LANDSLIP AT THE THAMES.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2548, 18 April 1871, Page 2

LANDSLIP AT THE THAMES.

The Thames Adverlis r has the following : _The incessant rain and storm of Tuesday did not, we regret to find, pass over without a terrible accident and loss of life, resulting from a landslip. The accident, by which a mother and child wove buried alive, occurred yesterday morning, on theMifyiighj; Oqldnußing Company's ground, Canadian Cliilly, Mo-mataiii. A miner named John Riley resided with his wife and family of three children in a house situated on the Midnight claim. About 4 a.m. wo learn from the man Tilley that ho heard the roof of the house crack, and fearing danger ho caught up two of his children, one under each arm, and the wife took up the other, which she carried. Riley states tint his wife and cbi'd went out of the hog sc before him, he following fcwo - Uicu the landslip came down, and carried the house into the gully. Riley was caught in the debris, and was severely braised, but managed to extricate himself and the two children he carried. Ho could, how. ever, discover no trace of his wife and child, nor of the house which he had just left. It was quite dark at the time, and raining in torrents. At daylight a number of men came to bis assistance, and it was tiisii found that the house had been broken into matchwood, and buried under a huge heap of earth in the gully. Mrs Riley and her child were unearthed the following day. The slip commence'! about one hundred yards away from the back of the bouse, and must have be. n carried duwn with trenlondons force. asTt stripped the surface for the whole distance.

About two years ago an accident similar in every particular occurred in this locality from the same cause, a landslip occurring which carried away a house and buried in ds rums a wife and child, and also a mate of the husband, who resided with the family. ! ’u that occasion also only the husbauu escaped, airs Catherine Pvlcy was a young woman of 111 years of age, and her son James, whom she was endeavoring to save when she was overtaken hy the fallen earth, was only fifteen months old. Tho family were highly respected in the neighborhood in winch they lived.