The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-07

aud sleep in it. Lots OF times dive wit hoMt auog
sometimes seycnly.fvc to hundred lines da suit
/ We STAYED down long enough TO hook ontn ~a,.
foot stone. if you III believe that tr|
But. anyway. here was the point, once 40,
men down they had TO save the cylinder 10 saw, 81.
Il was dip. dip. Dip, for they were an u -,
than death trap. IRON walls about them a 'lc m ~
roof over them churnins water and solid A. saha
meath them. Literally their lives hung in nSoE SoE b
"A balance of water logged top-hcsvy cyl;rdal
some big wavc Just powerful enough to slap il az
From sunset till sunrise they dipped thrm,SIy ~ we
tho black furious night and with daylight and s1oE
porary abatement OF the storm, little comn.,r ea
humans. fighting like rats in hole, had inaljy as h
the might Of the sea. "aa
- Do your men always stick by vou?" ask,
''They do, - said FIahcrty, gTimly,
s Sa" Of 99I%S a Se% went So on S TSy mas E,v
In my business can use only .ccrtn;n' 'lIhs M
Irish. Norwcgians aud lTsh.Amcricans arc arc" gs. Ii.
thar kind, will leave it like rats 'A sI
.'l}ut even the best Of them will fail you ?, a.
Then said Flahcrty. aud nc cIcuchcd his band e;
SWING if to and fro. you can only open their M -a
with gas pipe. gas pipe is better than nisY Ya
he explained seriously. You can hit two ile't me-"
once It's fnc I'm a crowd "Vu
All Of which sounds excessively brutal bn.
must remember that Flaherty is contractor ana y
from a scntimentaIist aud that his work il & naIm ~
amid scenes Of storm and great stress where ,h ,hs'a
no time to argue with coward. let alone for tho 81
ing Of brave men. sN'
Baltimore" he continued. lone OF my barn % =,
best one, was rammed and sinking. The pump. srs %
ae,1t'
fault of Norwegian foreman, good man. &, T. h.
yellow streak came out that day.
Gas Pipe Persuasion
~ fixed him. said Flahcrty. 'with nv "a, H.;
into the sea, Then cursed them and called ~
by name, beginning with Denny Howard 90
II didn't wait for them 10 moyc--they v
standing in bunch by the Tail-but | picked =
my little boy-he II take up his pop busnos. ss
day-and started down into the hold with him "
''Wcll, when they the little fellow stara
up TO his in water and smiling AZ them ~
came down, Denny Howard in the lead and ,6o - -
following fast. and saved the boat
You scc,' concluded Flahcrty Won We eo
think quick and keep acting all the time YogT
got to lead thcm-that S the idea
The struggle OIL smith $ Point that wild sius
saved the caisson, but that was all. \ sharp eis
was passed, and then tho real work began
The bottom of the casson was now listing ma.
tainIy upon the sand bottom ANY moment The uz,r
might cut the sand away and let it tip over B,
cranes and stout chains and hawscrs stinened il Fl
well Us they could in tho pitching waves and al d,
imminent risk Of stove bottoms the barges er,J
the big iron caisson and dumped hundreds OF ION,
rlp.rap rock around the basc-this is to hold h
sand.
The concrete gans. of two were alnall
marShalcd and in action From of the BARGE
brown cloud of dust arose above chute which N,
tied q steady stream OF cement and gravel: from a
other noatcd. the spray o cataract of water
Both huge Jets landed IN the dry bottom al N
iron cylinder, but partly the bodies of bc "a
who shovelcd, and wallowed there, binding and etd
ing them covering them so that thew lost all aprsf
ance of humans and seemed struggling cddes OF N
brown mass itself As one worker became cIhnoss
helpless. he was lifted out and another took his Ta
till finally the decks Of tho big steamer sinre
OF their human cargo and even cooks and stolnI
were down in the brown mud of the pit
All was roar aud confusion In the wild SrsuH
barge snapped its hawscr and turned hall Oyg Il
tho trough of The sea, lifcboat crashed uO n
cylinder, collapsed like an eggshcll and dumped Il i
mon into tho wild waters. A tug spaShcd about ri
ing them up together with those from the barge "T
needed them all, - said Flahcrty crmly.
OF the terrors of that second night can eve Y
th, hast flor nd sFr
der sunk that the casson below was ready r. |
the saudhogs. twelve men ran away from the u |
boat GhaL landed ashore-ran away almessly over \
desert ats of the Potomac river and never came D'a
for their pay.
The sand hogs had strange and terrible aiOr |
ture before they had the cutting edge sunk aad "
structure was anchored.
One day-toward the end Of the work-thC car:s \
in their subterrancan, subaqucous chamber Ts l
suddenly green, and black sireaks That widcned :E
Iy appeared in the sand Hoor.
One man clapped his hands 10 his ewes Fl
screamed with pain, others staggered and iel- n II
there began quickly of those ratikc fights lotA
single small shaft exit that makes casson IN We
of peril the most horribly brutal place N all ih Hi1
of construction work
But there were heroes here, as there generally I'll
in such cases--onc man. al least who rises above
terrible occasion aud saves the Others by rsSng |
own life This time ii was a grizzlcd veteran, Gt! 1
fin by name, hero of many caissou tcrrors. VINO .1
the frantic men tied hauling ropes 30 The uneSuS
and then fell back 10 be rescued by fNn"SI
more dead than alive. III
A later examination showed that the men iHI
struck VEN OF SuIphuretted hydrogen. tcTezLI
ngs of the rescued intense Grln9
moaning in his bunk stark blind for weeks ara ? II
man. Fitzgerald, never regaued his cyesig6t. III
The caissou was finally sunk to It's foolaoa EI
sealed with concrete to the top OF the alrSaa- III
light keeper 5 home built over 1t ana as's
great lantern shed light to warn HUNDREDS oI '' L,
scs aud thousands of Hves from destruction. III
There is much more to tell of FlahcTty aee III
lighthouses tales worth the telling and lnSp~ II
not only in view of their humanltana9 Tcsln III
because they show what big work htllc Inaa-, I,, l
newsboy-cau accomplished, aud how nc -l ooe2 =