Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1879 — A Sinking City. [ARTICLE]

A Sinking City.

By Telegraph to the New York Herald, Wilkesbarhk, Pa.. August J 7.— I The populace of Mill Hollow, a suburban mining village of this city, was thrown into excitement to-day by alarming subterranean sounds. For some months past the tenants of some of the houses have been conscious of peril by reason of signs of a caving in of the surface. Last night at about li o’clock the surface of the ground in the rear of the dwellings of the Messrs. Morgan, Williams and Weiger began to sink. At about 3 o’clock this morning some two acres of the gardens and nurseries belonging to the aforesaid went down about eight feet, cracking the house and alarming the community to such an extent as to drive all in the vicinity from their homes. The ground around the sunken pit for acres is cracked, and it is believed that the entire surface of the land undermined must go if.?* man 7 private and pubik; buildings. The disaster was owing to the fact that the vein of coal worked is not protected by a rider of rock and slate. That chap who comes to the concluwortd *■ bad but himself, will still run half a mile at the top of his speed to see a dog fight.