The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-12-19
WHOLE No. 226.
Mary McCahles,,. ihls,.a and MARY aF'l Pagan, ylnib both

I down stairs,4 but the smoke and haines
\ drove her back when, with Mary
Tarney and, Bridget Curtis, ,sshes sbroke
i open askylight and got ON the ro9G
remaining there until the firemen rds-
cned them. She win recover lnfhe
I bodies at the Morgae have the appear-i
lance oRihaying suffered great agOniss..
4 Il, There isi great confusion atther Fifth,
/ Avenue Hotel to-day. One of the
fpfoprietors, denies that there was ahy
4 delay in giving the alarm. IS The walls
llofbthe laundry are coHiplefel y sburned
d and lcicless hang from the ceiling The
damages can, not be estimated yet.
Accounts, of the number burned are
tcondicting. 1t Is stated ut the hotel,
4 that adAly eleven persons were burned
dThesewere all femaiei servants
sqsY al -.UTJIT77-s rr7ss'r TF57I 81 775tlsv =
X ,blSixX. Miles y pdeergronnd. .
lsasiIti swell sknownl,thate ssbteryanean
/ lakes and streans are topnd in cdr
| tain parts of Virginia, and also in 9TH
ef Statese SONG of these have BEEN
| ex ptofed ,bwiliieI others Iprescnt sneh
1sobstacles stas explorai ion that, but lEts
4 huegknOwledgel of them has been OBJ
| tanned, The Following story of q SUBJ
I terrahe can ad venture near Lewfsbuag,g
| West Virginia, which appears in r.
| Michigan papers purPorts to be given 1
! in thelexacfgswofdsEo ofsthe man whom
the. accident here related befel: =
"T was pfougiiing on General Da-
Wis 'ofarfi sint 1882 said he,,i saiisusBi-
EciouB of abeing on iIisecnrei ground,
Whenaspddenlys the earth seemed to |
!. fall beneath me, saw the horses de-
I scending,r but was too frightened to'l
I let go the plough handles! Tho pitch \
fofthe hofsesa with the earth gase my
il1fah an tmpetns, and somehow Icaeght
the Yn1ane of. one, of them in my fall,
and 80 held on instincfively. What II
thought when faiiin9, I can hardly
ptei9g sAtyanyi rate ldid some rapid
ltfhinking.9vdWhen Ialsnded il fell pn
the hprse yhose name bad hold bfil
band, although the horse was instantly |
Killed, ] was fhefefyS stunned atid cdn-
/ ffsed.s on recovering nyselS 4odkAF
ed up, and the hole thronghs Nv hich ~
/ had .tallea, looked SO, small thatI cdnsl
Guided j must have fallen full 150 feet.
Ms first atAenghs was 10; cali for aid,
but3l instantly reeaned the fact that / !
was at least mile from General Da-
wis q house and that there was Het |
The GENE test prob fbility. that any one |
had seen my descent into the earth.
ltfwass, then early morning, and tas L |
had brought out my dinner with me |
no one would. miss me before night
fall4 While going oyer these facts In /
N.Y. own amind,o l heard the. rush of \
waters, neat at band, sud il occqrfed
TO me thatsl must b ave fallen ppon the
bed Of Sinking creek CIV hlch as you
knew falls into the earth above Frank
. fn 30 md ~
TIL it reaches the, banks of the GreeH-E /
bFiersFiyer, To: say where / ,wasi or.
attempt 10. follow the subterranean
passage, Was the next question: l |
took the team To- my. own
tenaut stable, and therefore might not
be, missed for days; SO i determined \
to feloy the stream Il waded into it
and. jud ging from Its depth .of from
one To- three. feet /, concluded it must
be the identical Sinking creek spoken
of, Leaving my dead companion be-
bind me, / followed the stream. For4
the most part / had pretty easy work
ofit, but sometimes. / came to. q deep
place. wheEeT1 was forced to sWiml for
alc9nsiderable distance; sometimes 1
ran cagainsts jagged rocks, and then
again was often preciPitated eadlong
into deep Water,,h the precipitoHs ma
lure of the rocky bad, OF the stream.
Talk shout the darkness of the grave
IA grave itself could not have been (
more iMpslpably dark thau the pass
sage / WAS following. The occasional
of the waters was; au inex-
pressibly dear SQUAD to my ears. Day 4
and night was the, same TO me. Atki
LASH wearied with, my efforts, 1 laid /,
down oH,a comparatively, dry rock to
rest. and Inust have. slept for hours.
When; i, awoke, l. again took. 10 the :
water carefully ascertaining, which
WAY it raH,s 50 as not to lose my labor n
by retracingi my. steps, II seemed to, /,
me that the farther / went the more
difficult progress became. When
had gone perhaps, q mile, L came TO a
place where the, .archway ,narro wed 1
SO much that | had to crawl on my /
hspds and knees in the = water. T Here :.
wss q dilemma l had not looked for. /
Etried either bank of the river, but /
found no passage. i could swim un- q
DEF wateF for q considerable distance, /
but, the distance before me was un- I
known. and halted long, before ma Z
king the dangerous syenture.T at last I
1 lconcludeds that my fate .was equally
doubtful IN returning as in proceed
Ing, and plunged boldly into the swift
current, and soon found that II was so /.
swift in itsconfined passage that on I
lyI Heedede tpbh9ld my breath to get
In the, course of twenty or G
thirty feet agafn got my head above .
water, aatf took ailDny breathing spell. =
Again the 1areiway above seemef to n
enlarge and the bed Of the stream be-
come moro eFens lIssped along COM 4 :
rapidly Keeping any hands Z
toy prevent nv running +
against the jagged roc ks w carried .
but Ioagaini laid down and slept sound
~ in my wet clo.hes. Il On awaken- II
ing, L Ipursaedemyoc courses down the 20
streattn, sand at last, in u
he long distance ahead, saw -aglinT-
nef that looked, very Sbrighs III the u
darkness 1was' then pent in. I'M ear !,
ing this, 1 foundithsr II did not in U
;rease in brightness; and when L hatt u
rome perhaps ~ mile. / came TO aHoth- n
~ place where my path narrowed to "a
he tunnel flied by the wateEy NV u
,ase was now become more desperate. u
could mot possiblyfretrace my steps, q
losI submitted myseflto the cnrfeni,1 u
md was iimmeasureabivgo to "a
ind crny self rapidly swept into day.. u
light. Il Exhausted, and uhalf drowned, II
5 crept7 out upon the lands aud was II
Tot long in recognizing tho objects n
bout meaIIIg had come out into the ri
River, as / knew from the c.
amiliar look of {4euerat Davis'e mill d
IN the bsnk. - On reaching home, II
ound that i had beenover iorty-eight u
lours in making my perilous journey p
Il six miles underground 7oa -''4-a- u
r,4t5 ss-.------------- -- tcS
The season has arrived for making %
eaee with the tIAdians. The cold ~ y
weather. and scarcity of food invaria- ~
,ly brings tile noble rcd man to his
.nees and causes him to fall in love
Nth the ways of peace and civilixs- bl
ion In the spring time, however, it
: ,l;ffarn,t us'VIa Than l;sSnpe an tho a,