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The Bridport Sun
Thursday, 19 September 1901


         ANOTHER LANDSLIDE
         
         Road Bed Slides Away from the Rails at
          North Ferrisburg
          
         Once more the trains on the Rutland railroad
       have been side-tracked on account of a landslide.
       Saturday morning, at the same point where the
       big slide occurred a month ago, a piece of land,
       150 feet in length and 80 feet wide, varying in
       depth up to 50 feet, slid bodily away from the
       track for a distance of about 17 feet, leaving
       the rails and ties suspended in mid-air.
       
         All trains were promptly flagged and a work
       train hurried forward from Rutland, transfers
       being made by hand-car while repairs were being
       made. The noon flyer on Saturday was the first
       train to pass over the break. The position of
       the piles which were used to repair the first
       slide indicated that the cause of the trouble
       was at least 50 feet below the surface.
       
         Railroad men and old residents of Ferrisburg
       are at a loss to account for these disturbances
       of the roadbed, the presumption being that a
       quicksand or subterranean river is causing the
       mischief. Attempts to reach hard-pan by means
       of pile-driving indicate the impossibility of
       permanent repair by that method. Rubble stone
       and earth are being filled into the excavation
       which piles will hold in place until something
       permanent can be done. The soil is of a blue
       clay character.
       
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