The Glenwood post., 1907-06-22
REMARKABLE
RESCUE WORK
Cannon Manufactured and Rope Shot
Across Raging TOrreRt----hdn
Goes Out on Rope to Seek
for Corpse
RISING RIVER DISLODGES THE BODY

in the effort to locate the body of R.
w. Guy, the man who was drowned
at Shoshone falls last Thursday, has
so far proved unsuccessful. Highly
ingenious means have been used to aid
in the work, and the story reads like
romance.
Last week $ Post contained the bare
facts of the case-how Guy and Max
Donner volunteered to paddle boat
to which rope was attached, across
the rapidly flowing river; how float
ing drift wood snapped the rope and
overturned the boat. throwing out the
occupants into the icy waters just
above the falls; how Donner was res
cued by Superintendent Klaner in the
nick of time; how Guy was swept
the body had found lodgment on a
small island three quarters of mile
below the falls.
In the course of the work being
done by the Central Colorado Power
company, it was found necessary to
construct dam across the Grand river
just above the falls. The walls of the
canon rise perpendicularly at this
point and the river flows with terrific
force. A cable had to be carried
across the liver and ths only way to do
it was by the method attempted.
Guy and Donner were willing volun-
teers to the task and set out in the
boat.
After the accident mentioned above,
Donner clung to the boat, Guy at
tempting to swim ashore The latter
was carried over the rapids, while
the current carried the boat and Don
ner within short distance of the
shore, where Donner lost his hold and
was swept under He was rescued in
an heroic manner by Superintendent
Klaner who leaped into the torrent
and pulled Donner out.
Sixty men were Immediately dis
patched by the company to find Guy g
body. Thirty followed the banks on
each side and the corpse was soon To-
Gated in small clump of trees grow
ing on a small island formed by the
river and about three fourths of a
mile from the accident.
How to reach the body was now the
question. The current on each side
of the island was so rapid that the
strongest swimmer could not live
through it and it was out of the ques-
tion to row a boat to the body At
tempts we're made to drift raft to
the island from above, but the water
just above the land caught the wooden
structure with such force as to over
turn the raft and snap the rope at
tached to it. Had this effort been
successful men would have been
placed on the raft ana allowed to
drift down to the island.
This means failing, the suggestion
was made to shoot a small rope across
by means of cannon and then tie a
larger one to that and pull it across
by means Of the smaller one. But
where to get cannon was the ques-
| tlOu. out VI tHt III tut
machine shops volunteered to manu-,
facture one, and did so 1t was
charged and fired, being blown irto
pieces by the explosion. Another one
was made and bound. round with steel
wire to give it additional strength
This one worked successfully and the
rope was shot across the river; feat.
ing logs struck it, however, before it
the level of the water, and snapped it
in two. The two succeeding attempts
failed from the same cause but the
J fourth one was attended by better
luck. The half inch rope was secure.
ly tied to a post and two inch cable
and smaller rope fastened to it and
pulled across. An upright wheel was
suspended from the cable and one of
the men, J. T. Peterson, volunteered
to go out to the island. Ropes were
tied to him by the parties on shore
and he was suspended from the cable
J and rolled out to the island by means
of the wheel.
A thorough search disclosed the fact
that the body had been dislodged and
carried away by the rising river and
J is now probably miles down the
Grand The river is very muddy and
high and the remains may not come
to the surface for some days. Peter
son, when complimented on his cour-
age. merely smiled and said; "There