After a fearful night we found, when day broke, that the water had subsided, and I and some others of the men crawled out upon the rubbish and debris to search for food, for our people were starving.
A large force will be employed at once to remove the debris and bury the dead, so as to avoid disease and epidemic.
The first endeavor has been to open the old streets in which the debris was heaped as high as the house-tops.
People are satisfied now that dynamite is the only thing that can possibly remove the wreck and that as it is being used it is not likely to mangle bodies that may be in the debris any more than would any other means of removing it.
The deadly silence that has prevailed throughout the town is ended, giving place to the shouts of hundreds of men pulling at ropes, and the crash of timbers and roofs as they pull wrecked buildings down or haul heaps of debris to pieces.
The workmen hastened to the scene and piled debris of all sorts on the top and thus prevented a washout.
At seven o'clock five thousand laborers struck pick and shovel and saw into the square miles of debris heaped over the city's site.
Then came the burning of the debrisnear the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge.
The smoke and steam from the placers of smouldering debris above the bridge aid to hasten the night.
It is supposed that some of them are in the sixty acres of debris above the bridge at Johnstown.
Miss Rose Clark was fastened in the debris at the railroad bridge, at Johnstown.
Those who were lucky enough to escape went to the mountains, and there they beheld the poor unfortunates being crushed to death among the debris without any chance of being rescued.
In spite of all the water that has been thrown upon it by fire engines and all the rain that has fallen, the debris is still smouldering in many spots.
Right over the debris of the German biplane she waddled, crushing metal and wood into an unrecognizable pulp, and then thrust her blunt nose into the outer line of barbed wire.
If the Huns had had boards they had vanished--probably smashed to atoms or else covered with debris from the sides of the trench with the violent concussion of the bombardment.
Before the last of the far-flung debris had fallen to earth the whistles sounded.
Over the sand-bags they leapt, landing upon the bodies of the bombed gunners, scrambled over the intervening debris and made for the second machine-gun.
Half buried with debris they extricated themselves, none the worse except for a severe shaking.
It certainly was a very active one, if one can judge by the quantity of debris it threw out.
In 1863 there was a great flood in Sheffield, which did a lot of damage, and amongst the debris that floated down the river was noticed a cradle containing a little baby.
The gleaner among the rock debris of this lake has a field of labor which is not dissimilar to that of the fossilist.
There are cast up among the lake debris of this island, casts of some species of orthocaratites, ammonites, and madrepores, which appear to be derived from the calcareous rocks in place in the basin of Lake Huron.
In detached mass, among the debris of the River St. Louis and of Fond du Lac.
Distinct from its height, which appears to correspond with the contiguous cliffs, and in the large amount of fresh debris at its base, it presents nothing peculiar in its geology.
Marie, where the debris and pebbles along the shore of the lake contain native copper disseminated in particles varying in size from a grain of sand to a mass of two pounds' weight.
In far the greatest number of cases, the eminence has lost its sharp angles through the effects of frosts, rains, and elemental action, leaving a slope of debris at the foot.
Much of the coast was footed, as the winds were adverse, and its debris thus subjected to a careful scrutiny.
This mineral occurs in fragments in the debris of Lake Superior; also, in the amygdaloid; also, around the shores of the Upper Mississippi.
In the form of translucent fragments, with a highly conchoidal fracture, among the debris of the shores of Lake Pepin.
I found among the debris in the abyss, pieces of hornstone, and crystals of calcareous spar, radiated quartz, sulphuret of zinc, and sulphate of lime.
Tectonic events caused an uplift and erosion of Mesozoic and Paleozoic rocks in the Uintas and debris was deposited in Fossil Lake as an encroaching delta of sand.
Most of this fine debris was deposited near the shore.
Little clastic debris is found, either because the ooze accumulated in deep water or plants near the shore filtered out the debris.
Here Julie dropped into the water which formed a hole along the rockbound shore, so that she went in without striking anything, and immediately began swimming to free herself from the tangle of roots and debris that fell with her.
The tourists seldom followed the beaten trail that ran to Flat Top Mountain or to the Glaciers, because Mr. Gilroy secured better results in finding rock formations and glacial debris in going by the old Indian trails.
The debris carried down by the streams that emptied into the torrents at the bottom of the draw, formed almost impassable barriers to going onward.
Not only do all kinds of debris come flooding the valleys and lakes with this gushing from glacial fields, but gold and other precious metals are washed down and deposited.
From this spot Mr. Gilroy and Mr. Vernon could daily rove about, hunting for the precious bits of rock and debris that meant so much to the geologist.
This operation is practised particularly upon the debris of the mine, and the rubbish produced in breaking the ores.
