The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-09-21
THE QUEBEC CASUALTY.
Attempt to Remove the Rage Masses of Fallen
Rock--Killed and Injured.

Attempt to Remove the Rage Masses of Fallen
Rock--Killed and Injured.
QUEBEC, Sept. 20.-The scene of last
nights disaster was visited by thousands
to-day, who blocked up the narrow street,
and made it a difficult task for any one to
move in any direction. There being but
one narrow road between the rock and the
river, there was complete stoppage of
traffic, except by climbing over the debris.
large force of men ere engaged in the
work of searching the ruins. The shipping
office, in the Dominion Government build
ing, has been turned into temporary
morgue, and over twenty bodies are lying
in it. 1t is difficult to identify some of the
bodies SO much have they been distigured
and crushed.
The houses destroyed all stood on the
other side of the roadway, and were not
thought to be in danger, but the immense
mass of rock swept clear across the road
way and over the brick buildings, demol-
ishing them as if they were made of card
board. The mass of earth and rock moved
is. roughly speaking, about six hundred
feet frontage by eighty 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 clearance very difficult.
The loss sustained by the surviving vic
tins of the disaster is very great. Some of
the wOrkmen who are deprived of homes
lose all their furniture and other effects,
even their summer earnings. Many are left
virtually penniless at the commencement
of Canadian winter.
The injured have been nearly all removed
to the hotel, where they will receive all
possible care and attention. William Pow
ers, wife and child were saved by men of
the battery, who, aided by a detachment of
ber of rescues. A complete list OF the in
jured cannot be given, as they were re-
moved to different hospitals and to friends
houses as soon as they were taken from the
ruins.
The names of those killed and wounded,
as far as known. are as follows:
Killed-Thomas Farrell and three Farrell
children, two children named Burke. one
Henry Black. William Black. Thomas No
Ian, Mrs. Ready, Miss Lane and Richard
Leahy. There are many others under the
rocks whose names IAN are nSf S known: Tr,,
O'Neill, Mrs. Luke Kerwin and child, ThOs
Berrigan, Dennis Berrigan. James Hayden,
Wm. Stevens and son, Nellie Deehry, Pat
rick Fitzgerald. Martin Ready. three chill,
his mother, Mrs. Fitzgerald. Thomas Gra-
ham, VIM Power. wife and child. and Mrs.
| Thomas Farrell
Some dead and wounded are still being
| taken ont of the ruins. but their names
| have not yet been ascertained. The work
| of rescuing the victims is going on vigor-
| ously. The members of the Black family
were buried alive twelve feet below the
surface of the debris. On being asked II II
| nv husband is dead at the door. The rest
| are safe, but are suffering from wounds and
| bruises on our limbs"
Shortly after Miss May Cauldwell. a
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. The next per-
! son taken out was Thomas Berrigan. whose
| wife was taken ont of the ruins dead. He
was SO disiigured his friends could hardly
| recognize him. He was removed to the
| Hotel Dieu Hospital muttering prayer of
thanks for his miraculous escape. The
next to follow was an elght,year,old boy,
crushed to a jelly. Then came Mrs. Black.
| Her bosom, neck and face were dreadfully
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 young couple named Nolan.
| who were married a few weeks ago. Nolan
could have e"1 ne Of '2Ss fS his hsn. life n
4 ~
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
creyices in front of it. AS a precautionary
measure. all communication with the
bastiop has been cut of, and the morning
and evening guns will no longer be fired
| from it.
About twenty thousand persons have Wis
tied the scene of the disaster during the
| day. Thousands crowded into the morgue
and seized every point inside and outside
the building where q glimpse could be had
| of the bodies of the victims. Many women
who obtained an entrance had to be re
moved in fainting condition. the mansled
bodies being a sight to try the nerves of the
strongest men. 1t has been decided to uss
small charges of powder to break up ths
huge powders covering the roadway. as II
is certain there can be nothing living be
meath them.
succeeding each other While the workers
were busy clearing away the debris o.
crumbled building faint groans were heart