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the opelousas courier (opelousas, la.) 1852-1910 — sulphur smell

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1876-03-18
Location: opelousas, louisiana, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: the opelousas courier (opelousas, la.) 1852-1910 · 1876-03-18 · page 3
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1876-03-18 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “sulphur smell”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... up and emitting a horrible sulphuric smell which is almost stifling. The ground ap pears to be but a mere crust over boiling springs, and often so yields to the step that one feels as if he were about to de scend immediately into the earth. The great geyser itself is up in the top of a lofty hill, which appears to have been the extinct crater of a volca no, now filled with light blue boiling water of an unknown depth. The wa ter is forever seething and boiling, as if all the fires of perdition were aflame beneath it. It is constantly shooting up in columns from six to thirty feet in height, ...

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