Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-07-19
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY NILES
IN TWO HOURs--OVER FALLS
AND ALONG THE BORDER.

PROM the Central city Co.'s Coach.
Clear Creek is miniature river that
runs through the canyon of the same
name. 1t descends upon % down grade
Of 100 feet per mile, with here and there
a fall over a rock precipice fifteen or
twenty feet in height. Large boulders,.
forty and fifty feet in diameter, and
weighing thousands OF tons, impede its
dashinS progress every two or three hun
dred yards, while its curves ale SO sharp
and SO frequent that the stream can no.
where be seen for distance OF a thou
sand feet. Granite cliffs two and three
miles high project over it on either side,
and give u frightful, romantic and dang
srous appearance 10 the rushing torrent
beneath.
Just below Black Hawk. On the side OF
NE stream a small reservoir had been
,opstruoted, in which is kept an ordinary
,kif. Last Sunday two little sons of
Martin + Walker, aged respectively ten
and twelve years, got into the boat and
we're splashing the water with stick,
when the fastening gave way and the
boat went drifting toward the rapidly
running current. The little boys soon
discovered their danger, but were power
less to avert 1t, they clutched hold of the
sides OF the boat, and, with palled count
enances, awaited their doom. Soon the
boat was caught by the current, and be-
gan descending AT fearful rate. On she
went. the boys hats blew off, and their
hair stood straight up; over Black Hawk
rapids they went like an arrow, clearing
distance of sixty feet at a single dash.
Lighting again on the torrent surface the
boat seemed to have gained a new i'm
petus, and shot by the borders and
around the rocky points with the celerity
Of "a sunbeam. At distance of about
sixty miles below the starting point
conductor Gibbons. was standing on
the rear platform of the down c. c..
train, saw the boat coming and immedi-
ately stopped the train. All hands re-
paired to the waters edge, and did
everything in their power to assist
the flying boat, but past them she went
like bullet from rifle, and WAS out Of
sight in moment. The conductor then
ordered the engineer to put on a full
head of steam and follow as rapidly as
possible, which he did. constantly sound
ING the alarm of danger. He did not get
another glimpse of the boat, but the
alarm brought the employees at Beaver
Creek Station to the look out, and quick.
ly making slip moose sought to throw
it over the bow of the boat as she came
under the bridge. This they succeeded
in DOING but could no more hold it than
they conld have held thunder bolt and
over Beaver Falls she went with the speed
of the lightning. The falls are abou,
thirty feet high, and at the foot are 9
number of large powders, but the veloc.
ity of the boat was so great that it cleared
them easily and struck the water some
twenty feet beyond From here no NOR
tai eye saw the boat or its living freigh
until it reached point 100 miles below
Denver. Through Gold into the Plat,
river, and under the Denver bridges sh,
went, unnoticed, nor slackened her pac'
until she lodged in drift at distanc,
below Denver above mentioned. Tn,
Platte does not run very rapidly, but thu
boat had acquired such wonderful
speed in its descent from the mountains
that it far outrode the current. A Mr.
Walsh, who lives on farm near the drif
where the boat lodged, discovered tn
bows still in the boat, which was nearl
luil OF water, anu tooh theh " III
home. They were restored to their over
joyed parents the following evening
after having accomplished the most pei
ilous journey, in the quickest time eve
before made by any human being VIII
escaped alive. The distance trayelle
was lao miles in two hours. but how
was ever done, or how the boat escape
being dashed upon some of the hug
powders or rocky cliffs which everywheI
intercept the course of Clear Creek,
nothing short of proyidential miracle
Probably not again in a thousand veal
could the journey be made with the be-
appliances, and by the most skillful mar
ners.