The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-02-12
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TERRIHLE DISAsrER.

Forty Men and Four Teams Hurled I,n
der G,OOO Yards OF Earth.
ST. Louis, February ll.-A Kansas Cit,
dispatch says: A terrible accident oc
cured about u o'clock this morning at tllt
foot Of Grand Avenue, in cut being made
for the Chicago aud Alton Railroad. Al
that hour the cut, with its almost perpen
dicular walls, ninety feet hight, caved il
and buried the workmen and their team.
under six thousand yards Of falling earth
There were four teams in the cut at til,
time and ten men working ut each team
besides these there were the foreman, Jos
Mccarthy, his clerk and two men work
ing with the pick. Mr.. Solder, the con
tractor, was notin the cut. Six persons
were killed out right and several wound
ed. The following were killed: Peter
Bagley, Jas. Hagen, Thos. Casey, Ed
Hines, Dan. Lucett and Rhichard Rine
All the bodies have been recovered. The
scene is hcartrending.
ST. LOUIS, February ll.-Another dis
patch from Kansas City about the land
slide there this morning says: The eartI,
first began sliding at the top OF the south
wall ot the cut and accumulatingin in qhan.
tity and force as it descended, it spread
on reaching the bottom clear OF the exca-
walton and piled itself 20 feet high against
the opposite wall. The laborers ut tho
first alarm rushed franticalIy toward the
outlet OF the cut to escape, but
their way was almost entirely
blocked by wagons, which at thai
time were standing squarely across the
excavation, and six OF them were over.
whelmed by the huge mass OF carth and
sunk down TO die under its ponderous
weight. Those who escaped were tazeG
with horror, though they rushed with des
perate energy on the murtlerous earth and
with frantic speed SGT TO work to uncover
their buried comrades. After three hours
OF untiring labor six dead bodies were
brought to view.
An immense crowd Of people collected
at each end OF the cut and could only be
kept out Of danger by the utmost efforts
OF the police. Women and children OF the
workmen in the cut came running from all
directions, and rushed excitcdly through
the crowd, calling the names Of husbands
fathers or brothers, whom they found had
been crushed to death. They could hardly
be restrained from breaking through the
lines, and tho scene was not only sad bu
heartrcnding. The walls OF the cxcava.
ton are about 80 feet high and allnos
perpendicular. There is no rock there
and nothing to sustain them but there
own cohesion, and small slides have beer
frequent, but nobody has been hurt til
to-day.
Tho slope Of The walls when first cut wa.
one foot to ten, but finding they would no
stand ut that angle, the engineer aboard
ordered tho sides cut down to slant o
three feet 10 ten. This, however, was in
sufficient, US the terrible catastrophe Of to
day attests.
caused by the city refusing the railroat
company the right Of way along the rive
front, but gave them the privilege Of usin.
an alley In tho rear, running parallel will
the high blur Of the river.
Two lncii-namel John McCloskey an'
John Kennedy were slightly wounded
and an unknown man is said 10 be mortal
ly hurt.