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...experiences as an engineer there in 1912 and is written with considerable literary distinction. It is noteworthy for its account of the great miners' strike of 1913, for its sketches of Nesbitt's fellow-miners, for some poetic but subdued descriptions of life 7,000 ft. underground...
...trouble started when light bulbs of too large a size were used in Widener Library, thus overloading the underground transformer, nestling in the steam-tunnel between Widener, Weld, and Boylston which steps down the "juice" from 2300 to 110 volts. The company's automatic temperature recorder showed that the machine was getting too hot, and accordingly it was decided that an extra one would have to be installed to take care of the added load...
...mine-car with coal, doused it thoroughly with kerosene, ignited it, started it down the tracks of an inclined shaft in which, at the end of its run, it fired the unmined coal. That fire, started on the property of Columbus' Hocking Coal & Mine Co., has burned on underground ever since. By last week it had burned a subterranean area of twelve square miles...
...Rush dug roasted potatoes out of his ruined garden. Twelve million tons of coal have been destroyed, and 28,000,000 more lie along the paths of the fire's slow advance. Attempts have been made to head off the fire by sinking cement walls, by forcing steam underground, by diverting a creek into a shaft. All failed...
...beauties of the Orient. Much of the strangeness of the book had its source in the author's ability to make the Continent of Asia seem somewhat like a small town, filled with the same gossipy characters turning up on every corner, with the same old feuds and underground activities that a stranger might be aware of, get involved in, but could not understand...