Spanish Fork Press | 1908-09-17 | Page 5 | Diving for a Locomotive

Diving for a Locomotive Sometimes a diversion In the customary cus-tomary work of recovering sunken property would occur It was a loco motlvo on ono occasion sho had attempted at-tempted to cross a trestle and had toppled ovor In 30 feet of water hot toned by mud Get her up said Capt Scott Certainly Wheroll I put her Back on the rails said tho manager man-ager with a laugh at tho Impossibility Of the task All right shell bo there In the mornlu and she was It was but tho work of half a day for Capt Scott to rig up a pair of i sheer poles drop bosldo In his diving a dress pass some heavy chains under a lie boiler and between her axles hook a a block Into a ring toko a turn on a hoisting engine aboard hlu wrecking tug open a steam cylinder ami up she came To lower her gently to tho rails and wash her clean of tho mud with a nozzlo attached to tho hose of his steam pump waa tho last service There ho said when she was scrubbed clean now git a ire under her and pull her out ahoa In my wayF Hopklnson Smith Every bodys Magazine