Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1893 — SOME QUEER HOLES. [ARTICLE]

SOME QUEER HOLES.

A farmer near Carthage,. 111., some wooks ago dug a well that caved In and art unsoundablc hole was the result. Nobody has dared to venture to explore tho mystery, butlt Is believed that an underground river Is running beneath. Another phenomenon Is now reported, one mile’ distant from the bottomless well, in the shape of a well only ton feet deep which up to April 14 was frozen solid. Tho water stands nearly on a level with the surface of the ground and Is walled abont twelve Inches above tho lovol and earth heaped around it.