The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-25

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as if They Were Made Of Cardboard.
Many Persons Crushed and Buried. in
the Debris.
QUEBEC, September 19.-To-night Sey-
eral thousand tons of rock slid from
Cape Diamond. at the end of Duffelin
Terrace, to Champlain street, 300 feet
below. demolishing in its course seven
dwellings.
Cries of s:He!p. 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. More rocks are falling and it is
! feared that the whole boulder, forming
the highest point of Quebec, will give
way.
The mass of rock detached from the
| cliffs side left a vacant space of eXtraor-
dinary dimensions under Dutferin Ter
race, and that great promenade is now
| unsafe
Thirteen corpscsa and sixteen wounded
have been taken out The bodies are
covered with coagulated blood and
dust, and are sickening spectacleS.
The houses III that locality were of
stone and brick, and inhabited by
ship laborers, etc. Officers and men o.
the Royal School of Cavalry are coming
to the rescue with ropes, picks and
shovelS. About six hundred men are
now at work. The Redemptorist Faith
ers are among the rescuers.
BoSToN, September 20---The .Jo'tl7anEs
Quebec special timed midnight, says:
1t is known that at least 200 dead
bodies still remain under the pile of de-
bris ReScuins parties are hard at
work, but are meeting with accidents,
as huge masses of rock still continue to
fall from the cliffs.
QUEBEC, September 20.-The work of
excayating at the scene of the landslide
is still going on. Among those who it
is alleged are still missing and who are
said to be beneath the ruins are Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Allan, Mrs. Stevens, Mrs.
Henry, Richard Mayburg and wife,
Mrs. r. Lawson, R. Kemp and family,
Michael B. Leahy, and number of
children.
The loss sustained by the surviving
victims of the disaster is very great.
Some of the workingmen who are de-
prived of their homes lose all their fur
niture and other effects, even their sum-
mer earnings, and many are left penni-
less at the commencement of the Cana
dian winter.
The injnred have nearly all been re-
moved to the Hotel Dieu, where they
will receive all possible care and atten-
ton. William Powers. wife and child
were saved by men Of B battery, who,
aided by detachment Of the cavalry
school, effected quite a number OF res
cues.
QUEBEC. September 20.-The work cf
rescuing victims is going onvigofously.'
The members of the Black family were
buried alive. twelve feet below the sur
face of the debris. On being asked if
they were safe, Mrs. Black answered:
"My husband is killed at the door. The
rest are safe, but we are suffering from
wounds and bruises on our limbs "
Shortly afterwards, Miss Mary Cald-
well, niece of Mr. Black, was ex-
tracted from Blacks house. Her limbs
were so stiff from inaction that the least
touch on them caused intense pain.
The next person taken out was Thos.
Berrigan, whose wife was taken out of
the ruins dead. He was so disfgured
that his friends could hardly re-
cognize him. He was removed to the
Hotel Dieu Hospital, muttering prayer
of thanks for his miraculous escape.
The next to follow was an eight-year-
old boy, also named Berrigan. His left
leg was crushed to Il Jelly
Then came Mrs. Black. Her bosom,
neck and face were dreadfully swollen.
The scene Of the terrible disaster was
visited by thousands, who blocked up
the streets and made it a difficult task
for any one to move in any direction.
There being but one narrow street be-
tween the rock and the river. there is a
complete stoppages of traffic, except by
climbing over the debris.
a large force of men is engaged in
the work of searching the ruins. The
shipping Office in the Dominion govern
ment building has been turned into a
temporary morguc, and over twenty
bodies are lying in it, 1t is difficult to
identify some of the bodies, SO much
haze they been disigured and crushed.
Several of the persons reported miss
ing have turned up, but it is thought
that there will be ten or more victims to
be added to the list. A complete list Oh
the injured cannot be made up as yet, as
they were removed to different hospitals
and to friends houses as soon as they
were taken from the ruins.
The City Council is now holding spe-
cial meeting to consider what best course
of action will be to complete the work of
recovering the remaining dead.
1t is feared that large part of the
rock adjoining the site of the slide will
come down, us large crev;ces have ap-
pcared, and rain is still falling and may
repeat the operations which caused last
nights disaster. People are moving out
of threatened houses.
There has been no lack of volunteers
for work at The ruins, but there is a lack
of intelligent direction, as there is no
per>on in authority. Citizens are send
ing in money to relieve ai.y immediate
distress among the homeless women and
children.
The mass of earth and rock moved is:
roughly speaking, about 800 feet front
age by so feet 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 clear
ing it very difficult.
The working parties this afternoon are
better organized and eqHpped and are
making more headway.
The site of the present landslide is
almost identical with that of one which |
occurred in 1871, when eight buildings |
were crushed and thirty-two persons
were killed. The houses destroyed last
night all stood on the other side of the
roadway and were not thought to be in |