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HAUNTED MINE; Ghostly Forms Scare Workers and ;Gives Mysterious Signals.Weird stories of ghostlike figures seen | at the entrance of the mine shafts and tales of groans and moaning sounds be-. ing heard from the bottom of the shafts I are related by mining men who have i just returned from tlie property of the ‘ Big Kanawha Mining company at Creede.I These tales, which rival those oi “Dab-! betts,” of whom Frank Daniels sang,! are said to vhave become so impressed• upon many of the men employed in the | Big Kanawha company's mines that they• have quit work and sought places in ' other mines, where the unnatural sights j and sounds are unknown.The first man to relate a ghostlike I tale of his experiences while working at the mine was Neil McQueg, an engineer. It was about five months ago that while stranding at the end of the tram he saw a man not more than twenty feet away. Thinking it was one of the miners employed at the place, he spoke to him. Tie received no reply, and again he addressed him. Again he received no reply, and this time McQueg determined to find out who the man was. ITe approached to where the figure had been, and as he neared the spot the man disappeared. No trace of the man could he, found. MeQueg swears that he saw a man. but 1 he moment that ho approached to where the figure had been it vanished as if by magic. Not even the slightest trace of a man could he founds and none of the men working around the mine at flie time say anything o/ a stranger, nor were any of them near the place where MeQueg had seen the figure at about the time that the engineer saw the sranger.Shortly after this three distinct sig nals given to hoist the men from Die station were heard in the bottom of a shaft where Henry S. Jones and some others were working. At the time the signals wore given no one was nearer t ho place than fifteen feet, and the search made to discover the person who gave the signals has been unavailing.Three days after this strange occurrence on June 20. 1002. Henry Jones was killed by falling out of the bottom of the skip a. distance of several hundred feet d'own the same shaft from which the mysterious signals to hoist the men had been given.These three occurrences made a great impression upon many of the men and particularly the more superstitious of them.
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Terre Haute Daily Tribune
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Wed, Feb 11, 1903
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