The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-10-30

a ten feet high 10 wall of water twenty feet
high
One cnn never tell when these things are coming.
and when one of those walls of water burls Itself
the twelve hundred foot channel bearing hum
dreds OF thousands of tons OF Ice its front the
shock something terrific The Industrial soldiers OF
the Copper River Valley had to boats through with
material build sufficiently strong piers In this icy
water and do all their work between the Onsaughts
of these waves At the first cry of thc watchers. who
would go almost blind from scanning the glistenng,
changeable Ice face. the would drop their work
and run for their lives. AS the subsided they
would return to their work If it bad not been swept
away. The water Is cold that IL would freeze If it
were not for the fifteen mile current Construction to
the camp opposite the glacier not extremely dl
cult Just above, on the same bank, however was
the great Miles gucer and this made it necessary
to the other shore between the two glaciers 1t
quite the usual thing for boats TO arrive with but
onethrd OF the cargo with which they started The
men saving the lives of another all the time
When fell into the river the deadly chill of 1t
seemed to make him almost powerleSs and quick ac-
ton was necessary unless he was an able swimmer
For time after the upper camp established
IL was impossible TO get building material to the
there. all of the available force was required
to get through enough food to keep the In the
camp alive.
The most Incredible set OF rescues occurred one
day when boat with seventeen men was making
a brave effort 10 land cargo of supplies that
imperatively needed They were caught by Of
these gigantic ce-hung waves, the boat crushed TO
bits and all the supplies lost, yet it contryed
TO get every man out, and none OF them had
serious injuries than broken legs and arms.
Just Illustration OF the force of attack this
bridge must stand all the time every day in the
open season OF the year, this is thing that hap
pened TO US AT last very determined and in-
genlouS foreman had contrved TO get nine huge piles
chained deeply into the bed the river aud felt
that he had made substantial beginning In that
spot The next wave hurled the Ice against those
nine huge sticks OF wood bound together aud
broke them of like pipe stems. Barges towed by
launches, a double cable worked by donkey engines
both failed as a means OF getting material
tndt river, I'LL ut last overhead cable rlgged
and every pound OF the heavy material including
engines, cars and rails, was got across by
October 80.
IN conclusion there should be cited that pnrt Of the
batue which NJ. j. Heney led In person IN the Allen
Canyon. The contract required pleton Mile 1I
by october 80. 1905 The stream down this canyon
Is really liquid Ice moving ut OF twenty miles
an hour Up this must 20 the material and supplies.
Does need have the struggle described 10
picture 1t? In September there tweuty-fOur
days OF and billiards. one destroying the
structlon camp At Mile 81. Some men lid desert but
Heu0y leaped into the work himself and out OF pure
grit and loyalty the men stayed with HIM working In
that awful weather from fourteen to sixteen hours
day staggering TO their hunks for eew hours sleep
aud back again. half the time In the dark, driving
those last i've miles 10 completion and they did It.
No army in the field. not even WaShington's men
at Valley Forge, ever called upon for greater
fortltude or courage.