The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-09-26
SCORES ENTOMBED.
FALL OF A CLIFF AT QUEBEC.
DETAILS or rHE AWFUL AvALAScHE--TgK REs.
oUKRs' rKmLous wop~.

A terrible disaster befell portion Of the
city Of Quebec. wo days Of rain and food,
succeeding a month Of dry weather, filled
the crevices Of the soil Immediately below
and beyond the southern extremity Of DUFF
ferin Terrace, and Thursday night an enor-
nous mass was detached from the cliff and
hurled over the retaining wall, pushing the
houses out Of Its way and crushing most OF
them beneath its weight. The debris Of
rock filled up the narrow street TO the depth
ofsome 30 feet and cut Off all comnrinics
ton between the portions Of the city north
and south Of it. As soon as an idea was OBJ.
tained Of the extent of the disaster the whole
force Of municipal police turned out 10 rem
der assistance, and strong force Of the mil
itary assembled 20 aid in the removal of the
debris. Fire broke out almost Immediately
In some of the ruins. but the brigade, when
summoned, soon extinguished the flames
and set 20 work to assist in the search for
the dead and dying.
Rcscung parties arc hard at work, but are
meeting with accidents, as huge masses OF
rock still continues to fall from the cliffs,
The names Of the dead so far recovered
are: Thomas Farrell and two children;
Charles Pois, Mr. and Mrs. Thos Allen,
James Edwards l.. Edwards, Alphonse
Tredeau. o. s. Neville, Mrs Berrigan, child
Of James Bradley, child Of James Fitzgerald,
Thomas Farrell, ship laborcr; two children
ofThomas Farrell two children Of Stephen
Burke.
The following were rescued during the
night: Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Carlson; Mr..
and Mrs John y Neil and family, Mrs. o..
Neil being slightly injured; Mrs. Luke, X.
Kerwin and child; Mrs. Tim Berugan; Den.
mis- Berrigan, taken out in apparently dying
condition; James Hayden; VIM. Stevens and
con; Patrick Fitzgerald, leg broken and in.
ternal injuries; Martin Ready, fatal injuries;
three of the Maybury children; Stephen
Burke and his mother the former badly in.
Iured; Mrs. Fitzgerald; Thomas Graves, with
broken leg; VIM, Power, wife and child
Mrs. Thomas Farrel.
Friday morning the following were res
cued: Miss Mary Caldwell. Thomas Berri.
gan, a boy named Berrigan, aud Mrs. Black.
All are badly bruised. Mrs. Black states
that her husband was killed at the door OF
their house, and that his body IS still in the
debris.
So far as can be ascertained 30 houses
were destroyed, bearing the numbers from
i29 to l59 Champlain street and occupied by
the following: Charles Allen, Thomas Der.
rigan, Timothy Berrigan, Grocer Black,
Henry Black, Mrs. Brackcn, james Brooly,
Stephen Bunce, Michael Dceby, Thomas
Farrell, Patrick Fitzgerald, James Hayden,
John Henry, Joseph Kemp, Luke Kerwin,
John Knox, Harry Lawson, Richard Leahy,
Richard Maybury, Henry M1llins, John
O'Dowd, John O'Neil, Vim. Power, Mrs. S.
Ratchford, joan Hoady, Mrs Widow.
DIsREGAEDED THE WARNINGS.
A similar disaster occurred on nearly the
some spot on May II, 1911. when eight
buildings were destroyed and 80 persons
killed. In 1852 several others were killed
half mile further up the street by similar
avalanche of rock. Still the warnings were
disregarded and people continued to build
and to take up their habitations immediate
ly below the overhanging masses Of rock
that jut out from the front Of Cape Dia-
mond, and in the narrow street that bears the
name of Quebec's founder and that occu-
pies all the space that remains between the
cliff and river, save the wharves which
serve also rs the back yards of the houses
where the disaster occurred.
The Government, warned by the repre-
sentations of the Hon. Thomas McGreevy,
member o Parliament for the division OF
Quebec, West, expended large sum OF
money about the year 1881 in purchasing
aud removing several houses on the elih
side Of the street, aud in building huge re-
tanning wall several feet thick to prevent
disaster from falling rocks to the dwelsrs
across the street Those portions Of rock
which protruded in the most dangerous
manner were also removed.
The officers and men of the Royal School
of Cavalry and the Rcdemptorist Fathers,
went to the rescue with ropes, picks and
shoyes, and the rescuing force soon mum
hara, 6OO men. All of the injured persons
who were rescued were taken TO hospitals,
where nearly all the doctors of the city were
in attendance and did all that was possible
for the sufferers.
Quebec's famous promenade, DufIerin Ter
race has been fearfully shaken by the slide,
especially that portion Of it lying nearest
the Citadel, which almost oyerhangs the cliil
whence the landslide fell. More rocks are
falling and il is feared that the whole bowl,
der forming the highest points of Quebec
will give way. The mass OF rock detached
from the cInI = slne lert vacant space OF eX
traordinaIy dimensions. The houses in that
locality were built Of stone and brick, and
inhabited by ship lsborers, etc.