Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1902-12-14 | Page 24 | One Big Eel Halts Work in Factory

ONE BIG EEL HALTS WORK IN If FACTORY P I a plain dirty I eel it was was but there tho ere was 35 enough w of or this hs one to t clog dog a u water main maln and acid stop atop a great gr at fac tac factory factory tory force more than a thousand th people into idleness for mote more in ro than two hours congest on the street and al at l most frighten four tour stalwart laborers out of their wits Three feet and two tW inches S of ot this slip slippery sl p pert pery eel el sneaked into the large water main mala that carries water from the street to a large m manufacturing establishment est at the th corner of at SIgourney and Smith streets Brooklyn nr which b turns out tons of build lug Ins paper dally daily Suddenly Su d c Y the water mater a tar supply o t b JuI Id d cut t t o S f lone Ions on of or t vIff ties Ug branches bra ch x wat t rUh get any hy Tho Tha engineer ered ei t that h t the boiler was wai running t low The Tho steam gave 0 out o t and the racket and noise nola of ot the tho fac fao factory f o tory quickly quieted down The water company was appealed ap to but ut could give she no satisfactory explanation Then the tippers tappers t to the pipes camo and they dug trenches to see where the difficulty culty lay Streets were torn up and pipes opened As a matter of last resort res rt the sections branching to the main part of or the building and to the engine room connected by the elbow were loosened feat But ut they would not come apart easily The first part of ot the eel exposed was its Ita bead Four of t the laborers who were working on the pipes rushed from th tit building buU frightened at the uncanny y thing that wiggled wl Sled and struggled In tho the pipe pine Three Thre other ocher men in were called and ai by wrapping rope r p around around toun the eel to get bet a abold abold bold hold on managed to drag dra toe the of at offender offender fender out