Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1893 — A LARGE LEAK. [ARTICLE]

A LARGE LEAK.

Remarkable Disappearance of a Mexican Lake— Strange Result of an Earthquake. A special from Durengo. Mexico, on the the 12th, says: The overland mail courier who has just arrived here from Mazatian brings the first news of a most remarkable occurrence—the disappearance of the Laguna Madre, or Mother Lake, one of the most beautiful sheets of water in the State of Sinoloa. This lake was about eighty miles long and twelve miles wide It was located at the foot of the Sierra Madre mountains. The surrounding country is devoted to agriculture. A few days ago there were a series of slight earthquake shocks felt in this section. It was during one of these seismic disturbances that the natives were startled to see the water in the lake suddenly disappear as though the bottom had fallen out. Thousands of pounds of fish were stranded in the former bed of the lake. This sudden disappearance of the water was caused by a large crevis, which is supposed to have been caused by an earthquake. The water evidently found an outlet into the ocean through an underground passage The flow from the springs which fill the lake now passes into this new outlet.