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Falls gliding the tides,
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TERRIBLE ADVENTURE ON A VOL
CANO,
Mr. Carl Steinman visited Mount Hecla,
in Iceland, just before its terrific eruption
in 1845, and the following is his narrative
of a fearful adventure which happened to
him upon that sublime and desolate eleva
tion:
Having secured a guide, I set out at an
early hour, on the morning following my
arrival in Salsun, (at the foot of the ex•
tinct volcano,) praying for fair weather,
good luck and a safe return.
The scenery, even from the first, was so
different from any I had ever seen outside
of Iceland, as to be worthy of a better de
scription than lam able to give. Suffice
it is to say that, as you push on, ascend
ing summit after summit on your way to
the great and awful centre of all, you find
the danger, dreariness and desolation in
crease to the most. terrific sublimity, till
at last, when you do finally stand on the
highest point in this unliving world of
chaos, you instinctively pray God, with
an icy shudder shivering through your
miserable frame, to restore you to the
life you seem to have left forever behind
you.
O how shall I attempt to convey to any
mind the awful scene of desolation that
surrounded me when at last I stood more
than four thousand feet above the level of
the sea, on the highest peak of barren
Hecla 1 Six mortal hours three on
horseback and three on foot—had I been
clambering upward from the world below ;
and now among the very clouds that roll
ed and swept around me, I stood in the
world of lava, mountains, ice and snow—
the lava black as midnight, the snow of
bliiding Whiteness—and not in all that
region a tree, a bush, a shrub, a blade, or
even a solitary living thing, excepting self
and guide. kar as the eye could reach,
when the marl** deeds permitted me to
see, was a succesiien- of black, rugged
hills, tnew-crovinerai** OW ,
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BY FRANCIS DE HAES JANVIER
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1862.
rush through my shivering frame, and
quiver about ufy dizzy brain, and I
shouted, to break the stillness of death,
and heard my voice come dismally back
in a hundred echoes, till it seemed to be
lost in the bowels of the unproductive
earth.
Wrapping one of the blankets around
me, to protect me from the freezing cold
and cautiously using my pointed stick to
try every foot of ground before me, I now
began to move about, over blocks and
heaps, and hills of lava, and across nar
row chasms, and pitfalls, and patches of
snow and ice, my faithful guide keeping
near, and often warning me to be careful
of my steps. In this manner I at, length
ascended a ridge of considerable eleva
tion, stumbling my way to the top and
now and then displacing fragments of lava
that rolled crushing down behind me. As
yet I had seen no signs of the mouth of
the crater, which eighty years before had
vomited forth its terrific and desolating,
streams of melted black - sand : but on
reaching the summit of this ridge, I look
ed down into a sort of basin, open at the
lower side, and having some three or four
seams or chasms in its centre, into which
the melting snow and ice on its sides were
running in small streams. A peculiar and
not very agreeable odor came up with a
thin smoky vapor, and I fancied I could
hear a distant sound, something between
a gurgle and a rumble.
"I suppose this is the original crater," I
said, turning to the guide.
The fellow was as pale as death, and
every feature expressed surprise allied to
fear.
"What is the matter?" I quickly de
manded, "have you never seen this spot
before ?"
"I have seen this place before, master,'
he replied, "but never anything like this.
When I was here last there was no hollow
here, but only a level plain of snow and
MS
" Indeed !" exclaimed I, feeling strange
ly interested ; "what, then, do you infer ?
that there is about to be a fresh eruption?"
"I fear so master : what else can have
caused this change? You see there is heat
below, which has melted the thick glacier,
and only a few streaks of Ice now remain
upon parts of the sides. while the centre is
gone."
"And the ground here has a slight feel
ing of warmth, too!" I rejoined, as I bent
down and laid my hand upon it.
"Let us leave, master !" returned the
fellow hurriedly, looking around with an
expression of alarm. "I do not like to re
main here ; we may be destroyed at any
moment. Let us hasten down, and report
what we have seen."
