The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-03
SWEPT INTO THE SEA.
A Landslide 0verwhelms Set
tiers on Vancouver Island.
HORRIBLE DEATH OF ONE MAN.
swindiing Operations OF Preacher Will
son-A Colonel of the Oregon Guard
Convicted OF Embexxlement.

VICTORIA. Nov. . Especial. BY land
slip at Shooshartie bay, Cape Commereli,
on Monday morning last, William KIP
ling, of Victoria, founder OF a little Com
monwealth colony mt the northeast
ern end of Vancouver island. was
carried to horrible death, and
Frederick Gcss and Daniel Patterson,
two of those intimately associated with
him in the enterprise with which he was
80 prominently identified, were very seri-
ously injured. Details OF the tragedy were
supplied on tie arrival here this evening
of the steamer Princess Louise, which also
brought TO Victoria for burial the remains
OF poor kipling.
The landslip was caused by heavy rain
which had been falling continuously for
several days previous to the fatal Monday.
loosening the earth and sand in
the so or more feet of steep hill
side. at the foot of which the cabins of
the cooperative colony had been erected.
The slide came without the slightest
warning at about $50 in the morning. the
men being at the time in the act of getting
ont OF their beds. At first there was a
sound like the crash of falling tree. the
next instant the three men we're at their
journeys end. the slide having car
ried them with il to where the
rising tide was beating on the shore.
The cabin was simply lifted from its
foundations as though IL were a child's
toy, ami deposited in a crushed and
broken heap OF debris at the foot of the
cliff, beneath an accumulation of soil.
roots, trees and giant bouIders.
Jack Michigan was the first of the set
tiers 10 recover consciousness aud rouse
himself 10 action. Ills knee was dislo-
Gated. but he succeeded in forcing the
joint back and then FASTENED to release
his companions. Ooss aud kipling,
whose cries for aid reached him as
he was attending TO his own injuries
Dan Patterson. with a brokea arm, was
his assistant William McGarry and his
wife. Polly, who occupied neigh boring
house. escaped BY a miracle. half of
the house was swept away. but it
was luckily the halt devoted 20 the
culinary operations of tEe household.
These four are the only survivors sho were
not pinned into the very earth. They at
once went to work with a will, stimulated
by the agon zlug cries of their unhappy
friends. The rain wss descending iii tor
rents and tbei7 efforts were further ham,
pered by lack % proper tools
TO work with. almost everything
having gone in the general wreck
IL was 10 O'Clock before they succeeded in
rescung Goss from under the timbers by
which be vas held down, but which IN
reality saved his lite. as they prevented
his being crushed to death. one giant tree
having formed a bridge over him. Both
legs Nere broken. but Il Is confidently an
ticipaied that he WILL live
kiphng was held in the salt mlre by his
leg aud bis rescuers we're forced to labor
waist deep ia the sea. the rising tide
dashlue IN their faces aud almost sweep-
ing them away on half dozen
occasions. When 6oSs was freed and
borne 20 tho partially demolished
house Of Sir. McGarTy. the tide had
covered h.ping - the chest.
An hour later it had reached his mouth.
aud IN desperation. failing 10 release his
broken leg, il vas literally hacked oil
vita an TX juss above the aak.e. and i'm.
msdlateiy the haf-drox ned aud mutilased
body was borne where il cogld De sende7iy
cared tor. He dad not however. long sur
vive tie fr.ghtfal injuries.