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Irregular News for 08.02.06
Galena, KS -- The collapse of an old mine Monday claimed a 114-year-old tavern and the last remaining bar in this southeast Kansas town.
Mickey Morang, who ran the Green Parrot with his mother and lived on the building's second floor, said the building began sinking into a rapidly growing hole about 7 a.m.
No injuries were reported as Morang was able to get his mother, 80-year-old Opal Currey, and his dog out of the building.
"Every damn thing I own is in that building," Morang told The Joplin Globe as a section of the rear of the building fell away. "There it goes."
Much of the building, which dates back to 1892, was still standing Monday afternoon. But Galena police Chief Larry Delmont said the structure would have to be condemned because it was not longer structurally sound.
More than 800 mine shafts are located beneath Galena, said Dale Oglesby, a former mayor who has studied the mines. He said a collapse like Monday's was inevitable and has happened before, although he added that it's been decades since a mine collapse affected a building.
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Galena, KS -- The collapse of an old mine Monday claimed a 114-year-old tavern and the last remaining bar in this southeast Kansas town.
Mickey Morang, who ran the Green Parrot with his mother and lived on the building's second floor, said the building began sinking into a rapidly growing hole about 7 a.m.
No injuries were reported as Morang was able to get his mother, 80-year-old Opal Currey, and his dog out of the building.
"Every damn thing I own is in that building," Morang told The Joplin Globe as a section of the rear of the building fell away. "There it goes."
Much of the building, which dates back to 1892, was still standing Monday afternoon. But Galena police Chief Larry Delmont said the structure would have to be condemned because it was not longer structurally sound.
More than 800 mine shafts are located beneath Galena, said Dale Oglesby, a former mayor who has studied the mines. He said a collapse like Monday's was inevitable and has happened before, although he added that it's been decades since a mine collapse affected a building.
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