St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-22
thought for 7,0OO-pound anchor. and
/ was about to make fast another line.

thought. for 7,000-pound anchor. and
l was about to make fast another line.
81 had been working rather hard, and
found myself short OF breath. 1Straight-
ened up and signaled for little more
air. noticed from the sound that the
wheels above were going round very
fast, as though the men above had diff
ficulty in sending me what little air was
then coming. Then got the signal to
make ready to come up. At the same
instant l was jerked off my feet by the
Tightening of the life line Qdick as
flash, it seemed. all the airstopped.
''Oh, such a feeling!
Isl seemed to be hours going up. 1t
was really but a few minutes-not over
two. ain told.
"My first sensation was terrible
smotnering feeling in my chest. l
couldn't breathe. My breast felt as II
it were being squeezed in an enormous
trip hammer, which was grinding my
bones into my lungs. Then all the
blood in my body seemed to rush to my
head, my eyes seemed to start straight
out from my head until | could see
them about two feet away, although
everything was really black around me
The top of my head felt as it were about
to blow off and let OuE-a tide of some
thing which seemed come from my
feet. my hands anG my inside.
MY neck felt ar - big, thick rope
thicker than it was wide-was being
drawn tight, tignsEr, oh, so very tight
around it. The back of my neck stiff
ened so that felt that could not move
my head. 1t seemed to me that tried
to move my head and my neck struck
knife which. sharp as q razor, seemed
10 go clear through my neck and circle
round my collar home.
MY collar-bOne then seemed to be
pressed way down into any lungs, and it
felt as if that big bone was a double
edged curved sword reaching from one
shoulder to the other over my chest,
then circIing round over my back. 1t
seemed to scoop out my heart, lungs and
other organs. did not feel any pain
in those organs. though | realized that
l was losing them.
my threat grew dry and hot, so hot
that it seemed as if | had raging fire
in there. and it seemed as if tile heat
from this fire rapidly went clear through
my head and out through my ears and
nose.
"Then the darkness began to De lit
by many stars.
II never saw so many stars before. ]
| could see millions and millions of them,
| and each one of them seemed to sheet
each OF its five points clear through my
head.
81 could feel that was moving up.
| As l neared the surface the fearful
| pressure on my chest and head eased a
little. felt relief. though the darkness
was just as black aud the stars just as
| Pickering.
when l reached the surface was
daZed, but l was conscious. l knew
what was going OH all the time. l could
| feel that the men who were turning the
wheel were making desperate efforts to
get iae out of the water.
'When L reached the surface and the
face glass was removed, | took long.
Ieep breath. Nothing even had in my
life seemed as sweet and as nice as that
| first breath. 1t seemed as if could not
get enough of it.
"By that time the stars had disap-
peared. l could get fair CLEAN of
light. though | could not see any
| thing.
1.-The smothering sensation was gone
| My head felt as big as balloon. My
eyes no longer seemed 10 be outside of
my head, but instead seem to have been
showed away in. could not open them.