Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1901 — The Sink Hole Still Doing Business. [ARTICLE]

The Sink Hole Still Doing Business.

The “Klondike sink-hole,” just north of Cedar Lake, is still an unsolved problem with the Monon railroad. Sinoe the track first went down there a month or two ago, the company has been rushing material of various kinds, into that seemingly bottomless pit, with, as jet, scarcely any visible results. Some apparent progress is made daring eaoh week, but by eaob Monday morning the filling has all sunk oat of sight again. It is reliably stated that over 4,000 oar loads of material have been dumped into the hole. This is mostly dirt from the vicinity but also includes about 150 cars of big rock culls from the quarries down the line, and a great quantity of old railroad ties. The railroad people are bound to fill the pit, and will persevere until they do, but at present the end of the job is not very close at band, from all appearances.