’s'l"
But They Leave ltclillid 'l‘licul a
Scene of luch'l'lbublc Woe.
. Jonrs'rowv «IS NO moan.
l‘he l‘uneuiuugh Valley wat ('lcali
by the Torrent.
DANGER Ill“ I'ICNI‘I l.l'ZNf ‘E.
A Ian-of l'utrefylnlr Bodies That May
‘ Breed Disease.
'ULTL'RES IN lil'llAN l‘flltlf.
' Riding the Dead Bodies for Relics and
I . Booty.
Tho lawn la [Taller Mai-ital l-Ilr—Al’llled
Ina Patrol the Streets and Have Or.
don to Kill Any Man Found Stealing
from the Dead—~Tlm A wful Scene at the
Railroad Bridga—Acrcl of Smolderlug
Baht-la In Which Hundreds ul‘ (‘orpacu
Al. lodgad-Twenty-two llimdrcd lind-
lll nan Already Been Recovered-Nin-
nah a City of the Dam].
Joust-wows, June -l.—Tile time has not yet
come to write the stnry of the dislhlcf‘ that
has turned the sjaii'kiin; t‘onemaugb that
ripphxliioplcaanntly through the beautiful
valle ' into a river of horror ill a valley of
death. No luau, nor any corps of llIL'fl, with
every facility that can be devoted, will ever
be able to write a story that >hall fully tell
of the awful vi~itatiun that hm made the
valley one not charm-l llHllN‘. twenty iiiilcs
. long and half a mic wide, and that hm
i, stained the bright mountain rlt'cttul a color
that not all the water that can flow between
now and eternity can ever mail out. With
the facilitizs for obtaining information, and
for vending ii aft-2r it iwlilainml, thataru tho
'3; l'tL-il that can I» had here no“. it i< ital-twi-
( hie to givi- inure than a \'tl,‘"|l" ltll‘fl if the
awful Ilrwltlllilll that is univemil truint'aiir-
"laugh «lain it. far below J uhlistuwn. To write
a column is I lit to glanc: at the aubject. To
writea page Would be bill to rlu'll'l lightly
our its' mints, and a whole ham: would
i not contain a "zinliiziry Hi all there is to
tell. This much lllnllv' is curtain. that. “liai-
ever has lv-n written la tun “'ctlli lllflilt“
quatelywnimyautilt-an: thc i-chlii of ill--
(basalt-r. and that the- horror of the calmiiity
is bound to lupin-aw daily hr min:- llilll‘ yi-t.
Exploratiom if the valley l’»-_\nutl John:-
town has but just lv-gun. (in thi~ acmuut
not even a (not mtzinatc of lib: tr-lut nuznl er
of lives lost can l-z- made.
The survivors Art,- Itc‘atitutc.
The has of property Will be far up into thi-
millions, but no one thinks of that. The tale
of the dead is bad, bllt the tub: of the living
is bad, too. and it iiill~t have littulltiuii.
tori: lire a.~: many of tin-maul the tll'illl. and
they are hard pruned fur fwd. cluthing and
all the necesm-lrits of life. Their llu‘cnslfy
will continue. not for a day. Hill for a
week, but for months. 'l'hv-y art- as dmtitiite
of allthnl goes to Nippon life, l-Xt't-pt the
bare breath in their lnnllcr, [H are the very
dead “li't‘yi' hat! nude luriism line the
banks fly: Cutielliaugh fut' mil-5.
Their ordinary means of earning 'a liver
lihood 3519;,» N. with the rent of the town,
IILut tin-re l." abundant warh- furcvery one.
[But lib-re mu~t be money to pay the Work-
“Den. Food for the iliiliiediatc tice'vnlty of
i tliepw-ple in Johnstown itselfiscolldnglil
. from every side, and there ii (‘lit‘ill'zll to re-
lieve their wants. What the situation is for
pwple further up the valley is unknown here,
. but their plight must be serious. Clothing
enough for tho almiute “0003le y of the time
isnlso coming in, but the people cannot be
maintained in idleness for long, and lunacy,
J toset them to Work and keep them at work
3 is absolutely awry. The mimnittee
‘ in charge has conclude] at the very
i, outset to give the lcaat pcxs‘ible amount
5 of charity and the most Work. They
; '- ask for money first and moat, and their char-
' cter i—: such that there mod be no limitation
a bout sending it in generous abundance.
l’bere is work in cleaning up and rebuilding
Quinn every able bodud mzm here for six
... montlnymid it will be at least nmantb before
any considerable amount «if liimicy can be
is realizedfromtheir labor. The gmeruns heart
- of the countryisdcpendal upon to furn'ub
thalamus of keeping tiiese men at work for
at least that long, for no one can tell yet how
grant will be the husk of recreating the town.
The Scene of' tho Dlautcr.
Johnstowu, seen from the bluff opposite
the railroad tracks. at a point just above the
Pennsylvania railroad bridge, is as though
tbsh'orth and East rivers were high bluffs
intend of channels lower than the land, and
lbclowur end of Manhattan Island was a
deep valley, ending in a massive stone bridge
with half a donor: low arches at the point of
tbebattery. Johnstown lay in the valley,
allows New York lies on tlieisland. At
abuuttbeplaoe where the postoffice stands
in Row York it stands in the valley hm. It
WMWWawfiegap. On the right
it “I to don the valley completely, but
than is another gap reaching OK
at abut right angles to the first. one
am run through both these gaps
and unit- just right at the bridge.
an.“ d' lbcbigbblufl on thelcft, up
h the air,'ran the Pennsylvania railroad
until it ate-ed the bridge. Through the bot.-
ioni of the m valley, at the right, at-
ta'ad the Baltimoro and Ohio railroad.