"Nay," said I, feeling strangely inter
ested and fascinated by the perilous novelty
"I do not think there is any immediate
danger, for the snow and ice, it is plainly
to be seen, have melted slowly, and before
I go away, never to return, I should
like to venture into this basin, and look
down one of these chasms."
"0 no, master!" replied the guide, with
nervous anxiety ; "do not do it ! it might
cost you your life !"
"At least I will risk it, if you will agree
to wait for me," said I, fully determined on
the venture, even though I were to go
without his consent.
"I will wait," he answered, "but remem
ber, master, you go down against my ad.
vice."
The crater, or hollow was about fifty feet
in depth, with gently sroping sides—and
using my pointed stick with the greatest
care, I forthwith began the descent, often
stopping to try the temper of the lava with
my hand, and finding it gradually grow
warm as I proceeded, though not sufficient
ly so to excite any alarm. In a short time
I reached the bottom, and stood on the
verge of one of the seams or chasms,
which opened far, far down into the heart
of the mountain. It was about four feet
in width, zigzag in shape, and emitted
strongly the peculiar odor before mention
ed. A small trickling stream from a melt
ing layer of ice above, was running into
it ; bat I could only see that it was lost in
the deep darkness below, from which
came up a kind of hissing, boiling, surg
ing souvith something like a rumbling
shock iMtervals, and gentle puffs of heat
ed air.
The place, the scene, and withal the
sense of danger connected with it, held me
there with a sort of magnetic fascination,
and I Soon found myself strongly tempted
to make a fatal plunge in the awful abyss.
knowing by experience that reason is not
always able to govern and control the ac
tions in such cases, I forced myself back
a few feet, but still remained near the
opening, deaf to the entreaties of my
hishieneel &tide, Who now began to im
-0184. the before it should be too late. As
the dreivl volcano had not been in action
thr more ' than thirty years before his birth,
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Giving no heed, therefore, to his earnest
solicitations, I now resolved to sound, if
possible, the depth of the chasm before
me, and then proceed to inspect the others;
and for this purpose I pried off from a
larger one a small block of lava, and ad
vancing to the very edge of the chasm,
dropped it down and listened to the hollow
reverberations, as it went bounding from
side to side, long after it was lost to the
eye. The depth was so immense that I
heard it for more than a minute, and then
the sound seemed to die out from distance,
than to cease because the block had
reached its destination. It was an awful
depth, and fearfully impressed me with
terror; and as I drew back with a
shudder, a gust of hot sulphurous air
rushed and roared upward, followed by
a steam-like vapor, and a heavy hollow
sound, as if a cannon had been dis
charged far down in the bowels of the
earth.
This new manifestation of the powers
of nature fairly startled me into a desire
for flight, and I had already turned for the
purpose, when suddenly there came a sort
of rumbling crash, and the ground, shak
ing, heaving, and rolling under me, began
to crumble off into the dread abyss. I was
thrown down, and, on my hands and
knees, praying God for mercy, was scram
bling over it and upward, to save myself
from a most horrible fate, when two blocks,
rolling together, caught my feet and legs
between them, and without actually crush
ing, held them as if in a vice. Then came
another crash and crumble ; the lava slid
away from behind me; and I was left upon
the very verge of the awful gulf, now
widened to some fifteen or twenty feet,
down into which I looked with horror
strained eyes, only to see darkness and
death below, and breathe the almost suffo
cating vapors that rushed up from that
seemingly bottomless pit.
O the horrors of that awful realization
what pen or tongue can portray them ?
There, a helpless but conscious prisoner,
suspended over the mouth of a bladlc and
heated abyss, to be hurled downward by
the next great throe of trembling nature.
"Help! help! help! for the love of God,
help!" I screamed, in the very agony of a
wild despair. •
I looked up at& around to catch a
glimpse of my guide; but he was gone,
and I had nothing to rely on but the
mercy of heaven ; and I prayed to God as
I never prayed before, for a forgiveness of
my sins, that they might not follow me to
judgment. It might be a second, it might
be a minute, it might be an hour, that I
should have thus to undergo a living death,
but be the time long or short, I felt there
was no escape from a doom that even now
makes me grow pale and shudder when I
think of it. Above me was a clear blue
sky—beneath me a black and horrible
abyss—around me sickening vapors, that
made my brain grow dizzy. Rumbling
and hissing sounds warned me that anoth
er convulsion might occur at any moment,
and another would be the last of me.—
Home and friends Lehould never see
again, and my tomb would be the valcanic
Hecla! I strove with the madness of des
peration to disengage my imprisoned
limbs, but I might as well have attempted
to move a mountain. There I was fixed
and fastened for the terrible death I was *
awaiting. 0, God of mercy, what a fate!
