The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-01-11
MANY DEAD IN LANOSL |O{
Edge Of Clay Pit Tumbles Down
at Haverstraw, N. Y.
MASS OF RUINS ON FIRE.
Seven Houses and Scores of Occupants
Carried Down Suddenly in Darkness
Second Slide Follows.

HANERSTRAW, y. Y, Jan. 9.-At
least twenty persons are believed to
have persisted in the landslide which car
ried several tenement houses down in
a clay pit here last night.
Up to 8 o'clock this morning, none of
the bodies had been recovered and it
was believed that all the missing are
dead
Undermined by shifting clay that had
been softened by yesterdays snowfall,
the several homes with their three score
of sleeping occupants, toppled over the
brink of the pit and crumbled to pieces.
Mass of Ruins Takes Fire.
The hsuses which were of wood were
set afire from overturned stoves and the
debris was soon mass of flames. Some
fifty or more tenants escaped with
more or less serious injuries while n
number varousy estimated at from tif-
teen TO eighteen We're believed to have
been killed outright or burned to death.
The landslide occurred on Rutland
street in the east end of the town where
two blocks Of houses are supposed to
have been undermined by workmen dig
gng clay for brick making. Seven
houses went down in the crash. They
had stood on the brink of n pit 100 feet
deep.
Inc LlSt OF the Dedu.
The landslide broke the water mains
shutting off the supply of water and
greatly impeding the work of rescue
Unresisted the flames spread to other
buildings and but for the timely arrival
Of hundreds of volunteer fire fighters
might have wiped out the town.
Those known to have persisted are:
NELSON, -, furniture dealer,
NELSON BENJAMIN, his son.
SIINERNNN MRS
SlINERMAN, -, q boy.
JEWISH RABBI
COHEN MR.. AND MRS.
FIVE COHEN CHILDREN.
ALDEN. REy. Mr., Jewish Rabbi
BAYLER. MRS.
BIAS, ABRAHAM.
COHEN, MIR AND MRS. WILLIAM.
FIVE COHEN CHILDREN.
HUGHES, THOMAS.
M'GONERN, BARTLETT.
MANNION, MIR. AND MRS.
NELSON, HARRY, clothing merchant.
NELSON, BENJAMIN, his son.
SILNERMAN, MRS.
SILVERMAN, child.
The missing include Mrs. Bailey:
Two OF the Mannion family.
Entire Lanny family.
Seven Hebrew laborers.
Saw Disaster Might Come.
The landslide came gradually at first
The ground showed crevices near the
edge of the street late in the afternoon,
and in the evening portion of the bank
began to give way. Many of the resi-
dents left their houses early in the even
ing before the final crash came The
Nelson's were endeavoring to move their
effects, and the rabbi was assisting them.
This was also the case with Mrs. Silver
man and her son.
When the final side came, it came so
suddenly that those who had fingered in
their houses had absolutely no oppor-
tunity to escape.
Hear Shrieks Through Night.
Those who lived in three houses Mt the
end of the row and which did not go
down in the wreck We're reused by Il
frightful roar and crash above which
could be heard the shrieks of the victims.
There was II plunge, a shivering of the
earth all around and then there was
Stiffness. When the ncghbors rushed,
half clad, from their houses, the ybuid-
ings close TO them had disappeared. Only
gap in the cliff told the story. 1t was
very dark.
Then the frame structure of the fallen
houses took fire and soon the whole of
the wreck was burning iicrcely, the
flames rising above the side of the pit.
Second Slide Takes Place.
As crowds hurried 10 the scene and the
FIVE department gallopcd up second
lundslip occurred, In it several persons
who had vCntured too near the edge of
the pit were nearly carried over to
death.
From below men entered the pit, but
could not get near the wrecks of the
houses because of the flames. The whole
pit grew so hot soon that those who
sought to attack the flames or rush in
and if possible save some who might
have survived the fall, could not ap-
proach the wreck.
Large forces of men who work in the
brick yards by day were mustered TO ai,i
in the work of rescue, but their efforts
were in vain. All the tenants of the
houses still standing were driven out, as
the structures are III momentary danger
of following the others into the pit. The
frightened tenants were cared for by
ncighbors