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ROCK OF DAMOCLES.
BLASTING OPERATIONS CA USE
ALARM
Received May 14, 10.45 p.m.)
Paris, May 14. The inhabitants are abandoning Tormery, Savoy, owing to the ap-' ' proaching blasting of the - so-called Jlock of Damocles, which is poised 2700 foot above the ground level, and moasures 2800 cubic yards.
Thirty work in on have i'or four months been drilling dynsMiiito holes in the rock. The .'iiUliorit :•■■; voted
£'.10,000 io prov::!o ii: bonsus aro destroyed hy the explosion.
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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13724, 15 May 1913, Page 5
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76ROCK OF DAMOCLES. Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13724, 15 May 1913, Page 5
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