Workmen Risk Lives Dynamiting 140-Foot Grain Plant Chimney (Mar33)

Workmen Risk Lives Dynamiting 140-Foot Grain Plant Chimney (Mar33) 08:09:08 Tilt up large brick chimney. 08:09:13 Workmen w/ pneumatic drills removing bricks at corner of base; CU drilling past screwjack on timber supporting bricks. 08:09:27 View up chimney. 08:09:29 Worker by plunger looking up, signals & pushes plunger. 08:09:32 Chimney slowly begins to fall. Enormous dust cloud on impact. View of brick rubble pile. 1933; 1930s; Depression; Destruction; Removal;