Show I I I DYNAMITE BLAST SNAKES PENNSYLVANIA QUA QUARRYMEN R R Y MEN FIRE EXTRA LARGE CHARGE- CHARGE FIND SERPENTS GALORE ONE MAN BITTEN ON HAND Many Different Kinds of the Creepy Creatures Are Killed After the Explosion Explosion Explosion Ex Ex- Ex- Ex and Scores of Others Escape Escape Escape Es Es- cape in Haste Altoona Pa Of Of all the blasts ever fired in Pennsylvania it is safe to say that never before did a a charge of dynamite dynamite dy dy- dy- dy unearth the startling surprise given the quarrymen in the stone quarry back of Bluestone in the Pine Pinecreek Pinecreek Pinecreek creek region a few days ago Instead of ordinary building stone stono as the men expected to find when they went back to see how the big blast had acted they found a score or more of snakes snakes rattlers rattlers copperheads copper ropper- copperheads copper copper- heads and blacksnakes blacksnakes and and the pesky things were crawling and wriggling wriggling wrig wrig- gling everywhere And the ones Insight in insight insight sight were not all for before the day was over the men had killed 42 serpents serpents serpents ser ser- and they counted a dozen more that got beyond their reach In tho the crevices of the quarry John Schurman one of the quarrymen quarrymen quarry quarry- men was bitten on the arm by a rattlesnake rattlesnake rat and another quarryman by bythe bythe bythe the name of Davis had the awful experience experience ex of having a big rattler drop down off an overhanging rock onto his shout n then fall wriggling cu cr low workmen When the rock rockaway had been heaved away from the main strata It disclosed dis closed a succession of fissures and these seemed to be alive with snakes rattlers blacksnakes and copperheads some of them dropping out of the crevices and wriggling clown n toward the men and others crawling back Into the shelter of oC the rocks There Thereas was as a sickening stench evident as the themen themen themen men neared the snake den Some of or the serpents were stiff and inactive due die to the fact that they w were re cold I i This was particularly true of the blacksnakes and ancl a half haIr doz dozen n of these were easily dispatched But the rattlers rat tiers were beyond the Inertia of hibernation hibernation hi hi- and were as mad mid as so many hornets The men attacked tho the reptiles right and left They discovered too that the blast its Its elf lf had slaughtered some of the colony colon for tor pieces of snakes were found spattered over the rocks and stones An hour after the battle with the snakes had nd ceased Schurman Schurman man went to a n big box near the quarry quarry quarry ry fire to get his dinner kettle which he had wrapped In his coat and set Iton it iton iton on tho the ground not far from the fire firo When he stooped to pick up the kettle he felt a n sharp shark sting In his hand at atthe atthe atthe the base bas of his little finger as though he had jagg jagged d himself with a sharp splinter But a n glance showed him that a big rattlesnake had taken refuge ref ref- refuge uge under his coat and had bitten him when he disturbed It Fortunately Schurman knew how to treat the bite and anti lost no time In applying remedies Ho quit work but has recovered |