Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-03-06
IN A LOGGING CAMP.
a THRILLING INCIDENT WHILE D2Iv.
ING THE "BOBs.n
On Mad GaIlop Down an Ircline-sho
or into the Air-How the Log
gers work and Live
Awful Days.


Chicago Tribune
For young man | have done some
pretty ugh scrappjng in the Rockies and
mining regions of lew Mexico and Ari.
iona, but few DAYS ago | had the worst
care of my life in the lumuur districts of
northern Michigan. " The s. eaker was a
young man If some ., years. urcs .cd in
rough and ready style and wearing IA friL
Fly tow beard. He shifted the position of
Of his broad shoulders rs he lou: god back
in an easy chair in the sherman house
Office, pulled his cigar vigorous,y, and
then continued:
1T was one Of those bitter cold DAYS
we've Just been having, and had got up
1t 3 clock to rouse thc men and yet The
sprinkler out The air seemed fun Of blue
steel and cut 10 nay marrow like a
razor. One Of the tCamstcrs got scared
out and played Oh sich. 50 ! had to AXE
his place " i.tn We had got good, big
load | took the lcins aud sat duwu on the
butts of the logs, leaving the Two loggcrs
on behind. / course about twenty feet
of The load hurg OF the last bob The
road was sheet OF ice for the sprinkler
ran over it every morning. and the
horses were sharp ,nod, So wc Slid along
smoothly til We got to the s.ic--a pretty
steep incline ending in turn which was
mighty sharp for a road SIXTY feet wide
As soon as we started down my hair be.
gan to stand on end for the horses gal
| Topped like fury to keep ahead of the
hobs which were Slowing al over the
road.
81 got so paralyIed and nervous that
when we appro ached the turn | rcined in
too suddenly. | felt the trout nobs Jump
one way and the back bubs the other.
| The hind ends Of the logs whistied
through the air like willow switches, ard
| | heard The lOggcrs yell =. or God $
sake. - The next thing was a
loud snap, snap, snap.-lihe three ire
mCudous paper. crackers as the BIG log
chains broke like 50 many Gotten threads
! Did you ever use IL switch sling? Whirl
| ii round ami round your head, you know.
| till a sudden twist sends tic app.c OIL the
end and spinning into the air? Nc.l, that
is the way | tct and that j. Ust what |
thought of as | was Shot oil into the air,
over, and over, and over, till struck in a
! snowdrift some 100 or more feet
from the r,al When had struggled
back through the snow / found the nurses
trying to kick loose from the few bits of
harness that dtuglcd about them, the
bobs tangled a out the trunk Of IA small
pine tree. AID the LOGS scattered to the
! four winds enc logger CruW ed back to
! the road yith a ;r.cturnl l.,r and tho
nthrr so,n fo,IowaJ w,th - 7di,Iorotnd
shnmldnr onn hnd ,,rnrL q Ir.o and tbn
second h,d Iandrd a,,,;msi - - mn Thav
,ftcrworGs ,"id mo in romn ti'at no,
thinrs xarn not at aII unn.inI and as !
h,d some ,,rnttv hnav,, hrris.. fn,'eaiG |
concuJld ihot 7 wa. mot mndn 49, hose n
| lumber camp. 20 was driven to town
next day to telegraph the management
n''rn and ,i,a, ""s ON ,,'. ,,..,,, 10 ~
r.'',n. and ,,n,, o., H,n,,r NY ~, ,.,od I
~ II
If Won boyc meyer ...sni - ,,,into,, in
tbn Nj, hi,un Iumbar d..,r.crs Won, dnn't
ln,y ,ynat troniIn j.. IN w.. ms, ,,,c,,
- man LnS to work from = in Ihn Mani e,
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