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He crossed over and bent down above the fellow, feeling with his hands in the darkness. "I reckon he's a goner, Cap," he admitted, as though surprised. "Gosh, I must'r hit the cuss harder than I thought fair caved in his hed, the pore devil. I reckon it's no great loss ter noboddy." "But are you sure he is dead? That will put a different aspect on all this, Kennedy!"
"Please please let me out!" he implored. With a laugh Murray lifted the lid, and Ken hopped out. He was as red as anything red he had ever seen. Then Scotty shoved him under a shower, and as the icy water came down in a deluge Ken lost his breath, his chest caved in, and he gasped.
He seemed to be alive, the posture was so natural and easy, but when I got closer, I could see a large, jagged hole in, his temple. The three must have been killed by the same shell-burst. The dugouts were all smashed in and knocked about, big square-cut timbers splintered into bits, walls caved in, and entrances choked.
She picked up a hard lump of snow and sent it crashing through the rear ice-window! "Trix!" she shouted. "Oh! get me out! get me out!" the voice of the missing girl replied. Another huge section of the roof, with the side battlements, caved inward; but it was a forward section.
Fairchild was staring with him, on toward the darkness of the farther recesses. "If it is n't caved in farther back, we ought to be able to repair this spot." But Harry shook his head. "We did n't go into the vein 'ere," he explained. "We figured we 'ad to 'ave a shaft anyway, sooner or later. You can't do under'and stoping in a mine go down on a vein, you know.
The boy's first waking thought was that there had been an earthquake and that the cabin had caved in. He never could rightly remember the order of events that followed, but he had a confused memory of a shriek, a scratching of matches, and the glimmer of a candle that made him sit up and blink his eyes. Then something struck him, first on one ear, then the other, cuffing him soundly.
Then it was that he knew of many similar knew fear. For he had known of many similar situations, in low dens like this, when solitary men were man-handled, their ribs and features caved in, themselves beaten and kicked to death. And he knew, further, that if he were to escape he must neither strike his assailant nor any of the men who opposed him. Yet in him was righteous indignation.
As you may have heard, the tunnel caved in once, and let the Thames in through the roof; and in order that, should such an accident occur again, no lives may be lost, an iron frame has been constructed a sort of cage, divided into many compartments, in each of which a man with his lantern and his tools is placed and as they clear the earth away this iron frame is moved onward and advances into new ground.
They entered, and followed this new route, until their farther progress was arrested by a solid wall which seemed to close them in, hollowly caved from all quarters, except the one narrow point from which they had entered it.
"That is so," echoed Smith, approvingly. We were about to make further inquiries, when, breathless with haste, a miner rushed into our tent. "In the name of God, Mr. Inspector, come and help me!" he gasped. "Why, what is the matter, Bill?" Mr. Brown asked, quite coolly. "It is matter enough. Our mine has caved in, and both Sam and Jack are buried alive!
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