Shocking Sufferings.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 155, 22 May 1886, Page 4

Shocking Sufferings.

Excavations in the Chancelade quarries (a Boulogne correspondent of the " Times " says); whero a land-iip occurred laet October, burying a number of workmen, have been carried on ever since for the purpose of unearthing the bodies. For many days after the slip was believed to haveemothered the workers, tmoke was eeon to issue from the ruins. Soldiers and quarrymen, directed by a party of engineerp, worked day and night in the hope of taking the men out alive. Ever since tho work has proceeded ; but of late the endeavours were not so vigorously plied. The diggers have now reached the actual spot where the men were engaged at the time of the accident, and on ponetrating into a gallery cut in the stono the explorei-s discovered the body of a young man lying on the ground. Photographs taken of the position thow that a dreadful state of affairs rnuet have come about when the men, uncrushed, found themselves entombed. It appears undoubted that some of the men tried to prolong their lives by killing and eating their companions in misfortune. A few solitary avms and limbs have been picked up in their prison, and everything points to the fact that c-innibali-m was resorted to. The young man, whose body was unmutilated, f-eema to have survived" the others, and to ha\e died of hunger. A. I'etrolcuin Ship Blown Fp - Twelve Men Killed. A Reuters telegram from Baku states that a vessel lying j n the roadstead, laden with benzine and petroleum, has been blown to atoms, the oil having exploded. The captain and all the crew, numbering 12mcn, perished.