevatable destruction but fortunately the slide scattered and was checked In the talus at the foot of the cliffs, causing it to stop short of any of the buildings. One Immense boulder, weighing not less than fifty tons, came down with fearful velocity, striking the rock bench above town and breaking it in a thousand fragmt nts which stopped on a flat a few rous from China bouses on Clarke street. During the progress of the slide every* body was stricken with consteration. and many people sought safety in wild flight It is estimated that at least 1,500 to 2.000 tons of rock came down in the slide. Leniency will operate with greater force, In some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish to have my whole conduct distinguished bv it AU Worth’s new toilets are 'made with tournovres.