Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — A Choice of Evils. [ARTICLE]

A Choice of Evils.

There is something to make a man thoughtul in su h an escape as the surveyor had who was climbing up the face of a pieciplce, and suddenly found himself confronted by an enraged rattlesnake. A similar fearful choice between two deaths, a sudden deliverance from the jaws of both, is related boli w: While working at his mine, near Tres Alamos, a short time ago, John Lyons, of Tombstone, Arlz ns, suddenly found himself In a nr st unexpected and unpleasant dtiiation. He hud put in a blast, lighted the fuse, and just reached the top of the shaft, when he beheld four m unte'd Apaches rapidly appr<aching him with plain Intent to slaughter him. To run was to be overtaken, aid to stay was to be blown to pieces, and neither alternative presented any attracib.n . Mr, Lyons liQMVaiQd qy instunt, and then drop] ed behind a heap of rocks at the mouth of the shaft. At that moment the blast exploded, and a volley > f stones and debris Hew into the air with a thundering report, I |Tho Indians, who had made sure of their victim, were so amazed and terrified at the miraculous interference that they wheeled and galloped away, screaming like fiends, and Mr. Lyons, who had not been struck by a single one of the rocks, which fell all around him, made quick time to Tree Alamos.