The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-01-15
WEDNESDAY,. JANUARY Is, 1876
THOUGHTS WHILE FALLING.
Harrington's Brisk Thinking While Going
Down with the SmOkestack.

Harrington's Brisk Thinking While Going
Down with the Smokestack.
Few men have had such n terrible
fall as Seth Harrington and lived TO
tell of it He gives a remarkable ac-
count of his descent through 95 feet
Of space. Harrington is one of the
men whofell with tho 110foot smoke.
stack at Jones 81 Laughlin's south
side mill. Frank Woolem of Four
Mile Run and Frank Grady of South
Twenty-seventh street were the 9th
er Triggers at work when the acct
dent occurred, but both escaped So
rious injury. They yer both half
way down the stack when 1t 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 gono down the steps or iron
handles about Is feet when the stack
and scaffolding succumbed 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 or how people feel when all
support has been withdrawn from
them at any great height.
You 500, when people who ire
not used to high places fall, they be-
come nearly dead from fright before
they arc half way to a stopping
place.. said Harrington ut the South
Side hospital. Secured? We'll, |
guess | was, but | never lost my
head, for ! knew tho II chance in
u million for life would vanish if |
did. felt just as sure that my time
was up a. | did of reaching ground.
They tell me that q drowning man
will in the last five seconds OF con-
seriousness think 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 III ten minutes rs |
did in tho 2 - seconds that | thought
we're my last. 1t seemed like two
minutes and q half to me, and .
thought | never was going to aiight.
1T would take me a day to toll 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
after my supposed coming death
dashed through my mind. My nrst
thought was of my family ard
friends. don't think l said Good
by aloud, but l said it. bidding them
all a farewell. l felt miserable to
think l was about to die without
seeing them again. even thought
of poor Woolem and Grady, who, l
supposed, we're flying to the same
fato.
why, even pictured myself laid
out and my friends one by one COM
ing up and taking n last look at mS.
Even tho news of my death passing
from ono friend to another and how
supposed they would take IL came
to me. No; | would not go through
it again for Jones g Laughlin's
whole plant"
Harrington admitted, however,
that between tho thoughts Of friends,
ETC., he was wondering if he was 70.
ing to land OF ''somothing soft. -
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Immigrants to this country are fall.
ing off still Only 1907 came in
March, 1885, against 10, 1913 in March.
1894 We can stand considerable more