Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Fire Burns Thirty-Eight Years. [ARTICLE]

Fire Burns Thirty-Eight Years.

There Is a burning coal mine at Summit Hill, near the Town of Maucn Chunk. The fire, which was started by a tiny accident, has raged In thia mine since 1858, and all the trials at extinguishing It have failed. We would hate to be a summer girt and visit in Topeka, and be compelled to kiss all over tbere.