The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-21
THE BOSS STRONG MAN.
A North American Lie Regarding the
Strength of a South American.

Strength of a South American.
Cincinnati Correspondence Annison tAla.) Hot-Blast
had the good fortune to meet gentleman
who has made the grandest and most important
discovery of any age. On the north bound train
to Cincinnati was Mr.. Charles Williams,
who, when young man, before the
war, left Norlistown, Pa, after serving
his time in railroad machine shop,
to take charge of a locomotive on one of our
Southern roads. AT the close of the war he
went to South America to take charge of some
mining engineering on the Andes. When mel
him he was on his way back to his old home.
after an absence of thirty years. Shortly before
reaching Cincinnati, when the train was leaving
a station, the engine ran off the switch. The
rain had softened the earth, so that the driving
wheels sank in the mud and every effort to
block up got the engine deeper. After an hours
hard work the engineer concluded to wait for an
other engine to help him again
just then Williams got out to see the cause of
delay. Seeing the engine off the track Williams
went UP, telling every body to step out of the
way, put out his hands and lifted the engine as
easily as if it had been a feather In an instant
the driving wheels started off like lightning COW
ering Williams with oil thrown out from the rap
| idly revolving rods and oil cups. Everybody was
| frightened, as well as Williams, who dropped
the locomotive quickly. The sudden dropping
of the engine on the blocking the engineer had
put under it made them fly in every direction
and bent one of the rods-but fortunately no one
was hurt The engineer when trying to get the
when the. engine was lifted OFF the ground, the
steam not being turned Off the wheels revolved
| like lightning
Williams got the astonished engineer to shut
off the STEAM and then putting his hand on the
spokes of the driving wheels he lifted the engine
| on the track easily as If it had been a pound
| weight During the balance of the trip, Will
| Jams was regarded by the engineer and train
] hands as a man from Hades instead of South
| America.
| stopped with Williams, at the St Nicholas
and this afternoon went to the levee to see the
| reeeding floods. A large coal barge had been
| fitted up with heavy, strong tinbers along the
entire length, to support q wrought-iron girdei-
| for a railroad drawbridge tthis section was on
| its way from Pittsburg to some of our Southwest
ern rivers, and weighed probably two hundred
| tons). The barge, owing to the neglect OF
! the Waterman, had grounded as the water fell
and was stuck so fast that two steamboats, tug
ging at it could not pull it off 1t had eareened
| so much that the heavy girders were about to
| slip off in the river. Williams boarded the barge
| put his hand under the timber and lifted it up
| with no more effort than lifting chair. The
| barge, relieved of its load, righted and foated
| off When Williams lowered the timber on
deck it sank the barge at least two feet in the
water. By this time the waters edge was
| lined with spectators. When Williams lifted
the immense girder with one hand and held it at
arms length, the barge relieved of it's weight,
! bounded up like cork, almost causing him te
lose his balance, when he put the two-hundFed
tOu siruef Truss uo"h on tne dSclNs anu dlAl0
the cheers of the spectators. came ashore when
with difficulty he made his way back to the ho-
tel amid the pressing crowd.
Tonight he has been waited on by commit
tee of the leading men of CineinnSi--exMayol
William Means, Mr., Taylor, Mr.. Schillito, Mr.
Slnton and others-to learn something of his re
markable power He told them he had, when in
| the Andes made discovery that enabled him to
| overcome the laws of gravitation, ami lie or any
one adopting the same means could move or Lift.
any weight no matter how great The COM
mttee were astonished at the evidence he.
furnished of the fact That he has made this
discovery there is no doubt. and its effect on en-
cheering and science is beyond all calculation
and makes everything possible
| Williams leaves in the morning for Washing
| ton. thence home He was literally besieged last
night by persons wanting him to lift them out OF
| their troubles.
| Mr.. Sinton said he would be one Of ten thai
would give Williams s. 90 900 for his diseoverery