A TERRIBLE LANDSLIP.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2289, 28 November 1889, Page 2

A TERRIBLE LANDSLIP.

Bijgardlng t'io diAaatroua fad of oarth m tho capital of Can -da. of whioh we were informed by cab! a, a Qaobiio correspondent wrote on September 20. A terriblo landslip occurred m this city at about half- past Beven yonterday eveuing. A maea of rcok, weighing thousands of tonf, crashed down (rom nnder tbe : King's Bastion on tho Citadel west cf Danr-Jrin Terrace, and falling with terrible violence into Champla Btcoet — eomo three hundred feet below— oomp etely demolished saver a! housofi, Tho oocapantß, for \>h(t most part ship's laborers at,d their famii.e, were buiiad beneith the $ebris, Keports vary coneiderab)y concerning the number of persons buried under the fallen mass, some scconnts giving from 50 to 100, i while others muko it as much as 175. Six hundred soldiers and civilians are now working with tbe greatest ardour <o rescu > those buried by tbioatattropue ; out ihuir task ie rendered very d ffloalt owing to the road being covered wilh blocks of solid rook to a depth of from 15 lo 20 feet. Another slip is momentarily feared, and thoee engnged m the work of rescue are thus m a very perilous poaitiou. The damage to property ia estimated at over 100.000 dola. There have poen several previous w»rnInga sgdlnst tho location of dvrelllnghoUßeß near the foot of the oliff, Oa nearly the same spot m Miy 1841 eight; butldlngs wera destroyod and thirty-two persons killed. In 1852 several othore were killed bilf v mile up the atreet by a similar avalanobo. Tho waruinga were dlaregardod, and tbe people continued to build and to toko up their habitation Immediately below the overhanging masses that jut out from, tbe front of tha oapa over the narrow street that bears the uame of Quebec's fonndor. Tho oauje of the oatußttopbe waa the UDUiU*I rain following a protracted drought, Tbe watee filled - the B.ama oponed In Oipe Dlftmoud Rook, wh'ob, being thus detaiohed, fell with an awful nolee like thqnder, wU^PtaT) inßtunt'a warning. . A meaeage on Sunday fluid : Tlio work of oleuring the wreckage from iho aceuo of tho dhftCftor otO iebeo Is now going on more rapid 'y, bm'the rooovery" of bodies Is stow.' The oorpaa of a- woman having been discovered nndee t> vast mass of «tone t^ad rafters, efforts were at ODoa made to extrioate it. Tho workers, however, m removing some be»ms aaoldontally dialodgod a hage boaldor, which fell opon the b. by of theanfortantte vlo Im, cru'eaIng it fto jelly. Thin iaotdon't serves to illaotrate the' groat dlffibalty under which - ihe roepqers bayo to woirk,. >-' v v . An o)d m'au^ eeyenty-inp ye»a of age, was veecued alive frgm the rnlna after bfcvlbg been 'lnterred bepeatli them 108 hoarj}. >,■-;■■'■.