Suddenly I heard a shout ; and looking
around, I beheld, with feelings that I can
not describe, my faithful guide, hastening
down the rugged sides of the crater to my
relief. He had fled in terror at the first
alarming demonstration, but had nobly
returned to save me, if possible, by risking
his life for mine. May God reward him as
he deserves.
"I warned you, master," he said, as he
came up panting, his eyes half starting
from his head, and his whole countenance
expressing commingled terror and pity.
"You did ! you did !" cried I, "but 0
forgive and save me !"
"You are already forgiven, master; and
I will save you if I can—save you, or per
ish with you."
Instantly he set to work, with his iron
pointed stick, to break the lava around my
limbs, but scarcely had made any progress
when again the earth trembled, and the
blocks parted one of them rolling down
into the yawning chasm with a dull, hol
low sound. I sprang forward—l seized a
hand of the guide—we both struggled
hard, and the next moment we had both
fallen, locked in each others arms, upon
the solid earth above. I was free, but
still upon the verge of the pit, and any
moment we might both be hurled to de
truction.
"Quick, master;" cried the guide; "up 1
up 1 and run for yqur life."
I staggered to my feet, with a wild cry
of hops and "fear and half supported -by
my faithiltl companion, hurried up the
sloping sides of the crater. As we reach
ed the rifts above, the ground shook with
11,1!.e4i1 ezF a : and looking
,back
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where we hod so latsliy.„*lS. •
We reached our horses in safety, and hur
rying down the mountain, gave the alarm
to the villagers, who joined us in our flight
across the country, till a safe distance was
gained.
Here I bade adieu to my faithful guide,
rewarding him as a man grateful for the
preservation of his life might be supposed
to do
A few days later, when the long extinct
Hecla was again convulsing the Island,
and sending forth its mighty tongues of
fire and streams of melted lava, I was far
away from' the. stahlissercool 'Nadal scene,
thankieg God I was alive to tell the story
of my wonderful escape from a burning
tomb.
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A TOUCHING INCIDENT.-A touch
ing event lately occurred in England,
on the banks of the Thames, near
London, which illustrates the faith
fulness and sagacity of the dog. A
young gentleman, possessed of a fine
dog, but for some unexplained cause
wishing to get rid of him, took a
punt, into which he put the animal,
rowed to the middle of the stream,
and threw the dog into it with the
intention of drowning him. The
poor animal tried several times, till
almost wearied, to climb up the per
pendicular sides of the boat, but was
as oftenpushed back, when, overbal
ancing himself, his master fell over
board; as soon as the faithful dog saw
his master in the water, he ceased his
efforts to save himself, seized him by
the clothes, and in that position
held him till asistance was rendered,
by means of which the life of the un
relenting master was saved.
Ba-General Sigel is a man of sense
as well as a good officer, as we judge
from the following extract from a
letter of an officer in Gen. Sigel's
command to his wife:
"To-day I invited Gen. Sigel to
call on us, (his camp is nearly two
miles off.) lie said he would be
pleased to do so and help instruct us
in drill. So, promptly at two p. m.,
the General came over. He put us
through the fighting programme for
over two hours. Last night we re
ceived the papers containing the
New York meeting_ in favor of Gen.
Sigel. 1 and others had almost a
shout over it, for Sigel is beloved by
all. 'We fight mit Sigel !' In con
versation, to me, he expressed great
regret that any meeting, purely Ger
man, should take action ; that he
was an American in feeling; that
they had not used him well over
there,—meaning in his fatherland,—
but here he had found sympathy and
more promotion than he had earned,
etc."
