Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1912-01-05

beginning to end"
When Silsby hud got his pipe lighted
he resumed without noticing the COM
ment:
THE lovers i'm great JOY turned down
into the canyon. The road Is gooo
there. but very winding: consequently
mn auto can't be driven at anything
like full speed without upsetting. BNt,
the race being over. they slowed down
to an average of about eight raHes an
hour Pretty soon there was a clap OF
thunder in the distance. Ned looked
uneasy.
'r>Stop her mOmelt,' he said.
Molly slowed dowa. and they loo]'ed
at each other. Waaife as sheets, A dis
tant roar told ttem they were caught
in narrow canyon four miles hong,
with a. cloadhlrst behind them,
"Halnt ! better take the wheelT
gasped Nd
40. I'm more used to it than you.
''For about mile the road made
number of short turns, so it was i'm
possible to make time. And while
they were zigZagging the water penned
in between the two walls OF the can
yan-there was only room for the road
was gaining on them very fast.
Before they got beyond these turns
and came to scrap of straight road.
looking behind, there was wall of
water not a hundred yards away. roll
ing powders. logs. branches and mud
before it. If they left the auto and
tried to climb the cliff on either side
they would be caught long before they
could get beyond the waters height.
Besides. the cliff was pretty near
straight up and down. The only thing
to do was tn drive the auto for all it
was worth. Molly turned on power
and they shot off as fast as they dared
go, for the road was not perfectly
straight. and the slightest detection
from straight line in quick moving
auto means an upset.
"They gained something during this
first mile. but in the second there were
several turns that required them to
slow down almost to stop. After
back. Molly was about to do so. too,
when he put his hands on her head
and prevented her. The sight would
have taken away her nerve. A mass
Of watcr and debris was hurled at the
turning point against the side Of the
canyon. like an ocean wave dashing
against rock, water, stones and splin-
tered tree trunks rebounding in every
direction
Fortunately these turns delayed the
flood as they delayed the fugitives.
A quarter of mile of comparatively
straight road lay before them. Molly
again put on power. and they spun
along at tolerably fast gait. At the
next turn-a broad curve-the wheels
on the outside of the auto were lifted
from the ground, and for few mo-
ments the pair We're suspended be-
tween two deaths. the one by being
dashed against the cliff, the other By
the bowling cataract.
There were still nearly two miles to
so without egreSs from the CANYON
and destruction not q hundred feet be-
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l ~ :" ."'i' 'i. ho,'u c"Hi' 80 near thal
,-,aa4 mN' co., "a ea,e- iee' "'il '-te spray
they took in making the curves. Mol
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