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Updated: June 24, 2025
Great excitement was caused throughout the district by the publication of the details of the defence of the engine-house, and the most strenuous efforts were made by Mr. Brook to discover the person to whom he was so indebted.
No one who looked out of doors could mistake what was going on, for a stream of sparks was now issuing from the engine-house stack. The first notice of attack came in a single shot from across the road. A bullet sang through the doorway, flattening itself with a whang on the iron wall. Those around the opening fell back. Some one crashed the door to.
The lads crossed the line, went out of the opposite booking-office, and set off for it was now past five, and already dark at the top of their speed in different directions. Jack did not stop till he reached the engine-house of the Vaughan mine. The pumps were still clanking inside, and the water streaming down the shoot.
In the basement an operating-room was rigged up, there were bathrooms, disinfecting-rooms, a laundry, and an engine-house, where gimcrack German machinery in fits and starts provided us with electric light and hot water. The village school on the hill opposite was annexed and cleaned by a sculptor, a singer, a painter, and a judge of the Royal Horse Show.
He instantly obeyed and, with Lieutenant J. E. B. Stuart as his second in command, hastened to Harper's Ferry and, directing his troops to storm the engine-house where Brown and his followers had taken refuge, effected their capture almost without striking a blow.
Macgregor thinks from the direction in which things were lying that the blast had come from Holford's Heading or thereabouts." And the manager hastily opened a map of the colliery he was carrying in his hand against the wall of the engine-house, and pointed to the spot. "How many men there?" "About thirty-two in the workings round about as near as I can reckon it." "Any sign of the rest?
Any one learned in the matter would immediately have known the real miner. 'Now if you like to see a mine we will go down, and then you can do as you like about your money. They started forth, Crinkett leading the way, and entered the engine-house.
In just two minutes from the first rap on the bell, Will Somers, leaving behind him a caldron of boiling herbs, was at the door of the engine-house, and unlocking it, had seized the long rope attached to the engine. There were enough who joined him to rush out into the street the clumsy machine. There they received large re-enforcements. "Where is the fire?" bawled the foreman. Nobody knew.
Beyond the meadows he saw a rude stone chapel, and near by the foundations, capped with wood, of a large church. He shivered once; he had no overcoat. Then he went on to the manager's office. He rang and opened the door. "Can I see the manager?" "He's out now; gone over to the engine-house to see about the new smoke stack; he'll be back in a few minutes.
Gradually they came to stand also for similar political interests, and thus grew to be, like New York's Tammany Hall, instruments of the politically ambitious. On an alarm of fire the members at any time of the day and night ceased their occupation or leaped from their beds to run to the engine-house.
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