The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-08-10
saturday ......AUGUST 10. 1896.
THOUGHTS WHILE FALLING.

Ha~rrington's Brisk Thinking While Going
Down with the smokestaok.
Few men have had such a terrible
fall as Seth Harrington and lived to
tell of it. He gives q remarkable &C.
count of his descent through 95 feet
of space. Harrington is one of the
men who fell with tho 110foot smoke
stack at Jones g. Laughlin's south
side mill. Frank Woolem of Four
Mile Run and Frank Grady of South
Twenty-seventh street were the 9th
or Triggers at work when the acci-
dent occurred, but both escaped Sc
rious injury. They were both half
way down the stack when it fell.
Harrington was working on the
inside OF the stack putting on the
rim. He was compelled to come out
over the top and go down the outside.
He had gone down the steps or iron
handles about Is feet when the stack
and scaffolding sucoumbed to the
gale. Harrington struck on the roof
of the boiler house. crashed through
it and was held fast on the steam
dome. His escape from instant death
is little less than miraculous.
The injured mans story of his ex-
perience during the few seconds he
was flying to what seemed certain
death is interesting and gives infor-
nation on how people feel when all
support has been withdrawn from
them at any great height.
You SEQ, when people who are
not used to high places fall, they be-
come nearly dead from fright before
they are half way to q stopping
place. said Harrington at the South
Side hospital. Scared? Well, /
guess / was, but / never lost my
head, for / knew the int chance in
a million for life would vanish if l
did. l felt just as sure that my time
was up as / did of reaching ground.
They tell me that a drowning man
will in the last five seconds of con-
seriousness shink of all the wrongs
he has committed in his life, think
of all of his friends, ask to be for
given by God and man and many
other things, but it seems almost
impossible fox 1000 minds to think
of half as much in ten minutes as !
did in the 2 1-2 seconds that l thought
we're my last. It seemed like two
minutes and a half to me, and /
thought I never was going toalight.
1T would take me a day to tell all
that / thought of. Why, l recalled
nearly every event of my life, many
of them having never before entered
my mind since they occurred. Not
only that, but pictures of events
aftor my supposed coming death
flashed through my mind. My first
thought was of my family al
friends. Idon't think l said Good
by aloud, but ! said it, bidding them
all a farewell. l felt miserable to
think | was about to die without
seeing them again. I even thought
of poor Woolem and Grady, who, /
supposed, were flying to the same
fate.
"Why, Ieven pictured myself laid
out and my friends one by one COM
ing up and taking a last look at mS.
Even the news of my death passing
from one friend to another and how
! supposed they would take it came
to me. No; l would not go through
it again for Jones & Laughlin =
whole plant"
Harrington admitted, however,
that between the thoughts Of friends,
etc, he was wondering if he was go.
ing to land on something soft. -
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Her Reason.
Helen-liow could you give up
Haussman for Tom Waterman y
to tliLS everything of Harry.