Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-01-03

me up. And that's all I've ever thought
about gong to America / thought it
strange, sir, mothers having said that,
and me being nigh killed the very day
I'd settled to go
Can we call these brave men heartless
or unfeeling because they speak of such
| things as trifles, or indeed rarely speak
of them at all? No: their lives make
them familiar with danger, but none the
less is their silence that of noble
courage.
The following NAV show that graft
tude to a Higher Power is Oftener felt
than expressed to the outer world.
Pardon little preliminary detail.
Square tubs, on four wheels, running on
tram-lines along the workings of the
pit, are used for drawing the Goals to
the shaft. On some occasions. as when
going to distant part of the workings,
one or two tubs will be drawn by a
pony, each tub carrying perhaps four
men. When the seams are low. there
will be space of Onlya few inches be-
tween the edge of the tub and the
50 balks > of timber placed crosswise to
support the roof of the coal-seam; thus,
the men must keep their heads down to
the level of the edge of the tub
.'On one occasion" said my inform
ant. - three of us We're crouched down
in y tub. The pony was going at a
walk up slight rise. | can't tell YOU
how it happened, but must have raised
my head unconsciously above the level
of the tub. | felt my forehead touch a
crossbeam in the roof, and before | had
time to reflect, l knew that / was in
fatal peril. The forward movement of
the tub damned my head between the
beam and the edge of the tub. l gave
myself wrench, trying to get free; but
| couldn't. All this of course passed in
a fraction Of a second. and l gave my
self up rs dead. Now comes the most
wonderful part. At the very time my
head touched the roof, in the very crisis
of my agony of mind, when the whole
situation flashed on me, the pony
stopped. No one had touched it or
spoken to it. | had uttered no cry.
The pony stopped. | drew down my
head, and crouched almost fainting in
the tub. Ny life was saved | never
told my companions until we came out.
when they remarked how pale looked.
For weeks, whenever went down the
pit, was almost unnerved by this terri
bic recollection. And I tell YOU, sir,
Eve read of drowning people
seeing rs at glance all the
past scenes and doings of
their liyes-l never thought much of it
but tell you, every scene and deed
of my life seemed to come before me in
flash of light l san everything.
have never forgotten, and shall never
forget, the feeling of that day. How it
was that pony stopped and my life was
saved, | can't say; but if it wasn't Prov
idence, | don't know What else it can
be-
a similar miraculous escape was told
me by one of the managers of Il pit.
81 was down making survey with
man and a young assistant. We sat down
TO rest side by side, our backs against the
wall Of the coal The man was sitting
on my right hand, the assistant on my
left After we had sat a few sec
OndS the assistant, with no apparent
reason, got up and went and sat ut the
other end OF the row, next to the man.
lie had no sooner sat down than, with
out any warning, a huge mass of stone
crashed down from the roof onto the
very spot where the assistant had been
sitting! Part of it grazed my arm, but
did no injury. a near shave for YOU,
we both said to the assistant. 1t was
n near shave he replied, somewhat
We went on with our work.
Perhaps we spoke lightly; but ] believe
net one Of us could have said all he
thought. I hamJers' Journal.