| Show A DIFFICULT FEAT calsing a locomotive that had lleen plunged intha into a maldy dver on august 10 last says the san francisco ir an call a locomotive went through a big ferryboat and plunged cd pilot first into the water of straits the tender and car can remaining on the ferryboat the water was mis deep enough to cover the cab but not enough to let ICA the boat out of the blip the locomotive stood practically vertical and its nose was d deep cep in the mud on oil the night of the a large pair of shears made of twelve by twelve enli iii h timbers crossed at the top was built up on theand the end of of the boat and some large pulleys hung where the timbers crossed then a diver spent several hours in fastening a number of cables on either cither side of the frame under the boiler four engines were attached to the ropes but could not start the locomotive co motive although the strain was so great that a cable nearly three inches in diameter was broken finding the appliances of insufficient strength the shears were doubled in size and a fifth engine taken on board on the another trial was made it was liard hard to get the engines to exactly together and as their wheels would slip and revolve the cables would snap and the tackle generally would be badly strained finally a simultaneous pull started the mass and the cab slowly appeared apeci ired above the water and the engine was gradually lifted until somewhat higher than the floor of the ferry boat tackle from a steam dredger stationed in front of the slip was t then attached to the forward end of the locomotive which was pulled out in this way the shears were then swung slova slowly aly backward over the deck of the ferry and the engine bradu gradually ally lowered io to the tracks it had left when it was hauled to the neighboring roundhouse and the mud washed off it was found that but little damage had been done beyond the splintering cl of the cabby cab by the cables |
