The boy and his com panions weie all steadily it woik, uimppiehenMve of immediate dangei, when, between S and 9 o'clock, Get tings, heating the noise occasioned by the elestcue tioi) of the ilndi, the f.(l)n>s >n of one mile pf the workings, ami tde lushing of thr natei, gave the alarm, and himself and Pitt, with Job Jones, made then- way to a highei level In this terror Edw.ird Jones lan i towards the sh ift by which he had descended, and thus to an mstaut death, for the watet was pouring in be tween the spot upon which lie had been engaged and the bottom of the shiift 'Die thiee others leinamed at the highest ptut of the woi kings until the watei had risen so high as to touch the breast of the lad, whose waist, that he might maintain his footing, was fiimly grasped by Getting An it was clear that the watoi \\m rapidly using, and would aoon submerge tlieni if they could not "im a. lnghei spot, the youth, after they had lewimed together spending the time puncipnlly in implication for the Divine pardon foi then tians pr«ss\ons, suggested that possibly he nuglit he able to vhmb th» .ihm*t jM-ecipitovKt sn\e ot rvroc^y eminence in llie workings, »pon the summit of which, if they conhl gam it, they would \\\ be sife By .i despeiite spring the boy succeeded in clutching a crag of the lock above him, iild by a coutinuei and, is he ima gm«s, a supuniitniil effoit, gained the desired spot Pitt and Gc'tin;^ essajecl to follow their youthful leadet, but, l>»»ig lesi agile and of gieater weight, failed m eveiy attempt. This despeiate Btiuggle fnr lile lasted about an hour; when, in the daikness, the boy heard the lust splash and the last plunge The pool lad now realised tli.it he alone leinamed alive in Oit terrible portion we hivt descnbei), and Unit the corpsti of tluee men and the carcase of a horse, which alive had shared their toils and dan geis, were his companions. Thus entombed among the dead, anU Anticipating a yet moie hoinble fate Uiau that winch had teiumi itcd x\w existence of )>n f»)]uw np)l. 