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Updated: June 14, 2025
About this time, report was made to me that considerable progress had been made by the troops on the other side of the street by means of crowbars and pickaxes, working through houses and yards. This caused me to watch closely for the first movement of the enemy indicative of retreat. Doc.
Santa Anna had put a pair of powerful glasses to his eyes, but when he took them down he said nothing of what he had seen. "Are all the columns provided?" he said to General Sesma, who stood beside him. "They have everything," replied Sesma, "crowbars, axes, scaling ladders. Sir, they cannot fail!" "No, they cannot," said Santa Anna exultantly.
Our tools consisted of two pickaxes, two crowbars, a silken ladder, three iron-shod Alpine poles, a hatchet, a hammer, a dozen wedges, some pointed pieces of iron, and a quantity of strong rope. You may conceive that the whole made a tolerable parcel, especially when I mention that the ladder itself was three hundred feet long! Then there came the important question of provisions.
The Corner House girls and their boy friends were not altogether sure that Trix was only barred from escape by the falling rubbish. Neale and Joe attacked the rear wall of the structure with vigor, but the edge of their shovels was almost turned by the icy mass. Axes and crowbars would scarcely have made an impression on the hard-packed snow. It was Ruth who pointed the right way.
Bring crowbars, or we and they shall be burnt together!" The words, though spoken in Flemish, were uttered, I was certain, by an Englishman, and I thought I knew the voice.
There was blasting to be done upon the rugged wall of the cañon, there were tall pines bunched in groves, many of which must come down before the flume could be completed or the ditch made. And men with axes and crowbars and giant powder were set to their tasks. Everywhere he went the Lark dogged his heels, listening intently to the orders which his superior gave him.
Then the marines began with the axes and crowbars with which they were provided to tear up the floor-boards and break down the rafters and beams. Then grapnels fastened to long ropes were fixed on the top of the brickwork, a score of hands caught hold, and the lightly-built wall readily yielded to the strain, coming down in great masses.
Dave and his chums had come dressed for the work, and the whole party were provided with picks, shovels, crowbars, axes, and a couple of gold-pans. The whole of that day was spent on the mountainside, the various members of the party separating from time to time and then coming together, to relate their various experiences.
They needed just as many rivets as could be driven into them, for the flood would assuredly wash out their supports, and the ironwork would settle down on the caps of stone if they were not blocked at the ends. A hundred crowbars strained at the sleepers of the temporary line that fed the unfinished piers.
Some men of approved courage were chosen to lead the forlorn hope; a number of marksmen, with arrows and firearms, were placed in the valley to keep up a fire upon any who might show themselves on the path, while above, several hundreds of men were sent up, with crowbars, to loosen and hurl down rocks. The defenders, on their part, were not idle.
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