World War I Collection

each started from different parts of the river, and are digging the canals, they float in, themselves.

[illustration of the dredging with details]: Track - (not here yet), Grade, Level Country, Cross-section, Berm, Bucket, Boom, Water, Level country

They have to bore deep holes in the ground, ahead of the dredger, & dynamite it, so that the dredger can dig it out with the bucket, & throw it up on the grade. Last week I was coming over to the dredger, & they dynamited the ground when I was about 50 feet away, & a big clod came down & knocked me out for a minute. Dufour gave the powder man the deuce, but he said he didn't see me, & that the dredger whistled. The dredger did whistle, but the powder went off at the same time. There was twelve boxes or 600 sticks of dynamite went off under the ground, & you bet it blew it right up in the air. you see they bore a lot of holes & put 20 stickes in a hole, & loosen up half an acre of land at once.

Next time I am going to look around, before I start to walk over a blast.

A couple of days ago the cook on "V" dredger shot a man named Henry Goodhouse, who they call "Dutch" Henry. He was a leverman, on