The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1889-09-21
QUEBEC'S HORROR.
Many Victims Of the Great Landslide
Found, But the Worst Not
Yet Known.
Hundreds of Tons of Fallen Rock
Which IT Will Take Days
to Remove.
sickening sights Presented at the More ne
Hundreds of Poor People Homeless
and PenDiless.

QUEBEC, Sept. 20--This morning the
work of excavation still goes on at the ter
rible land slide. The loss is very great
Some OF the workmen who are deprived OF
homes, Lose all their furniture and other
effects, even their summers earnings. and
many sre left virtually penniless at the
commencement CT q Canadian winter. The
injured have been nearly all removed to
ne Hotel DIeu. The men OF the battery,
aided by a detachment of the cavalry
school, effected quite a number OF rec
cues.
The list of killed and wounded so far as
known are as follows: Killed-Thomss
Farrell and three Farrell children. two
children named Burke. one child named
Zsdley, child Of p. Fitzgerald. Mrs.
BlRnen, Mrs. Stephen Burke. Henry
Black, William Black, Thomas Bolsn and
Mrs. Roady.
Wounaed-Mr. and Mrs. Carlson. j.
O'N-il, Mrs. Luxe Kerwin, and child,
Thomas Hayden, William Stevens and son,
Neeiy Dehry, Patrick fItz2eralo, marth
Ready, three children named May bury,
> sphen Burke and his mother. Mrs. Fliz
gerald, Thomas Graham, William Power,
wife and child, and Mrs. Thomas Farrell.
The work OF rescuiBg victims Is going on
vigorously. The members OF the Black
family were buried alive. twelve feet be-
low the surface OF the debris.
OJ being asked II they we're safe MIS-,
Black answered: My husband IS Killed
At the door. The rest safe but suffering
shortly after Miss May Caldwell, niece
of Black. was extricated from BLACK .
house. Her limbs p ere so stiff from mac
tion that the least touch cansed eXeruclat-
ing pain. The next person taken out was
Thomas BerTigan, whOss wife WAS taken
out oi The runs uead. He was so ciSfiS-
ured his friends could hardly r. eOgniz
hin. The next % follow was an yeAr-Old
boy slsO named BerricaD; then came Mrs
Black, ner Bosom, neck and face dreadfully
swollen.
Ths. scene of the terrible disaster is being
vi rired by thousands who block up Carr9W
street, making It difficult Tor any one To
move, there being but one narrow street
between the rock and river There is 8
CON. iets strppage OF traffic, except ny
cliuoing over ire debris A large force as
engaged ~ searching the RUNS. EIb snip
piig flee in the Dominion goverEmeDt
building Is being turned in5O temporary
mnrgue. Over twenty bodies are lying Ia
it. A. is difficult TO identity some, 50 much
have they been dishgured and crushed.
Several persons reported missing nave
turned up, but it Is thought ten
IT more victims VIII be nG-
ded 10 the list A complete
LIST OF the injured cannot be made up yet,
as they Were removed 10 different hospitals
and friends houses. The city council held
a special meeting To consider Whist was the
best course OF action TO complete the work
OF recovering the remaining bodies. IL l.
feared a large part of the rock a joining
the slide will come down. BS large crevIses
have appeared and the rain Is silll falling.
People are moving out of the threatened
houses. Citizens are sending IN money to
Relieve the immediate distress among the
homeless women and children.
The site of the landslide is almost iden-
tea WUlh that OF the one which occurred
in 1881, when eight buildings were cru-hed
and thirty Two persons killed. The masa
of earth and racks moved is, roughly
speaking, about 600 feet frontage by eighty
feet IN depth. Some OF the masses OF
fallen rock weigh nearly twenty tons.
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 is a yOCnR couple named Nolan,
who were married q few weeks ago Nolan
could have escaped, but he lost his life IN
trying to get his wife out OF the house IL
is thOught that the kings oastian on the
citadel will have 60 be removed, as is j.
now near the edge of the rock with unsafe
cTevices in front of it, All communication
with the hastian has been cut off, and the
morning and evening guns VIII longer
BE- fired from il About 2,O0O people have
day. Thousands crowded into the mOrgUe
and utilized every point inside and outside
the building where a glimpse could be hsG
of the bodies of the victims. Many women
who obtained entrance bad TO be removed
in faintIug condition, the mangled bodies
being a sight TO try the nerves of strong
men. 1t has been decided 10 use small
charges of powder to break mp the huge
boulder covering the road way. as tt is Ger
tain there can be nothing living beneath it.
While the workers were busy clearing
away the debris from a crumbled building,
FAINT groRnS were heard at Intervals from
under the huge piles. The efforts of the
volunteers were Concentrated at III at point,
md after three hours of hard work the
bleeding body of Joe Kemp was extricated
from a mass of rock. The poor man Is IN
a most pliiabl4 condition. Both legs sre
broken at she knees, has left arU fractured
above the elbow and several ribs fractured.
He cannot live many hours. Lister his
Wife's body was taken out Ot the wreck,
her head aimOst severed from her body.
Farther away another hideOus spectacle
was ofiered-the corpse If a young
woman Mrs. bawsOn) who had been
admired in lite for her beauty. Her body
had been crushed almost Hat. her abdomen
had been rit ped open and her entTails
scattered about Shortly after viewing
her remains her husband became raving
maniac. lt IS doubtful ii he will recover
his reason. A man named Michael Brad
ley, who had gone almost crazy when told
that all his family had perished in the land
slide, discovered while working over the
wreck of his house bis fve-year-cld
daughter still alive. His Joy was indie
ScriOable. Ii Is thought the child will live
found is twenty five and the number of
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