THE QUEBEC ROCK SLIP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9497, 16 October 1889, Page 5

THE QUEBEC ROCK SLIP.

Quebko, September 19. To-night several thousand tons of rock slid from Cape Diamond, at the end of Dufferin Terrace, to Ch&mplain-sbreet, 300 feet below, demolishing seven dwellings. Up to midnight six bodies had been taken from tho ruins: Thomas Farrell and two of' his children, also two children named Burke, and one unknown child. Farrell's mother-in-law, Mrs. Allen, and her husband, are still in the ruins. About twenty-five persons have been removed from the debris badly injured. .Some have broken arms and lefts,'and others are badly crushed and mutilated. It is supposed that at least fifty persons are yet under the ruins. The debris covers the road in a solid mass, some 300 feet in length and from fifteen to twenty-five feet high. It is impossible to say at present how many are dead and wounded. Everyone is working heroically and under difficulties, as the night is intensely dark and the electric light wires are prostrated.

September 20. The muss of rock detached from the cliff's side left a vacant space of extraordinary dimensions under DuiFerin Terrace, and that great promenade is now unsafe. Thirteen corpses aud sixteen wounded have been taken out. The pecuniary damage will be lar;j;e. A force of GOO men is now working on the debris. Cries of "Help! help!" are heard from beneath the debris, but no help can be given. Very little progress is made in recovering the bodies, owing to the stupendous mass of rock covering the ruins. The body of a woman named Mrs. Harrison has just been pulled out of the debris. More rocks are falling, and it is feared that the whole boulder forming the highest point of Quebec will give way.