The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-10-29

a wave feet high to wall of water twenty feet
high
One can never tell when these things coming.
and when one of those walls OF water hurlS Itself
the twelve hundred foot channel bearing hun
dreds of thousands OF tons OF ice on It's front, the
shock Is something terrific The Industrial soldiers of
the Copper River Valley had to get boats through with
material, build sufficiently strong piers in this Icy
water and do all their work between the onslaughts
of these At the first cry Of .he watchers, who
would go almost blind from scanning the glistening,
changenbe Ice face, the men would drop their work
and run for their lives. As the wave subsidized they
would TO their work II 1t had not been swept
away. The water Is cold that it would freeze II
were not for the fifteen mile current Construction TO
the camp opposite the glacier not extremely dIt-
cult Just above, the same bank however, was
the great Miles glacier and this made 1t necessary 10
cross to the other shore between the glaciers 1t
quite the usual thing for boats to arrive with but
one-hird of the cargo with which they started. The
saving the lives Of one another all the time
When fell into the river the deadly chill OF it
seemed 10 make him almost powerlesS and quick ac-
ton necessary unless he was an able swimmer.
For a time after the upper camp established
1t impossible TO get building material to the
there, all of The available force required
TO get through enough food to keep the men In the
camp alive.
The most incredible set of rescues occurred one
day when a boat with seventeen was making
a brave effort to land cargo of supplies that were
impeTaJivey needed. They caught by one ot
these gigantic ice-hung waves, the bOnt crushed 10
bits and all the supplies lost yet it contrVed
to get every man out and none Of them bad uot'
serious injuries than broken legs and arms
Just as On Illustration or the force OF attack ms
bridge must stand all the time every day In the
open Of the year. this IS thing that nap
pened At last n very determined and ln-
genious foreman had contrIved get nine huge piles
chained deeply into the bed OF the river and felt
that he had made a substantial beginning IN thar
spot. The next hurled the ice against those
nine huge sticks of wood bound together one anu
broke them off like pipe stems. Barges towed ~
launches. double cable worked by donkey engines
both failed as means Of getting material across
that river. TIL at last overhead cable rGgeu
and every pound OF the heavy material, including
engines, and rails, got across %
October 30.
In conclusion there should cited that part of the
battle which NJ. j, Heney led In person in the Alien
Canyon. The contract required completion to Mile %
by October 30. 1903 The stream down this canyon
Is really liquid ice moving rate OF twenty miles
Dour Up this must 20 the material and supplies
Does man need TO have the struggle described 10
picture IT. In September there twcDty-iou'
days of storms and billiards. destroying the con.
Struction camp AT Mile o. Some did desert put
Heney lenped into the work himself and out ol puto
grit and loyalty the men suyed With him, WORKING IL
that awful weather from fourteen to sixteen nouiS
day. staggering 10 their hunks FOR few hours seeP
and back again, half the time In the dark, drNluef
those last Aye miles completion and they dld IL
No army in the ilcld, not even WaShlngtons 5 M .
at Valley Forge called upon Tor Sted'''
fortitudc or courage.