Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-21
THE QUEBEC DISASTER.
Twenty-Five Corpses Already
Recovered.
EIGHTEEN OTHERS WOUNDED.
The Bodies Not All Recovered Yet
More Rocks Falling-Heart-
rending Scenes.
ssociated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

ssociated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
QUEBEC. September 20.-The site Of
the landslide of last night is almost
identical with that of the one which oc-
Cured in 1S41 when eight buildings were
buried and thirty-two persons killed.
The mass of earth and rocks moved lie,
roughly speaking, about 900 feet frontage
by eighty feet in depth. Some of the
masses of fallen rock weigh nearly twenty
tons.
The scene of the terrible disaster is
being visited by thousands, who block
up the narraw street between the rock
and the river. There is complete stop.
page OF traffic except by climbing over
the debris. A large force is engaged in
searching the ruins. The shipping office
in the Dominion Government building
has been turned into temporary
morgue. Over twenty bodies are ly ing
in it. 1t is difficult to identify some, 30
much have they been disfgured and
The City Council is holding special
meeting to consider what is the best
course of action to complete uncovering
the remaining bodies. 1t is feared
large portion of the rocks adjoining the
site of the slide will come down, as large
crevices have appeared and rain is still
falling, and may repeat the operations
which caused last nights disaster.
People are moving out of the threatened
houses. Citizens are sending in money
to relieve immediate distress among the
women and children.
The loss is very great some OF the
workingmen who are deprived of their
homes lose all their furniture and other
effects, even to their summer earnings.
Many are left virtually penniless at the
commencement of a Canadian winter.
The injured have been nearly all re-
moved to the Hotel Dieu. The men of
the battery, aided by a detachment of
the cavalry school, effected quite num-
Der of rescues.
Preparations are being made for the
funerals of the killed, who will be buried
at the joint expense of the citizens and
the local government. Among those
buried by the rocks are a young couple
named Nolan, who were married a few
weeks ago. Nolan could have escaped,
but he lost his life in trying to get his
wife out of the house.
1t is thought that the Kings Bastion
on the citadel will have to be removed,
as it is now near the edge OF the rock
with unsafe crevices in front of it. AS a
precautionary measure, all communica.
ton with the Bastion has been cut off,
and the morning and evening guns will
no longer be fred from it..
hout On nm porrcuo viuitod tho ooapn
of the disaster during the day. Thou.
sands crowded into the morgue, and
seized every point inside and outside the
building where glimpse could he had of
the bodies of the victime. Many women
who obtained entrance had to be removed
in fainting condition, the mangled
bodies being sight to try the nerves of
the strongest men.
1t has been decided to use small
charges of powder to break up the huge
boulders covering the roadway, as it is
certain that there can be nothing living
beneath them.
While the workers we're busy clearing
away the debris of the crumbled build
ings, faint groans were heard at intervals
from under pile of rock. The efforts of
the volunteers were concentrated TO that
point, and, after three hours hard work,
the bleeding body of Joe Kemp was ex.
treated from the mass of broken rock.
The poor man is in a most pitiable
condition. Both his legs are broken
at the knees, his left arm is fractured
above the elbow, and several ribs are
fractured. He cannot live many hours.
Two hours later his wife's body was
taken out of the wreck, her head almost
severed from her body. Farther
away another hideous spectacle
was offered to the sight, the
corpse of young woman Mrs.
Lauson) who had been admired in life
for her beauty. Her body had been
crushed almost fat, her abdomen had
been ripped open and her entrails scat
tered about. Shortly after viewing her
remains her husband became a
raving maniac, and it is doubtful if
he will recover his reason. A man
named Michael Bradley, who had gone
almost crazy when told that all his family
persisted in the landslide, discovered,
while working over the wreck of his
house, his 5-year.old daughter still
alive. His Joy was indescribeble 1t is
thought the child will live. Up to this
time the number of corpses found is
twenty. five, and the number of wounded
eighteen.
Several persons reported missing have
turned up, but it is thought there are
more victims to be added to the list. A
compile list of injured cannot be made
up yet, as they were removed to diff
ferent hospitals and friends houses.
The list Of killed and wounded, so far
as known, is as follows:
Killed-Thomas Farrell and the three
Farrell children, two children named
Burke, one child named Bradley, child
Of P. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Bracked, Mrs.
Stephen Burke, Henry Black, Thomas
Nolan, Mrs. Ready, Richard Leahy.
Mrs. Ready, Miss Lono.
Wounded-Mr. and Mrs. Carlson, J.
O'Neill, Mrs. Luke Kirmin and child,
Thomas Berrigan, Dennis Berrigan,
James Hayden, William Stevens and
son, Nelly DERRY, Patrick Fitzgerald,
Martin Fitzgerald, three children named
Maybury, Stephen Burke and his mother,
Mrs. Fitzgerald, Thomas Graham, WIN.
Power. wife and child, Mrs. Thomas
Farrell.
Members of the Black family were
buried twelve feet below the surface of
the debris. On being asked if they were
safe, Mrs. Black answered: "My hus-
band is killed at the door. The res. are
safe, but we are suffering from
wounds and bruises on our limbs"
Shortly after, Miss May Cauldwell, niece
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