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Show ing on the Cottonwood Canal, near where some blasting was being done and at the cry of "fire" he went to a safe distance. Hearing a blast go off and thinking there was only one, he went to see how the blasters wero getting along with their work. While looking around, the rock he was standing on started upward and with u sound resembling thunder, the air was filled with flying rocks from a blast of twenty six sticks of giant powder ho was unharmed but he says he will not get on the top of a blast again to see it go off. John T. Larson, has cause to be thankful that he is btill on this mundane sphere. He was work- |