Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-19
RIVER
M0CKS RAILROAD
At CHAMBERLAIN
"OId Muddy" and Engineer
Struggle for Supremacy---
New S 900, 900 Bridge.

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III.
'hafnberiain, : -. i'ec. line p'e
and pontoon brioee OF the Mllwaukee
ttailroau company aHf"ss 'he MISSOURI
ilver at TINS place Is lls' no" !, pom,
OF contention inc missouri
river on the II hand and some "1 the
finest engineers in the country on thv
other. The company constructed the
bridge as a temporary means or iof-'
wardlns cars loaded with material TO
the track builders on the west side or
Inc river. ana mas SlhGc o'.n uslis II
t;n, ~ Iriaa aaG ~ 49," m,lv "na of If.
kind nm the Missn,ri
wv -, 80 n"n ,c+oa tho old
,,om "", .saaia, .hat !.
Womb mn, ,,st ,,han ha r.
N,,ad,- ~, Y"S ;,.
9 b. ,,, IKE Ia I, .,ai,,nars u =
nos d. on'1r.gaa a,ia nsaa ,m thair IN
~onn;ty tn eoos 'ro - hrid,n whinh
wo,,id ,ot w ls, a. "a oarraa a W..
IL, ,;a,a - ~ away
- In "l msu ,,
f.r haa ,'' snoae. ~ lss n ,ha NY nus nus
"a. peeii euSeeSsiui' ~ .he ol,use Ias
!. 9et psen 'ola.iH ueH.ioysu ny .he
liseI' ai.noush sectiols Oh II more n "a
once nave peeh carried away. except
~ spase . l apou. aoV le... .'ie priase
- iolIieu OIL pres aI'Neh ihto .ne po'-
.oiIs oI lne river. me gap OF $50 reet
Is !litea WIN a huge pontooh BOAT
MI'Si Is saio 10 De tns longest OF lts
KIND IN use on inland water OF the
oni.ea states. me pontoon boat IS at
.acneo 10 the pridse at one end OF the
space occuIled by IL. WINE the other
eMu can pe released aho cropped down,
mus forming a dfaw winch enables
uoa.s 70 pass tnroush inc prloge. In
.llnes OF ori1.ing Ice the oraw Is OPP
eIeo 70 permit the ice 10 noat through
instead OF iodglng against the bridge,
ana mus IT.
Protective Piers. .
For the protection of the bridge
what are termed bulldog" niers We're
constructed on each side OF the river
from a point some distance above tha
bridge and running diagonnlly toward
1t, in the form of a huge funnel WITH
the draw in the bridge forming the
small mart or tho fnn,,ei ,rhasn am
consist of very heavy Milling driven .s
far into the bottom of The river as
huge riledriver can forcn tha,n RI
piles nre chained topatber VIII ,x+n.
heavy chains The niliny hoe thar hean
nclosed with heavy oaE n,antins
which. on the INNER side Of tha niars
slopes out wardly toward the norm tho
direction.> frona N.hich ira ,i,or az,
The planking is bolted toret hei. ana to-
billing With heavy iron ana steai
bolts The ;nterio, 1f tha Ia, y
heavily braced and If ,vo,,ld No i,nnas
sible to mako then, any ronea ~
they are. i"
r,v une piers on the opposite side Of the
breaks up in ' the spring M: so to 'n aef,e 1es
the floating masses that they win shoot
across the river and strike
the giant pier near the east end of the
draw, which, in its turn. is intended to
the great pressure of the ice
and 1t to swerve and pass
through the draw.
To strengthen further the smaller
piers they are connected with huge oak
from one to another along the
entire face OF the line of piers. Inn
mediately outside the line of oak tim
bers Is a boom. formed OF several logs
tightly chained together. n which.
like the oak timbers. extend along the
me protecting tlmDers n boom of
witt l heavy 'ss Chains s"' securely fastened
During the high water this yea sec
,,,ora onrriaa p,,t Re- ~ ol."Ss
n few w,esLs u%reatly intarfa,,nn I'll
: ra nc ~ ~ -"
The exne,se of p.int.ip,nr ~.
under these co,,dit;nns hns
been something enormous and If &c he.
lieved the railroad companv will eoo,,
the con tr,,rtinn ~ n nom
81, o0o 600 steel hridga " ~"
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NEGRO SLAYER OF
TWO Is REI EAeec
p.n;d c,,y G n Dec ,1-ua Wi
100 r. na.yn 81. va, ~ 10 IL 80 80.
-. VOC h,etbers 10 aeain - frna n" -
The state VAS ,,nable tn con,ict VII a
~ the murder IF .Iobn Graves ama
he was acquitted. He was ia have heen
tried on a charge Of m,,rderinp thu
othsr = her h,,t as the evidenne VOC
materially the same. IT was tho,eht
useless 50 he was released on y
straw" bond siened nv his wife and
He has been told that it will he safe
him only in the event Of an early