Show NINE E EIN MEN DIE IN ROCK SLIDE on n Colorado Civil Works Project Are Crushed GRAND JUNCTION Colo Cob Dec Dee 13 i Nine IP-Nine Nine men men members of a crew working on a 3 federal civil ivil works project died yesterday In a rockslide There were reports two more were swept feet down the face of a cliff curf in the Colorado national monument maim maim- ment northwest of here and a search was resumed today T. T W. W Secrest U U. S. S park service engineer engineer en en- attributed the tragedy to blasting blast blast- ing lag on the opposite side of the can can- yon The blasting apparently loosened the foot 50 sandstone cliff towering over the road on which the men were working Earlier blasting to loosen rocks farther above also weakened the cliff Fifty jobless men were given employment employment em em- Monday but only 20 members mem memo bers of or the thc crew were in the vicinity of the avalanche Three a of the victims working near the edge of ot the rim road were swept of off the cliff fell tell more than feet teet down the mountainside The others were crushed on the roadway buried under the slide The dead Clyde Van Loan 28 John Rupe 50 Frank Winters 55 Ed Carmichael 60 Leo Adams 19 Robert Robert Rob Rob- ert Fuller 28 Buster Moreland 19 W W. L L. Wilson 57 and Harley Beeson Beeson Bee Bee- son son 22 |