The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-30
LUMBERMEN's ADVENTURES.
Escape From Death-A Pair of Boot

Escape From Death-A Pair of Boots
as Monument.
The Forks 6Me) correspondence Of the
Lewiston Journal.
A tale of an experience as thrilling and
sensational as any that ever beset the
path of the pioneer woodsman comes from
one of the deeper recesses of the prime
val forest of Maine this week Men about
here who are familiar with the scene of
the incident marvel when miracles will
cease. In the language of one of the men
concerned. it 'smelled rather too natural"
The crew was at work on a hard set of
falls known among the rivermen as h.
leb Falls. This section of rough water is
three-quarters of a mile long, and in it
there are three turns and as many
pitches" The two upper drops can be
run by boats at the present season, but
the lower and longest drop is filled with
Jagged rocks that toss pillows high in air
ard make the passage of a boat next to
impossible.
The writer has many times seen jam
of more than one hundred logs go through
that lower pitch without more than a
dozen logs being in sight, and these only
when they struck the great rocks and
We're thrown in the air by the pressure.
Old Holeb has claimed many victims IN
the years that numbering has been carried
on in that section of the state. Baker
Ledge" marks the spot where two men
were drowned during the spring of 1861.
AT that time the ledge was marked by
placing an old tin baker then commonly
used by the cooks on the drive, at the
crest of the ledge near where the accident
occurred. The tin baker is still there and
gives 1t its name.
Wednesday the crew of men at work
on Holeb Fails was called upon to break
bad jam at the entrance to the lower
pitch. The jam was formed in the center
or the stream against a great bowlder,
and could not be reached from shore II
was decided that one of the boats should
be brought down from the quiet water
above the falls and used in placing the
dynamite under the logs. The men who
had charge of the boat were notified, and
at once started to run the two upper
pitches. The boat contained Michael and
Thomas Brennan, Joseph Dulac and Pc
ter Paradis, the latter well known as
Pete Paragee" all along the river The
two upper pitches were successfully taxi
en- and the boat swung into the eddy
above the jam
Inc boat was set against the head of
the jam, as boats are usually set against
jams.
Just as Mike" Brennan stepped onto
the logs and seized the bow of the boat
the Jam settled. Believing the Jam to be
ABOUT 70 go through the pitch Tom"
brennan in the stern sang out, "Shoye
on In swinging out from the lam the
oar handled by pete" Paradfs became
entangled with two logs, and the boat
dipped shipping several barrels of water.
Ihs threw the boat off its Intended
course, and before the crew could again
control II the craft was In the white foam
oil the pitch and being rapidly borne to-
Ward what had always been yipposed 10
DC certain death In such cases
CONSERVATION took possession of tbe
river drivers on the shore. vet sorne
dashed down OF the rocks toward the
1907 OF the falls, ready for the FIRST sign
OF a living thing that might be seen An
the waters OF the eddy below. Those
VINO remained az the head OF the fails
"a" their comrades being tossed about In
the swirling waters. enyelop,d IN a rnirt
or or spray that was thrown 10 Pete
faraols chung 70 an oar, the other haa
LOST MIS- the Brennan boys were elinRfnK
70 the sides Of The craft 80 Il struck me
great swell In the center q ths patcn
lhen boat ana men d4saDDesncd from
AFh'' - ii was suDpossA fersr~r. TEs