Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-02-25
From the Albany Argus.
AWFUL CALAMITY.

Greaf Land Side al Troy--Frfy Lipcs Lost
Several Buildings Destroyed.
We have scceuuss Of fes, ,ful calamity az Troy
occasioned ty alond slide, scarcely inferior in
tent, and !, is Yesred even more destructive of life
than that which occurred several years ago.
The slide occurred south Of the former one on
the same h4l-the avalanche crushing and nearly
burying several frame buildings at the foot of the
hill, and extending quhe ACROSS Main street.
The verbal accounts vary in particulars, but all
concur in representing the loss Of life and the scene
Of distress as terrible beyond description. The
following letter ftom q correspondent furnishes all
the particulars as yet within reach.
Tnoy, Feb. IL, half past 3, Pm.
MFssns, CnvswELL-Our city has been again
visited with an awful calamity Another terrible
avalanche has swep, houses and families away in
its course Of obstruction. II is useless to a,,emp,
10 particularRe wken i, is Utterly impossible to do
so on this mourufui occasion. Suffice il 70 say,
that the earth slide occurred in the immediate vi
cini,y Of the terrible avalanche Of 1857, shout foar
O'Clock this afternoon, covering sc1es Of ground AZ
the base of tire hr, and crushing to atoms some
sen'ortwelve houses nearly all occupied. Whole
families have perstrcd, ind the only warming they
received the death how that Carried then into
etessits.
have just left the ruins TO communicate to you
these Sw tines. There, all rs panic and confusion
Eight or zen 'dend bodies have already been taken
OUT from the ruins and how many alive OF partial
ay injured cannot tell The crowds are moving
in masses from spot to SCOT, and in the centre vf
each the mortal ~emains Of some one who had per
ilhed, are being carried from the scene Of dcs.ruc-
'ton 20 some more suitable place. The municipal
Officers are on the spot dornE all tina, is possible
sto be dspe TO rescue the living, if any yet te
found, ana of the dead -Whes left, the smoke
~sas gushing from the smoulderins ruins, and sere
Tn hose companies were there
lie; 1,e assure you that the scene presents an
awful sna m,sanchoy sight. Babes n. their era.
dies, mothers with their children in their arms, and
-stalwart men, who but two hours ago Hea,hed
freely and IN hesih, have been taken from The
ins, mutta,ei and msngled corpses. The buiM
ings destroyed were nearly all new, and had but
recently been erected. They tenanted Prin-
'cipally by poor aud industrious paechanIcs.
] will state kor the Inform Noa of your distan,
readers tast the ceutre Of the al,pche at the
head OF Washington street, a Irle aeow what has
usually been,ernsed the "ive points" Of sais city.
The names Of the families that have Irrished,
that have been able to iean are, BirdsaF, (he IA,
ther, the Of Major Birdsall, who was shot some
years seo near the arsenal in Albany,) Day, Kel-
qey and some others tts19 csano, now recot,ect
"To,nint."-The New brunswick papers speak
ofthe abunds,cee of wolves, hungry and ravenou,,
in that province. They have become dangerous.
read shoIt time since, was chased by four ofthese
ugly customers.