Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-28
ENT0MBED ALIVE
Over 200 People Buried Under
Tons of Rock at
Quebec.
A Few Bodies Have Been Secured,
but Many Are Still in
the Ruins.
The Work OF EHcavating Still Goes
on With Small Success
Loss TO Property
Great.
A Disastrous Landslide.

thousand tons OF rock slld from cape
Diamond. at the end Of Duferin ter
race, to Champlain street, 300 feet be-
low, demolishing in its course seven
dwellings. Up to midnight six bodies
had been taken from the ruins-
, Thomas Farrell and his two children,
also two children named Burke and one
unknown child. Farrells mo~ther-in-laW,
named Allen, and her husband are
still in the ruins. About twenty-five
persons have been removed from the
Debris badly injured. Some have
broken arms and legs and others are
badly crushed and mutilated. 1t is sup
posed at least fifty persons are yet under
the ruins. The debris covers the road
in a solid mass some 300 feet in length
and from fifteen to twenty-five feet
high. 1t is impossible 70 say at present
how many dead and wounded there are.
Everyone is working h~eroically and
under difficulties, as the night is in
tensely dark and the electric light wires
have been Frustrated.
Cries Of "hclp, help" are heard from
beneath the debris, but no help can be
given. Very little progress is made in
recovering the bodies owing TO the stu
pendOus mass Of rock covering the ruins.
The body Of q woman named Mrs. Har-
rison has just been pulled out OF the
debris. More rocks are falling and IL il
feared the whole boulder forming the
highest point of Quebec viii give away
The mass Of rock detached from the
cliG's side left q vacant space OF extra.
ordinary dimensions under Dutierin ter
race and tho great promenade is nov
unsafe. Thirteen corpses and sixteen
wounded have now been taken cut. The
~pecuniary damage Will be large. A force
of 600 men are now working on the
debris.
ATLEAsT 200 BODIES BURIED.
BosToN, Sept. 20.-A Quebec special
TO the Journal says: 1t is now believed
that at least 200 dead bodies are under
the pile Of debris.
FIJI loss o. LIFE IS GREAT.
QUEBEC, Sept. 2O.-The work Of exca
waiting still roes on at the scene Of thf
terrible landslide. But few bodies haW
been taken out since midnight. q
large number of persons are still miss
ing and there IS no doubt thej
are beneath the ruins and 81
deep down they win all bI
dead before they are reached. The loss
sustained by the surviving victims OF
the disaster is almost total. In adGi
ton 70 their homes most of the sufferers.
who are working men, lost al theu
summer earnings. The injured have
been removed 20 Hotel Dieu, where They
are receiving all possible care.
The latest persons rescued from be
meath the land slide arc Miss Mari
Caldwell. Thomas Berrigan, q boy
named Bergigan and Mrs. Black, al
badly bruised. Mrs. Black states that
her husband was killed a: the door o
their house, and his body IS still IN the
ruins.
THOUSANDS or SPECTATORS AT TIM
SCENE.
The work Of rescue was pursued an
ceasingly throughout tRe night ard still
goes on with undated vigor, but the
task is one Of gigantic proportions
For instance. the block was buried IN,
der debris twelve feet IN depth. a,
the scene this morning thousands q
spectators blocked the narrow street
and there is a complete stoppage o.
traffic, except over the debris and dwell
ing houses intermixed.
So great is the mass OF material TO be
removed that the Allen Steamship com
pany and other business houses west Of
the slide have been forced to engage
temporary Offices in the eastern part O.
town.
The following is the revised list O
the killed and injured so Far as known
up TO o
Riliel-Thomas Farrell and three Far
rel children.
Two Burke children.
One Bradley CHILD.
One Fitzgerald child.
Mrs. Bracken.
Stephen Burke.
Henry Black.
Wm, Black.
Thomas Nolan.
Mrs. Ready.
Mrs. Thomas Derrignn.
InJnrea-Mr. and Mrs. Carlson.
Mrs. Luke Kerwin and child
THOMAS Ecrvfgnn-
Dcnnis Berrican.
James Hayden.
VIM. Stevens aEd son.
Nellie Dechy.
Putrick Fitzgerald.
Martin Ready.
Three Maybnry children.
stephen Burke and his mother.
Mrs. Fi;zSeraid.
Thos. Graham.
VIM Power. wife and chill
.Lrs. Thos. Farrell.
Miss May Caldwell.
Some Of the dead ard scme wounded
ARE now being taken out Of the ruins ths
of whom can not yet be learned
He Got $3.50 in Damages.
PIrrsDURo, Pa, Sept 2o.-L b