Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-12
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Jonah has won a historic fame, and claimed tho
sympathieS of ninety generations for being shut up
in whales belly and after being swallowed so sud-
DENLY no wonder ne should ie5i s5tns7hat down in
the mouth. But Jonah has been outdone by Messrs
James Peacock and John Kelley, who were impris-
oned in the bowels of the earth all Wednesday night.
separated from humanity horizontally by three hun
dred feet of water, and perpendicuarly by thirty
feet of rock.
Wednesday morning Mr.. Peacock and Mr. Kelly
went to work as usual at the recently discovered Pea
k-Chapman-R Radcliffe Bunting lead Tbcy had
@ bTa5abfa heei zee fSeep; then along
rise OF about feet into new crevce when another
DRIFT is reached about six hundred feet long leading
to cave OF considerable extent where they had been
excavatlng Quitting time arrived and the miners
started to return home. They to the descent
between the second and the first and Sliding down
this one of the men found himself in the wafer u0 n
an instant he cOmprehended the stuation-the drift
between them and the shaft by which they must re-
constantly rising
At alittie distance east was ravine, beside which
was shaft which became filled with water, and
IRON from that made its way through the network of
wees INTO this drift There they imprisoned not
knoWlng for how long; and there was but one posi-
pie way To make their situation known tG those upon
the surface. shaft was being sunk into the cave
IN IN which they had been at work, and small drill!
hole' about two inches in diameter, had been bored
down through thirty feet of solid rcck BY using
this as u speak ing trumpet, the men below made
those at work above sinking the shaft aware of their
Ot course every effort was Mt once made TO rescue
them: Barrels were brought, sunk, filled with water
and drawn up; but for long time it seemed doubtful
whether by this method the quantity water in the
shdtt could be reduced faster than il was running in
~ last It became evident that the water rae lower
erins. and the men at the pumps" (barrels) worked
with renewed energy, This continued all night, till
daylight next morning.
4 candle or two had been lowered through the
drill hole, and wee drap" of stimulus by both of
which the miserics of those below were rendered
lighter, 60. 81.
lSy Elk o'clock IN the morning the water had been
drawn oil to such extent that the men in the cave
concluded they could make their way out. They be-
gan to wade the water being up to their neckS and
holding their candles alo began to wade along the
drt. by and by they came to place where the cap
rock or root OF the tunnel in which they were, was
so low that the candles could not be held above the
water and were extinguished; while in some races
there was room enough between the water in the drift
50 that they could keep their where there was
arr in some places the tunnel completely filled
with water for short distance compelling them to
torcg0 breathing for the time,
But at last the shaft reached, and the cold,
vet, hungry, bruised weary devils-that is the way
the story was told 10 us, and they certainly did not
look like men or angels-were dragged to Daylight
once more. Abort twenty men were engaged all
night In endeavorng to reduce the water in the shaft
so that the men could escape, to all of whom the
persons rescued feel the deepest gratitude for their
untiring eXertons-Dubuque Times.