The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-28
THE SALT LAKE HERALD SUNDAY. DECEMBER Is. 1902

''The dams gone out" replied
Thorpe. II don't understand it. Every
thing was in good shape, as far as I
could see. 1t didn't act like an crdi-
nary break. The water came too fast.
Why. it was as dry as a bone until
just as that wave came along Al o.
binary break would have eaten through
little by little before it burst, and Da-
Wis should have been able to stop Il
This came all at once, as if the dam
had disappeared I don't see
His mind of the professional aad Al
ready begun to query causes
How about the mer ?" asked Wal
lace Isn't there sonething I can
do7''
river" answered Thorpe Il think 1t
is useless until the water goes down
Poor Jimmy. He was one of the b-st
men I had. wouldn't have had this
happen-'
The horror of the scene was at last
beginning to filter through nuntbness
into Wallace Carpenters impression
able Imagination.
mo. not" he cried, vehemently.
There is something criminal about it
to mel I'd rather lose every log IN the
riverl"
Thorpe looked at him curiousIy. "It
is one of the chances Of war" sad he
IN better divide the crew and take
in both banks of the river" suggested
Wallace
-71See if YOU can't get volunteers from
this crowd suggested Thorpe. c1A
let you have two men TO Snow you
trails. 1 need as many "t the crew as
possibIe to use this flood water
s.Ob Harry" cried Carpenter,
shocked. You can't be going to work
again today, before we have made the
slightest effort to recover the Dodles.
IF the bodies can be recovered, they
shah be- replied Thorpe, quietly But
the drive will not wait. We nave no
dams to depend on now. you must re-
member. and we shall have TO get OUT
on the freshet water"
Your men won't work I'd refuse
lust as they wilt" cried Carpenter, his
sensibilities still suffering.
Thorpe smiled proudly. You do not
know Them
by Jove.' cried the journalist in
sudden enthusiasm. by Jove! that is
magnificent"
The men on the river crew had
crouched on their narrow footholds
while the jam went out Each had
chung TO his peavey, as is the habit of
rivermen. Down the current past their
feet swept the debris of flood. Soon
logs began TO swirl by-at first few,
ways which the river had autonatica1-
" broken In a little time the eddy
caught up some of these logs, and i'm
mediately another jam threatened. The
rivermen, without hesitation, as calmly
as though catastrophe had not thrown
the weight of its moral terror against
their stoieism. sprang, peavey in hand,
to the insiStent work.
Thorpe's face lit with qualification.
He turned to the young man.
You see.'' he said in proud sim
plicity.
with the added danger of freshet
water the work went on.
At this moment Tim Shearer ap-
preached frem inland, his clothes drip
ping wet, but his face retaining its ha-
bitual expression of iron calmness.
Anybody caught % was his first ques-
tion. as he drew near.
Five men under the face. replied
Thorpe briefly
Shearer cast a glance at the river.
He needed to be told no more.
II was afraid of it, said he. 1.-THE
rollways must be all broken out. It's
saved us that much, but the freshet
water won't last long It's going TO be
a close squeak to get 'em out now.
Don't exactly figure on what struck
the DAM Thought first I'd go right up
that way. but then 1 came down to see
dOOUI the DOyS-
Where We're your" asked Thorpe.
''On the pole trail. 1 got in, little
as you see"
In reality the foreman had had
close call for his life.
Wed better go up and take look, :"
he suggested "Fh' boys has things
going here all right"
The two men turned toward the
brush
Hi, Tim." called voice behind
them.
Red Jacket appeared clambering up
the cliff
Jack told me to give this to you"
he painted, holding out a chunk of
strangely twisted wood.
''Whered he get this?" inquired
Thorpe quickly IT'S a piece of the
DAM, he explained to Wallace, who
had drawn near.
Picked it out of the current" re-
piled the man.
The foreman and his boss bent
eagerly over the morsel. Then they
stared with solemnity into each others
eyes.
Dynamite, by Cod" exclaimed
Shearer.