, 1889-09-21
THE QUEBEC HORROR.
Many Bodies Still Buried in
the Ruins.
The Work Of Rescue Slow and
Difficult.
Partial List Of the Dead and
Wounded.
The Terrible Landslide.

QUEBEC, Sept 20.-This morning the
work Of ~excavating still goes on at the ter
rible landslide. Among those still sup
posed to be beneath the ruins arc Charles
Allan and wife. Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Hen
ry, Richard Maybury and wife. Mrs. r.
Lawson, X. Kemp and family. Michael
b. Leahy and a Eumber OF children. The
loss is very great. Some of the working
men who are deprived Of homes lose all
their furniture and other effects, even
their summer earnings. Many are lett
virtually ~penniless at the commencement
of a Canadian winter. The injured have
nearly all been removed to the Hotel
Dieu. The men OF the battery, aided by
a detachment OF the cavalry school. ell
fected quite a number of rescues.
Inc list OF killed and wounded so far as
known is as follows:
killed-Thomas Farrell asd three Far
rell children, two children named Burke,
one child named Bradley, a child Of Z
Fitzgerald, Mrs. Bracken, Mrs. Stephen
Burke, Nolan and Mrs. Ready.
Wouuded-Mr. and Mrs. Carlson, j.
O'Neil, Mrs. Luke Kerwin and child,
Thomas Berriman, Dennis Berrigan.
james Hayden, William Stevens and son,
Nelly Dehry, Patrick Fitzgerald, Martin
Ready, three children named Maybury,
Stephen Burke and his mother, Mrs
Fitzgerald, Thomas Graham, William
Power, wife and child and Mrs. Thomas
Farrell.
Some Of the dead and wounded are still
being taken out Of the ruins, but their
names nave not yet been ascertained.
The work of rescuing the victims is going
on vigorously.
Some members of the Black family
we're buried alive. twelve feet below the
surface of the debris. On being asked il
they wee safe Mrs. Black answered: MY
husband was killed at the door. The rest
are safe. but we are suffering from wounds
aud bruises on our limbs.
Shortly after Miss May Caldwell, a
niece of Mrs. Black, was extricated from
Blacks house. Her limbs were SO stiff
from ~inaction that the least touch caused
%excruciating mains. The next person TAX
en- GU. was Berrigan, whose wife was TAX
en- out OF the ruins dead. He was so dis
figured that his friends could hardly rec
ognize him. He was removed to the Ho-
tel Dieu hospital. The next to follow
was an 8 year old boy, also named
B~errigan. His left leg was crushed to a
Jelly. Then came Mrs. Black. Her
bosom, neck and face were dreadiuliy
swollen.
In the river then was a complete stop
page of traffic except by climb
ing over the debris. A large
force is engaged searching the
ruins. The shipping Office in the domin-
ion government building has been turned
into a temporary morgue. Over twenty
bodies are lying in it. There Is great
difficult to identity some of the bodies
30 much rave they been disfigured and
crushed. Several persons reported mis-
sing have turned up. but there are
thought to be ten or more victims to be
added to the list. A complete list of the
injured cannot be made up yet as they
were removed to different hospitals and
friends houses.
The city council is holding n special
meeting to consider what is the best
course of action to complete the work OF
recovering the remaining bodies. 1t is
feared a large part OF the rock adjoining
the site of the slide will como down,
as large c~revices nave appeared and rain
is still falling. People are moving out
of the threatened houses. Citizens are
sending IN money to relieve the imme-
diate distress among the homeless women
and children.
The site of the landslide of last night is
almost identical with that Of the one which
occurred in lS4l, when eight Buildings
were crushed and %thirty-two persons
killed The mass of earth and rocks
moved, roughly speaking, was about 600
feet frontage by eighty feet in depth.
Some OF the masses Of fallen rock weights
nearly twenty tons. In addition to the
list of killed given the bodies of Richard
Leahy, Mrs Ready and Miss Lene have
been recovered.
While the workmen are busy clearing
away the debris of the crumbled buildings
faint groans are heard at intervals from
under the high piles OF rocks The vol
unteers concentrated their work at that
point, and after three hours hard work
the bleeding body of Joe Kemp was ex-
tricatcd from the mass of rock. The poor
man is in a most pitible condition. Both
his legs are broken at the knees, the left
arm is fractured above the elbow and sew
many hours. Later his wife's body was
taken from the wreck. Her head was al
most severed from her body.
Farther away another hideous spectacle
was offered to sight. The corpse of a
young woman Mrs. Lawson) who had
been admired in life for her beauty. Her
body he'd been crushed almost fat, her
abdomen had been ripped open and the
entrails scattered about. Shortly after
viewing her remains her husband became
a raving maniac. 1t is doubtful if he
will ever recover.
A man named Michael Brady went al.
most crazy when told that all his family
had persisted in the landslide. When
he discovered, while working oyer his
wrecked house, that his 5 year old daugh-
ter vas still alive his Joy was indescrib-
able. 1t is thought the child will live.
Up TO this time the number of corpses
found is tw, nty-ive and the number of
wounded eighteen.