Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1843-03-02

We are Indebted to the N. Y. Herald for
slip, containing the following accoun; of heart
rendinS occurrence at Troy:
From tie Albany .frgus
AWFUL CALAMITY.
GREAT LAND SLIDE At TROY, FORTY LIVES
LOST, SEVERAL BUILDINGS DIES rKOYED.
We have accounts OF d iearluI calamity al Troy
occasioned by land side, scarcely inferior in
tent. and II Is feared, even destructive of lille,
than that which occurred several years ago.
The slide occurred south ot The former one, on
the sa,e hili--,he avalanche crushing and nearly
buryins several frame buildings at tao foot of the
hill, anu extending qnite across Main street.
he verbal accouuiS wary IN PARTICULARS, but all
concur In repre- Sentmg The loss at life and the
scene of distress terrible hey ond description.
The following letter from cspondent furnish
es ali The particulars as yet witn reach:
IRoY, Feb. Il, hai past p. NJ.
Messrs. Crosweil-Our city mas been again
visited with AN uwIui calamity. Another terrible
avaianche has swept houses and families away
In ITS course OF destruction. 1t is useless 10 at
tempt 10 Partcularize when il Is utterly impossi-
bic to do so on this nournful occasion. Suffice
IL TO say, that Tie earth slide occurred in the i'm
mediate vicinity Of the terrible avalanche Of 1887,
about four o'clock this afternoon, covering acres
oil ground al The base vi the hill and crushing 10
atoms some ten or twelve houses, nearly all
pied. Whole families have persisted, and the on
iy warning they received was the death blow that
carried them into eternity.
have just left the ruins to communicate to YOU
these few lines. There, all is panic and confu-
sion. Eight or ten dead bodies have already
oeen taken out from the ruins, and how many a
live or partially injured cannot tell. The crowds
are moving in masses from spot 10 spot, and in
the centre at each the mortal remains of some one
who has persisted, and are being carried from the
scene OF destruction 10 some more suitable place.
The municipal officers are on the spot, doing all
THAI is possible TO be done to rescue the living, if
any are TO be found, and to take Of the dead.
hsn left, the smoke gushing from the
Let me assure you tina, lie scene presents q,
awful and melancholy sight. Babes i'm their era.
d'es, mothers with their children in their arms
anu s'ai"ait men, who but two hours aoo BREATH
ed freely and In health, have been taken from the
RUNS nutated and mangied corpses. The build
ii'gs destroyed were nearly all new, and had but
ic.em'y peen erected. They were lenanted prin-
cIpaIiy by poor and industrious mechanics
will state for the information of your distant
readers, that the centre of the avalanche was at
'he mead OF Washington street, little below
what has usually been termed the .fve points, of
this city.
The names of the families tina. have persisted.
that have been able to learn are, BirJsall. (,be
father, tho son of Major Birdsall, who was Shot
some years ago near The arsenal in Albany Day.
heiiey' and some others that cannot now rec
ollecl. '''
+: S.-Since the above was in type, we have
received the following slip from tn. Troy Bud
GET
DAILY Troy BupoET ExrRA,)
Feb. l7-6 +. M
AWFUL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES O'Clock this
afternoon, another land slide occurred from the
NH (Mt. lda,) where the awful catasironhe of
January !, 1887, TRANSFERRED, exceeding in extent
ana consequences that memorable disaster
some eight or ten dwellings, ot cupied by moor
families, were crushed and buried beneath the
mass OF earth. In these ii is supposed there were
not less than thirty forty persons, only ten or
twelve OF whom escaped.
thin an hour, nine bodies had been dur from,
Tie ruins-fye OF which were without life. one
partially Injured, and three not beyond recovery.
Had this avalanche occurred in the ninht. lin.
destruction u life would have been still urea, as
many occupants Of the houses were absent At heir
labor or elsewhere.
a man from the country, passing at the time
WIN his team, leaped from his sleigh and escaped
he horses aud load of wood were buried beneath
the earth
We just left the scene of disaster II is one Of
horflhc dessoation. Thousands were congreoa.
ted on the spot, and corps of efficient men en-.
gagged In penetrating the earth aud clearing awav
The fragments oil buildings.
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