Good Old Days

8 years ago

The Commoner

Aug. 1, 1890

The contract for doing the rock work on the Lewiston road was awarded to Contractors Anderson and Swanson.

Both men were terribly injured while at work one mile east of here last Saturday.

A hole had been drilled into the rock preparatory to making a blast, and Swanson was pouring powder into it while Anderson tamped it down with an iron rod.

Two kegs of black powder and considerable dynamite had been placed in the hole, and both men lay on their stomachs with their faces toward it, when the action of the iron rod against the rock caused an explosion, an...