JIMMY ELKHORN DROWNS AT WITCH HOLE POND - ACADIA, JULY 1896

Deaths In Acadia National Park;

Sept. 10, 1929
Dennis Doonan, a dynamite man for the Mccabe Company, was fatally injured on the project on 10 Sept. 1929.  Doonan had been anxious to complete the drilling and blasting on a ledge face near the lower end of the road, and asked two employees to work overtime on the drilling.  As one of the men, Jean Lipscomb, was drilling a hole, the drill steel snapped off.  When he removed it from the hole, he found it very hot and showed it to Doonan.  Although he had had thirty years experience in blasting work, Doonan disregarded the overheated steel and proceeded to load the hole.  He placed two sticks of dynamite in the hole and .  Nothing happened, but when he added a third stick with an electric blasting cap, the charge exploded, injuring Doonan so badly that he died in the hospital the following morning.  The tragedy, did not, however, seriously delay the project.