Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-09-25
sQuE1EC'S AVALANCHE.

QOEBEC'S AVALANCHE.
Tho Death-L,st from Thursday Nights
Landslide May Reach Forty-Twenty-
Eight Bodies Recoverel-Many Und0ubt-
edly Yet Hurled Beneath the Tons Of
Rock and Dirt Some Heart-kondlng
Scenes. s5s
QUEBEC. Can, Sept 2l.-A sad and dreary
day to the watchers and workers at the
scene OF tho landslide was Friday, and lit
tie indeed OF comfort did tine result OF the
search among the debris bring to the sur.
wing victims Of the catastrophe The
death-roll now numbers twenty-eight per-
sons, and 1t is thought that it will reach
forty. The names are as follows:
Thomas Allen. Mira Thomas Allen, Charles
Allan, Mrs. Charles Allan, Miss Esther Allan,
Henry Black, William Black, Mrs. Bracken,
mrs. stephen Burke and two children, Michael
Duhy James Edwards, l. Edwards, Thomas
Farrell and three children, Norah Kennedy,
Mrs. r. II. Leahy, Miss Lane, Mrs. MoCoun,
@. s. Neville, Thomas Nolan, Charles Pois,
Mrs. Ready. Alphonse Tredeau, Napoleon
Treteouw, H. Wright. 3D..
The consensus of medical opinion, as we'll
a. the cool and unpreiudioed Judgment of
d1sintcrested lay minds pointed to the I'm
PROBABILITY or more than few, it any, of
those imprisoned beneath the rocks and
debris being exIicated alive after a living
entombment Of over twelve hours with it's
continuous strain upon the nervous system,
partia. sutfocation, in some cases intense
bodily suffering, and in others exposure to
FIRE smoke and water
The members Of the Black family were
buried alive twelve feet below tho surface
OF the debris. On being asked II they were
safe Mrs Black answered.: my hush nd
was killed at tho door right be-
fore my eyes. The rest are
safe, but we are suffering from
wounds and bruises on our limbs" Shorty
after Miss May Cauldwell, neioe Of Mr..
Black, was extricated from Mr. Blacks
house. Her limbs were 80 s1iff from mac
ton that the least touch on them caused
excruciating pain. The next person taken
out was Thomas Berrigan. whose wife
was taken out Of the ruins dead.
He was so disfgured his friends could
hardly recognized him He was removed
to the hospital muttering prayer of
thanks for his miraculous .ape. The
next to follow was an S-year-o4d boy, also
named Berrigan. His left leg was crushed
to jelly. Then came Mrs. Black Her
bosom, neck and face were dreadfully
swollen.
The dead body of the second child of MIR.
P. Fitzgerald was recovered from The ruins,
as we'll as that Of Willie Black, whose IA
ther was also killed Death had probably in
his case been instantaneous, as he was
crushed by aeheavy beam, which pinned
him across the chest to the floor. The res
cue OF Mrs. Blacks niece isreported Those
who aided in her rescue tell how
heroically this young and slender
girl OF some II years struggled for life and
liberty. Though it is said she suffers from
broken leg and wrist and is otherwise
bruised, she told those who were endeav-
oring to extricate her that she was helping
them, and SO she was, working hard with
both hands notwithstanding her terribly
mangled condition.
Ada Black, the 8-year-old daughter of
Henry Black, was rescued, only slightly in
jured, about o'clock. At s o'clock in the
morning the child of Mrs. Ready was re-
covered alive, apparently without a
scratch, lying in close proximity to her
dead mother. The child is but months
old
There are now fifteen sufferers from the
catastrophe in the Hotel Dieu hospital and
a number have been taken to private resi-
dences
Mrs. Mccain, one of the victims, was pay
ing visit to some friends. When found
her position was as If she was about tying
the strings of her bonnet Mrs. Burke, one
OF the vic inns, met a most cruel death
When found she was lying under cross
beam, terribly strained At o'clock the
crushed bodies of Mrs James Bradley and
one of her children were taken from the
ruins of their home. The body of Mrs
Martin Ready was also taken from the
debris.
Late Friday night while workers were
busy clearing away the debris of crumbled
buildings faint grOans were heard at inter-
walls from under huge piles OF rocks The
efforts Of the volunteers were concentrated
to that point. and, after three hours hard
work, the b eeding body of Joe Kemp
was extricated from the mass Of rock
The poor man is in most pitiable condi-
ton Both legs arc broken at the knees.
the left arm is fractured above the elbow
and several ribs are fractured. He can
not live many hours. Two hours later his
wife's body was taken out of the wre OK
Farther away another hideous spectacle
was offered to sight-the corpse of a young
woman Mrs. Lauson), who had been ad-'
mired in her lifetime for her beauty. Her
body had been crushed almost fiat Her
abdomen had been ripped open and her
entrails were scattered about Shortly
after viewing her remains her husband be-
came raving maniac. 1t is doubtful ii he
will recover his reason.
Fifteen HURT.