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—Joseph Jelly, the bell diver, returned on Saturday night from the sink hole of the C. A H. It., where he bad been diving after no i tie ear true kg which had stink in sixteen feet of witer, all but ouo of which he recovered. This sink hole is 175 feet long, situated between Harrisville aud Jayville, and where the track runs between two chains of hills, making the changing of the road bed impossible. The A. R. R. jieople have long hod trouble with it, and for some time past nave been endeavoring to fill up the hole. It appeared to be |erfectly safe last Wednesday,and three cars loaded with gravel were pushed over the hole aud unloaded, when they sank swiftly in eighteen feet of water, one ofthe men on them narrowly escaped drowing. Alxnit three hundred car loads of gravel and stone together with a vast amount of rubbish has been deposited in the hole, and the rail road people are iiegluulug to think thatit is lxttomteeaTkn r r\ ii» «... an..
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Ogdensburg Advance and St Lawrence Weekly Democrat
Ogdensburg, New York, US
Thu, Apr 28, 1887
Page 5
Full Page
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Paula S.
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