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The Colorado River 
turned again and hurried along to discover the fortune of the 
No-Name^ which was plunging down, without hope of escape, 
toward the frightful descent, he was just in time to see her 
strike a rock and, rebounding, careen so that the open com¬ 
partment filled with water. Sweeping on down now with railway 
The Canyon of Brush Creek—Looking Up. 
This stream enters the Green not far below foot of Split-Mountain Canyon. 
Photograph by J. K. Hillers. U. S. Colo. Riv. Exp. 
Speed, broadside on, she again struck a few yards below and 
was broken completely in two, the three men being tossed into 
the foaming flood. They were able to gain some support by 
clinging to the main part of the boat, which still held together. 
Drifting on swiftly over a few hundred yards more to a second 
rapid full of large boulders, the doomed craft struck a third 