Though the gap at the right the Conermugh
rivc flow; Stony crock enter: through tho
”gaps Johnston filledall thetfiangnlar
mane bottom the two binds and the mount-
mmmtched out up the gap oneither
ids. firehouse- in the gaps are mostly
well up the nmntain side inthetri-
' plain, nearly or quite as large an
, York below the posooflicc. All the
m on a level little above that of the"
m 80m
‘W
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t'i
.mooflho Donut Dealt-g Tamal-
tinwitbanhnpnbnttibortghtride of
I“ -‘ m,tllttbegmtma-
amdown tho Con-naugb river.
, drfvoottbofloodltruekagalmt
ladwumrudnufbtowarvltb
unamdwahrwitllafnnt
”lawn-wright“
.. , a”: all.
W idiot,
Willi STBS
Iliad.
arrogant. ‘k-alvbuutfm 1 up
ltrwept walk until it struck tit-brink.“
the palm of M Mabgll, and, although it
wanton foottw mdnpovartha toparb
bridge tboobatnctimmttbonnuofmry
wall migrant that the bend of the nub of
water was turned back along the l'cuulylva-
liia railroad bluff on the loft, and, nwoeplng
up to when; it met the tint Mutant again,
llt‘hul up the purlluu of thc tnuil on the loft
rd-lvuf tlm triangular plain. A gniat eddy
“tin thou located in tho triangular plain.
Through the tituny crwk gap to the right
than was a rush of wurplua water.
in two minutes after tbecurmnt first but“
through, forty feet linop, with a mild inn-of
watcr whirling around with a current. of fro
nlt'lltlltlll velocity, it was a whirlpool vastly
greater than that of fun Niagara. Thoriuly
millet wan under and over the railroad
bridge, and the continuing rush of the water-
into the valley from the gap m greater for
liomc time than the manu- of «an.» at the
bridge.
A View from tho Bridgo.
standing now at the bridge, where tbla
vast whirlpool struggled for exit, the air ll
heavy with lair-kc and foul with namele-
odurs from a mug of wreckage. Tho arm of
the triangular bpfll'o where the awful whirl-
pool revolved hi mid to be about four
square lulll‘ti. The area of the upace cov-
end by lllls slacking man is sixty acrea
The surface of this maau bi now
flt‘teecu foot below the top of the bridge and
about thirty below the point on the bluff
where the surface of tho whirlpool lashod the
banks. ( me ragged mace some distance above
lllt' bridge rises .‘EVC‘MI feet above the general
level, but with that exooption tho uurfam of
the debt is is level. it bu burned off until it
nacho] tliewatcr, and is smoldering on an
the water gradually lower: 0n the right
bank, at about whom was the highest water
level, a detachment of the l’ittsburg fire do-
partiliciit isthruwiug two tltful stream of
water down into the tunokc, with the idea of
gradually extinguishing the fire. In the im-
mensity of the dimstcr with which they coin-
bat their feeble clfurts seem like thoao of buy.
w ith aquirt guns daulpeuinga bonfire. About
the Sixty acres of burning debris, and to the
leiinf it lrtll'l where it begun to narrow to-
ward Stony Crock gap, there is a large area
of luv t-l mad, with muddy straaliio wondering
about in it. This tract of mud comprises all
.»f the triangle except a thin fringe of build-
ing along the bluff on the Pennsylvania rail-
road. A cranidcrable number of hum
stand on the high ground on the lower face
of the central mountain and off to the right.
into Stony t'rcck gap. The fringe along the
l’cnn~yivalliu railroad is liimtly of stores and
other large, brick buildings that are com—
plclcly wrecked, though not swept away.
The luau-s on the higher ground are un-
hal'lilcd; but tl-thl toward the edge flit-y fade
nuny by tlv~‘,‘,l‘l'ri~ of t’llfllpll‘lk'llcis lll their
wreckage into the yellow level of the huge
ll'llt'l nwr “luck the mighty wliirllmulswept.
(iii. in of night, in Stony Creek gap, are
frilly-w of ill was on either side of the muddy
ll.il.
a l:....- wan.» “'th Once n l‘lty Starla.
'l - ti 1'. Li a peculiar thing. it. is level and
liain'umaa; as a pats-b of waste ground.
Twp. .u- it) grow grass, there is nothing to
indicatc that it had ever been anything ehe
than what it i~. it i» as clean of tlt'lll'l-ll and
wreckage in though their had never lawn a
building on ii. iii reality it was ll)" central
and bi:.~ie~t part of Jolillhluwll. Buildings,
bath dwellings and stores, covered it thickly,
it~ \ll’i‘t'li \\ cl‘l‘ wind, and it» sidewalks of
:iib.—t:llitinl ytnnm. It had street car lines,
gas and electric lights, and all the other im~
[rf‘u‘v'q'lllv-llih of a substantial city of l5,00l)
ul‘ L’I‘JHJ inhabitants. iron bridges spanned
the nil't'lllllh', and the buildings were of sub-
stantial character. Not a brick remains,
not a ~tuiic tin a stick of timber in all thiv
torritnry. Tllt'l’t.‘ are not even hammocks
and mounds to rhow where wreckage might
Ii,-t-«,;v.i't~.l withalayer of mud. The“ are
not lln'l'c, they are gonHvery building,
every :trcet, every sidewalk and pavement.
the >lf’t’t‘t railways, and everything else that
covered the surface of the earth has van-
ished as utterly as though it had never been
there. The ground was svn-pt as clean as
though Mime mighty scraper had been
draggml over it again and again. Xot even
the lime, of the streets can be even remotely
lrtll‘cnl.
“l have visited Jobmtmvn a dozen times a
year for a. lung time," said a business man,
“and l know it thonalghly, but I haven't the
let»! idea now of what part of it this hi I
can't even tell the dirrctioa the streets used
to run."
llis bewilderment is hardly greater than
that of the cilia-n5 themselves. They wan-
der about in the mud for hours trying toflnd
the spot where the house of some friend or
relative used to stand. It takes a whole fam—
ily tn locate the rito of their friend‘s house
with any rmwuable certainty.
