| Show The The Coal Goal Mine Miners I I of ith Ili ADVANTAGE AD of ot being In an anI Tn I explosion Is that you OU can call die dle diens ns us a n 1 hula ruc pleasantly because only on about fire fic of over ever fet feel l the Or tho the rest perhaps a couple L of al a hundred of or you carbon on ct your way out nut of or tho the which brings brines a smile lo to your lips lipi Jl ouch and roil red 1 11 beauty to your you tbt nail and dying Is 18 s as ns easy eat as na ass s You Yon think you vou OU ore going home but hut will III lust luit a little rest llo gently down In the tho dust duet and that IhM nt in III all nil All I tho pain nall n Is 19 for fOl tho fibrils fr er cis who find you yeti dead deLlIt It h i t quite different when tho the water h 1 nto the tho pit from some forgot n old alit 01 1 You have havo n a 1 choice choIcer fill r II ill cur t t I fy e hut hill It IH is II not nearly nour wo so woi IU lilt i j can call either risk getting roue ou uw thin th dad and be e drowned en un lite for 01 tho time pits lIlt eye CC or run bark buI the Ih higher workings 1 and find a II dry dr irk Hk 1 It bolo tn II hole mole where wh re tho lino water can catl M 11 you lucre Thoro the tho compressed Iii a ir i sv out to 10 breathe and anti BO SU old cold that th t you vou ilU escape dying d of o starvation iau before that point Is II reached reach ell ilp su G nii 1 in frozen stiff stitt In your high andt and v c t f place placeR B R Mr tie 11 It Is k tho thin thing In Ini th i r ind to tn know what has hll hap ri fi t when roar lUllI of ot an nn explosion make h the HI nit JIlt shako shake But ut the draw irb d t e an nil Is that you h vc m n Idea tail the tho nilio Ii t flooded nUI til 1110 corner come ti to tn toll tell ra u b hi by down dowl your OU roach sad nd b you ou und lint your butty head heul IM er t I in j tho the face tuve of tho thu cool coul you 1110 to e It hardly gives Js you tuna to toJ do J IOJA run rny ity It In iii PI sit Ill that hut It will oil nut ut lit r lir Irr shunt shoot u block of coal I te tn and umi G 0 foot Illel long Ions Ion out nut of ot Its mn h comfortable bed beLl v The hc Hood flood rolls In III and tills hits m up the tho stall It conies comes In lu with Ith such fuch a 11 rush rURh that ut mil first everything Hauls floats and twists In It shovels mandrels food tins und and jackets and waistcoats that were lying In hl the side sl t With big pieces or df o f timber and even oon lumps of at coal floating round Sonic Some Sometimes times you OU will see seo in III It tho body bOil ofa of n a horse horae or of ot a Il friend who was WIlS com corn comIng Ing lug to warn you Oll Then f for tOl or a moment you Join Doha your friend and an the tho other wreckage and all the th flood nood swirls you all round near achy the tho roof root up UI against the timber It may be bo a It black blat flood or It may be yellow y I have seen neon It as ns red td as ae I tire fire In III color It always takes un after aft tho the minerals of the particular I U III I goo oo logical loi Ical fralc that sent It Jt Into you OU so Sf unexpectedly In Tn the th other workings the tho men and an boyn bOY uro tiro herd hard In sit all direr direction tion so as 89 to avoid low uny contact con contact tact with the flood They fh I through the faco that Is right slung Hiring the tho blue black 1 face fuu of the con I In tID of going out In the tho open road roadways ways They Ther swing WIn their and shout some to warn waro everybody else within sight and but bot mostly l 1 Ihre swing they th ll H tJ nail and shout mmel in tn Time The Ti nut f end the Che cos co coal 1 mJ Iw be I from fram n II MK ale main the UIO I I of or n a IrHe lilt out nut i i I I from the great groat rroK left 1111 right rtuh anti and andrin j fino rin Aad thIn thi theta are rl n R as I I men and boys In the OIT tn mine as is asU tiers U I t l avas na Ol Ito tir ira IT ro wit ee e te 11 trot Hi tip 1 til cr 11 the th tn tier tio crum them Duni 11 1 fit fir theme un I c tr rn dr Time Tiie T H best l j t coati nIt tic tl bout 1 i 11 ITO RJ ft feet fO Anion on umi t the I tear u 1111 lu I IiI the t sn 1 tits human and the rb bL r They ame re ro marl a n IR 1 to rr d r n a mile froth from the tho daylight the roar roaring Ing In flood IH Is I them theta through the th dark dada workings more than hint any winter scattering dead from a IL t big bl tIll live tee Inn AN HUNGRY J h In the there are wild cries erlos mind and swinging Hehli and amid men cacti boys boI anti and cure 1110 struggling to Tho ho rays IU S of ot the lumps lamps reach buck to In the wit IT and the gilt I III tel ter or of the lights light on oil the till loud flood It look hook like a U great angry und and un JY y devil couming after you u to tu cat tut you ell all allup up The worst of ot It Is the lie miners an