Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-21
0UEBEC'S DISASTER
Many Sad and Thrilling Scenes
 Among the Ruins.
THE DEATH ROLL NUMBERS 25.
Horrors Witnessed in the Search for the
 Living and the Dead.

The TerrOrs of the Dreadful Calamity are
 Succeeding Each Other-A Husband Be-
 comes Violently Insane After Viewing
 tho Remains of His Wifo-Preparations
 for the Funerals of the Killed The
 Number of Lost Not Definitely Known.
 QUEBEC, Sept. 21.-The extent of the disaster by the fall of rock at Cape Dia- mond exceeds that which occurred on nearly the same spot on May r, 1S41, when eight buildings were destroyed and thirty-two persons killed. In 1852 several were killed half mile further up the street by a similar avalanche of rock.
 The search for the dead and inj jured is going on slowly, though a large force of men is engaged in the labor. The shipping office in the Dominion Gov ernment building has been turned into temporary morgue. It is difficult to identify some of tho bodies, so much have they been disfgured and crushed.
 How many were swept to the bottom and covered over with the displaced earth cannot be told just yet. Nor is there any accuracy in the estimate of the number of people killed and wounded. First the deaths were not supposed to be moro than fifty. Now it is estimated they will count up to 200. The work of excavating Is still going on.
 The loss sustained by the surviving victims of the disaster is very great. Some of the workingmen who are de- prived of their homes lose all their fur niture. and other effects, even their summer earnings, and many are left penniless at the beginning of Canadian winter.
 The horrors of the dreadful day are still succeeding each other. While sworkers were clearing the debris of a crumbled building, they discovered the is in the most miserable condition. Both legs, his left arm and several ribs are broken. Kemp will not live two hours, Two hours later his wife's body was taken out. Her head was almost sev- cred from her body, and indications pointed to a most revolting and violent death.
 Further away, the corpse of Mrs; Lawson, who had been greatly admired for her beauty and suitability, was ex- tracted from under 0 rafter on which about ten tons of stone and dirt were lying. She was smashed almost fiat. The abdomen was ripped open and the entrails scattered about. Her husband became violently insane after viewing the remains.
 A man named Michael Bradley who had gone almost crazy when told that all his family had perished in the land slide, discovered, while working over the wreck of his house, his five-year-old daughter still alive. His joy was inde- scribable. He kissed and fondled her as mother would her babe. It is now thought the child will live. Up to this time the number of corpses found is 25, and the wounded number IS. Preparations are being made for the funerals of the killed. They will be buried at the joint expense of tho city and provincial governments. Among those under tho rocks arc 8 young couple named Nolan, who had been but few weeks married. Nolan could have escaped but lost his life trying to get his wife out of the house. It is thought the kings bastion of the citadel will have to be removed, as it is l now too near the edge of the rock, with unsafe crevices in front of it. As a precautionary measure, all communica- | tion with the bastion has been cut off. Some 20,000 persons visited the scene | of the disaster during the day. It was | decided to use small charges of powder to break up the huge powders covering the roadway, as it is certain that there can be no one alive beneath them.