'l'llnt Awful Chanel Heap.
All this is horrible to see, more horrible
than it can [Akilllly be to read of; but the
warstlis untold. The smoke that hover: over
the wreckage by the bridge, and floats in
light blue clouds above the town, is heavy
with an odor rarely :mcllcd. it is the putri—
fying flab of human beings that cause the
odors at which every newcomer bore shivers
with horror. Those who have been herelong
don't mind it; they any used to it, and there
are more matters than smells to attendto.
The cruel whirlpool that pounded four square
miles of buildings into dust did not spare
the maple. Their bodies were ground he-
nenth the pressure of the awful millsfone of
the flood, as were the brick and the motor of
the.» buildings. They were torn limb {run
limb, heaped together, torn apart, scattu'ed
and lilinglul in the aims as were the timber!
and boards of the pine buildingu Finally
they were bulged in that solid mass of sixty
acns of debris along with the ruins of their
hoaxes, wedged in as tightlyaa tlrougb human
fled: win» no more than broken wood and
iron. Tum: they are, than that have not
bevnburncdintlwfire thatlcveiled the
whole was or that were not carried above
the top of the bridge in the first rush of the
flood. Howmany there were cannotba
told. Scam of bodies buve already bear ro-
nwvcd from along the edges of the area
of wreckage, but. that is only the begmnmg.‘ '
Thetlrebaskeptmcn off,and nowthat. the
rain and the Pittsburg firemen are whining
the flames it is found that thodebris is packed
so closely that it is hopeless to attanpt to
penetrate It except by beginning at tbcodgm
and working into it. That work Will take
weeka. A few indies have been pulled out
where they were on the surface, but ova:
these cannot all be gotten out. The body it
aboybaslain all daybeaide theironfralne
of alocornotivo tender near the bridge,
plain sight, but beyond roach. ,
'Amost minus feature of tholodgin‘g
this man of stud nglinst the brklge in
all the inter of the Conan-ugh
Stony-crank has to pan through it
way to the Allegheny and to the
Inpplyauuroo of Pitfallrrg. The
the man are already beginning
odor mu offensive than that of
8
SOUTH momma
.."f'l" mt
. ltllalltbalbloft-ofono- the
I“ win milk all “I work: ll lb
county. Turning-round blow the bridge
an the w 1:» of the Cambria boa «unpany.
The bulbl“l»,‘a are still atandmg, but they ata
[may wt.: mined, and the machinery. with
which they were filled, til either totallydo-
utmyed oi daliiagud atheist hcymuf repair.
lligll up on the hill at the left and unaltered
upon other hilla in night mainly dwellings,
not-t, well kept and attractive plum W
catty, and looking as bright. and fresh now
u befun the awful unreal. wiped out. of ex.
btonce everything in the valley below.
This ki Jubnatuwu and Ill human-to vicin-
ity as neally u wonla can paint. it. It is a
single featum, one auction out. of fifteen sullen
of Mirror that utmtcba through this once
lovely valley of tbo'Allegbony. What fa
true of Jehmtuwu is true of every town for
nlilra upand down. The deaolatlon of one
town may differ from the dull-tion in
other: as one death may dimw frum an-
other; but it laduulation and death every-
where—dimlatfon an «unpleto, an reliant,
Ion. an dreadful that it in aluolutoly be
yond the conception of "tall who have
not seen li~—deatli in forms more "rial,
more paintill, and more horrible than they
ever weru deviaod by tho inmt atrocious tor-
turv-r of the lnlpibittt'ou. llany have been
burned to death and many have been
drowned, but few have been called upon to
die with the water aurgiug about their face.
while fire hunted tbcir llllllll, a death that
mount-led after the “00d heaped them
up against. the bridge here.
been lung-st hero and who have plunged
deepest into the horrors that fill the valley as
completely all did the floods have not yet for-
gotten, ant that they say they never can
forget—that is the abrioka of the victims
whose fat it wall to die by fire and water at
once. Tho pitiful sound filled the valley at
this polm inr hours above the roar of the
flames and the din and numb of tho debrlu
laden torrent. Hundred-i were reached and
rescued. Hundreds died within right. of men
who won“ alnlurt have given their own liva
to fill\'l.‘ thulll.
The Number of “film. Never [to Known.
The want about the «flush-r will probably
never be known, for the reason that the flood
and fire have mac-mend the victims through
such a with: extent of territory that no remrd
can be nude and nnlyalirt made ofafew
thousand mlwsing. llany purple, too, have
left Jolinwtuwn never to return, their all
buviugbrnthutroyed. ft Wullltl mpiiroa
ccnm taker six lnmiths tn cotnplntn any-
thing approaching a detailed statement of
tho llfllul, and no tabulation has bocli
attclllptev! yet. Burned and ground to
pieeca at llll' great dam of debris at the Penn-
sylvaliia railroad bridge are the nunainsuf
hundreds of people. Underneath the ruins
of the tnun are mnuv more. Swept along
down the river, lodged in driftwood on tho
banks, caught in (lanai, and lodged in from
and llOlLif‘~ at the bottom arc still more.
(ultnnlu Among the Dead.
Sonic lilt‘nslll’t's rhvzuid be taken at once to
effectually allut‘lt'll the lll‘flflthll relic hunters.
