The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-31

the pony and the mule back where they
wouldn't be so apt to get hit with bullets
or arrers. All at once something happened.
There was Earring sound and then rum
bling roar was flung forward on my face,
blinded and nearly choked with dust, and
then found myself in utter darkness.
, when i recovered enough to sit up,
struck a match and looked around. What
saw wrung groan from my lips, and l
reckoned / was done for sure. A big mass
of rock and earth had fallen from the roof
of the cave near the mouth, blocking the en-
tire entrance. There were tons upon tons Of
the stuff, and with neither pick nor spade
1 could not tunnel out in two months. 1t
looked as if was doomed to perish of hun
ger and thirst.
Both my pony and the burro had been
caught beneath the falling mass and crush
ed TO death. 1t seemed miracle had es-
capped 49,.
but decided to explore the cave for another
outlet. That seemed to be my only hope,
and it was pretty slim one. All the same,
when / had recovered from the dazed con-
dition into which the affair had thrown
me, set out, lighting match now and
then.
1.-THE cave proved to be monster. There
were dozens of passages that branched off
in all directions, and was forced to trust
to luck in choosing. ! don't know how
long prowled round, all the time scared of
falling into some deathtrap hole, but ]
finally lost my nerve and tried to get back
10 the blocked entrance.
'Then made discovery that lifted my
hair. was lost. / couldn't find my way
back. Ihaye rather hazy recollection of
what followed, but know prowled about
like a maniac, crying out now and then
and hearing nothing but the sound of my
own voice as it echoed along the black I'M
dereround passages. | know prayed, and
Amt ashamed of it. 1t seemed rs If had
been in that terrible cave for days, and
fancied was already growing weak from
want of food and water.
"All at once wonderful thing occurred.
heard faraway muttering that seemed
to come from the bowels of the earth, and
then there was a sharp report that caused
the ground to reel and hurled me PROSTATE.
saw binding glare of fire, and then
reckon must have gone clean DAFT.
''When | came round to reason, saw
there was "a big crack right up over my
head. and the sun was shining straight
down on me. didn't stop to ask how
that crack came there. but | just climbed
for it. BY means of rocky points and pro
jections managed to work up to the fissure
and pull myself out to the open world
Happy Well, | got right down on my
knees and thanked God the bestf knew
how. Then look ed. around to see how II
had happened. -.
"Pard, / am telling you the square truth
when say the whole side Of that mountain
was cracked and scanned. 1t took me som'
time to get the thing through my head, bu
/ finally understood an earthquake haC
rent an opening in my living tomb ant
provided method Of escape. That yer!
day struck some greasers who were max
ing cut through the mountains, and so
. am here TO tell of what consider the mar
rowest escape of my life.
II don't want 10 hear any human critic
say vs. how there amt God" concluded
Sam Yool, "for know betterl It was hi
hand that opened the cave for me to es
cape!''