Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1892 — AN UNDERGROUND OUTLET. [ARTICLE]

AN UNDERGROUND OUTLET.

The Father of Waters Thought to Be Seek. Ing the Gulf byia Subterranean “ Passage., ~ . ■/ ~ • The caving in of the banks of the Mississippi river now goiug on in consequence of the falling water, on Sunday caused the handsome depot of the New Fort Jackson & Grand Isle railway at Algiers, the western district of New Orleans, to collapse. The building was probably the in Algiers, and was built In 18S?. Divers, who had occasion to go down at thisf' point, claim that the river has made a subterranean passage under the land, and at each examination find it growing larger and the velocity of tho water greater. Algiers is on a peninsula, and the theory is that the Mississippi is cutting a subterranean pissage way through the peninsula, which would leave New Orleans, like Vicksburg, off the main river.