They are here ill filll force and large
numbers. and come of the trick» they retort
to ill their efforts t-u sct‘lll‘u nmnieatotw
of tho tlvod are almmi criminal in
their crux lty. While working amid the
smoldering ruim about the plum, bridge. A
reporter saw a nlouomauiac take tho charred
bones of an infant from among the smoking
debris, and, wrapping llll‘tli carefully in
anowspap-r, carry them away with a look
of triumph 'oli ll'u face. At this place,
where tin dead almost ontnumla-r'tlie living,
some frigbttuldeeds have bccn [mu-tram
by the searchers for miles. lino mun idole
an old lmndallna iterchief from about the
bend of a dead colon-d woman Another ro-
moved a Moe from an old, gray liairul titan,
“'lltlfifl stiff alld mangled curpm was found
dangled in a tree, while still another pm-
med bin suit of the sham which was thrown
over the runainsof a child, lvnving the body
at the mercy of a Weeping heaven
Nor are the relic hunters the only class who
desecratc :ho dead. The hearth-5+ crowds of
ext-amount. who have thronged the regions
round about for the Inn! few days would be
more at battle in a jail thail anywhere else if
their actli -..~. go (or aught. Some of thorn
have gone through the town singing, whist-
ling and cracking the (in-arson of jokes, while
other: have trampled o'er thn critilim htniwn
about the roads with an utter disregard for
their sacred contents.
lNClDENTS OF THE DAY.
llccovcring the Dead "miles—Scene- in
tlic Char-net llouan.
Jmlxstuwx, Pm, June 4.-’l‘u givo smile
idea of til - destructive power with which the
volume of water from the lake struck East
Cullolllnflglt, it is only necessary to state that
it talk the roundbouse, with twenty-seven
engines in it, 200 freight cunt and about
twenty fa’lSfl‘llgt‘f cars, including {our Pull-
man can. One train of passenger can on
the track Was fltll of pamongcrsi. The con-
ductor and engineer run along the train
warning the passengers to tie: for their lives.
Some stat led and a portion remained and
went dent a. How many perished is not
known.
’1 he track, depot, freight house and coal
rbcdsare entirely washed away. The mail
matter on the east bound train held there
was saved ill a miraculous way, by two or
three engines wnvbing against the train and
making a breaker that divided the water,
which did not close until the car “‘35 posed.
The mail was not even wet.
Unearthing the Dead.
During the morning the first attempt was
made to work into the Cunlbria iron works.
A gangof30tlinen was puttowork and in
removing the debris around the mill. At. al-
most every step dead bodies ambeing un-
earthedand are being Carriedtotbo Pann—
rylvania railroad station house, when tb-y
are being placedtncofliasandarclaidoutbe
platform for identification. One of the bodies
found here was that «1an Ogle, the tele-
grapb operator who was heard from in the
town only a moment before the flood struck
the building.
From the bank: many scarred remains of
victims of llama and flood are plainly visible
in the burning dobrisat the viaduct, as tho
receding water: reluctantly give up their
dead. Beneath alarm ova-y log or blackened
beamaglu‘touingakull ortbeblancbedrom-
nautsofribsor limbainark all tbatrernabn
of life’s from and dream Since 10 o‘clock
Sunday night tbaflroanginoa have constantly
playcdon tbcburnlng ruins. At mu.
flru Beans almost extinguished, but fltful
hmm nuluenly bank out-fresh in tomorrow
quarter. The mfion of the day war-tho
united raunnstnnooof the physicians again-t
tbooxfinguisbmt or the burning wreck.
They maintain, with a philooapby that to
anxlom warchm can: that hun—
dreds, tfnottbmnandgofllfela-anddecay-
fngbodios llo ban-til thh ma-ofburnfng
There is one thing oventbouo who have ‘
‘Imh
. mt ‘“ m . .
human tank that can gin tartan mulb—
thodnadful typhus. Every tumour kl-
domwafntodtln mcaultyof the My ll-
hrulcnt uf decaying bunllaa, and tho slouch
that already aria-v its a forerunner of the tin—
pointing danger. Burn the wreck! Burn the
wrock!“
A luud cry of indignation more from the
ll;- of the vast multltwlc, and the warning-
of urban-c w-w load. in tho oagcr demands of
than that naught the “villains of frhllidn.
The how was again turned on the biasing
flame. and again tho flames yielded to tho
mprrlllucy of water.
blight Accra of liner-lug Ital-a.
It in nlniud inducible to mnceivo the ex-
tent of time uni-king ruiaiv An area of
dgbt or ten acro- abovo the dam bi covered
to a depth of forty fwt with abatbsrod buuuea
hm from the midi-tit water of Joliuvtnwn,
In each of them law it It animated then
were from live to twenty-five “alpha Thin
laacccptod as data upon which to mtliuato
the number that perished on the «pot. and if
thadata be correct, the bodkn that lie ho
naath thus ruins must number into the thou-
sand:
The serum at the lower end of the city is
beyond uhacription. The half llfltl not been
told, and never can he, nut to the oxtcnt of
the awful wreck. The town is IIUW under
martial law, and every uiio who gum about
the place inchallengt-l and required to give
an account. of birth-elf. The water has aub-
alded to a great extent, and the shoot: in the
main part of the town are free from water.
I‘IW Bavdatlonu .
The falling.wan-r ball-ill ban tho terrible
workof Wflood,ratultlwfulloltant of tho
dtmtnr it only being ascertained now. The
straits are um! sickening, foul smelling mat-
of wood and debris, and the work of Iearcb~
tax for babes has only fairly begun. The
latest eatlnlates put the hm of life at 10,000
to 124m
Baltimore and Ohio Conductor Frank Mc-
Donald mun-med the tint awful crash
against the atone bridge. llu mid when he
flnit saw the flood it was thirty feet. high,
and gradually rum to at. hast forty feet.
“I certainly think i saw 1.0m bOIllfll go
over the bridge. The lint house that came
down struck the bridge and at one.» took tlru,
and as fast as the tlllltrl’tlf‘nulu down they
were consumed. i believe i am safe in any-
ing 1 saw a lllOllslIlul mum burn. it remind-
ed mo of a lot of flies on fly paper, smuggling
to get away, with no hull" and no chance to
avo them."
Thu Directory Will Tell the Tale.
