The daily Alaskan., 1922-07-25

tipped farther. turned over; others bal anred back, it was upon their wheels that they charged forward half riding one another. crashing and dem0lIshIng, as Jhe ferry pitched; it was upon their trucks that they ruttered and battered from side Co side as the deck Swayed. Now the stern again descended; a line of cars swept for the fuutHi. Curyets cry came Co Alan through the scream ing Of steel and the rluuEor of destruc- uou. Corvct'S cry sent men with bars beside the ears as the fan'uII dipped into the water; Coryet. again leading the crew. cleared the leader of those madly charging curs and ran 1t over the stern.
 The fore trucks fell and. before the reur trucks reached the edge ,he stern lifted aud caught the car in the middle it bu,anced half over the wa ter. half over the deck. Corvet crouched under the car with a crow bar: Alan and TWO others went with him; they worked the ear on until the weight of the end over the water tipped it down: the balance broke, and the car tuiubIed and dlyed. Coryet, huv- ing cleared another hundred tons, leaped back, calling to the crew
 They followed him again, unQues- tluniug, Obed.eut. Alan followed close to him. II was not pity which stirred him now for Benjamin Coryet; nor was it bitterness: but it certainly was not contempt of an the ways in which he had funred finding Benjamin Coryet he had never thought of seeing him like this
 It was. probably only for a flash; but the great quality Of leadership which he had once possessed, which ShprrIu had described to Alan and which had been destroyed by the threat over llm. hud returned to him iu rhis desperate emergency which he had ere aued. How much or how little of his own condition C0rvet understood. Alan could not tell; it was plain only that he comprehended that he had been the cause of the catastrophe, and tn hIs fierce will To repair it he not only dis regarded al. risk Co himself; he also had summoned up from within him and was spending the last strength of his spirit But he was spending it iu a losing fight
 He got off two more cars; yet the deck only dipped lower, and water washed farther and farther up over the fautaIl. Men, Ieaping from before the charging cars, got caught in the murderous melee of Iron and steel and wheels; mems shrIl cries came amid the scream of metal. Alan, tug ging ut a crate which had struck down man. felt aid beside him and, turn ing. he SAW the priest whom he had passed on the stairs. The priest was bruised and bloody; this was not hIs first erort to aid. Together they lifted an end of the crate; they bent-Alan stepped back. and tine priest knelt alone. his lips repeating the prayer for dissolution. Screams of men came from behind; and the priest rose and turned He saw men caught between two wrecks of cars crushing together; there was no moment 10 reach them; he stood and raised his arms to them. his head thrown back. his voice calling 60 them as they died, the words of absOlutiOD.
 Three more cars at the cost of two lives the crew cleared, while the sheayning of ice spread over the steel :nbourd, and dissolution of all the cargo becumg cu"l.ptp. Cut stone and motor parts. chusseS and castings. fur