The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-28
CABLE CONDUIT WRECKED BY 4
 SLIDING SCOW
Another Mishap Overtakes Work of Laying Connecti- cut Co.'s Wires Under
 Water of Harbor
Wrecking Co.'S Craft Rest ing on Mud Flats, When Especially Low Tide Launches Heavy Vessel Into Terminal House.

Another serious mishap interrupt ed the work of the T. A. Scott Dreds- ing Co. in laying beneath the harbor bottom the 36 inch iron pipe to carry the Connecticut Co.'S feed wires. About 10 o'clock this forenoon the contracting company's ponderous scow carrying a powerful stes m der rick skidded off the mudfiats at the east end of the Stratford avenue bridge and crashed into the eastern terminal of the tube, in a spile mount ed wooden structure.
 With a racket that could be heard all along the waterfront of the inne, harbor, the big vessel worked havoc with the structure. It tore the house from the spiles, sent 1t crashing up- side down into the channel, and smashed the big iron pipe to pieces. The cables. already installed in the conduit, were plunged down into the mud, almost hopelessly entangled. Last night the crew of the scow drifted it upon the east shore of the Pequonnock river. just north of the Stratford avenue bridge. The scow rested upon the soft muddy bottom at high time. This forenoon the tide sank to an unusually low mark, and the scow, stripped of it's own buoy ancy by the receding waters. sudden ". By the time the heavy vessel reach ed the structure housing the eastern terminal of the underground conduit. it had attained such momentum that it tore the spiles apart like so many matches, and bounded the house off into the water.
 Luckily there was no one either aboard the derrick or in the house at the time. Had there been anyone either in the house or on the vessel he would have received an icy plunge into the murky waters of the harbor.
 Men were working on the west shore when the Inishap occurred, il took but a few moment for them to reach the drifting scow in their skiffs and make the vessel fast. But cas- ual inspection sufficed to show that very extensir-e damasz had been done. has taken the contract to lay at 36 feet below mean low water a 36 inch iron pipe to carry across the channei the feed wires of the Connecticut CO. Wires are to be carried above water, out to the houses built at the extreme edges of the channell, and then car- ried down beneath the bottom of the harbor into the big iron tube. This will take them so deep that they will be out of danger of anchors and of being disturbed by passing naviga- ton.
 only 1eW weeks ago the COII1pduy was putting on the finishing touches and had made preparations to leave the city, when on pumping out the tube, the air pressure was found to be so great that the long pipe buckled and tore it's way up through the soft mud above it until it reached the sur face, floated about like a big sub- marine vessel and finally collapsed as the water worked into 1t.
 The mishap of today completely wrecked the eastern end of the tube. Just how many lengths of pipe are demolished are not known, and the extent of the damage will not be as- certained until diver makes a com plete submarine examination of the pipe. The house was left upside down. its roof we'll immersed, and attracted a large number of spectators at the lower bridge through the day.
 Like the accident of few weeks ago, the mishap of today occurred practically at the completion of the work The job is done under contract by the Scott people. The Connecticut Co. does not stand to lose on it, hav- Ing no interest in the work until 1t is turned over to them as completed