Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 424
es reached acrossfrom one side to the other to prevent the water IMl6.] ON THE BATTLE-FRONT OF ENGINEERING 241 from crushing in the coffer-dam. The bed of theriver exposed within the coffer-dam showed hugemasses of concrete and pieces of twisted steel,relics of the foundations of the first dam. It… … WE VE UNCOVEREU A NUMBER OF CAVES DOWN THERE,AND THE WATER IS POURING FROM THEM. were lowering them to rock. We had to cut thesteel with the oxyacetylene torch. Two weeks later Jack hurried down to thecamp again in response to an urgent signal.Mr. Barto, on crutches, with Perry at his side,was…
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