#Dynamite 7 days to die driver#

One of those on strike was Bobby Lee Shuler. The local Teamsters union was on strike against the trucking company. Galt from Oklahoma City Galt drove for Tri-State Motors of Joplin. Walker says the deputy found several more remains after finding the foot.

#Dynamite 7 days to die driver#

A cowboy boot belonging to the driver with a foot inside.During their walk around the area, Walker and the deputy found: He asked the deputy what he was doing on the scene the deputy told Walker he was gathering evidence and human remains. Walker ran into another deputy and walked with him for a while. Walker says he couldn’t see the hole’s bottom for a while and walked around to view it from different vantage points. “It was literally like a bomb had gone off in the eastbound lane of the highway,” says Walker.

Walker says he walked to the top of an on-ramp and saw something he did not expect. Walker told Ozarks First Reporter Bailey Strohl that on his way, he ran into a deputy and told the deputy his business and was able to proceed to the scene. The next day, Walker went to work, he worked for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, and decided to go out to the explosion, I-44 and State Highway N/T, to see if any of their customers in the area were out of service.

They lived four blocks from Glenstone and St. Walker says he and his wife went to bed the night of September 30th, and he heard his windows rattling and thought someone was at their house. Jim Walker lived in Springfield at the time but now lives in Grand Prarie, Texas. The blast created a 30 feet deep and 50 feet wide crater in the middle of the interstate. The explosion was caused by a sniper bullet hitting a truck carrying around 20 tons of dynamite. BROOKLINE, Mo.- September 30th, 1970, a day many Springfieldians remember because of a loud explosion on I-44.