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moment after, the car began to fill rapidly with water, and the heavy 

 weights upon us began to loosen, and. in some unaccountable way. we 

 were washed out into the river. Swimming around our car. we climbed 

 up on one end of it, which was still out of water, and looked around to 

 see where we were. We found our car detached from the train, both 

 couplings having parted. The tender was out of sight, and the upper 

 end of our car resting on it. The engine was three-fourths under water, 

 and one man in the engine cab crushed to death. Two men were float- 

 ing down the swift current in a drowning condition, and the balance 

 of the train still stood on the track, with the forward ear within a very 

 U'\v inches of the water's edge. The Westinghouse air-brake had saved 

 the train. W we had been without it. the destruction would have been 

 arful. 



One look was sufficient to show that the contents of the Aquarium 

 Car were a total loss No care or labor had been spared in bringing 

 the fish to this point, and now. almosl on the verge of success, every- 

 thing was lost. 



I immediately telegraphed the state of affairs to Mr. S. W. Throck- 

 morton, Chairman of the California Pish Commissioners, and to Eon. 

 spencer I-' Baird, the head of the I S Commission a1 Washington. I 

 received instructions by telegraph, the next morning to return Eas1 

 immediately with my assistants, and take on a shipment of young Shad 

 to California, under the auspices of the United States Fish Commission. 



In pursuance of these instructions, I went East, and having 

 obtained 40,000 young Shad from the New York Hatching 



Works, ;it Castleton, on the Hudson, 1 left Albany a s I time, a1 



11. :U) p.m. on the I'.'.th of June, 1873, in company with Mr. W. T. P 

 i-in and Mr. Myron Green, mj assistants on the Aquarium Car. We 

 were also accompanied as far as < Imaha on this trip by Mr. II. M. Web- 

 ster, whose experience in carrying live shad was. in this instance, of 

 the greatest value. 



On our arrival a1 Ogden, Utah, I lefl 5,000 of the Shad, in first- 

 rate order, in charge of Mr. Rockwood Sup< f Fishi ries at 

 Salt Lake City, to be introduced into Gr< - I Lake, and continued 

 with the other 35,000 to Sacramento, Cal., where we arrived at 

 half past one in the afterm ad day of duly — the fish 

 appearing in every respect as fresh and lively as when they lefl the 



I I lldson ;i week liet'ofe. 



We deposited them that night, at ten minutes past nine, in the 

 ramento River, just aboi Railroad Bridge, at Tehama — the 



whole undertaking from beginning to end, having been a perfe< 



Immediately upon hearing of the loss of the Aquarium we 



telegraphed a remittance to Mr. stone at Omaha, and directed him to 

 repair at once to the Hudson River, and bring out, while yet in time, 

 all the young shad whieh his now reduced facilities would permit. 



Mr. St,, ne at once proceeded East and. communicating, by tele- 

 gram, with Mr. Spencer F. Baird, U. S. Fish Commissioner, received 

 from him not only prompt attention but was also furnished by Mr. 

 Baird. for the California Commission, all of the Shad which the U. S. 

 Commission could spare, forty thousand in number, which were imme- 

 diately sent through to California, at the expense of the U. S. Fish 

 Commission, under the care of Mr. Stone, free of all charges, for 



