The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-16
A Mother and Three Children Down
Il 4 in q Goal Mine. a

MINERAL ADD1TIoN-one Of our sub
urban glories-was the scene of q thrill
Ing adventure last Friday. Mineral Addi-
ton, az Is we'll known. IS rich in black
diamonds, and its hills have been tun-
heled in all directions by enterprising
miners in search of the hidden treasures.
No one, perhaps, thought that these ex-
cavations would ever affect the surface,
and least of all did the inhabitants of
that locality suspectthat the bottom would
some day drop out of their cellars Even
now there is no positive assurance that
another incident of the kind which start
led the Mineral Addition folks last week
will ever again take place. We have not
TO deal with the future, but simply to
state what has TRANSFERRED. On the day
referred to three little boys, sons of John
Huhcln, were amusing themselves by
playing ghost" whatever that is; one
OF the little chaps in looking about for a
place to sectete himself noticed that the
door of the cellar under the house was
opened, and in he popped. In moment
after the other two boys were startled at
hearing cries Of distress issuing apparent
ly from the cellar, and looking about for
their brother found that he was gone.
One OF the lads, in his cagerneSs to solve the
mystery, rushed into the cellar, and soon
after the mysterious cries for assistance
came with redoubled force. The third
boy then dashed into the opening, and
moment later chorus of voices pleading
for help reached the mothers ears, who
was busily engaged in her household
work in a room above. The mother re-
cognized the halt-smothered cries as
coming from children-perhaps her
chi]dren-and hating moment, as if to
reassure herself, dashed out into the yard
to find her three boys gone. She cast
hurried glance about the yard in which
the children were accustomed to play, but
could sec nothing of them. The cries for
help grew weaker and weaker, and the
terrified woman, filled with feelings of the
greatest alarm for the safety OF her loved
ones, rushed into the cellar and disap-
pelred. Down, down she went into a
dark chasm, to find her three boys, lying
at the bottom of dark pit, nearly sufo-
Gated by the foul gas issuing from an
opening at the side. She screamed with
all her might for assistance, and tortu-
nately her cries were heard by John
Waters, who happened to be passing. He
ran around to the cellar door and eau
tiously looked in, to find that the whole
bottom had dropped out OF sight. He
could hear Mrs. Huhcln's calls tor help,
but could not see either her or the chill
drcn. Waters procured light, but upon
entering the door it WIS Immediately cx-
tinguished. He then procured a long
pole and assisted the unfortunate woman
and her three boys to reach the open air
again. One of the lads was almost over
come by the fire damp, and the other two,
as well as the mother, were terribly
frightened. An examination of the prem
Uses revealed the fact that a coal bank
twenty eight feet below the surface had
cavcd in, carrying the floor of the cellar
down a distance of twelve or fifteen feet.
But for the timely arrival OF MIR. Waters
serious results would undoubtedly have
cnsued.-ZanesrjNe Courier.