The chronicle=news., 1914-04-22

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he had In contemplation. II Was s|
good illustration Of the vital import
anee in this world Of having "a little
money To iali hack uiOa. The poorer
the man. the more necessary il In that
he shall have something sa,cd-cire
IN an emergency he is helpless Had
my father not Possessed his small
savings. we could not have come ioI
America.
As IL MAS. We had enough To en-
Able my father Ia pay his o~n psssase
To the United States. while leaving |
us sufficient money to provide for
our support until h- eouid obtain
employment on the other sid. of The
water AMI send for his family la fol-
low him. lie left Scotland in April.
1879. and. seeking work Of the Kind
To which he had been accustomed. he
found his May to the saAi min.s al
Arnol. In Penns,i,ahia-s piars
named for John Afno,. a New York
blsin-~s m-n. who ~sA ps-sii-ai of = |
liz .s,ai oomi-any there.
i Ny mo,nrr followed. with mys-if
and the other ehiiif.n. less than five
hieaths later. snd s- arrived al C,s-
i'~r. expecting To b- met there b, iny
father. Hut. To our ss-Ai soasi.rna. /
iion. lac sss not on hand, Nc found
oars~iSss In = sirans soaaifs. with
No friends aud no money. The si,n-
Atioa seemed alarming. ,o saY The
least of u. aai for several hours rs
were in utmost ansi-ty-untii AT
Lac, an official eAm- through the
rom II which .~ ~.r- waiting. sa.r
r,is9 . letter In his Haaa. and ssi,-
lag my mothers narir,
'-rh- letter -ss from my father.
Aai explained .hs IL ~as that h- had
found IL in,>s~ibi-' 4. is- sn haai ,aI
m~-s u. Ca our Arrival, What ~nsl
much h.asri important, IL iari-srJ al
sa,n sf naass saffisi-nt ,s I.aF fos
our transportation ia Arnos.
= started to &. 4. s~ho., a, Asn"'.
Lu, IN the following March. 1871. II
Nss obliged .a i.asr ssha.,i aed s. Ia
~efk la lh- coal hain-s isre aasr .g an
aaia~sfa hart.-ninss NJ father hss:
s~es ssssns-i by iaei'.Ns. .r s"sl-
such aiiis,baa. .hish rs-scn,-i hSrtI
from sIc"gins. u. ."ais sa .'1~r
and 'uaissrus' .asi. hut ..sii me-,
stand az and load ,h- sasi in,. sa-s
|, ''Ns.oriinsis. sar aai's y ~hiiS !
dti The leading. NY ssiksr a.i
~cssins cid. hl sis.~ vpEt..s In
sh- tain-. aaiii I ss-v tn isr = man
i,u, l.1fas- ! vas I" wars cid I ns.t
with sn sscid~ai that sansr within an
s~r ~ -indinE ar sny career. . sps
buried ana-r several Tons of G-k.
AMI rsy s-@ai-- from death -as iiisie
short Of miraculous,
4 The su-k where 80 --s- ~nshieE
i .as uas.ana 'ia.-' ss tho fninrfs
call IL, NJ father had detected ,sis
fart by the peculiar 'sias' Of his
!! rick ~h-n he struck IT, Thts ts one
.f the familiar dangers fst'srnsa' '-I
coal ua;.ine. and r-snf' -as had t.,
tie a,.si... ps-~aution .f ru'tins in
an extra pfoy. II then s--m-t 10
/ i- reasonably safe.
| - vas -asasrd IN .hipginz GOAL
from = bic fragment "f taiics rvcs
~L-n the material overhead save
way the extra ptnT wss ,hfuvu "ii
ot riuu'L. AMI Sr-ai masses "f T"si
,aa,- down uV.n u- like sn ava
Ian.h-. I vps hacked dean sHd brrs
i-,! beneath the debris. Hut. by lgysy
| chance. i, =. harr-n.d that ! fell In
such a waJ as to lie prcs'ra'" between
the irasn-n, Of rock hal ''r"n
chipping and tho rIoI. vhi.h had as
sur,r,i a horizontal position on the
ground Tho prop anil the rock iraR-
men, together upheld the riass. e"
,bs, when was dug OIL, u was s"ini
iha, practically the "niy Injury '
had sust-fci vas cut on the back
Of my head.
dental To coal mining. however. was
at a place called Carbon Run in iSsi.
| Tn. ~orkmcn had been sothins the
pillars. That Is TO say. ih.Y had cut
away all the pillars of coal originally
l-f. To support tho roof OF III" mine.
aud Tor aorrs and acre, there ~as
nothing to hold mp the roof but ~"od-
cr prnna. Tho mon had been sent TAR
In to GU, away the stump Of a pillar
which still remained. when all at once
tic alan was sivcn that the roof was
starting to fall. Before the last
miner. whosc name was william Ho-
-sn. could &c, out. the shalc. cish-
teen inches thick. which had overiald
the coal. came down and buried him.
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