Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-09
PEOPLE BSk PROTECTION
From Flying Rocks in Vicinity of Camp and Orange Streets.

l One House Was Badly Used Up This Morning "a Time It Was Thought That Some Lives Had Been Lost-One Woman Thrown Out of
 Bed by the Concussion- Piece of the Rock Went Through Her Room Win
 dow.
 There was a big sensation at the corner of Orange and Camp streets this morning and for half an hour or so 1t
 was difficult to find out whether any one had been killed or not; but it was plain to those who crowded about the place that considerable damage had been done to private property and 1 many people badly scared. Contractor Norton is blasting rocks in lot be- | side the roadway and in discharg ging a blast piece of stone flew across the street and battered up the residence of James Duffy so badly that one would think artillery men had been aiming at it with telling effect from fort on the hill The panels in the main door were stove iD, several of the clap boards riddled, a light of glass in the cellar window smashed, large hole
 blrrowed through the roof of the veranda, one of the windows in the third story shattered to pieces, the l sidewalk .dented in spots and things
 generally ripped up.
 One of the tenants, Mrs WiIfred Laresse, who is in delicate condition,
 was asleep in a bed on the third floor when the missile entered through the window and before she had any knowledge of what was up she found herself on the floor and the $7S bed on which she had been resting knocked into smithereens. She probably would have been killed were it not that she happened to be lying over towards the wall. The shock dazed her and it was some time before she revived and real ized the cause of the upset. The wo- men folks about the place were very much excited ,and no wonder. for the ledge Is So near the house that blasting cannot be carried on there with any measure of safety except with the greatest care. Mrs Duffy told Dem ocrat reporter that they have been liv- ing in constant dread of being killed since the work was started about a week ago and that if it continues they will have to move out. She said the contractor promised to repair the dam- age, but added that even so she thought operations should be stopped or con Gucted under better management. They can put back the window glass; she said, 'but it is not in their bower to restore human life if they take it away, something which they are sure to do if they keep on. We are resi- dents and taxpayers and it seems to me that there ought to be some one in authority to protect us from the dangers and annoyances we have been subjected to for the past week. Our condition could not be worse if the country was at war and an invading army at the door. The blast missed last night and they put in another charge of dynamite this morning and let 1t off with both n. so that rocks were tossed about in all directions and many of them hit the house with tre mendous force. l thought the build ing was knocked off the cellar"
 Several people collected about. the place, mostly women, and some of them acted as if they felt like making an attack on the two or three laborers who were hustling among the stones across the way. ssI came to look at the wreck remarked one old Iady. aI heard you were all killed, but I'm glad to see 1t isn't as bad as that.' There are other houses quite near the duarry put so Tar none of these has suffered much on account of the blasting. but all the occupants are on the anxious seat.