Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1894 — BURNING FOR THIRTY YEARS. [ARTICLE]

BURNING FOR THIRTY YEARS.

A ffe caused by spontaneous combustion in a hill above the town of Maryshal. Roalder county, Colorado, thirty years ago, threatens to communicate to tbt yurrounding valuable coal fields and render them worthless. The fire at first omitted only smoke, then it quickened tc a dull red glow, and now, despite years of efforts to drown it out or wall it in, il rages throughout an underground area oi from 200 to 300 acres and spouts flame cinders and smoke through a dozen out-' lets, each of which might vie in appearanco with the crater of a working volcano. Property worth millions of dollars has been detroyed.