Already stories were going about the country: at Crévecoeur three hundred metres of road had subsided in a mass, stopping up access to the Cinq-Paumes; at Madeleine the Maugrétout seam was crumbling away and filling with water.
Déja, des histoires couraient la contrée: a Crevecoeur, trois cents metres de voie s'étaient effondrés d'un bloc, bouchant l'acces de la veine Cinq-Paumes; a Madeleine, la veine Maugrétout s'émiettait et s'emplissait d'eau.