The State guard., 1848-07-25
Awful Land Slide.

We gather the following from the New Orleans papers of Friday the 14th, inst. One of the most heart-rending ca iamities that we have lately had on record, occurred about ' o'clock on Thursday evening last, on the levee opposite the Ursuline Convent. On Tuesday last a small portion of the levee at that spot gave way and sunk, and some fears were entertained at the time that large DOT tion would soon break of. On the eve ming we have spoken of some men were engaged in driving pickets down at the place where the bank had given way in order to prevent ,he levee from further waring away by the action of the water. Some fifteen or twenty persons, who resi- ded near the place were gathered on the bank viewing the river and the men at work, when about two hundred feet ol the levee in length, and eighty feet in width suddenly gave way, and without mo- ment's warning six human beings were ushered into eternity. The scene is de- scribed by those who witnessed it to have been the most heart-rending they ever looked upon. We have learned the names of only six persons, as yet, who were drowned, but it is asserted that others who at present are not known were lost. The names of the victims, as we have learned them, are Mrs. Hypolne Troump and child, about eight months old Fanny Troump, aged nine years :; Louise Troump, aged seven years Felix Troump, aged twenty four years Miss Charlotte Dezire and Mir. Francois Andry. The latter gentleman arrived upon the spot but few moments before the acci- dent occurred, and having tied his horse to capstan on the levee, had given some directions to the men who were at work, and had started to come out in the road, when he went down, as also did his horse. Of the five men who were at work driving .pickets, four of them escaped Felix Troump being the only one who drown ed. A little fellow not quite ten years of age, Gustave Troump, was precipitated with the others into the water, but being able to swim and fortunate enough to re- tain his presence of mind, reached the shore. He is the son of MT. Hypolite
 Troump. and the only one of his family that is left to him. MT. Noblat was also carried into the water, and somewhat in- ,jured bya pioc of timber, but succeeded iE saving himself by swimming ashore.- sThe death of Mrs. Troump and child was the most aeonizing portion of the terrible scene. The spot upon which she stood, instead of rolling over into the water as most of the bank did, settled down be- meath her, leaving her standing with her child raised above her head, with the true feelings of a mother, and calling until she
 had nearly disappeared upon some one to save her child. Her husband, who was but short distance ffom her, rushed towards the spot, and when within few feet of her large pile of wood fell over and crushed her beneath it. The unfortu- nate man, who had thus lost all he held dear at blow, could with difficulty be re- strained from plunging into the water and going down with his family. He yester- day presented the most melancholy specta- ; cle we have ever looked upon. Without noticing the crowd that was congregated about the place, he rowed over the spot in
 a small boat from morning till night, vainly searching for the remains of his lost fami- ly. None of the bodies had been reco- yered up to 6 o'clock last evening, but the hat of MT. Andry, and some other arti-
 cles, had fioated ashore some distance be- 1ox. MT. As horse was picked up in tlfe afternoon opposit MT. Benvenue's $ plantation, below the Barracks. I3
 Picayune of Sunday following gives the following gnals hns ,saaod
 TIE LAND SLIDE.-The scene of the melancholy affair of Thursday evening, where so many human beings were, with out moments warning, launched into eternity, was yesterday visited by a large number of citizens. Between 4 and 5 o'clock yesterday morning the batture gave way again, and about sixty feet in
 width of the bank, extending nearly the whole length of the first break, went down. A large lot of cord-wood which was piled up at the place was taken into ! the river. A carriage way is now about all that is left between the banquetts and the river, and the water is from fifty to } seventy feet deep within ten or twelve yards of the Convent fence. It will be
 necessary to turn the rode, and we under stand that it is the intention to cut through the beautiful garden of MT. D'Aquin, and also that of the Convent. s1sIlorT
 :. The, body of Mir. Felix eTroump came
 up yesteday morning within few yards from the spot where it wen. down. The
 body of Miss Fanny Troump the daugh- ter of MT. Paul Trornp, was found in the afternoon short distance below the Bar
 racks, and the body of an infant, supposed
 te be that of Mrs. Hypolite Troump, was
 picked up at the English Turn. One of the guns of the Battalion of Artillery was
 taken down yesterday afternoon and fired