Show ONS HEAD GONE old destroyed bj explosion a Gi gantle mast one of the biggest blasts of dynamite a that has ever taken place in ia a qu quarry arry it if not the biggest occurred tho other day tit at the palisade quarries about two miles from fort leethe palisades at this point which is just opposite fort washington were shorn of about one thousand feet of surface and the di displacement 5 pa arcement extended about three hundred feet on an average into the fcc rock c head has been a landmark for many years yeam to boatmen and tourists going up and down clown the river the grim profile looking startlingly distinct just when it came into view through its resemblance to that of abl th father of uis Ms country Washington 1 head is no more it tottered and went down in the general havoc caused by the blast and lies broken in a hundred pieces at the foot of the palisades the blast was hardly felt at fort lee where it simply made the earth quiver a little like an infant earthquake two miles or more of fissured reck makes a good buffer and the shock was pretty well exhausted hen it reached the village about tour four thousand pounds of dynamite was used and the weight of the rock displaced was estimated at one hundred thousand tons at the lowest calculation |