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...Fairfax Bridge across the Missouri River. In it were records of Pendergast companies and two suicide notes to Schneider relatives. In dust on the bridge railing were two hand marks and a heel print, such as a man might make in climbing over to end it all. Two miles downstream, Schneider's grey hat floated inshore...
...boat is soon completely out of the convict's control. It races downstream, hits an eddy, drifts back, finally carries the convict, stunned and incredulous, to the tree where the woman perches on the branch like a bird. "It's taken you a while," she says...
When he tries to land at Baton Rouge, soldiers guarding the levee see his convict uniform, open fire. Out in the current again, the boat whirls downstream. Miles from nowhere, on an old Indian mound crowded with snakes, the baby is born. After six days the convict gets so he thinks, "It ain't nothing but another moccasin," when he steps on a snake...
...question remained to be settled: whether fingerling salmon that are swimming downstream now can get past the dam uninjured. It is hoped that even if they fail to find the exits provided, they will pass unharmed through the turbines revolving at 75 r.p.m...
...night last week German Austrian storm troopers loaded 51 Jews, including an 82-year-old rabbi, into a Danube river launch, took them downstream to the point where Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary meet. There they dumped them on a stone breakwater in the middle of the swollen stream. All night they crouched on cold, slippery stones barely emerging from the water...