Show BIG BOULDERS I i Ii WRECK HOUSES I IIi Ii Blast Sends Them Tearing Down Side of Bingham Canyon I Special to The Herald Bingham Oct 6 GA A big blast with disastrous results occurred here hero early earl this evening Huge Hu e rocks about ten tons each tore down the hillside rip ripping ripping ping the houses as if they had been built of paper mache smashing the heavy steel rails on the Copper Belt road and finally rolling out on tc to the time Rio Grande tracks The Thc Crandall Brothers contractors gave warning early this afternoon that thata a big shot would be fired Its conse consequences consequences consequences were not anticipated however The residents who lived in the time vicinity of the explosion left iet le t their houses screaming and amid ran ian out of havocs way Some left none too soon One of the largest boulders bouldes struck the house occupied by b W V E Alexan Alexander Alexander der and his C E Darro When the blast occurred Mrs who has been ill for a afew afew afew few days was Avas in bed and just had time to jump from her bed and run into the next room the boulder just missing her by about three feet The bed on which she had been lying was smashed into kindling and the bedding dragged out into the yard Mrs rs Alex Alexander Alexander Alexander ander was standing in the doorway when the boulder struck the rear of the house and she had just stepped to toone toone toone one side when the rock entered the door where she had h d been standing About forty feet from the Alexander home another rock weighing in the neighborhood of seven tons complete completely ly demolished the home of Thomas Thoma Mayne Luckily LucIdly the occupants of the house were absent at the time timeS timeA A S |