Show THE QUEBEC DISASTER THAT was a startling disaster that oc occur currel rei recently in the city of quebec canada the darkness gave additional horror to the scene it is a peculiar town being partly built upon a high eminence and a portion of it at the base of a precipitous cip itous cliff A great maw mass of rock on the upper face of the crag gave way and rolled down the steep declivity a distance of feet reducing dwellings to ruin on the way anti and burying them and their inmates to the number of considerably over two t wo hundred under a pile of debris feet long and fifteen feet thick after thirteen killed and sixteen injured bad been exhumed the latest news from the scene of the disaster states that at least bodies were still in the ruins the calamity is a pitiful one the anxious corps of rescuers could hear shrieks and plaintive appeals for help uttered by the mangled and imprisoned people under the mass of rock and rubbish but the process of reaching the unfortunates was slow so they had to listen and work the present epoch take it all in all is certainly one of dire disaster nearly every electric vibration of the wires bringing news of fresh catastrophes involving death and destruction |