Peregrine
05-14-2010, 06:46 AM
Quebec Family Dies as Home Disappears Into Crater - NYTimes.com (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/world/americas/13canada.html?hp)
OTTAWA — Richard Préfontaine and his wife, Lynne Charbonneau, were watching a playoff hockey game with their two daughters on Monday night when the ground beneath their house gave way (http://www.montrealgazette.com/Deaths+overshadow+Jude+celebrations/3018623/story.html) suddenly and without warning.
The house’s bright green metal roof was all that was visible the next day in a vast mud crater near the village of St. Jude, Quebec, about 50 miles northeast of Montreal. The landslide created a hole 100 feet deep, 300 yards wide and a third of a mile long.
The family’s remains were found huddled together on a couch by the television, with rescuers discovering only their golden retriever, tied to a tree, alive.
OTTAWA — Richard Préfontaine and his wife, Lynne Charbonneau, were watching a playoff hockey game with their two daughters on Monday night when the ground beneath their house gave way (http://www.montrealgazette.com/Deaths+overshadow+Jude+celebrations/3018623/story.html) suddenly and without warning.
The house’s bright green metal roof was all that was visible the next day in a vast mud crater near the village of St. Jude, Quebec, about 50 miles northeast of Montreal. The landslide created a hole 100 feet deep, 300 yards wide and a third of a mile long.
The family’s remains were found huddled together on a couch by the television, with rescuers discovering only their golden retriever, tied to a tree, alive.