The gold of alluvial districts, called gold of washing or transport, occurs, as well as alluvial tin, among the debris of the more ancient rocks.
The shells of the defunct oysters are everywhere found mixed with the debris of the bottom of the sound.
Office buildings, skyscrapers towering majestically in their architectural symmetry and beauty, collapsed into heaps of debris as their steel skeletons were abstracted.
Cramming the pistol into his belt, he watched his chance, then used the debris of the wrecked apparatus as a stepping stone for a running leap that landed him solidly on top of the metal bulk just back of the crystal compartment.
With the strength of desperation the men wrecked the pillars-and-diaphragm apparatus and from the debris tore metal fragments to serve as clubs.
Several years afterwards I discovered pieces of this boat, built of New Zealand pine, in the debris of a flood about twenty miles down the watercourse where it had been left.
This basin would be of some size were it cleaned out; we could not tell what depth it was, as it is now almost entirely filled with the debris of ages.
Guess you don't want me to carry on with that there polishing job," he remarked nonchalantly, as he heaved the winded petty officer to his feet and indicated the debris of the brass-bound casks.
Barely had the last of the flying debris from the German light cruiser struck the water when at full speed the British destroyer flotilla hurled itself upon the foe.
A shell had shattered the fore-topmast, the debris falling athwart the steel canopy protecting the range-finding officers.
And now over the debris upon the ledge, striking with long sword and daggers, here and there a captain flashing the green ray, moving on in ordered squares, came the soldiers of the Shining One.
A few minutes later a loud explosion in the direction of the Sans Pareil attracted my attention, and, turning, I saw amid the smoke-clouds debris precipitated high into the air.
Two of them struck the Old Cock in rapid succession, almost completely demolishing it, but the debris was quickly manned, and rifles soon spoke from its ruined walls.
The clouds were rent asunder by the frightful detonation, and down upon the Russian camp the debris of their ingenious invention fell in a terrible death-dealing shower.
Then the smoke clearing showed the debris of the Gerzog Edinburskij fast sinking beneath the restless waters.
The quaint spire of St. Bride's had fallen, and its bells lay among the debris in the adjoining courts; both the half-wrecked offices of the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Chronicle were being consumed.
The debris fell heavily upon the deck, and the disaster, being witnessed by the spy, caused him considerable anxiety for his own safety.
The streets of the usually clean, well-ordered town were strewn with the debris of fallen houses and shops that had been wrecked by Russian shells.
The French Tricolor on the flagstaff toppled over into the street, and a second later the clouds of smoke and the debris which shot up showed plainly the awful results of the bursting shell.
Battalion after battalion of the enemy, fierce and ruthless, clambered on over the debris in Terminus Road, enthusiastic at finding their feet upon English soil.
The Gneisenau, passing on the far side of the mass of scattered debris marking the grave of her consort, still spat out defiance from her guns.
When we got so close that the debris of their shells fell on board, we altered our course and so threw them out in their reckoning of our speed, and they had all their work to do over again.
There was no panic, the boats were got out, and some were already in the water when there was a second explosion and a mass of debris was shot into the air.
The traveller who lands on Quarantine Island is first confronted with the debrisof the projected Suakin-Berber Railway.
All the debris which the Egyptian advance had broken off the Dervish Empire was thus to be hurled against that falling State.
Their hands instinctively tightened their clasp as they stole forward into the shadow of the houses, along what had once been a street, but was now littered and blocked with fallen walls and debris of every kind, some of it still smouldering.
The sides and roof of the cavern had caved in, and the debris was showering down like falling snow.
Then rocks and debris began to fall with loud crashes.
The amphibian tractors carrying the 3d Battalion, 382d Infantry, were held up by the tank barriers of coconut logs and debris on the beach, and the troops were forced to debark at the water's edge.
From houses on the other side of a belt of open ground covered with the debris of shattered buildings the Germans directed a heavy machine-gun fire on the Canadian positions.
It had been gutted by fire, while the pleasant little terrasse beside the river was heaped with the debris of fallen walls.
From behind the debris of the bridge the red-breeched French were replying gallantly to the enemy.
Some shells as they exploded would throw up great fan-shaped masses of debris and smoke, others would burst into vortex rings, whilst others again shot up into the air great feathers of fine brown dust.
In this battle two sections of armoured cars engaged the enemy with machine-gun fire, but the quantity of debris scattered on the roads, and the fragile nature of the chassis of the cars, prevented their being freely used.
Bits of trees flew over us--some debris lodged in our rigging, as the fury continued overhead.
And sure enough, when he arrived at the place, he came to a stand, and gazed on the torn vines and the rocky debris that had accompanied me down that cliff-side.
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