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Show 3727 Clark- C 1748 A Yes sir. Q What years? A The years I was running the boat. Q Did it get out of repair in some way? A The boat? Q Yes. A No sir. Q Or the attachment to the cable? A That we took this boat off for was to get it around these sandbars. In 1923, the summer of 1923, there was a shieve broke on the cable and held the boat in midstream so the water run over the boat and sunk it, that is, tipped it over, and the boat finally sunk. Q That was a defect in the mechanism? A Yes sir. Q Aside from that, you say that you took the boat off at times in order to avoid a sandbar? A That is, to get the boat around the sandbars and get in in to the bank where a car could get on and did get on to the boat. Q How often did that happen? A It happened in low water periods. Q How often in low water periods? A When we had the greatest trouble was when the river was on a falling stage. |