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9. Saved from drowning at New Haven while bathing by Richard Sewcll. Sank 

 twice. 



10. Steamer disabled by broken piston on Pacific coast. Half a revolution more 

 would have driven the piston through the bottom. On lone island ten days. 



11. Lightning struck Coliseum at Minneapolis, Minn., during Theodore Thomas' 

 concert while wife was in it. 



1(2. Lightning struck and wrecked home in Kingston, Canada, while 1 was in it. 

 13, 14. Three times lightnirrg struck within a few feet of us both. 



15. Narrow escape at Newbern, N. C. 



16. Rusty nail in knee cap had to be pulled out by blacksmith's forceps. Three 

 months on crutches. Narrow escape from lockjaw. 



17. Cannon burst and injured left hand, cutting cords. 



18. Three-horse team swamped while crossing Sauk River, Minnesota, during flood. 

 Everything lost. 



19. Schooner driven through a shoal of rocky (Magdalen) islands in Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, during tremendous gale, without striking. 



20. 21, 22. Artery of left wrist cut. Pitch fork tine in left instep. Wire file in 



palm of left hand. All serious and endangering life from lockjaw. 



23. Jaw broken and eight teeth knocked out by blow from a ruffian at Coney 

 Island, N. Y. 



24. Ran blockade from Wilmington, N. C., under fire, without injury, in 1868. 



25. Ran picket lines of both armies from Maryland to Virginia across Potomac and 

 Rappahannock, in February, 1863. 



26. Fell on back in Mill Stream while trout fishing. Laid up one month. 



27. Fell on depot floor, Northampton, July 18, 1902. Sore for a month afterwards. 



28. Put out head on Brooklyn elevated station platform to see if train was coming 

 on the instant that express train dashed by. A fraction of a second sooner 

 would have my brains scattered over the platform. 



MEM. God's mercy has been great ! Must have spared me for some good 

 reason. Perhaps for some good purpose ? 



(Signed) CHARLES HALLOCK, August 1, 1909. 



SUMMARY. 



Copyrighted books 17 



Magazine articles 45 



Monographs 110 



Occupations and experiments outside of newspaper work 67 



Correspondent and editor newspapers 15 



Hairbreadth escapes , 28 