are not only deep doel hu fur far front from the daylight There Thoro Is only ono one way lIlY upa up a small narrow hole bola and the rich coal eual has Iles jl al already ready ron boon been dug oU out over ovel and area nr of a n mile or ur So n from the bottom of lie HIP th shaft Ho Su with till nil this e eto to he be covered by b Its Intended Urns tin the Hood hlll has must most of ur the chance It nut can an JIll the water venter H In III and drowns horses as easily us its It drown ke boyn H The line road rond roadways roadways ways are 1110 well lined with Unifier i io to 0 peep keep up III tho the mountains but hut the fun nose c cof of or tho the Hood knocks out the timber and down comes the tho roof So It Ir you Yalta escape being drowned you sou ou risk rl k being burke mid and III the alto choice has no attraction even ell when It II Is IB offered you Yet In imi spite spit of ot nil all the handicapping hUll if jf there is any UllY nt It all ull human Ingenuity will get 1 the host best bt st of tho the race raco Ono One or two strong natured men mell will willup rise rIM up in fn the S panic anil an I l dis disorder order and ond nd n a 1 passage ugo for for tor t tan terror error stricken hundreds through the red 01 of black son fica as the tho particular color hap happens happens pens pellA to be At least that is III true his history tory tOI Hy By sotto roine means onu man down there Ihl In tn that hole of ot death will take a 1 hundred tacit mon In the palm paint ut ur his hand and send theta them flying Hying up to the th top to of ot tb ha pit where their wives wh es and mothers and children are arc scream screamIng rug Ing In and amid tenting tearing their with agony ligon Then ho will go 10 hack buck and had the tho lust last Ifs or 0 16 fathers father filth and sons Ions who have havo lost their way In the black hawk mace mure of roadways Fond whys Ho lo finds them diem running and crying without light or hope j Uy By this time limo the Hood has hI followed and amid found him Water ban lias rushed In la Inand and aud filled Ill led up 1111 the tho road by h which he ho canto came He Ile IH Ix entombed with the other 15 10 and he ht knows It Their lamenti till 1111 the darkness with useless echoes Hut But he hI gathers the tho men men tend boys bOH nto one line group behind him Ho Nu Hobus has bus been able to keep his lump l lighted They follow rollow this one light lh out of o the th ways the Ilia water alel wherever they thoy moot mol it creeping ure und crawling past tho the nagged lilted shining shifting sl face of the coal always keeping to therise the tho therise rise Ilsc of the Beam arum until mill tho iho light stops in cut 11 a it hole at ut tho thu th topmost corner comer of lit all ill that black bluck bewildering world Tha Thu light lI ht stops steps hero here because there is II no cue 10 way WU out It Il IH Is I the till one dry spot SlOt The TU S on Oil tho the barrier of ot coal coil male mallo mallon malea u n yellow glitter The rue root roof is no so low lowthe lowthe lowthe the men have hae to keep In III a II stoop Tim rh I VuI is so ao narrow they the are uie all 1111 huddled In lit a IL heap We Vc are safe safa here says sas the thc man with a l light Walt a hit bit The They wait until tho the light lI ht goes oel out and hunger comes collies In and sorrow sorrow and amid line are tile so 50 mixed up lip that they the do not know how ninny many days da d s sand and nights pass by They will wait walt un 1111 until til tit the water rises ll el or their theil outside cut cul through thu heart of tho tau black world to tu them The water 11 tel Iota bus dilvon tho ha air nil up 1111 into bite the tho ho hole Then Chen the Iho nil alt acts us u a solid harrier barrier and keeps the thc water tenter back balk It Is Ix II so se cold that a lL aboy aboy boy It y files dies A man intuit goes IONI toad mud rued and they thc hear heR I him rushing Into the tho water shouting he Is going goll to swim home They Tho all ull have that choice risk get getting getling ting ling through the water ItHel or risk star staring ing III in the tho hole rho Tho man tries tiles to lu calm the tha others They The hear heal the time faraway Va of or their theil friends friend I cutting nt at tho Ito butler of or coat coal outside ethl tho determined bravo brain that will never stop st till 1111 It lets let daylight Into the darkness ms ut oP the tomb The ran strong sh mig man answers ulI tho the sIgnals Six eight 10 days and arid nights go so by b They fhe have havo no ho 10 food roo hut but hope which is not nourishing but hul Is good it tit t sustaining It II keeps life going anti and with the tho outside i tho coil coal barrier the strong strOH mans work rl may not be bt wasted walled after all Joseph Ins Ing In In the tIme London Daily Da Mall |
