Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-09-26
HAD NO FEAR OF DEATH
At Last the Threatened Danger at
Quebec Breaks Forth.
Awful Work Of Tons Of Rock in the
Doomed Valley.
Recovering the Crushed and Mangled
From the Debris.

weather had filed the creyices Of the soil
Immediately below the southern extremity
Of Dufferin terrace and last night an
enormous mass was detached from the
cliff and hurled over the retaining walls
pushing half a dozen houses ont OF its way
and crushing most of them beneath its
weight. The debris of rock filed up the
narrow street, to the depth of thirty feet
Nearly all the doctors of the city were
soon in attendance. Quebec's famous
promenade, Duifer.n Terrace. has been
fearfully shaken by the slide More rocks
are falling. and it Is feared that the whole
bowder forming the highest point of Que
bee viii give way. The houses in that 10
cality were built Of stone and brick and
inhabited principally by ship laborers.
and 500 men are now at the work of rescue
Thirteen corpses were soon taken out.
1t will take several days to recover all the
bodies The bodies identified We're: Mrs
Berrigan, child of James Bradley; child of
James Fitzgerald; Thomas Farrell; ship
iaborer: two children of Thomas Farrell,
and two children of stephen Burke, Those
re-cured We're: Mrs. and Mrs. Frank f.
Carlson: Mrs and Mrs John O'Neil aud
family, Mrs O'Neil being slightly in
jured Mrs. Luke kerwin and child: Mrs
Tina Berrigau; Dennis Berrigan, taken out
in an apparently dying condition; James
Hayden; Nm. Stevens and SOM Nelly
Deehey; Patrick Fitzgerald, with leg
broken and internal injuries; Martin
Ready. with fatal injuries; three of the
Maybmg children; Stephen Burke and
hi. mother, the former badly injured;
Mrs. Fitzgerald; Thomas Graves. with
broken leg; Mrs. Thomas Farrel.
a large Of persons are stillmssing
aud there is no doubt but that they are
beneath the ruins. and so deep down that
they will all BE dead before thev are reach
ed. The loss sustained by the surviving
victims of the disaster is almost total. III
addition to their homes, most of the suffer
ers, who are wOrkugmen, lost all their
summer earnings The injured have been
removed TO the Hotel Dier, where they are
receiving all possible care,
As the bodies of the dead and injured
were recovered they were removed the
former to places of shelter and the latter to
hospitals. At the scene thousands of Gu
riou, spectators blocked the narrow streets
today. The search Is going on slowly, al
tho Oh a large force Of men is engaged i'm
the work The shipping Office in the
Dominion government building has
been turned into tenn
porary morgue. and this afternoon over
twenty bodies lie in It, 1t is difficult to
identify some of them so much have been
dishgured and crushed The following are
later identifcations: Miss Allen. Mrs. Me-
kenna. Michael Deehy, Mrs. Leahy. Chas.
Allen and wife; Norah Kennedy, an
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several bodies not yet identified. Two of
them are supposed to be the little daughters
of Mrs. Stephen Burke. Several of those
persons reported missing have uned up
but it is thought that there viii be ten or
more victims to be added to the list No
list of the injured can as yet be fully made
up, as they were removed to different hos
pitfalls, and many to the houses of friends
Only one or two are thought to be fatally
injured.
The extent of the disaster is likely, from
present indications, to fall but little short
of that which occurred ON nearly the same
spot May II, lS4l. when eight buildings
were destroyed and thirty-two persons
killed. In 1852 several Others were killed
half a mile further up the street by SINH
lar avalanche of rock Still the warnings
were disregarded and people continued to
take mn their habitati6n immediately be-
low tbe overhonginp ma.,e, of rock tbat
int ant from The front of fine cane and In
tbe narrow street that bears the name of
Quebec founder and occupies all the
space that remains between the cliff and
river, save the wharYes' winch also serve
as the back yards OF the houses where last
night disaster occurred.
While the workers were busy clearing
away the debris from the crumbled build
ings faint groans could be heard at inter-
walls from under Huge piles of rocks The
efforts of the volunteers We're concentrated
to t..at point, and after three hours of hard
work the bleeding body of Joe Kemp WAS
extricated from the mass Of rock. The
poor man is i'm the most pitiahe condition.
Both legs were broken mt the knees and the
left arm fractured above the elbow
and several ribs are fractured. He
cannot live maui hours Two hours later
his wife body was taken ont Of the wreck.
Her head was almst severed from her body,
Further away another hidaou~ spectacle
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