Josephine, or, Early trials |
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Sivu 44 - Francisca, still with her head downwards, and surrounded with damp earth, experienced a sense of cold in her feet, almost insupportable; after prodigious efforts, she succeeded in disengaging her legs, and thinks this saved her life. Many hours had passed in this situation, when she again heard the voice of Marianne, who had been asleep, and now renewed her lamentations.
Sivu 44 - She asked whether people would not soon come to take them out. Francisca answered, that it was the day of judgment, and that no one was left to help them, but that they would be released by death, and be happy in heaven.
Sivu 45 - ... his family. He soon discovered his wife, by a foot which appeared above ground. She was dead, with a child in her arms. His cries, and the noise he made in digging, were heard by Marianne, who called out. She was extricated with a broken thigh, and, saying that Francisca was not far off, a further search led to her release also, but in such a state that her life was despaired of.
Sivu 46 - Goldau had disappeared under a heap of stones and rubbish 100 feet in height, and the whole valley presented nothing but a perfect chaos! Of the unfortunate survivors, one lost a wife to whom he was just married, one a son, a third the two pupils under his care : all researches to discover their remains were, and have ever since been fruitless. Nothing is left of Goldau but the bell which hung in its steeple, and which was found about a mile oft7.
Sivu 43 - ... of September, a large rock became loose, and in falling raised a cloud of black dust. Toward the lower part of the mountain, the ground seemed pressed down from above, and when a stick or a spade was driven in, it moved of itself. A man, who had been digging in his garden, ran away from fright at these extraordinary appearances ; soon a fissure, larger than all the others, was observed, insensibly it increased; springs of water ceased all at once to flow, the...