The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-02-01

~ Wallace in volley.
Its Dyerw gasped the young man.
Il found him on the boom! He held
me up with a gun while he filed the
boom chains between the center piers.
They're just ready to go. got away
by diving. Hurry and put in a new
chain. You haven't got much timer
Hes a goner now" interjected Sol
iy grimly. Charley is on his trail
and he is hit"
Thorpe's intelligence leaped promptly
to the practical question.
"Injun Charley = where'd he come
from? I sent him up to Sadler &
Smiths. It's twenty miles. even
through the woods"
AS though by way of colossal answer
the whole surface of the jam moved
inward and upward, thrusting the logs
bristling against the horizon.
"She's going to break!' shouted
Thorpe, starting on run toward the
river "a chain, quick"
The men followed, strung high with
excitement Hamilton, the journalist,
paused long enough to glance up
stream. Then he, too, ran after them,
screaming that the river above was full
of logs. By that they all knew that
Injun Charley's mission had failed and
that something under 100000 feet Of
logs were racing down the river like so
many battering rams.
At the boom the great jam was al
| ready a-tremble with eagerness to
spring Indeed a miracle alone seemed
to hold the timbers in their place.
Its death, certain death, to go out
on that BOOM" muttered Billy Mason
Tim Shearer stepped forward coolly,
ready as always to assume the perilous
| duty. He was thrust back by Thorpe,
| who seized the chain, cold-shut and
| hammer which Scotty Parsons brought
and ran lightly out over the booms,
shouting:
Back! Back! Don't follow me, on
| your lives! Keep 'em back Tint!
The swift water boiled from under
the booms. Bang! smash! bang! crash
ed the logs mile up stream, but plain
i ~ audible above the waters and the
wind. Thorpe knelt, dropped the cold
shut through on either side Of the
weakened Ii < and prepared to close it
with his hammer. He intended further
to strengthen the connection with the
other chain.
"Lemme hold her for you. You can't
close her alone said an unexpected
voice next his elbow.
| ThorY,o lo0Iyod NY, iv1 c1vyy1Y.ico and q n.
ger Over him leaned Big Junko. The
men had bnen unable to prevent his
following. Animated by the blind de-
votion of the animal for its master and
/ further stung to action by that mas
ter's doubt of his fidelity, the giant had
followed to list as he might.
"You fool cried Thorpe, exasperat.
ed. then held the hammer to him
"Strike viii keep the chain under
neath!" he commanded.
Big Junko leaned forward to obey
kicking strongly his calks into the
barked surface Of the boom log. The
spikes, worn blunt by the river work
already accomplished. failed to grip
Big Junko slipped, caught himself by
an effort, overbalanced in the other di
rection, and fell into the stream. The
current at once swept him away, but
fortunately in such direction that hi
was enabled to catch the slanting enc
Of dead head" log whose lower enc
was jammed in the crib. The dead
head was slippery. the current strong
Big Junko had no crevice by which Il
assure his hold. In another moment b,
would be torn away.
"Let 20 and swimw shouted Thorpe.