Show I Cucaracha Slide In Panama L Canal Blown Up by Dynamite I I S i ih h gg e rv j f Y t v Gr nn r f t t is y a Y N 1 sr fN rRy Photo Photo copyright 1913 by American Pr Press ss Ass atlen blast here pictured Is historic It marks the la last t step of ot the of-the the United T Mates government In the construction of t the Panama banal anaL After Atter this great slide sUde in the Cul Culebra bra cut the a slide slide w was s dynamited the government owned J a real waterway va from frow ocean to ocean Dle Dredges were at once set to work to clear out the channel and when this Is done provided provided pro pro- vided there thele be no further slides the canal will be ready be ready for navigation The Culebra has cut been the greatest problem In the construction of the canal since the French began excavating this his section of the ditch thirty years ago It wits w was s not merely that th the canal had to be be cut through a mountain here mountain here nearly l' l r feet above the bottom of ot the waterway waterway but but that the treacherous ous slid slides elides s lied bud t to be cleared be-cleared out out- |