Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-05

CHERE is q channel OF the st
Lawrence river which runs along
the vicinity of Quebec, for miles
to the cast and miles TO the
west. which would compare favoraDly
in the velocity OF its waters with the
races OF the Niagara whirlpool, the
fastest currents of the Snake, the wild
est conceptions of the rampageous Colo
RADIO, the channel which Wolfe had TO
contend with when he made his famous
assault upon the Canadian citadel when
the preSent-called America was but i'll
its swaddling clothes and was helping
out its English mother in the French
English war in the latter part OF the
eighteenth century,
To the north of this swlrling channel
was located the city Of Quebec, which
Mt that time, and today, is considered
the most impregnable location, with the
one exception of Gibraltar, of any
place in the civilized world which has
under Its aegis territory of value. And
away up on the heights. on the great
mesa upon which the main part OF
Quebec is builded, is the famous Plains
of Abraham, on which field the indom
liable Montcalm and the intrepid Wolfe
both breathed their adieus to the living
world In an epoch making battle
Wolfe had taken his men across this
perilous channel, guided them up the
heights, over secret paths, and had
made the assault and met the glorious
death which placed his body In West
minister abbey and his statue In st
James square facing that of the hero
of Trafalgar
QUEBEC BRIDGE DISASTER.
Over 200 years after that historic
time e6 men under a less skilled COM
nlander went down to an ignominlous
death while trying to bridge the stream
which proved one of the greatest OBJ
stacles to Wolfe and his troops, 1t was
the famous Quebec bridge disaster,
eight miles west of the city, which
was to be spanned by cantilever, one
OF the greatest in the world. The men
went to work at noon. 96 of them. The
span was built S72 feet out at that time
and an hour after the afternoon oper
atons had commenced. there was a
swapping and a crashing The whole
structure went down and not man
of all those who had been working
upon it ever lived to tell the tale.
Tho night SHIFT, many of them. We're
on hand loahng about the abutments
They heard the rivets and stringerS
give way and uttered a shout of warn
ing But 1t was unavailing. The whole
otructure went down with a crash and
every man on II was hurled into The
raging torrent below, tangled in ihs
ironwoTk meshcs, and pinned benearh
the flood Many were partly submerged
and prayed for somebody to put an end
to their lives. One was near shore, his
legs twisted In the tangle so badly 1hat
there was no escape. A priest threw a
sack over his head and he died wncn
tho tide came up. n slow, lingering
death with men. strong men, sobblng
men who had never known tears, gag
ing upon the convulsiye heavlngs Of his
body until 1t finally became still in
death.
In Salt Lake at the present time
there are three men who were witnesses
TO the scene, three men who were work.
Ing upon the night shift and who Wit
messed that scene of horror. They arc
In the employ of the Jones company,
structural iron workers who are put
ting In the ribs OF the Hotel Utah and
the Kearns building. They arc Charles
Slcard. Patrick F. Mcdonald and VIII
Viponds When the very name OF Que
bee Is mentioned Their faces grow sober
and their tongues silent. There is a
faraway look In their eyes and they
manifest disposition to remain very
silent. For under the swelling tides of
the st. Lawrence there Is buried many
partner. many partner whose body
has never been found. who have work
ed with them all over the clyilized-and
unciyilized-world
SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE
For they are veritahle soldiers of for
tune these men who danglc about in
the heavens. these men who guide the
network OF steel which forms the
nucleus of all modern skyscrapers.
They have worked not only in the do
minions OF Uncle Sam. but have also
invaded the Panama canal zone have
been With Wallace in Central America
have brldged the chasms OF the Andes
have taken a turn with the engineering
corps In the late unplcasantness be-
tween the mikado and the car. and
have seen all that there Is to see ir
the world of mechanical progress. Rich.
ard Harding Davis never conceived
such unassuning heroes such soldiers
Of fortune. as these men who are hay.
ing hand in making the modern Sail
Lake.
Will Vipond, who Is In charge of tho
work at the Kearns building, has been