Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . dynamite were used in blasting, but eight menhave been killed, three of whom failed to go to a safe distance and were killed by flying stones, and two by. Fhoto by Underwood & UTiderwood SLICING OFF THE CHIEF ENGINEERS OFFICE Photo hy Underwood & Underwood HOW TOURISTS SEE THE CUTThe picture shows Vincent Astors party in the observation car miscounting the number of shots which hadgone off in a dobe group, and approaching thegroup before the last shot had exploded. Something like 12,000,000 pounds of dynamite ayear was imported from the states to
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . dynamite were used in blasting, but eight menhave been killed, three of whom failed to go to a safe distance and were killed by flying stones, and two by. Fhoto by Underwood & UTiderwood SLICING OFF THE CHIEF ENGINEERS OFFICE Photo hy Underwood & Underwood HOW TOURISTS SEE THE CUTThe picture shows Vincent Astors party in the observation car miscounting the number of shots which hadgone off in a dobe group, and approaching thegroup before the last shot had exploded. Something like 12,000,000 pounds of dynamite ayear was imported from the states to keep thejob going, over 6,000,000 pounds a year being usedin Culebra Cut alone, and many an unsuspectingpassenger danced over the tossing Atlantic waveswith a cargo beneath him explosive enough to blowhim to the moon. On the Zone the stuff is handledwith all the care that long familiarity has shown tobe necessary, but to the uninitiated it looks carelessenough. It is however a fact that the accidentsare continually lessening in number and in fatalitiescaused. The greatest accident of all occurred De-cember 12, 1908, when we had been only four yearson the job. It was at Bas Obispo, and i
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