Just. one month ago the Work of taking a
m-inu-a of thc city for a newdinictnry was
mmpletcd, and shown! exactly 20,400 people
claiming in: but - - iii Jublnt “VII. The book
is now ill tin- pxi :lwn.’ lands at Altman. All
effort will be mad.- l l :c- are a copy of the
directory. lnaken new canviuu of the city,
and in this manner n.»(\~l‘lutll, to a mountable
dogrc of certainty, the number that met
death in this terrible disaster.
A regular llu.-pital has been npenol on Bed-
fol'd street. llr. Flutter, of l'ttthburg, ll in
charge; Dr. Alex. 13. lict'andlemi, the sheriff,
in his nb'a'lhllllll. Tho physicians have been
divided into regular llualplml corps and placed
in charge of the various departmental. A
dnig store has been opened in the rear of the
hmpital, containing alargc quantity of aur-
gical auppdca’.
Railroad workmen will probably have the
chasm lISIlH't‘ll tlmatoiie bridge and the city
pmtl'fll‘l‘tlllfil and running traim into tho
city inside of twelve houn. An mum-cens-
ful effort was made to span the river with a
rope bridge during tho afternoon, and three
men who went into the river uarrowlyos-
capml drowning.
A report iv again in circulation that two of
the palace mocha: of the limited exprcu
were wrecked, caught tire. and were totally
datroyml at L'qnciiiaugh. Whether the pa»-
sengenl were killed or escapul it is impomible
wxucertaili. .
llurrlblo Slghla in a Depot.
Two hundred and fiftecll bodies were re-
ceived at the Pennsylvania railroad depot
during the day. After being washed they
wa‘c placed in mile-ta and arrnngtd iii long
rows on the depot platform for hlulitilicution.
Only a few of the number Were recognlml.
Some were no terribly didlgurc-l as to be
wholly unnuigninble. The waiting room!
in which the cmbalniing was done pn'aentol
a sickening sight. llmnan forms frightfully
burned, or cut, or bruised, were laid upon a
rough board table, washed and cofllnod. it
they Were not recognized in a very abort
time they were placed on wagons mid taken
to the Adams street schoolhouse, where they
will be kept as long an lmible, and then bur-
ied in a grave lmnng the legend “Unknown."
Mlmuluua Exam
There were some remarkable mus. Mm
Juli“ Gcis was standing on Main street as the
flood struck the lieu-cs, and a portion of a
brick house fell on her. She was rescued
through one of the windows.
Nannie Greenwood was in her house talking
to her sister when the building was struck,
and her father, mother and two sisters, ware
drowned, while silo was caught inaacddy
and whirled around into mfety.
Mrs. Dr. John K. In, whose hnslnnd is
lost. bung by her arms rlbmflfll for four
hours in the water, supporting at the same
time her aged mother, until both were res-
cued.
The must pathetic case yct la’ougbt to light
is that of James Eight. He has come to
Jobnstown to attend the wedding of his sis—
ter Ellen, which was to have taken place on
Monday. lie know of the fact that a terrible
duster had taken place, butbad no idea that
his family was involved. ills agony may be
imagined rather than dacribed when learn-
ing on his arrival that his mother and three
listen had been drowned and his father had
gone demented over the terrible afllictimia.
Theold gentleman was crying like a child
and taking those barium “Did youmcthunt
~ Djdyanwathungodownf 'flteywifl come
luck for tho Wilding fir-night. Bile is gone
for her bridal wreath.”
Dr. H. Phillipa, of the East End, Pittslatrg,
has returned to that city. He was visiting
his mother, and them were five [maple in the
house W himself when the flood came.
Dr. Phillips was the only person who arrayed
death, and he was only rescued after being
in the water for seventeen hours
TROOPS READY lF NECESSARY.
Several Begin-nt- l’repand to Go to
John-town at a lomcnva Notice.
limiswlzo, PL, Juno L~Adjt Gen.
Hastings rent thofollowing dispatch to C. H.
Kiel. w of the Postal Telegraph com-
pany at this will:
Better Inform Governor [team that link morn-
ing': report- glvctbo number loot atJobuItown
at between 12,000 and 25,000. the greatest disor-
derprcvnill. The place infatuated with thievwl
and vandal- wbomrobblugtlndudandappm-
Wingflmll‘ they can ”Minut- on.
MWmmmmh the
all-poof [lumbar not bmfortba flood luf-
l'oru-a. 'l‘oll Oovnnrnaamwuyoueaareaeh
umudanfihlngbomwhbtoéommunl-
can with pull. will vulva your]! auction
from a.
The mt flit-alk- of the h to
and no troop hick-town, but bin ru-
WMDMtbrqh-ith
taro-diar- tom to the can at the
run-mm. , ‘
“mm“... .m:
EVENING summon
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WWII. moonwalk "it?”
hvathomxflwldmformm. .
up 'i “my Arc timer.
Sheriff llofimdlua, of Allaghany mauly,|
holograph- aI nllc in from l’ltudmrg: ,
"av-apart rci road from Julinatown. 'l‘lte inhi
nation 1» Illll'llt lat it in Inmtlvuly nwewuwv int
and four of Hi « icgiilleula of the National lilflll‘ll '
to prevent pillana- robbery and blmnlalml
'l‘bo Fourteenth and Elgbtoontb regimental
wow ready to move with can and "lilting
and the adjutant gutteral counhirtuanitud the
«dual. .
Uou. Snowdou telegraph: that the Fiat
brigade in twenty to I‘l‘n‘llmtl to the call for duty
at Jobnrtuwn, and (ion. Wiley toklgrapba bin
willingmw. to reply to any demand made on
him.
Rutlb flindckowr, sergeant. of tho Fir-at
brigade, wires that the hoapital corpn la randy
to goal voluntoera. t‘ol. Keck, of Wilkes-
borro, notable that bit regiuwnt in road] to do
duty on relief mull.
