The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-10-05

have worried about the dam when it
might break. The men were disposed
to laugh at these fears.
Last spring there was an alarm
when it vas thought that the brink
was ready 70 give away The water
poured over it so freely and with such
violence that Llen saiioIed en- horse
back down the valley cryilg the warn
irg that another rider once gave in a
food in this state At that time the
people ran to O, erhanging hills. but
there was no need for tkeir fears. The
food did not come
Bat when he alarm was over and
the townspeople went out to look at
the barriers il was found that the con-
crete had slipred down something like
eighteen inches. After that Iotches
were cut in the upper surface TO
lessen the pressure by permitting a
larger volume of water to Tickle over
the edge.
But when the state officials came to
examine the trol en- fragments il was
found that one OF the nctohes had
been filed Up completely with con-
crete and that work was in progress
on the cthet -Four feet of new con.
crete was found III this gap and the
ferns were up for mere. Work had
been done upon ii Saturday
The examination OF Farley Gannett,
engineer for the state water supply
commission, show ed that one chunk Of
concrete. weighing perhaps ton and
half, had Loen projected down
stream for 100 feet. Another much
longer section lay sixty feet oct CT the
PLUMB line Of the dam. Mr. Garnett
found mar who from the hillside
saw the bursting Of the wall
John Newman. politician of
CcLderSpout." said the state engineer.
told me that he was driving along
the hillside away from the dam His
companion TUNED back to lock at the
flood of water.
1T seems 10 ME that there's an aw.
full lot CT water coming over today.
said Newman.
That's right agreed his driver.
and then as they locked Freeman
shouted: BY God. there it goes"
The big lump popned out of place
and catapulted down the stream. Then
like the cracking of whip the others
snapped out. In another second the
great mass Of wood pulp was being
fiicked into the air like matches. II
went up like a cloud The smoke
stacks of the paper mills were hidden
behind the spray and cracking iJss.
The chunk that popped 50 far down
was the first to give away 1t was
the top nalf Of section, ripped of as
Clearly as il it had been sawed The
exposed surface CT the base that re-
NAMED in places showed that it had
not been roughered. 1t apparently
marked the end OLA days work in the
construction end the only way in
which the next days section had been
welded to it was by four twisted iron
bars which were pressed downward
today.
Mr.. Gannett was not wiling TO say
what he thought mad caused the break.
He will make a close inspection OF
the DESIGNS before he makes his re
Port TO the water supply commission
The dam was owned by the Bayliss
Pulp PAPER company, which has its
, headquarters III BinghaE-ton, y Y
The vast enount of water confined
above the dam was used in the proc
esses of washing pulp after It's chemi
- &c int
paper.
The property loss will exceed Sc.
000. 900. and 1t is the general opinion
that the town rever will be rebuilt
| At least one of the large plants will
not he reconstructed, and majority
OF the business men of the place have
/ been finally ruined