The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-03

gether, break away from the doctors and
fight his way into the mine again. AL
ready these rough, coal blackened heroes
had saved many of the men in the up
per galleries of the mine. The entrances
to some sections were so choked with
debris that it was impossible to get at
the men in the galleries beyond. If the
men still lived ard the choke damp fail
ed to reach them they m ght perhaps be
saved later, but the wok of rescue
would take hours, perhaps days. Shrek
ing, hysterical women and children hung
about the shafts and made frantic en-
deavors to assist the rescuers; it was
only with difficulty that they We're re-
strained from entering the mine. 1.-THE
Company held hasty roll call and
found that nearly a hundred men were
yet locked In the mine. There was a
chance that some were yet alive. and the
work of rescue pushed fiercely on Every
hour made a gain and every hour added
to the number of rescuers who labored
to bring the buried miners back to the
surface. AS night came on the whole
valley was lighted with the glare of bIaz-
ing torches. Here and there a white tent
marked the headquarters of the physi-
clans who ministered to the injured mon
who were Slowly but surely beng brought
told of a soul reclaimed for the loved
ones or of a soul that had passed into
the Great Beyond. Denny Sullivan was
still among the missing.
Mary Sullivan, with the small, wee
heart beating above her own sturdy
breast. sought her husband among the
rescuers and the rescued. The baby slept
peacefully. despite the strange, wild,
noisy scene through which il rode snugiy
Graded on its mothers bosom. She
sought in vain for Denny. Patsy Dugan
was among the rescuers, and he remem-
bered that Denny was not with the gang
that was hauled out of his drift. There
was a great cave in which choked the
gallery leading to the drift by the Old
shaft, and Denny must have been caught
on the other side. Mrs. Sullivan was no
hysterical woman: she was good, prac-
teal, hard-headed daughter of Erin. She
did not cry and tear her hair; instead she
asked questions about that part of the
mine and found out all Patsy knew about
the wreck She asked him to come up
to the cottage as soon as he could rest
bit. and he promised to come soon.
God grant, Denny was behind the wreck
age" she thought. and shut out from
her mind vision of Denny crushed be-
meath a mass OF fallen slate and heavy
timbers.
She went back to the cottage. and on
further. to the old shaft. If Denny was
behind the wreck. she thought he was
down there. and would perhaps escape
the choke. she leaned far down the
black shaft and her eyes strained TO
pierce the blackness. She looked up AT
the old windlass and rope which hung
above the shaft. Then she sat down on
one OF the buckets which lay about the
mouth OF the shaft. She was thinking
thinking OF her Denny down there some
where within reach OF the bottom OF
that black hole. She went again ana
lsaned FAR over the SHAFT. "lrs gottIn'
crazy. J mn" she thought Then sha
called Loudly: Denny dlrn'. lII save
ye yet" Holding the baby tightly, she
turned nnd ran Tor the cottage. Lizzie
Magic Dugap WAS crying as che sat On
the step Of The next cottage. Mary called