(lovcnlor Beaver has arrived and la in
communication with flan. flu-tinge, who in
at downtown. and giving mammary instruc-
titan.
STORIES OF SUFFERING.
Tarrlblu Tale Told by a Dying Mun-Ex—
portnmia of Survivors.
Jouvnrowx, l’a. Juno twin ll o'clovk I'uit
night, timrge irwiu, a resident of llillaidu,
\l’mimoroland munty, was dimiveml in a
dyhigvoiidlticn in a cluulp of llflttlllll just
abovotho "EU-.5 of the Pennsylvania rail.
mark about a mile below Jolilllllflwll. When
aha-bed upon two ruih‘md Lilia near the
track below, in! tongue extended from his
ulolltbmud b.- guped u if death was at
hand. By the antistanm of stimulants be
war in a degree revived and told the follow-
ing <tury;
“l was trialling frienda in Jolnnbown, Frl~
day, when thu flood can». We were sub-
mergcd without a moment's wanting. l was
taken from full window of the house in
which i waa than a priwiwr by Mr. llay, the
druggint, at J'-llll§anll, but lost my footing
and was not rival-lied. l clung to a log until
i Itruck the Cambria iron works, when i
caught on tho roof of the building. Ire-
malucd there for nearly an hour. wbyn l was:
knwkad again from my lamitlon by a piwe
of raft. l flontcd on top of this utitll I got
down here and l atuck in an applo tree.
I saw and heard a number of other un-
fortunate Vlk'ulllfl, when swept by me,
anteahng for mine one to save them. One
woman and two children were floating along
in amen-eat sniet y, when they struck the cur-
nerof a building, and all wentdown t-igcther,
and I would rather have died than have been
mnumlltulmmtnexi that eight. lbavc not
bad a bite to wit “"00 Friday night, and fl!-
benvcil is my judge, ldun't ffl'l hungry. i
am afraid my stunuicli is gone, and lam
about June for."
He was tall-tn to a hospital by several sol-
dier» and sail» r. who rust-lied him.
A 'lcrrlble Experience.
l'lnslzi'un, Juliet—Thomas D. Williams,
his brother, w .{e and infant child, who livul
in J0bll3l0Wll. have mime to their n-lativca
here. Friday rimming the water was in tho
lowrr part if their house. rhino of their
neighbors urwd them to go to tile mollu-
tains with llt.'ltl, but on account of Mr.
Willuum'fwl being injured, they ddayud
till danger “‘iu mum apparent. Tho water
moo allglitly. They moved to the upper part
of the house, Int kept marking the advance
of tho water, and for an hour previous to
the rush they an: it was at a atamlstill.
Suddenly they heard great shrieking and
II'UFllUi acme mighty force. Looking out
they saw a vmt volume of water advancing
upon them. The partition of the house sepa-
rated and lodged on one tilde. Upon this
they clnmbemd and floated for several mihn,
surrounded by the floating debris, and "mad
by people in tin:- aunlc condition as them-
aclimi.
They finally drifted to a brick bongo which
had withstood the force of the deluge. Mr.
Williams broae in tho window, Inumwbilc
securing a safe iii-id of his, child by grmping
lbs clothing “.lll bis truth. The boat»: was
empty. By bid of the material» in tlic liuuic
Mr. Wiibaub and his lumber and half a
dozen person» from tlle'wau-r got in. Satur-
duy night unit» in skitfs came to their re-
lief and brought them to the mountains.
Their own chi-thing win. in shreds, but in this
house they found autllcirnt to cover them-
selves.
[mt Illa Life \l‘llllo Saving Others
A Times Johnstown special says:
While coming down Main street my atten-
tion was uttractol to a beautiful woman
whose facial expression told of a broken
heart. Being asked what she lost, she said:
"The kindest hearted husband that ever
graced a home would still be with me had he
not sacrificed his bin in tho rescue of Ollmm
For ten minuiws before the dreadful torrent
came down uponus he had been carrying
people from the house; across the street to
the scmnd flu ;- of our own house, He ennui
the strict the M'entb time. to rescue a lady,
but failed to r- mm. That b all i know. My
heart will lltlt‘~i with grief." The lady was
Mm Lindsay, the widow of the moat prom~
inent wall pa; "r man of Johnstowu and the
daughter of 3? r. Ludwig, the wholesale liquor
dealer.
APPEALS Foil—Ail). ANSWERED.
Hundreds of Thailand: Quickly Raised
to Believe the Suffer-en.
l’uinamzu-ma, Juno t—At a tlpeclal
meeting of the board of directors of the
Pennsylvania Railroad company a remin-
tion was unanimously [tamed donating 8‘15,-
000 in aid of the sufferers by the mcent
flood at Jobndown and other mints upon
tbclino of the road. This is inadditim to
the $5,000 all-vscrlllfll by the company at
Pittsliurg. before the meeting adjourned
the ,Int'lllllel'u ot the board and tho execufive
only?" of the company who wan Inn-cut
«attributed individually an additional 35.0w
ml. expended through the mm on
finance.
lnpnrmancoof tbeoallimuedby tbcCiti-
aena Yer-anneal Belief Inflation in the pri-
ntootltcaofllayor Filler-,tbeplacawubo-
W by benevolent gantlcrneu, who can-
u-ibtned, galemudy. Nevin- was no much
money received in so short a timeaathat
Winchecks,draftaandcaxb told:
tumor, and he announced to tlloao prmnt that
the total amount up to 4 o'clock amounted to
‘I‘s’mm. This isexclusivo of the funds
collectedand donatml by the Pennsylvania
railroad and Cumin-in Iron company. The
varimu‘cxcbnugea held matings to take
mm on the Johnston calamity. The
churches in portion: of the city an to runaln
open for thm- days to receive donationsof
clothing, bedding, etc, and all the bunka in
the city unto receive omtrihitimot money.
flow York'a Slam of the Good Work.
wa You, Juno t—About zoo loading
dfinumotat the city hall and formula
polahdan mun committee beadad by
Omaha-nan. Anaddra- to all--
"humlndadoptadnad “new
TUESDAY, JUNE 4, l...
can bid 12.1...» to sin-Qua” ” "'""
until. 'I'l . ac“ super- have all M M
iln- will irl. .luun -l.~llayur Ctr-lib hat
op'ii-wl a .l l-lutown relief fund, and “I
that: <. wpapn-nv and club: are doing
go d i- ozk la “ unilat'llll'actlun.
l l'll‘lJuli u. Jbllttl-"Tllb‘ liutblollotu [run
waipmy tilts mntribufed 3-5.0“) for tho
Julumnwu sufferer;
Al Uthor Plan».
