STOLEN AUTOS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 310, 24 September 1921, Page 3

STOLEN AUTOS

CHICAGO LAKE A GRAVEYARD. The police of Summit, a suburb of Chicago, have discovered an automobile graveyard in an abandoned quarry near there: It is believed that at least a hundred automobiles are lying at the bottom! of eighty feet of water. Divers have begun to*raise the machines. They Reported that in some of the deeper portions of the quarry the motor-cars appear to rest one on the other in. layers Bix and eight machines deep. 'JJhe "graveyard” was discovered when a policeman noticed the top of an automobile projecting above the water which he knew was so deep that the car, if thrown into the place, should have been entirely covered. , An investigation showed that the machine'was resting on. top of another car. This led to the belief that, others might have been thrown into the water. Chief R. D. Allison, of Summit, engaged John F. Blair, a diver, to descend into the quarry, and Blair reported that the place Was literally filled with machines.

Under the direction of Blair and Chief divers were obtained from Chi\cngo, and the work of raising the machines was begun. Thirty have been brought to the surface already. The divers are sure that there at least twics that many in tho water. With the present facilities about five or six cars a day can be lifted. Ono of tho first .machines recovered Was the property of. T. J. Sullivan, of South Halsted Street, \which the police " Bay was reported stolen on .(December 21, 1920. Another was a small car which bora a 1919 license plate.

The jkilice are taking the numbers ot tho machines as fast as they are brought out, and "fin investigation will be made of each case. The insurance companies also will inquire into the affair. The quarry, which has not been worked ffir several years, is a block wide and a block and a half long. Tho water at the edges is about thirty feet deep, but slopes down to about eighty feet in the centre.