Child Killed as Boulder Tumbles Into Home
A 600-pound boulder slipped off a mountain outcrop, crashed 1,400 feet down a steep incline and smashed into a house Saturday, killing a sleeping child, state police said.
“It was out of the blue, an act of God,” said state police Sgt. C. E. Berlin Jr.
The 3-foot-wide rock crashed through the outside wall of Ronald Marcum’s house and went through a closet and another wall and into the bedroom of Marcum’s sleeping 15-month-old child, Berlin said. The rock hit the infant, whose name was not released, and continued through two more walls.
Berlin said there was no mine blasting in the area and no indication of anything that would have triggered the rockfall.
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