A REMARKABLE ESCAPE.

A REMARKABLE ESCAPE.

A few days since John Hurley, James Dowley and John Brady were prisoners in a caisson of Pier 4 of the new bridge being constructed between Council Bluffs and Omaha, Neb., from seven o’clock in the morning until half-past six at night. The work is done in two-hour shifts, it being considered an impossibility for a human being to sustain life for a longer period than that in the cylinders in which they work, eighty feet below the water-line of the Missouri. The three men went down at seven in the morning. At nine they did not appear, but signaled that they were unable to come out. One of the doors of the air-lock, through which the men pass from the outer air, into the forty pounds of pressure in which they work, had become clogged with concrete, and, when they attempted to return, the door could not be opened. An extra door had to be built to cover the shaft, and at half-past six o’clock the men were taken out alive. Two of them were apparently no worse for their long siege, but the third was completely paralyzed from head to foot.

A few days since John Hurley, James Dowley and John Brady were prisoners in a caisson of Pier 4 of the new bridge being constructed between Council Bluffs and Omaha, Neb., from seven o’clock in the morning until half-past six at night. The work is done in two-hour shifts, it being considered an impossibility for a human being to sustain life for a longer period than that in the cylinders in which they work, eighty feet below the water-line of the Missouri. The three men went down at seven in the morning. At nine they did not appear, but signaled that they were unable to come out. One of the doors of the air-lock, through which the men pass from the outer air, into the forty pounds of pressure in which they work, had become clogged with concrete, and, when they attempted to return, the door could not be opened. An extra door had to be built to cover the shaft, and at half-past six o’clock the men were taken out alive. Two of them were apparently no worse for their long siege, but the third was completely paralyzed from head to foot.