The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-09
Freaks of a Mine cave-in.


Scranton, Nov. 27.-The Greenwood sec
ton of Minooka had another CAVERN sem
sation this morning, when residents were
awakened by the earth quaking about
them. They scrambled out into the open
hurriedly and in awe-stricken throngs
they looked upon topping houses and saw
long sinUous assures stretching away
across the highway and their lots. In the
houses plaster fell from walls and ceilings,
dishes were thrown from cupboards, furni-
ture tipped over. bricks fell from CHM
neys, and porches were torn from houses.
The cave-in of this morning lies prlnci-
pally along the main roadway from Min
ooka proper to Greenwood Hill From
Kanes drug store on the north to nearly
Fassod's Hail on the south the surface
has sunk. This covers a stretch of nearly
800 feet An the main roadway has gone
down from 8 TO feet. The track of the
Scranton Traction Company leading to
Pittston is twisted and SO lopsided that
cars cannot run over the caved portions
and passengers timidly walk the distance
in making the transfer.
Thomas Walsh's large residence has
practically no foundation beneath it now,
and is barely balanced on a sharp angle.
Any slight movement further win tumble
1t over. Two large dwellings, one under
constructing owned by James Comedy,
are wrecked, almost beyond repair. Mar
tin Walsh's house went down square, and
now has an embankment feet high all
around it. Another building owned by him
and occupied by William Paufort is dam
aged seriously, the kitchen part tumbling
away from the main structure Houses
which in last weeks settling were thrown
out of plumb and split, to-day went
through another experience, and are again,
squared up. They are almost wholly with
out plaster, as the result of the continued
unsettiing. Festus Connony's home, which
leaned so much since last Tuesday that
it was impossible to stand up in it, was
returned almost to it's perpendicular. Mich
ael Kings home was also benefited by
this mornings disturbance, somewhat
similarly to the Connolly dwelling. Mr..
King was having a new home erected near
by, but the destroying work of the mine
caVe-in has left 1t ruin. Patrick Pow
els house is splita sunder, so that the
building barely holds together, and other
houses close by which suffer are those OF
John Porter. Frank Kane, John King and
one occupied by a Polish family Mrs.
Mary Ruane's home was badly "squeez-
ed" and every window and door suffered,
while the basement was thrown into a
mass of debris.
This afternoon John McDonough, John
Wallace ana InOmaS sullivan went into
the mines and returned with reports which
did not in any manner allay the fears of
the excited people, but rather shattered all
the hope that the settling would now
cease. They reported that the upper vein
was still working, and in the mine the
most threatening sounds are heard.
After the sinking this morning the peo-
pie paced the streets away from the dis
turbed area, fearful of returning homo
and Il iS certain there viii he 1itt' q sound
sleep in the contiguous district for some
nights to come. The people are determined
TO appeal to the courts and ascertain what
rights surface holders have against coal
companies who remove the supporting pill
lars of coal.