The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-14

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their lunch and rested and cooled off
when they were working in the neigh
boring drifts. We had followed some
n else's chalk marks, and we had now
no idea of our whereabouts.
"sWe can't get Out the way we came
said Ben, and no work is being done in
the upper levels, so what we've got to
do is to get down as far as we can, and
we're bound to run across some miners
Then we began trying to find ourselves.
We took the nearest tunnel and followed
it until we came to a shaft with ladders
in it. These ladders were crumbling and
had evidently not been used for years,
but we were not heavy and they did not
break. Down we climbed to another
level. This we followed as before.
Whenever we came to a shaft we threw
a fragment of rock down to ascertain
how deep it was. Then we would climb
down as far as we could. We had Just
reached one level when a rushing sound
broke the stiffness. The noise startled
US for an instant, but hurrying ahead
we aw hundreds Of rats coming out of
a small tunnel, at the mouth of which
stood a moldering old ore car.
This cheered us, for we decided that
men must frequent some place near
there or the rats, which in the mines live
on the remains Of the miners lunches,
could get nothing to eat. But though
we hunted until we had to stop and cry
again we could find no one. Down an
incline we went and struck a tunnel that
had evidently been used more lately than
the others. As we turned into it we saw
a spark away off. Soon we saw that it
was a candle carried by a miner. We
let out a shout, but to our amazement
and horror the miner dropped 10 candle
and ran as if forty devils were chasing
him. We hurried after him and picked
up his candle, but he must have turned
into some other drift, for we could not
find him, and our weary search soon be-
came as hopeless as before. We had by
this time been in the mines a good many
hours and had cried ourselves sick. No
matter which way we turned there were
the same dead cold walls of rock. The
passages were endless; they seemed to
lead nowhere. We passed several old
cooling stations, and at last we got to one
and stopped. We were utterly exhaust
ed, and with all our misery choking us
we swallowed some of our lunch, blew
out our candles and, holding each others
hands, fell asleep.
81 remember that my last thought be-
fore I became unconscious was that a
long time afterward they would find our
bodies, and | think / ever composed my
face and arranged my limbs SO as to
make a more effective corpse. Nothing
about this struck me as being funny. In
deed, | fell asleep crying. We must
have slept a good many hours, and my
next recollection is of u lying there to-
gether, sobbing, in the dense darkness.
Suddenly I became conscious of a low,
continued roar as of water running a long
way off. My companion heard it and
we listened, DULY wondering what it
could be. We finally Lit a candle, ate the
last of our lunch and started to find out.
We had both been down the mines fire.
quently before and had no fear of the
darkness or the rats, SO we went without
hesitation. 1t was not hard to follow the
noise. Along tunnels, down short up
raises and up inclines we went until we
struck one corridor. We followed on to-
ward the noise. 1t was louder here, and
as we advanced it grew into a perfect
roar that filled the tunnel.
ssSoon we ran into a wall of wood, from
behind which the noise came. We peered
through a chink in the plank partition
and saw a broad moving line. 1t was the
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what made the noise. We watched
through the chink in the boards until we
saw a cage. loaded with rock go up, and
then began to think how we could reach
the point from which the cage had start
ed. We knew that we were very far
underground, for the rocks that VIZ
threw down the frequent shafts splashed
in the water at the bottom, so we did not
attempt to climb to the top. 1t was not
long before we found a deep shaft, and
down that we clambered. AS we neared
the bottom we heard another r~umbling-
an ore car running along the tramway.
We shouted as we went down the lad
ders, and the carman answered u cry.
Soon we were standing by him, while he
looked us over with wonder.
"sWhere e WEI we both shouted, as
soon as we could speak.
"sThis is the Observation-Disclosures level
of the Crown Point he answered.
"We had gone a mile and a half under
the ground and nearly a third of a mile
down. We were sick and bruised and
hungry, and our clothes were torn al
most off us. 1t was 10 o'clock in the
morning when we entered the old in
cline, andit was nearly a o'clock the next
morning when the carman found us. In
no time at all we had been fed and sent
in charge of a miner on the cage to day
light again. -"
ADVICE TO MoIHEhs.-.u.s. " lSsLow s SooTH-
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are cutting teeth. 1t relieves the little sufferer
at once; it produces natural. quiet sleep oy re-
lieving the child from pain, and the little cheruh
awakes as bright as a button" 1t is very
pleasant TO taste. 1t eoothes the child. softens
the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regu-
for diarrh9a. whether arising from teething or
other causes. twenty-five cents a bottle. ~
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS.
Regular meeting OF the Board Of Education, held
In the me ting .rooms nign school. Bay Street. thurs
day, February IS. 1890.
Piesent-Ail the members,
PRESENTATION OF CLAIMS.