The Whole Of This Feeding Line Was
Finished In A Very Short Time, And Trollies Were
Soon Plying Backwards And Forwards With Loads
Of Stone And Sand, As We Also Discovered The
Latter In Abundance And Of Good Quality In The
Bed Of The Ravine.
An amusing incident occurred
one day when I was taking a photograph of an
enormous block of stone which was being hauled
across one of these temporary bridges.
As the
trolley with its heavy load required very careful
manipulation, my head mason, Heera Singh,
stood on the top of the stone to direct operations,
while the overseer, Purshotam Hurjee,
superintended the gangs of men who hauled the ropes
at either end in order to steady it up and down
the inclines. But we did not know that the
stream had succeeded in washing away the
foundations of one of the log supports; and as
the weight of the trolley with the stone came
on the undermined pier, the rails tilted up and
over went the whole thing into the river, just
as I snapped the picture. Heera Singh made a
wild spring into the water to get clear of the
falling stone, while Purshotam and the rest fled
as if for their lives to the bank. It was altogether
a most comical sight, and an extraordinary chance
that at the very moment of the accident I should
be taking a photograph of the operation.
Fortunately, no one was injured in the slightest, and
the stone was recovered undamaged with but
little trouble.
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