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Show -19- the table oloth froze in one minute, and gravy and butter solidified before they oould be swallowed. Without benefit of imported amusements, Wahsatoh gained forty-three new graves, of whom not one of the oooupants died of disease. some were killed by aocident1 a few got drunk and were frozen; .three were hanged, and several killed in a f'ight or murderedJ one "girl" stifled herself with oharooal fumes, and another inhaled sweet death from subtle chloroform. In ·the spring the rails, torn loose from winter, moved on into Evanston and, ~saing Salt Lake City, sped .down Echo Canyon where the wagon trail was sometimes down in the bed of the stream and sometimes up on the rocky edee of a oliff where a dugway wound in and out along the projecting benches. At Ogden a celebration wa.a arranged, ·but the rails ha.d not. time to atop f(:)r every mile meant land and trade terri tory, and the on-ooming Central loom~d I on the horizon. Plunging out on the flat west of the Wasatch range and skirting the Great Salt Lake marshes, the rails bent to the north foz· several miles and then shot west again crossing the Eear River on .the of Ma.roh. Here, "End 0' Track" and "Hell on Wheels" dumped themselves down on the dry .aagecovered bluff at Corinno to roar with one of their laut deo~erate blasts, for thie was ·the last of the. roaring towno on the turbulant thousand miles of the hell-ridden trail from Omaha. |
