Sinkhole Swallows Six Cars in Baltimore
A block-long section of a residential street has collapsed in Baltimore, sending cars sliding down a steep embankment onto railroad tracks and forcing the evacuation of several homes. No injuries have been reported.
Nels Schumacher told The Baltimore Sun that he stood in the rain on 26th Street Wednesday afternoon and watched, helpless, as his station wagon sank lower and lower.
He had arrived at his home on the street not long before a neighbor came banging on the door about 3:45 p.m., yelling, "Your car is sinking!"
Schumacher said it started slowly, the sidewalk and street moving inch by inch — until the sidewalk, a chunk of the street and a retaining wall fell with a "whoosh" onto the CSX tracks. As many as six cars appeared to have gone down with the street, including Schumacher's 1997 Saturn station wagon, which lay upside-down on the tracks.
Jim Zitzer was looking out his bedroom window on 26th Street when he saw cars parked across the street start to tilt toward the tracks below. By the time he put on his jacket and got out to his front steps, they tumbled some 30 feet below.
"My wife and I haven't been parking on that side of the street for years because we knew it was going to happen," said Zitzer, a retired engineer who said he had noticed a crack running parallel to the sidewalk nearly the length of the block. - AP
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