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200 Persons Buried Alive.
An accident buried two hundred per
pons in a coal pit, near Shields, England,
on the 15th inst. The correspondent of
the Manchester Guardian telegraphs on
the 17th :—I have just returned from
Hartley New Pit, where two hundred men
and lads are buried. The shaft has been
closed up through the huge beam of the
pumping engine falling down the pit yes
terday. It carried the timber and the
wood work down, and thus blocked the up
and down cast shafts. The falling timber
killed five out of eight men, who were
being drawn up in a eage at the same
time. The men and lads working below
at the time of the aecident, have been
buried forty-eight hours, notwithstanding
the greatest exertions to relieve them on
the part of the ablest men in the coal
trade. The working seam is filling with
water, and no doubt the horses, which are
worth five hundred pounds are already
drowned.
The men and lads, however, could es
cape by means of a ladder to the yard
seam, which is forty-nine fathoms higher,
and out of the reach of water. Men have
been heard trying to clear the obstruction
in the shaft from below to-night, and no
doubt is entertained that they are all out
of danger of water at least. Means have
been employed for securing good ventila
tion, and I was assured by the best au
thoities before I left, that the strongest
hopes may be entertained that the yard
seam would be reached, and the men a!:.'.
lads rescued before morning. Great cx
citement prevails, and numerous pitman%,
wives have been at the pit mouth watch
ng since last night. The three men
saved hung by the cage in the shaft eight
hours, before they were rescued.
The Colliery Aocident in England—Dread
fal Catastrophe in the Hartley Coal Mines
--Two Hundred and Fifteen Miners
Buried Alive--Finding of the Bodies.
We have already announced the
fact of a fearful accident at the mine
known as the "Hartley New Pit,"
near Newcastle, England. The ar
rival of the mails of the Nova Sco
tian places us in possession of the
details of the affair—one of the most
appalling catastrophes that the an
nals of accident record, involving the
loss of probably two hundred or
more
The accident occurred on the 16th
of January, at ten o'clock in the
morning. The Newcastle Chronicle
ELEI
By this catastrophe no less than
two hundred men were entombed
in the bowels of the earth. Of course
people flocked from miles and miles
around and instant efforts were made
to relieve the unfortunates, but the
labor of clearing away the debris
was immense, and only half a dozen
men could work in the choked up
shaft at a time.
THE SCENE ON SATURDAY
changed from that last recorded.—
What a change in the aspect of the
place a short space of forty-eight
hours has produced. Instead of the
usual routine of a coal mine in ac
tive operation and nothing is to be
seen around but groups of persons
of both sexes watching with eager
looks the monotonous and unvaried
ascent and descent of the ropes
hoisting up the broken timber and
rubbish with which the shaft is
choked, to the upper seam, by which
a considerable saving of time is
effected. On all sides, wherever the
eye is turned, groups and knots of
people are seen sheltering themselves
from the biting frosty air behind
every sheltering projection about the
buildings. Numbers of women,
many of them having passed the
dreary, cold, long night, exposed to
the inclemency of the weather, their
sense of physical pain being com
pletely neutralized by the anguish of
mind under which they labored, are
seen around. The excitement arous
ed by the first intelligence of the ca
castrophe has greatly subsided, and
it has been succeeded by a feeling of
patient, hopeful expectation. The
wives of the jeopardized men pass
from place to place, turning their
wan, tear-swollen faces from one
friend to another, in the hope of
gleaning some confirmation of their
aspirations for the safety of those
dear to them. One poor woman,
named Oliver, has a husband and six
children, besides a boy whom they
have brought up, in the pit. Her an
guish may be imagined. Others are
similarly situated, though not, per
haps, to the same extent. Numbers
of able and experienced miners are
hurrying in from all the surrounding
neighborhood, and offering their ser
vices.
Among the episodes of the catas
trophe we may mention that the
elder Sharpe, after becoming covered
with the falling rubbish, was heard
andabiyiknkying, and his supp li cations
ceased kith his fife. Watson '
one of
the men reaetmdijklued with biro in
his 17kraji auk rimed his last
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near the pit, with warm coffee and
food, in expectatien that they would
be needed when ber husband was
brought to bank. What a shock the
poor creature will receive when the
afflicting fact of his death is commu
nicated to her.