New lliu erWif‘K, N. .1. Julie lullayur
Van ('h‘ci called a mmtlilg of citiuna, at
Wllllll 5300 watt nulncrlhod and a committee
appointed in mint funds for medulla-town
sullen-n. 'l'la- lllumm and otlwr bulls-taro
Wt'lw'l'flllltg.
liAl/l‘lil‘ihli, Jun" t—Aa yet no organtxod
effort has. i .uu nrldc for tho raising of money
for in. will of Jabmtowu, but the causal
tuba l‘lpllhltn far that purpmo amount to
llVl'l‘ Ekllll. Mayor Latrobe will (‘Ill I
met-ting of cilia-m. mine evening during the
prim) .t Vl'vv‘ll fur the purpoae of mapping out
a plan for tho I'cm-ipl of filillcrlpllulllt.
callous, N. .l., Julio -l.——ln mponao to a
call by Mayor i'ratt about 100 reprelerltativc
llll‘llllt’h‘l men In ‘t ill the city hall for the pur-
pmu of rnlalit“ lands for the relief of the
Jolumtuwa hillr'l‘t‘l'll. The mayor [molded
and flaunt tho clip-ct of the meeting. About
“Jim was raiwd, h». lies a large amount of
clothing.
(illlll-ixhlll'lttl, l'a., June «L—A fnrc f 150
niulhua but here in dig the ll’l’ll“ all
bury the illlltlt'llilllt‘ll dead lying at. l. 2:.
The coliluaivlnliem of ll'eotnlorolaud.
brfa and lialiana counties have purclia
tract ut’ ground near Nineveh for a funk:
for the unknown.
Tarn-0N, N. .l., June 4. -At a meetan of
cfthwna ovct' sum was subscribed for John:-
town.
AWFUL DESTRUCTION.
Soon- of Live- Lou and Illlllona of Prop-
erty Ilulnotl.
l'nil.Alii:l.rlli.i, June 4.~—A route will be
llllA'llU-l tip on lll" Pennsylvania road to Al-
toona within thirty-six hours, thus giving
the we or moro cast and wort bound parson-
goril laid up at that. place an opportunity to
get away. After getting acre»: the Molib
gunnery bridge, Williamrport will probably
be rarefied without much trouble. They
have succeeded in getting a train from Al-
toona to Tyrone, and they hope to work their
way from 'l‘gruno to Hnow Shoo intersection
over the fluid Eagle Valley road, and thenca
via Lock 'llavcn and Wildnnlspurt to the
Montgomery bridge. The route from Mont-
gomery bridge to llarrialalrg iv tip-n, and at
Hurribburg tho watt-r has hllllrltlt‘tl sufficiently
to allow tlr- rulinitiguf train-t In l‘iiiai-it-lphla
on the main lil‘n'.
It in not lJ‘llt‘lt'Il that [Klrh-llfitl‘s can be
convcyul from Harrisburg t - l':lli‘1.lll‘g over
the main line ltlt-itll‘ if a well; or it‘ll days.
All to the transportation of freight mul lllaihl,
nothing (ll-unite can be linr'n.~d, .‘t'q direct
intelligenm of any wrt has lluzi r ccived
from Luck liavcn sine“ 'J u'l’lta'lf on Friday
night. The “llllcnl kind of rulllemi are m-
udvcd in regard to the situation at that place,
but they lack continuation. It i.» ll‘lll‘vfil,
however, that the ban of prcpvrty at. that
place will to l'l'l‘tl’lllfili‘.
The l’l’ftllh)‘ll‘ntllfl Railroad company has
Illll‘l ham! {Jutlfill feet of heavy {-prut'c and
yellow pine timber. All the large lumber
yard: along the line have lu-cndruwu uwn
for this great xupply. Williiington- and
Baltimore lumber yards furnished about
1,000,000 fret liiurc.
Ramos, R1,. J and 4,-4'bo L-higli Valley
tracks from New York to Buffalo, via Lyons.
are open. Tlr- [which river at, this placeix
over its bank-I. (.‘nnul boats cannot run, and
the cotton and wire mills in South Boston
Will be unable to hffll'l today.
In the Cumberland Valley.
('ARIJSLE, June l-Jl'bo entire loan in the,
Cumlmriand Valley can be safely placed at
$291,000, with no loss of life. Along the dif-
forent streams in this county fifteen bridge:
have boon swept away, making a lo. to
Climber land county of 875,110.
UWISAL‘RU. l’a., June t-Tbe flocd on
the west branch of the Susquehanna was unv
pretmlentq-d. Tho water was four feet above
the high water mark of kill?) at this place.
