Show if 1 I 1 akl I 1 ni I 1 AFTER 1 eight houses drop hundred feet into excavation buildings take fire and firemen are unable to save them many peo pie per sh n the flames prominent families being wiped out haverstraw N sixteen persons perished in a landslip which occurred here about 11 clock monday night the dead were from prominent cami lies in the town the landslide occurred at the end ot Koc kland street and eight houses were carried over a clay bank into the brick excavations dropping down amundred feet the slide Is supposed to have been caused by the fact that those working in the brick yards dug too close to the end of the street most of the people were in bed when the catastrophe took place immediately after ahe slide the houses caught fire and the persons who went down perished in the flames it is believed the great slip of clay carried away the main which supplied the fire hydrants and when the firemen ar rived at the scene they found no water with which to extinguish the blaze in the ruins of the houses which had so suddenly been sent over the bank |