New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-09-25
THE QUEBEC HORROR.
Twenty-Five Corpses Taken From
the Terrible Landslide at
Quebec.
Willing Hands Still at Work Ex-
Treating the Victims From
the Debris.

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4 the Debris.
QUEBEC. Specialize loss sustained by the
surviving victims,o the disaster;is great. Some
OF. the WorklngmenThO are eprived of homes
lose all their furniture and other effects,
even their scanty earnings Many are
lett virtually penniless at the commence
ment of Canadian winter. The injured
have been nearly all removed to the Hotel
Dleu, where they will receive all possible
care and attention. William Powers, wife
and child, We're saved by men of the battery,
who, aided by detachment of the cavalry
school, effected quite a number of
rescues. The members of the
Black family We're buried alive
twelve feet below the surface of the debris
On being asked if they were safe, Mrs Black
answered: shy husband is killed at the
door. The rest are safe, but we are suffer-
ing from wounds and bruises on our lin bs."
Shortly after Miss May Cauldwell, niece of
Mr.. Black, was extricated from Mr.. Blacks
house. Her limbs were SO stiff from inaction
that the least touch on them caused
excruciating pains. Tue next per-
son taken out was Thomas Berri-
gan, whose wife was taken out of the ruins
dead He was SO disfgured his friends could
hardly recognize him. He was removed to
the hospital muttering prayer OF thanks for
his miraculous escape. The next TO follow
was an eight year-old boy, also named Ber-
rigan. His left leg was crushed to jelly.
Then came Mrs. Black. Her bosom, neck and
face were dreaufully swollen.
THE SITE OF THE LAND SLIDE
is almost Identical with that of the one
which occurred in 1871, when eight build
ings We're crushed and thirty-two persons
were killed The houses destroyed
ali stood on the other side of the road
way and were not thought to be in danger,
but the Immense mass OF rocks swept clear
across the roadway and over the brick
buildings, demolishing them as if they were
made of cardboard. The mass of earth and
rock moved is, roughly speaking, about six
hundred feet frontage by eighty in depth.
Some of the masses OF fallen rock must
weigh nearly twenty tons, and there are SO
many huge blocks that it makes the work of
clearance very difficult tits feared that large
part of the rock adjoining the site of the
slide will come down. as large crevices have
appeared and the rain is still falling and
may repeat the operations which caused last
nights disaster. The people are moving out
of the threatened houses. There has been
no lack OF volunteers for work at TIE
ruins, bnt there is lack of
intelligent direction, as there is no person in
authority Citizens are sending in money TO
relieve any immediate distress among the
homeless women and childen. The shipping
Office in the dominion government building
has been turned into a temporary morgue,
and over twenty bodies are lying in it. 1t is
difficult to identify some Of the bodies,
SO much have they been dishgured
and crushed. Several OF the persons
reported missing have turned up, but 1t is
thought that there will 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
to friends houses as soon as they were taken
from the ruins Preparations are being made
for
THE FUNERALS OF THE KILLED
who will be buried at the joint expense of
citizens and the local government Among
those buried by the rocks are 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 bas-
as it is now near the edge of the rock, with
unsafe crevices in front of it. AS precau-
tionary measure all communication with the
bastion has been cut off, and The morning and
evening guns will no longer be fired from it.
About twenty thousand persons have visited
the scene Of the disaster during the DAY
Thousands crowded into the morgue and
seized every point inside and outside the
building where glimpse could be had of
the bodies of the victims. Many women
VINO obtained an 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 hugh boulders covering the
roadway, as it is certain that there
The horrors of this dreadful day are still
succeeding each other. While the workers
were busy clearing away the debris of crum-
bled buildings faint groans were heard at IN
tervals from under huge pile of rocks. The
efforts of the volunteers were concentrated to
that point, and after three hours hard work
THE BLEEDING BODY
of Joe Kemp was extricated from the mass
of rock. The poor man is in most pitiable
condition. Both legs are broken at the
knees, the 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 was almost
severed from her body. Farther away an
other hideous spectacle was offered to sight
the corpse of a young woman (Mrs. Lau-
sony who had been admired in her lifetime
for her beauty. Her body had been
crushed almost flat Shortly after viewing
her remains her husband became raving
maniac. It is doubtful If he will recover his
reason A man named Michael Bradley. who
hes gone almost crazy when told that all his
covered. while working over the wreck of
his house. his fve-year-old daughter, still
Ave His Joy was indescribable.
Iu is thought the child will live.
Up to this time the number of corpses found
is twenty five and the number OF wounded
eighteen. The city is thronged with strang-
i! ers coming from all parts of Quebec district
to witness the effects of the terrible ava
lanche. The following is a list Of the killed