A Calamity at St. Helena

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 37, 11 September 1890, Page 4

A Calamity at St. Helena

JEn fttgi early l - raqrning ' of rThufsday, .April ":17 v^baut ■j'lA&f a cliff : of rocks* Bomel thousands of tons in -weight measuring, we a;e 4>y Mr David Lewiß, who measured it, 108 ft .long,-by/25ft -high, by lift thick oorn r average, fell from between' High Bock*. and 'Pierre's Revenge; on the wesfcjside: of/ Jamestown, o'rushiug to -death nine persons who were sieepiug :in their ietls, 4 mutila tin '% some of them to degree ! as to ; be unreco^uisable An AJ&Jdanuahied Peters and i his wife were cru'sheii to death in bed cby a:>roibk weighing from five to six tuns, from under which only 'their heads were visible.- - r The woman was s-suiashed to atoms ; one of the man's "hands, I rom the Iwrist, was cut right off. 'a^bbuldtr weighing ''abbut nine tons crashed through the roof of a two-storey" hbuse,^ driving a lonian named Mrs, Samuel, with, her child in her arms; as sn'eTah but of bed'to'the door, -ti^ht through the floor into the loom below, -whefcein her sola; James Samuel, his wife, and child were sleeping, severing her body in tiro and crushing her to atoms, killing the chij^aerbad in- her ares,' a boy of herl aged about fourteen years, aud her son's wife'. 1 The man Samuels •was. subsequently dug out from under the *&M-A\i\&f but in a' very mutilated condition. A woman named - Cassel and her chiid were excavated from under a huge rock which had driven. Jar- fisherman named Cooper right through the floor from a room by her sid^t.-,: The child was quite uninjured, but the woman had her collar ,£>Me injured.:; A.lad^ named James Johnson, aged thirteen, was smothered by thcT^ debris: Another boulder knocked? an African woman named Mrs Leaiior and her child through a wall^iuto another house, mutilating. ..be* a-hd' breaking both a leg an^ajn^arm,: and greatly injuring the £hijd> ''A. man named- William .Bowers, . ;was; also suffocated-. The damage, to property, is estimated at £2,24Qt , <^he townspeople promptly raised,' a isubscriprion in uid of the iamUies ottthoae killed, and the Prince of Wales has been written to on the B'lbj.ct.— St. Helena Guardian. .