The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-14
ODE Roadma ster's Story

day. Enough" and the LIST of the month reported
Agnew. meantime had stopped all construction
work not too far along discontinue The bridge
was finished to a riyet as HALEY had planned it,
Three spans two piers and pair of abutments-solid
as the Tetons But the Peace river canyon was
caught in the air Hailey's eaissons gave way
piles, which pulled the cost down from 100000
S9VVO ana incidentally II was breathed that the day
for eXtravagant expenditures the west end
Calahan's box of crOss-cut and rammed the spIiu-
tered leaf into his brier bit harder and said
but if we lose just one more bridge it's good-by
and gone to the California fast freight business
we had winter that year till spring. and no
spring till summer; and it spring Of snow and
a summer of water Down below the plains were lost
up; II was then no longer matter OF keeping the
line clear; it matter of lashing the track TO
HALEY caught it than anybody, but he worked
ike Two men, for in pinch that was his way
Bucks leaned the rOadmaster he did
Callahan or Neighbor HALEY knew Bucks looked to
ing ready for the time the mountain SHOWS should
Now, the Spider wakes regularly twice; all
times irregularly- once in april that is the foot
hills water; once in June: that IS the mountain ateT
nothing rOse-eXcept the snow We shall set it all
.Or will it get us altogether asked HALEY.
Either way" said Callahan, 1t VIII be mostly at
May opened bIeaker than April, Even the track
the line knew now what the mountains held. last.
while looked and wondered, came very late
chinook; July in May; then the water
Section gangs were doubled and track walkers put
crews
for grief Gullies began TO race cGverts to choke,
creeks tumble, rivers to madden From the Muddy
the Summit the water courses syelled and boiled
all but the Spider: the big slept Through May
June the Spider slept; but HALEY was there
~ 5 l t NJ 0iyft and Ie Watched the law SUI
face trickIe and through the Vagabond
bed between Haileys monumental piers. East ana
The flood reached over the Rockies to the Aeghenies
Our trains never missed trip; our schedules We're
unbroken; people laughed got the business,
dead loads of it; treasury flowed over and HALEY
watched; and the Spider slept.
On the 8Oth there was trouble beyond the Wild
Hat, and all extra men, put out there under
Bucks HALEY over there because ne sent HALEY
wherever the emperor SEM b iri $50 sI,nda II
rained. Monday it rained ali through the mountains
Trackmen the bridge Tuesday night tagged No
wire from Bucks brought HALEY out of the west
the east to reckon for the last time with his
va -fnst ii "Wednesday morning with ayna-
suHen of the giant powder shook the ice jams
Two more days he spent there Iacnl9s; Gie I ne
for home and for sleep Saturday night he slept and
Sunday all day and Sunday night Monday about
noon Sucks sent up to ask but Haley asleep.
They asked back whether they should wake him
tuesday morning the tail roadmaster came down
fresh as sunshine. me ti5c 800 - 7,s1ic mes
souri, and the men at the prldge Sent IN PANE me-
sages but HALEY lit his pipe with their alarms.
That bridge viii go when the mountains 60 was
IT tl vas o'clock Tuesday night and every star
blinking when HALEY looked in at the office for the
tTrI[ walkers report and the railway weather bull
ietin Bucks Callahan and Peeto sat about Duffy,
Who in his shirt sleeves threw the stuff off the
sounder it trickled in over the wires Inc WesL
was down We to get the eastern reports around
by Omaha and the south-a good thousand miles OF
Wild Hat came first from the west with a
night Then from the east came Prairie Portage, al
the way round with northwest RAIN a rising river
and anchor pounding the piers badly; track III
me 1Ifre vent wrong and stuff that could
11rT1bIe in
and Callahan and Haley and Peeto smoked silent
and listened to the deepening drum OF the ram on
Then Duffy wrestled nightly. yet once more and
the long way word Of trouble in the Omaha
Hell to pay on the Missouri OF course" grovled
the foreman. Well she don't run our way; let her
boil K 9eR 5ti hf exclaimed Duffy leaning heavily on
the kew Here's ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Spider
Only hum of the rain and the nervous break
of the sOunder cut the that cured from their
pipes Duffy snatched pen and ran it across
Clip and Bucks, leaning over read aloud from his
z"o @0maha-J F Bucks: Trainmsn from No IS
cut: report Spider bridge out; send
aiiaban,s hand closed rgidIy over his pipe; Peeo
sat speechess Bucks read again at the broken mes
sn9tched the clip from his superintendent hand
He stared at the running words until they burned
thunder that broke down the mountains, he dashed
the clip to the floor His eyes snapped gIeeSn WIN
everything that out Of it Out II caIne-aI me
rage-au heartburning-all the bitterness ne
dronped bent into chair covered his face with
his hands They watched him slowly Knot his hands
they watched him slowly knot his fingers and loosen
them and saw his rise dry and hard and old out
/ of his hands
I Get engines.
..1ot-you're not going down there tonisht?' STAN
merge Yes i'D Now Right off Peeto Get out your
/ crew. .
! In twenty minutes twenty were running
twenty ways through the Storm and 1--we engine
| nooued under the WicziuD windows
| ssI9fi 7 want YOU to be careful It was Bucks
| standing bv the rOadmaster's side at the window
! .Tts a bad night" HALEY made no answer A
wicked night rnuttered Bucks the lightning shot
the wards in a blaze. and crash rolled down the
! gorge But wicked it was. he could not bring
himself to counternand something forbade Il Evans
| the conductor of the special, ran in
| Here's your orderSl" exclaimed Dufy- Evans
o55a5 as he took the tissue. HALEY buttOned his
leather Jacket and turned to Bucks.
'C5oOd-b by
Mind your track" said Bucks, warningly to
Evans as he took Haileys hand. What's your per
nit?'
! Forty miles hour
.sDOn.t stretch it CfoOd-by, Phil ne added speak
1 ing To HALEY. I'm see you in the morning
/ I'm the morning" repeated Haley 'Good-by-