Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-07

The rain continued to pour the whole
day with renewed violence, and the whole
day stood in the middle of the street,
shouting words of warning to the drivers
and expatiating on the wretched manner
in which the streets were kept. Every
moment might bring detection, and 1t was
miracle that nobody did remark the
peculiar nature Of the hole. At nightfall
we all cleared out of the house and began
filing up the treacherOus pit. We worked
the whole night without intermlssion; at
7 the damage had been tOlerably repaired.
l crossed the street several times in the
direction of the shaft below, and all
seemed safe and sound at first, when all
of sudden l sank in up to
the breast. The ground had sunk
in at another place. This hole was
to be filled up too if we did not want to
give up all hope of success. We contin-
ued to work in breathless haste. The
dawn came. The neighbors began to stir
about their houses, groups OF working
men going to their factories appeared on
the Street, and still we went on with
our work. Many OF the passers-by stood
still and looked at us, but none asked us
any question. The danger was so immi-
nent that we Immediately ordered one of
our friends to bring the most precious
property we possessed-120 pounds of
dynamite, a spiral of Ramkorff and gal
vanic battery of Grene-to sure place in
the city. 1t was broad daylight when we
succeeded so far as to conceal at least the
roofing of the shaft at the bottom of the
hole. All of sudden police serge ant
appeared at the end of the street and
walked rapidly towards us. Sophie Per-
ovsky and our two other workers disap
peared Immediately into the house, while
| |, as master of the house, remained quiet
| ly smoking at the door. In the mean
| time was forming plan how to get rid
of the policeman. If the worst should
happen, L thought, l will draw him by
force or under some pretext into the
| house; We will then lock him up in the
| mine or in the cellar and this will give my
| friends time TO escape But what shall [
do if instead of following me into the
house, the man should call for help? Then
must kill him on the street either with
the revolver or the dagger l always carry
with me- l should then be arrested and
all the attention would be drawn on me,
and my friends will have time to leave the
house. Happily nothing of all this hap
pened The police sergeant came up to
me, and seeing that " an ignorant boor,"
as he expressed himself, had the imperti-
nence to stand smoking, and without
| taking his cap off, in the presence Of
s'the authorities (patch0l stvo), he began
pouring out torrent of abuse. This was
| Just what wanted. l meekly submitted
to the infliction, hoping that in his ex-
citement the noble representative of law
and order would not notice the hole in
the street. But just then he did notice
| it. Going up to its very brink, and strik
| ing the ground with his foot, he ex-
claimed:
| Look here, you BLACKBOARD Cd on
seem to have thieves holes about your
place."
| My thorough knowledge of the ways
and manners of our police suggested
what was to be done. put my hand
into the pocket Of my HAITIAN and began
to rattle the loose change | found there.
This gentle sound immediately caught
the ear of the policeman.
| "Please excuse me, your HONOR" l
said, as meekly as [ could; "l shall i'm
mediately repair all damages"
| Going close to the man l let slip few
coins into his palm. He Immediately
changed his tone, and, after dropping a
| few friendly remarks about the weather,
| we shook hands and he went away.
| 1t took us whole week to repair the
damage done by the water. What we
had to suffer during that time l can
| scarcely describe. One of our CO mrades
lost the use of his legs, another was so
racked by rheumatism that we were
obliged to carry him about and to feed
him. AS soon as these two could be
moved they were taken away during the
night and two others, sent from st. Pc
tersburg, took their places. The unfor-
tunate Goldenberg, who was destined,
later, to betray US all, without knowing
! it, worked for two, but his slpng and
| healthy constitution held him ub. I felt
very weak, but was still able to work.
SOPHIE PERovsKY's HARDWOOD.
Sophie Perovsky did not show the least
sign of lassitude or suffering, but she was
growing daily thinner, and what she suf-
fered we could see in her eyes, though
her lips never uttered one word of com
plant. With almost superhuman efforts
| we succeeded in advancing seven feet in
\ three days. The end of the shaft was al
ready near the first pair of rails; we had
to dig vet fifteen feet. But here the trains
passing overhead by the commotion they
occasioned rendered all further advance
impossible We resolved, therefore, to
pierce the last fifteen feet with large
steel bore which bought in the city. 1t
would be vain to at
tempt to describe the efforts
we made these last days of our work.
Nothing seemed now impossible to us.
the shaft was now barely large enough
for man to crawl into it on his stomach
or on his back And it is thus we work.
ed, lying at full length in the icy water,
crawling over each other like serpents,
thinking no longer of the constant danger
which threatened us of being buried alive
1.-THE last part of the shaft not being
roofed-and bent only on one purpose, to
finish the mine in time for the passage of
our deadly foe.
At length we found ourselves under the
track. For assuring the success of the
explosion it was, strictly speaking, ne
cessary to dig out seven feet more, but
our time and our strength both failed us.
We had to risk the matter as it was. At
this stage of our work the lower story of
the house was naturally in state of ter
rible disorder. Heaps of earth shovelled
out of the mine, spades, axes, lanterns,
boards, large rolls of rope, all these were
| lvinu ahont in q most SuspciOuS fashion