PROGRESS OF THE WORK
Atter one hundred and twenty
hours of labor the distance to the en
trenched men was reduced to eigh
teen feet, but only two men could
work on the shaft at once. For
some hours on this day (Saturday)
buried men and lads imprisoned in
the yard seam could be heard
"jowling" or working in the shaft,
but later they had no sign, and
though every effort has been made
to get a signal from them, it failed.
The accident, as we are told, took
place on Thursday, the 16th. All of
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday the work of rescue pro.
seeded, but in vain. Our room pro
vents us from giving the details of
this labor. The feeling on the sixth
day is thus described in the London
Tunes :
-10 o'clock p. m.—Notwithstand
ing that the various officials on the
coal platform endeavor to put a good
face on the natter, it is painfully
evident that the hope now remainiag
is of that character which seem
merely to gild despair. Those only
who descend the shaft and work ft*
tie removal of the knotty obstmo
ions they find can form a combat
opinfon of the task on which they
are engaged. These men have hest
from the first, if not despondent, at
least doubtful as to the accomplish:-
ment of their task, and while they
have refrained from expressing
aught that might lead to increase the
fears of those affected by the calam
ity, their silence on the subject has
boded no good. The viewers, on
the contrary, always express them
selves on hopeful terms, and invaria
bly put the most favorable comm
tion on the sternest facts that are
communicated to them from below,
while, if there is any intelligence of
an encouraging nature it is by no
means rendered less cheering by the
version given by these gentlemen.-- ,
Meanwhile the melancholy broods
gloomily over the row of cottages
facing toward the colliery; and tI I 1
Occupants consisting now almost
entirely of women, habitually *peek
in a fearful undertone, as though , aI
sick man lay in each house whose Mb
depended on the preservation of
death-like stillness."
AN EXPERIMENT
By this time the gas from the
shaft nearly killed several of gie
rescuers who were at work, and. bey
way of experiment a cat was lowered
down the shaft in a basket from the
upper seam twenty-four fathoms, and
was kept there half an hour. When
brought up it was stupid, and it
afterward died. Yet notwithstanding
this dangef the rescuers still kept at
work.
THE SAD DENOIIMENT
The following telegram, published
in the London papers of Thursday
the 23d, gives the sad result of the
calamity :
"Noun SHIELDS, 10 p. m.—The
sad tragedy at Hartley colliery has
been revealed to us in all its horrom
this evening.
"The cloth brattice was completed
this afternoon, and cleared the shaft
to some extent of gas. Three pit
men (volunteers) went down, pene
trated the obstruction, got into the
yard seam by the engine drift, and
found men lying dead at the furnace.
They pushed their way through. The
air was bad. Within this door they
found a large body of men sleeping
the sleep of death. They retreated,
and came to .bank with the appalling
intelligence.
"Mr. Humble, viewer of the col
liery, and Mr. Hall immediately went
down, and returned in an hour and a
half. Both had to be taken off the
sling, seriously affected by gas.—
They have been all through the
works, and found no living man, but
a hecatomb of dead bodies. The
bulk of the bodies are lying in the
gallery near the shaft. An affecting
report, which has touched all hearts,
has been made by them. Families
are lying in groups; children int 13.9
arms of their fathers; brothers with
brothers. Most of them looked plac
id, as if asleep, but higher up, near
the furnace, some tall, stout men
seem to have died hard. The corn
bins were all cleared. Some feeref
the men had a little corn it theil
pockets. A pony was lying field
among the men, but u - ntbenheid.
"Several volunteers have since
penetrated the workings andeentlrm
this statement. Nearly all of tilhett,
however; have been breagitt tio bank
seriously affected by gas.
"There was great danger of more
men losing theirliveo. 'Medical nom,
of whom there were numberasit the
colliery; held a 'council „at 8 erelock,
and by their advkte # l 6 - mOremdn
will be allowed to g o
. down until lee
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ventilation is improved
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