REDUCED TO POWDER.
"THE ROCK OF DAMOCLES." By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Paris, May 22. Tormery, the village in Savoy from which' the inhabitants fled while operations for tho destruction of the rock known as "The Rock of Damocles" were in progress, has been saved. Three hundred mines wero exploded, reducing the rock to powder. [The "Rock of Damocles" was poised 2700 ft. above the village, and measured 2GOO cubic yards. Thirty workmen had been employed for four months drilling dynamite holes for its' destruction. The authorities voted the sum of forty thousand sterling as compensation to the inhabitants if their homes were destroyed.]
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1758, 24 May 1913, Page 5
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103REDUCED TO POWDER. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1758, 24 May 1913, Page 5
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