A Land-slide

QUEBECS HOBROR. Quebec, Can., 8ept. 20.- About 8 o'ciock 'fhursday evening people living in the neighborhood of the citadel were startled on hearing a low, rumbling sound, accorapanied by a perceptible quiver of the earth. Houses were shaken, dishes rattled, and ;even in some cases people had diftïculty in maintaining their footing. Every one rushed into the street, and it was learned that a large portton of Cape Diamond, just below the citadel, had become detached, and, sliding down the declivity to Chainplain street, had buried several residences and their inmates under from fifteen to twenty-flve feet of rock, dirt and other wreckage. At the foot of the clifl is a narrow street which oecupies all the Bpace between the capo and the river, and this was fllled with the debris which had crushed out the lives of at least twenty-flve people. The exact number is not yet known as the enormous mass of earth and stone has up to midnight shown but little diminution, notwithstanding that a large force of men was at work clearing it away in less than half an hour after the horrible disaster took place. It is believed, however, that not less than twenty-flve have perished. Twenty bodies have been taken out of the ruins, the more seriously injured numbering sixteen. Of the latter it is alinost certain that several will die. It is now believed that some days must elapse before jll the bodies can be recovered. The dam age to property will amount to about $100,000. Kix hundred men are engaged in the work of rescue. The night was intensely dark, all electrio lights in the neighborhood having been rendered useiecs by the land-slide, and the rescuers were reduced to the necessity of working with lanterns. Those who witnessed the fali of the rock Bay that they heard a long, loud noise, as of several cannon, and, on looking up toward the terrace and citadel, were horrified by the sight of a large mass of stones, rock and earth breaking loose and rushing down the 300 feet of declivity upon the doomed houses below. Immediately tha air was tilled with dust, bo that no one could see ten feet in front of him, and breathing was made difficuit This was f oio wed by the BOund of timbers crushing and yieldinjj to the immense power of the avalancha, and the shouting and screaming of men, women and chjldren in all the agony of despair. The avalanche was cauaed by the hot eather of the past few ■weeks cracking the earth and rock, which were loosened and driven down by the heavy rain of the last few days. Some of the bodies taken out show no evidence of being crushed, and the belief is that in these cases the unfortunate victims of th; terrible catastrophe were Bimply smothered to death. One little girl, the daughter of a fisherman named Vignaux, was found pinned down under a beam unable to move, but absolutely unhurt. She was the sole surviving member of a family of seven. The bodies of all the others having been recovered. In the same building with the Vignaux were three otnr families, and it is doubtful if any member of either has escaped. Quebec, Can., Sept. 2 3. - Thirty-two dead victims of the terrible land-slide have now been taken out of the ruins, but a number of others are known to be still buried in the enormous mass. It is believed that the total number of deaths resulting from the horrible aiïair will reach fifty and may exceed that number.