Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1889 — A CANADIAN CASUALTY. [ARTICLE]

A CANADIAN CASUALTY.

A Land «lide at the City of Quebec Demolishes Houses and Entombs People. Thursday night several thousand tons of rock slid from Cape Diamond, at the end of Dufferin’s Terrace, to Champlain street, Quebec, 300 feet below. At the foot of the cliff is a narrow street, which occupies all of the space between the cape and the river. Along the river side of the street were situated the houses which were crushed by the terrible avalanche of rockIn May, 1841, a similar landslide occurred, which destroyed several buildings and killed thirty-two people. From present indications it is feared that the loss of life in this landslide will be equally as great. In 1852 another slide caused the death of several persons about half a mile from the scene of the recent disaster. The street is entirely filled with the wreckage, and a large force of men is at work clearing it away. Several families are known to have been entombed, and it is feared all are dead. About ten houses were demolished. Sixteen people have been taken out of the debris dead and more are under the rocks. Twenty-five were seriously injured Twenty-one victims of the terrible land slide near Quebec were buried Sunday.

Industrial Notes Our tramps are placed at 50,000. Carnegie’s cook gets $3,000. a year. At London 300 retail bakers are in a trust. Krupp uses 3,000 tons of coal and coke daily. Indians are the best workmen in New York hop fields. In France husband and wife work in shops together. r Natural gas saves Pittsburg 7,000,000 tons of coal per year. ’Whites took the places of striking Chinese at Fresno, Cal. We have more railroads than the rest of the world combmde. San Francisco has 40,000 Chinese. They earn $12,000, 000 a year. In France workers stop at 10:30 a. m. for lunch. Sunday work is common. A New England rubber company made 22 per cent, last year on a capital of $10,000,000. Lake City (Fla.) butchers must exhibit the ears and hide of the meat Of” animals for sale. Some American sailors refused 1 to take the places of the London strikers even at triple wages. Railroaders have asked the government to compel the use of automatic brakes and couplers.