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...lights blinked out in the Centralia Coal Company's Mine No. 5, near Centralia, Ill. Wiry, redheaded Earl Wilkinson had just coasted his squat, electric locomotive out of a tunnel, banged to a stop in a low cavern near the mine's elevator shaft. He stiffened, listened intently. He heard no sound. But a wind came out of the subterranean darkness and enveloped him in clouds of coal dust and coppery-smelling smoke. "God," he said aloud, "it's a bad windy* or an explosion...
...toward the shaft, finally saw hat lamps glowing in the choking gloom, heard men's voices. Slowly, fumblingly, the men divided up, began feeling their way back down the tunnel. When they reached the entrance to a drift called Main West they knew what had happened. Somewhere, far down Main West's four-mile bore, gas or coal dust had exploded, like powder going off in a gun barrel. And almost all of the mine's 142-man day shift was inside. Retching and staggering, some of the explorers tried to get in. One of them dropped...
...search ended after four days, three and a half miles in Main West. Fourteen men, the last of No. 5's day shift, lay face down on the tunnel floor.They had not been killed outright. But, being miners, they had known that help would never reach them in time and each had left a note...
Unlike the other brash new Houses, Adams is an aggregation of two old and gaudy student apartment dwellings and one new structure that shelters the library and dining hall, all inter-connected by an elaborate tunnel system. The swimming pool, and adjacent sun deck, are hold-overs from the days when the West-merly and Randolph wings were part of the fabulous Gold Coast...
...solution. Children, he demands, must be taught that they are animals, not souls. They must be suckled not on clerical and patriotic values, but on Darwinism, anthropology, ethnology, Freudianism (one of Author Wylie's wilder notions is that some children should be placed on an island, "reached by tunnel from the mainland," where feeding-bottles and other nourishment will hang from bushes-giving peeking scientists a chance to study inborn faculties at their most virginal). Only when the resulting adult is thus "aware" and "conscious in the instinctual sense" will he experience true "illumination," "inward experience...