Its accumulated power was rushing through the wall that held it back from the seas--the vast vengeance of the waters, which they had sought covertly all this time, now was theirs.
An uncontrollable and immeasurable force was set loose.

No man may measure the actual horse power that lay above the great dam of the Two Forks--it never was a comprehensible thing.

A hundred Johnstown reservoirs lay penned there.

That there was so little actual loss of life was due to the fact that there were few settlements in the sixty miles below the mouth of the great canyon itself.

A few scattered dry farms, edging up close to the river in the valley far below, were caught and buried.