Tomas Stories n' Links

Good Morning,

This morning I will tell you a coyote story; At Smithland lock when I came to work one morning, one of the deck hands on one of the towboats locking in the land chamber told me that there was a coyote at the end of the lock wall (RED A). When I came back the next day he was still there, no one wanted to call anyone to try and remove him from the wall because we feared he would jump into the river and drown; we figured when she got hungry enough she would walk back the way she came via the lock wall and gates.

Finally when I came back the next day she jumped on a coal barge with the deck hand out front (BLUE) (she did not care) and ran across the barges and jumped into the river and swam to shore (GREEN LINE).
The white in the river is ice from the Wabash River. The Wabash River starts at the northern end of Indiana. When the spring rains come the water floats and lifts the thick ice (6" to 12") down the Wabash into the Ohio River below Uniontown Lock.