The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-28

by adniring friends, be took troIiey FOR
Manhattan and ferry for Jersey.
Now, over in Henderson street, Jersey
City, they are mostly tunnel workers. The.
news came ahead Of Creegan. Every
tunnel worker who was out Of job or had
a day of packed into McMann's saloon,
which did Christmas business. BY the
time Creogan had been wept over by his
mother and reproached by his sister, had
wished up, combed his hair and put on a
white shirt without a collar, a delegation Of
neighbors called and insisted on escortin q
him to McMann's. He sat on q table, pale
and wabbly, but still game, and talked
about It whenever they gave him an open
ing. ......... i-EHisUD1IZ
GLORY bel said Creegan, shat 7 went
up with me hands forpinst me. 'IfFasnt
much more n a minute, just az lonS as
man can carry his breath IN him, but It was
like days an days. / thought was gone
/ opened me mouth 20 say 'eood-by' ~
Poor lad, and no priest thefei" cried a
pious neighbOr EF er
And II was stuck full o. mud an peb-
bles. And then I thought that, II plugged
hard enough, up I'd go. And j plugged
III say that for meself. And up went
The mex thing / knew ! was seein' light
and bltnkin' the mud out o me eyes away
up somewhere. Up / went, and down l
came.
AN what we're We thinkin' about, Dick7'
asked the bartender.
Il wasn't thinkin',' said Dick Cree gan.
Il was pastin' that mud, Denny, the way
] used to paste yer face in echool. But
when landed in the water, all right side up
and stretched out me legs and they was
there, and pulled in me arms and they
was all there, I begun thinEin' that We
can't kill an Irishman.'
Frank Kelly was moved to order more
drnks-to the Irish. .e 80
An I've been thinl1in' since" said Dick,
that didn't fall. Nobody that saw me
poppin' out like a cherry stone GOULD say I
fell. was pushed. &c.. ,..-
Still game, Creegan smiled weakly and
applied himself 10 a beer.
A few more beers and creegan was lady
20 60 home for rest He relied in with his
shoes on. For the rest Of the day his
brother sat by the door and ,deelafed TO
seventy-hte newspaper photographers that
that there wouid be no pictupesf and II
was shame to bother poor people that
was in trouble. The session at McMannip
lNnN iAoHll anu INNS
WoNpfR TIE d1IiERs. WEREN'T KILLED. y
The.fuuei WoTiiefS6ll agreed that Gree
cams sSpei noe &tslfth the most Singh
lar thing about ti9 Hcpident, This really
curiots thing. from g. technical point 90
view, "a that the other men ia the head
compartment got odt alive. According ~
all the. rules of the game, tte rush OF mid
and water should have done for them. 4
The compressed air IN the front com parts
ment, az the rather moderate pressure Of
sixteen pounds makes a big bubble which
keeps back the soft mud. The danger ~
from leaks series Of air bubbles may
suddenly burst making a channel from
the compartment TO the'river;water and the
air. Through that leak the compressed
air viii rush, and the bubbie Of the com partzl
ment will collapse like pricSed balloon.
Then, with pressure released, the mud and
water should settle down from all sides
drowning the men In the compartment. =.
Whfle CVegan and his fellows were stop
ping ne hrst leak a second one had startes
unnodced. II went 20 far that the rush
came all OF a sudden. Creegan's body
plugged Il for time. When he was blown
up and out the compressed air followed
until the pressure below was normal Then
a riish OF silt and mud plugged the bole,
and the bubble collapsed gradually.
The men in the second compartment,
where there is also considerable. air pres
sure, knew from the sounds and symptoms
that something was wrong in front. They
opened the lock cautiously. f,.The COM
pressed air in their own compartment,
rushing in, helped 10 keep the mud bac k.
So they got out Crcegan's three comrades
alive, somewhat bruised and scared.
The apparatus was scarcely DANA gid at all.
and work went right along. Much Of the
excavating will have TO he done over again.
The New York Tunnel Company, which
has that section Of the work Ia charge.
retired ali inquirers TO the Rapid Transit
Commission. 81.
A. the offices OF the Rapid Transit Com
TO CvRE a. coin IN on DAY :.