Arizona republican., 1920-03-09
ENGINEERS RESCUE COMRADES OIv RAFT
 AND CONQUER RIVER

Heroes everyone. Engineers A. B. CTS of the state engineers staff are taking their laurels modestly and in sisting that their thrilling exploits on the Tempe bridge last Sunday in saw ing the lives of Engineers J. M. Brown ana Logan Surlwel was all Ill eAe days work and nothing to War ''-' any "Carnegies. b,,
 The excitement was occdoi from
 aad1, in the river, downstream :. ,r fbe bridge, that no one Was 1oear. and that utterly upset all .ile nd ithms of the engineers were Stillwen resident engineers s1'nard . raft. and headed down stream stream e,o,,, the bridge while the hero punon .+oad safely on the bridge llooi ' .,a;d ont 2 I OOo foot rope that was at taabad to the raft The raftmen Weie noaI<ine soundings of the rlVel
 An upstream eddy suddenly sha the reef and raced Il Wiioiy up river at a speed that almost prey ..,o tto baro souad from hauling III tne slack of the rope The raft sWirieu nnder the bridge and into the maei- etron, op the upstream side, Whiie .nI rope momentarily threatened oo l the frail craft and precipltate the heip less nea- 6;d and first aid expert. quickly consulted with E,ngineer Wickes, chief raftsman TOT state Engineer Thomas Maddock' with Fridge Engineer Butler, Who iS not rated an authority on balllstlcs,
 Hang on, I'll cut the rope' sellers shouted to the men who were ,i iaciils doom. They cursed him frantlcaiiy' he swung ms DOne- handled knife across the hemp ana inc voyagers were safe-for a second All danger of fouling was off.
 The raft swung free across the up stream side of the bridge per ana started racing for Yuma, but Sellers was ready for that contingency; HIS engineering Knowledge served him well. With a moose in the idle rope he cast with unerring aim and the desperate sea-bound men caught It and clung for life. Their feet held fast in the raft lashingsF and they hugged to the lifeline. Meanwhile the raft started to submarine, and Brown and Stillwell were quickly up 10 their necks. Then Sellers brilliantly began to pay out the rope. relieving the tension and allowing the raft to float in daylight again, but he skinned of the palms of his hands and has been going in bandages ever since Chief Raftsman Wlckes ana Bridge Engineer Butler stood close and encoura ged him.
 At approximately 300 feet down stream the raft was under control, riding gently in the swell, as it were Of course engineers have to be brave men and game. so Brown and Still well insisted that they were not at all afraid and that they \. ere quite will ling to continue taking soundings. To the onlookers it seemed like a fine time to quit. but the engineers stuck to their heroic work and the soundings were. completed safely. The shortened rope failed to reach to the eddy and all went well.
 And that was not all Upon coming ashore the raftsmen met a bunch of girls whom they knew well, and the girls wanted to know what made them so wet It seeI--ed the girls had'n. noticed the river.
 . Brown and Stillwell went up on the bridge then to see the heroes and to hold converse with them, but the he roes considered the days work done, and they cranked the lizzie and pulled out while the sailors were detained by the girls.
 The official datum is that the river is p feet deep.