. The street railway review . , 66ft. thick at the bottom and lO ft. thick at the top. The up-streamface is vertical and the down-stream face curved of ogee form; thelower part of the down-stream face Is curved to a radius of 31 ft.;the central portion has a batter of 4^in. to the foot, and the upperportion has a radius of 20 ft. The two faces and lop were built ofred granite and the interior of hard limestone rubble laid in port-land cement. The power house was budt on ilic rock ledges just below theeast end of the dam and was 198 x S4 ft.; on the river side the wallswere 112 ft. high and on
. The street railway review . , 66ft. thick at the bottom and lO ft. thick at the top. The up-streamface is vertical and the down-stream face curved of ogee form; thelower part of the down-stream face Is curved to a radius of 31 ft.;the central portion has a batter of 4^in. to the foot, and the upperportion has a radius of 20 ft. The two faces and lop were built ofred granite and the interior of hard limestone rubble laid in port-land cement. The power house was budt on ilic rock ledges just below theeast end of the dam and was 198 x S4 ft.; on the river side the wallswere 112 ft. high and on the land side 32 ft. The equipment com-prised Victor wheels, made by the Stillwell-Biercc & Smilh-VaileCo., aggregating 2,400 h. p., pumps of 8,000,000 gallons capacity)ur J4 hours, and electric generators of 500 h. p. capacity. The building of the dam by raising the water level 60 ft. formeda lake covering over acres, and between 20 and 25 miles long,which was named Lake McDonald, after the mayor, Mr. .,V*i^ ^ 4(l^ THE .\tTSTIN PAM .\ND VIEWS AFTER THE FAILURE. lost their lives, with six others. About midnight of the same daytwo-thirds of the west wall of the power house fell, carrying withit the roof over the dynamo floor and wrecking the correspondingportion of the east wall. We reproduce a number of photographs kindly sent us by E. Scovill, superintendent of the Austin Rapid Transit I is a view of the dam taken from the east end, and No. 2 aview from the west end showing the power house; the steamerBen-Hur, which appears in this illustration, was stranded andbroken in two, as seen in No. 4. No. 3 shows the power house on<he morning of April 8th. Nos. 4 and 5 were taken after the breakand show the section of the dam swept bodily down stream. is a car of the Austin Rapid Transit Ry. standing near First (about 4 miles from the danO, where it was when powerwas shut oflf. Mr. Scovill states that it was expected that the city
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