The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-01-12
LANDSLIDE; Do PERSONS DEAD.
Victims Asleep as Their Homes FAN
Into the Chnsm.

Into the ChaSm.
Haverstraw, n. Y, Jan. IL
Only at midday yesterday did Haver-
straws residents begin 10 realize the
awful calamity that had visited
them. This knowledge came with
the proof that the originally esti-
mated death list had almost doubled
ana that the bodies of the perished
lay so far beneath thousands of tons
of clay, sand and treacherous quick
sand that it cannot be hoped TO reach
them for months, and perhaps never.
Twelve houses and twenty-five oc-
cuiants went down to destruction
and death with two blocks of the
roadway OF Rockland Street, Mon
day night all hurled into a vast clay
pit hundred feet away. Fire i'm
mediately followed, burning the vic
TINS of the landslide and the mass of
WrecAage in which they lay.
Water mains were broken, and the
local fire department was unable to
attack the flames until long stretches
OF hose, coupled together, had been
c-.t-n9nd to hydrants far away.
Ne!ghboi-S buildings were dam
aged by the blaze, ana t semed as If
the whole town was doomed. Help
was asked from Garnerville, which
sent its apparatus here, and, after
hours of fighting, the flames were
confined to the wreck in the pit.
Following is a list of the known
dead:
Lawrence Mannion, Mrs. Man
nion, William Coyne, Mrs. Coyne,
Herkel Nelson; Benjamin Nelson, a
youth; Rabbi Molloch Alden, Mrs
Joseph Daley, Joseph Albert; David
Eidenbaum, a peddler, of Vernon
Avenue, Brooklyn; William Hughes,
Edward Hefferan, Michael Barry,
Wolf Provitch Mrs. Sarah Silver
man; Abraham Silverman, youth;
Abraham Dias, BARLEY McGovern,
John McMurdy, Thomas Lynch.
All yesterday a hundred or more
laborers engaged by Mayor Wilson
P. Foss dug in the mountain of dirt
at the foot of the bluff but with only
a faint hope of discovering a body.
Smoke arose up through little fis-
sures, but pits that were dug by the
workmen near these signs of the
wrecks of building beneath the sur
face developed nothing to reward
them for their labor.
Digging ont the fine clay for mar
years, brick makers, have mined
area of half rlile sluare to a del
of hundred feet.
In the region witch has : sFk
most by this disaster are mostly pee
sons employed in the bl TX yards or \
small merchants. The hou1es are Of
two or three stories, some Ce brick
and some frame. Late in the after
noon there was a small landslide,
which did no damage to any of the
houses, but alarmed their inmates,
and many left the imperilled houses.
There was no warming for the
doomed ones after the landslide of
the afternoon. Most of them had
gone to bed at II o'clock when the
crash came. All was over in an in
stant The few who witnessed but
did not fall in the disaster say it
seemed as If the whole two blocks of
houses and street had been snatched
out of sight. They were gone before
the walls seemed to topple. and only
the roar of their descent and the
crash of their fall in the great pit
told of their fate.
Instantly all lights in thestreet went
out water gushed from the broken
mains into the abyss and in an in
stant flames showed below. Swiftly
gathering volume they enveloped all
the wreckage in a few minutes and
soon were roaring up against the
side of the pit, licking the sides Of
houses that stood at its edge.
Thousands rushed to the scene
and the several fire companies of the
town were soon on hand. They found
their supply of water cut off and i'm
mediately a new danger faced them
and the others who had gathered.
Another slice of the land slipped
away, while spectators, just in time,
sprang back.
The fight against the fire danger
lasted until after / o'clock in the
morning, and then seemed to be sue
cessful, though the houses on the
edge Of the pit were still burning.
Fort Morgan, Col, Jan. 10 Frank
B. Underhill, a wealthy young man