Tents, iron huts, and rude log shacks slipped past; men in muddy slickers drew back against the bank, and then the train stopped.
Festing got down into the water that flowed among the ties, and Kerr came forward in dripping slickers.
"If you want help to get the teams out, I'll send some of the boys," he said.

"If not, you had better come along and I'll show you your shack.
I told our cook to fix your supper, and I'll be glad to sit down for a time out of the wet." Festing followed him along the descending track, which presently ended at a ledge of rock sixty or seventy feet above the river.

Wire ropes spanned the gap between the banks, and near the middle a rock islet broke the surface of the savage flood.

Here men were pouring cement into holes among the foundations of an iron frame, while suspended trollies clanged across the wires.

On the other bank was a small flat where shacks of log and bark stood among dripping tents.