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Show ' , Rock Wrecks a Home. The residence of W, T. Booth, which was situated on tho side of a high mountain In Mercer county, W. Vn., was wrecked recently, and several members of tho family were badly bruised, says a Roanoko (Va.) dispatch dis-patch to tho Baltlmoro American. That they all wore not killed is almost a miracle. An Immenso rock near the summit ot tho mountain, soveral hundred hun-dred feet abovo the houso, broko looso' from Its foundation and rolled down tho mountain sido at tcrrillc speed, carrying other rocks and trees with It, against' Booth's house. The Inmates ot tho house awoko to find themselves being hurled from their beds wlth'great force. Tho houso was carried to the 'valley below, and the bulldlng"and furniture was reduced to kindling wood. |