Cañon City record., 1906-03-15
"And DeIaroo-" repeated the operator.
"He wants to know about Delaroo--

"And Delaroo. repeated the operator
'He wants to know about Delaroo--
Missing"
At dawn hot coffee was passed
among the wreckerS. and shortly after
sunrise the Mct'loud gang arrived with
the second derrick Then the men of
the night took hold with new grip to
get into the heart Of the pile: TO find--if
he was thrre-Delaroo
None of the Mct,lorId gang knew the
man they were hunting for but the
men from the Bend were soon telling
them about MAZE Sampson's Indian,
Not u mute nod he ever gave. not
piece of tobacco he ever passed. not a
brief word he ever spoke to one of
the battered old hulks who rode and
cut and slashed and stormed and drank
and cursed with Benedict Morgan.
was forgotten then. Every slowed,
twisted. weather beaten, crippled up.
gin shiyered old wreck of n wrecker-
they were hard mcn-had something to
say about Delaroo. And with their
hair matted and their faces streaked
and their shirts daubed and their ell
bows in blood. they said it-whatever
il was. much or little-of Delaroo.
The picks swung the derricks creak-
ed, and all day with the heaying and
the calling they toiled. but the sun
was sinking before they got to the
middle of il. Then Benedict Morgan.
crawling under the drivers of the hind
mogul. partly uncovered, edged ont
with n set face: he swore he heard
breathing. 1t was alcohol to the veins
of the double gang. Neighbor himself
went in and heard-and stayed to
fastcn grapplc 10 pun the engine
truck of the roof of box ear that
was jammed over and against the
mogul stack
The big derrick groaned as the slack
drew. and the truck crashed through
tier of stays and swung whirling into
the clear \ giant wrecker lodged the
suspended wheels and raising his ak
bit hole into the jammed roof.
Through that they passed Il second
grapple and presently il gave sullenly.
iopplcd back with a crash and the
foremost ;Ninan peering into the
opening s;lw the heart of the wreck.
Bending forward. he picked up some
thing struggling in his arms. They
thought il was Il man. but il was 4
sheep. alive and uninjurel, under all
the horror; that was the breathing they
heard. Benedict Morgan threw the
man and his burden aside and stepped
himself into The gap and through One
started 10 follow. but the chief of the
wreckers waved him back. Close by
where the sheep had been freed stood
pelaroo. He stood as il with ear alert.
so closely did the counterfeit seem the
real So sure was the impression OF
life that not until Morgan. speaking 10
the fireman. put his hand on his. shoul-
der did he realize that the Indian stood
quite dead just where the shock irld
caught him in his cab.
Stumbling over the wreckuce they
passed him in the silence of the sunset
from hand To -hand into the open. y
big fellow. psIlid and scared. tottcrcl
after them. and when they laid THE.
dead man down half fell nj his side.
II was Maize sampson.
II surprised everybody the way Mai,
Sampson Went TO pieces after Delaroo
was killed The Indian was carried
back TO the Bend and up TO Simpsons
and laid out III the God forsakcn par
lor. but Maize wasn't any good fixing
things up that time. H.. usually >hon.
on like occasions. He was the com
fortcr OF the afflicted To an eNtraorli-
nary degree. He gave the usual mourn
cr no chance To let up. But now his
day WAS as one that is ,larkcncd. When
Neighbor Went up next night 10 see
about some minor matters connected
with the funeral and the precedence of
the various dozen orders that We're to