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Show luparttltiaos Miners. A remarkable story is told in connection connec-tion with the explosion at the Morfa colliery In Wales. It ia stated that recently re-cently tbe firemen of the pit men who nre always selected for gravity and responsibility have heard inexplicable noises, "shoutings" as they are described, in tbe workings, and that these have not been beard by one person alone, but by several, when ia company examining the pit. Further, a miner returning to the surface felt himself to be accompanied accom-panied by some invisible presence, which, although not seen by him, was perceived by tbe banksman to land on the bank, Bnd hastily make it way to the shed 'where the injured and dead are now carried. It is alleged that these strange phenomena were described previously to the explosion and caused several oolliers to refuse to descend, ia spite of their thus becoming liable to prosecution. New York Sun. |