Actually, however, the wheel had been fastened by a set-screw driven through the hub and into the key-seat of the axle. Now, undetected by anyone, the set-screw was working itself loose. There already had been one tramway accident. It had occurred some years earlier, and had it been timed just a little differently it might have cost Rushmore the life of its sculptor. As hoist operator Edwald Hayes recalled it: The Old Man showed up wanting to ride to the top, but I had a load of water cans on the way up already, so he had to wait. Just before the load got to the top, the hoist drive-shaft
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