Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — SAVED BY A GLOVE BUTTON. [ARTICLE]

SAVED BY A GLOVE BUTTON.

Moments That Were JfuU of Peril and Seemed Dike Hours. How much may depend upon a glove fastening was Illustrated at one of the Monson slate quarries in an adventure which the person concerned would not ,care to repeat, says the Lewiston Journal. He was a derrick man, who stood on the brink of one of the great chasms from which the (date rock is hoisted. His duty was to catch held of the big book depending from the end of the boom as it swung over .the bank «md attach it to the crate to be sent bock into thle pit. Standing upon the very edge he reached out to catch the hook which dangled near Mm. It was winter and he wore thick buckskin gloves. The hook slipped from him os he leaned but, but caught into the fastening of the glove. The swing of the great boom took him off his feet in an instant and carried him out into the giddy space with his life depending on the glove’s holding fast. His whole weight was hung on that button, and there was a clear 175 feet of space between him and the floor of rock below. The moments that passed before the boom could be swung back over the bank seemed like hours to him, hut he got there at last, safe and sound.