Five spans of the railroad bridge were
swept away. The loss at this [dam is
about 873400. l-Sv'cry bridge on the river
from Sunimry to ('leartleld ht washed
away. W illinmvport and Lock Haven
have been great sufferers. Both booms and
nine-tenths of all the awed lumber, aggro-
gntiiig millions of feet, were lost. Between
fifty and eighty people who Were on the Hat'-
ket meet bl'idgcJVliliamswrt, wat hing the
flood, were swept. away and drowned. At
Milton the water was five feet high in the
stricetn Every town is isolated from every
other. No depots are Open, no postoflices,
and but I lie railroad win: is working.
liAl.1'I)|UltE,,-lune 4,—Tlio loss of life by
the timid» a.» far as reported in Maryland waa
about twelve. The lat. st report. from vari-
ous parts at the state show that the damage
in'ull sections, «peeinlly along the Potomac
and the sisuplebanna, lmslanoven greater
than was at first. suppomd, The inundations
have been general in all the lowlands, and
the grain crop in this.) sections has Mn al-
arm: entirely mined.
The wet-tame at the mouth of the Hono-
cacy, near Dickinson, is remarkable. What
were on Thursday fertile forum on citberaido
of the river. are today one vast lake.
There have been a number of instancu
where canal men were rescued at great peril
Malls Greatly Delayed.
Wasmsorox. June -f.-lfr. J. Inwrie Ball,
thoniperhitoadenl of the railway mail ser-
vice, says that the transportation of tho
mail: is in a confused state, OWiltg to the nth
road interruptions throughout the country
Through train and mail sn'vice io‘ail points
tooth-nil west from Washington has been
renamed.
Several écboonas and largo In u.»- have
been left high and dry Inna distance away
from the bed of the river, and will have to
be hauled out into the steam.
The Long Bridge Bully Wrecked.
The Long bridge is badly wrecked and
torn, and will cause considerable loss to the
Pennsylvania railroad, which macs it to
make its southern «innocuous.
thortsthatmcuning in from them-
rounding country chow guilt dating: to the
roads and cropa. as well as to [damnat-
small stream llany bridge- an down.
Monaural-iv: mm,
Lracnuao, Va, Junta—nt- dtyh at-
most inland from the outn- wwkl. W.
havobadnona'tha-n‘llafhdna hiday.
In low Yolk Itato.
manta—Thom baht
mutilation-"ll.“ Wanting
Lilli
The Universal
Celebrated
For the Laundry. Toilet. and Bath.
GIVEN
ll llll
store.
Amm o nia
‘AWAY !
title Quart Bottle (liven Away to- Every one Buying
75 Cents Worth of Goods.
CALL AND BE OONVINCBD.
The Universal Store,
No. to North Main St... So. Nprwnllg, .
E. c. - KERRIG‘A
Tl'l—E’ SECRET
v
IS OUT l
READ IT.
You will dlrcover the tart
Whv C. H. HARVEY’S
13 Till
LEADING BOOT AND SHOE STORE
In Town.
Having increased bla flock to
$15,000
And having bought strictly formh at a large dfroonnt,
container. The stuck I: too numerous to mention prim. Can only say bavo
he brings his good. withln the reach of every
Shoes from 200 to 4:..0.
l.’i§“’llemembcr this Is not. a Bankrupt Stock nor a
Irllsrcpreacntatlon in the prices of' goods.
HONESTY IS TH
COME ONE,
E BEST POLICY.
COME ALL.
0. H. HARVEY,
12 North Main St.,
South N orwalk;
Halli. Bailey & to.
fl...“
WOOD MANTELS.
DOORS,
BASH, BLINDS,
HARD WOOD WORK,
0? ALL KW.
.w.
barge Ste-c of Columns
for Trimming
-———~«O——-—-——
Plate a. 0 Sheet Glass.
Steam Sawing, Planing,
and Turning.
W
Lumber Yard bet-rem railroad and carriage
bridges.
ill] at fill of Marshall Street
South Nor-walk, Conn.
Halli, Bailey & ti.
Nnv 11am. Conn.
Thornton Tar Soap makd a line lather anti
lam the thin roll and agree-hie; in cleaning
qualitiuuc lnbclua ‘I like ii.
11 I. SBBKMAN. Engraver, me‘liape! St.
Raw Ham. Conic.
Guillemot-dining used your Fulani Tar Soap
myself. and finding it a thoroughly good article for
cleaning, retraining and heating the akin, l cheer-
fully rueoailneud ll professional! .
Du. JA!
3. STRTSON.
)‘iEdll n‘éaRgtpi'
T. earn a. no“S
For complain. alluring. ahumpoolng'
chapped Hands. Rough Stun.
. Wm“.
hmwnruubbwmonreodptdm
lefl.hEnd-t.ufld80¢hymfll.web.
rm llle 00.. Kew Haven, 0-.
filth-mm“ heads when M
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Nrw Rana. Con.
, soap and without
trial your mum .
..“a’ulotg'h... ...-mam
still
at
mundamaxcalkntm Shalltryltln
eel-ganglia, first malty.
971‘, .- t. ...lh 1 mm» a
I‘m Orrin Dnanrmr,
Wubington. I). c.
Gawain—l thinkyourl'arfcou Tar tion the
Inculcvacalncacraa. GEORGE F. Wfllfl'.
POBMLIBY
GEORGE B. PLAISTED.
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Choice Groceries
Table‘ Delicacies,
FRUITS, (130.,
No- 8 Main'Street.
Newandoeoand-hand '
Buggies, Phaetons, Carriages,
Canopies, Spindles, etc. '
Prices to Suit All.
Gallant! see Them. .
HEWY.
All Right A ain.
Having again 1 into in old In ' Bloc
lfain street, andglgplaced the good- ", . at II:
are by a ranch larger and better stock. I lllVlle the
iD-llbllc magma area call. 1 can thew the but line
Harnesses,
Robes,
Blankets,
Whips, &c.,
And offer them at the M MING -
Give Inc a call and you will be m that there
is nobcttcrptwe to buyorbavcrepatrlngdana.
J. 1‘. O’ROURKE,
turf? 2m
. CASH
l iii the illness “
a——-—-—Q..——-
ONLY Loom
alumna Beet Flour, ”full” one
a at n u h“ I.
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