about four o’clock
Before the day was out I was to find out for myself that that ex-conductor was n't lying . It was over at Duran . I was to take my run on the first division out to Quito , for which place I was to start next morning -- only one through train running every twenty-four hours . It was the afternoon of my first day , along about four o'clock , when the boilers of the _ Governor Hancock _ exploded and she sank in sixty feet of water alongside the dock . She was the big ferry boat that carried the railroad passengers across the river to Guayaquil . It was a bad accident , but it was the cause of worse that followed . By half-past four , big trainloads began to arrive .