Show conquest of the devies sose feat of american railroad 4 engineers in ake andes Among tho many enterprises in which in nrc at engaged south america the construction ol 01 tho railway from guayaquil ayaquil Gu ecuador on thu coast to ullo the capital on the andean plateau crossin ff the andes may be reckoned us one of the most important por tant about ka 6 that miles of this road was completed is to say froni the to a village called chambo chimbo at the base of the andes since that timo everal unsuccessful attempts have been made to cross the andes and a number of milea of road haa actually been constructed in bariou directions from chambo chimbo by various unfortunate contractors resulting however in a useless waste of time and money the present company an american organization of which the lato abram tho backers lac kers has S ves one of at last overcome the almost insurmountable difficulties and has actually rail laid today from chambo chimbo the base of alie andes to guamote on the plateau a distance of miles over what is generally conceded by those who know to a of the most dilli cult construction in the world from bucay junction two mile south of the terminus chambo chimbo the new line crossing the chambo chimbo rivet enters the Cli anchan valley it follows the circuitous turnings and twi stings of this valley crossing and ng the river by of fine steel bridges upward of sixty throes in the sixty miles completed at mile 28 on this new line the capi were encountered their greatest dipti culty and this is where the devil took a hand bight in tho center of the chanchan valley nature placed an enormous wedge shaped rock mountain al this point it was found impossible to confine the line to the valley bottom owing to the grade limitations of the contract the locating engineers therefore bottom by means of a switchback literally hewing the ahne from bic solid rock along i this is the only switchback on the line subsequently in the continuance of the line il descends crosses the river again and by ascending and descending by looping and skilful development ii kept safely within the grade limitations of the contract the grade in some reaches as high as 5 12 1 2 per cent but no railroad could be built across these mountains on any other basis tho switchback on the devils nose is the wonder of ecuador and is already being talked of all over the continent it is constructed with great far and solidity at possible weak places enormous retaining walla of solid masonry are built abai t stands today a monument to the skill and of the american engineer at least it would be so considered were it not for the bayt fayt that among the simple rural ei it is generally pene rally that the yankees cleverly eil alie devils assistance in this work end that without his assistance tho Grin goes never could have accomplish ed il this ia by the following literal translation from el Lu chador a serious paper published in the town of duranda Gu randa ecuador olio quarter of an hour more ami wo are at the fabulous ariz del diablo it is truly marvelous aa you will hear for we leave been told by many truthful person that when the carried on on abi enormous work va being talk rock it was common clial tho yankees the people among tied him devil sleeping had caught alie his will and nude him voik against believe the old and ibo young this thia tale lias since been improved up on by obber ecuadorian publications about as follows ecuador is really ii very holy country and for this reason tha devil having work to do here alian elsewhere spends the greater part ot hia time in ecuador there some eight active volcanoes in ecuador or nine to and the devil ia popularly supposed in their be somewhat implicated from time immemorial the devil has strenuously fighting civilization been and it ii said hen the and railroads raili oads in contract fot abu railway was signed archer herman of new quito by state york cotopaxa cotopaxi flew into a violent of eruption and the mighty tun forth dense sullenly belched columns of black smoke and macas etc all cd emphatic of uneasiness and unrest and it known eliat the devil angered asserted that the devil even it was assuming the li kepess of the minister of finance appeared to archer and used nil ins devilish and persuasive to induce that gentleman eloquence to break the railway contract but avail however twice he was without all efforts successful before in frustrating to build a railway in ecuador and himself with this reflection consoling he flew to his lair on the nose where he lay waiting and watching determined to stop the road at all hazards one dark night 6 alie legend four intrepid american engineers named Sulli yau and einstein fully equipped with lasso rope liim and alpenstock set forth to trap also sullivan as a matter 0 precaution carried with him a batlle of holy water slowly anil laboriously the party ascended side ot the almost precipitous the mountain tind as luck would have it caught hia satanic majesty napping hii with approaching quietly hia cast marvelous edill and accuracy tall the forked the devils lasso over end of which preventing pie venting its slipping off and held him securely the devil awakening and finding himself thus trapped with supernatural agility flew up the side t the mountain dragging the four engineers after him arriving at ahe top odthe mountain he flung himself on the pound p and applying ins nostrils to a cavity in the rock belched forth in his rage fire and flame into the chasm was subsequently that with thia incident occurred the eruption of mont tew anth island of martinique at this stage ot the sullivan advanced with great presence of sprinkled a deiv drops of holy him instantaneously the devil rendering water on this unconscious and in back to the condition he was dragged grade firmly tied and octto work and assistance with the thus it was the yankees carried their load to the mankind across wonder of ecuadorian el dariz del diablo believed the story aliat is this is of the andes today firmly in many part |