{"id":807523,"date":"2020-05-16T18:37:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T00:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=383480"},"modified":"2020-05-16T18:37:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T00:37:04","slug":"this-week-in-history-may-15-1920-man-dies-on-dredge-mothers-day-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/this-week-in-history-may-15-1920-man-dies-on-dredge-mothers-day-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in history, May 15, 1920: Man dies on dredge, Mother\u2019s Day celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In order to cut down the running time between Pittsburgh’s outlying districts and the city, an engineering project to blast through a mountain chain encircling the city has begun. When this tunnel has been bored it will cut cut travel time from one hour to 15 minutes. This photograph shows the first blasting for the tunnel \u2014 the rock within the white semicircle is honeycombed with dynamite. As seen in the May 15, 1920 edition of The Summit County Journal.<\/strong>
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SAMUEL H. ROGERS MEETS SUDDEN DEATH<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Monday before noon Samuel H. Rogers was drowned in the dredging pit of the Blue River Dredging company, about 2 miles north of Breckenridge. It appears that Rogers was employed on the Tonopah Placers company\u2019s Number 3 boat and, being recently changed to the night shift, found he couldn\u2019t sleep and decided to visit some of his acquaintances on the Blue River dredge.<\/p>\n

After being on the boat for an hour he passed over the gang plank to the bank of the pit, stepping off the side before reaching its end just as a slice of bank caved in. A loose rock is believed to have hit him on the right temple, stunning him so that he did not come to the surface of the water.<\/p>\n

MOTHER\u2019S DAY PROGRAM<\/strong><\/p>\n

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