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( THE MORNING NEWS, I
J Established 1850i Incorporated ISBB. V
\ J. H. LbTILL, President. )
DREAD DANGERS.
Disease aafl lisaaity May
Follow lie Fid
THE MENIAL STRAIN JUST BE
GINNING TO SHOW.
A Regiment of Soldiers on Picket
Duty Keeping: Out the On-Presatng
Crowds of Sight-Seers—Sanitarians
Alive to the Exigencies of the Situ
ation—The Flood in One Sense a Pu
rifier-Surgeon General Hamilton on
His Way to the Scene.
Johnstown, Pa., June 6,11 a. m.— The
work of recovering dead goes on with un
diminished vigor, and as the workmen be
come accustomed to their ghastly finds and
the horrors of the scene become common
place, they apply themselves more dili
gently to their duty and labor with a sys
tem that produces rapid results. The. Al
toona delegation has been one of the busiest
and most useful on tho ground. They took
charge of the two leading hospitals,
the Cambria * hospital and that
under Dr. Robinson, in Johnstown,
and ran them up to this morning,
when they were relieved by the Philadel
phia branch of the Red Cross Society under
Miss Clara Barton. They have also been
in charge of the wreckage above the bridge.
B. M. Bunker of Altoona has bad sixty 1
men at work, aided by Dave Kirk, who is
doing the dynamiting. Altoona pays all
the bills for this work. This party of work
men have done so well that a big blast of
twenty-five dynamite cartridges at 10
o’clock loosened up the debris and made it
possible to open the mouth of the old chan
nel.
RUINS OF THE TRAIN.
This gang of workmen have located the
day express which was swept away at
Conemaugb. The ruins of the train lie
about 100 feet from the fourth buttress
from the western end of the stone bridge.
Parts of the parlor cars have to-day been
found, as well as traces of the passengers.
About 9 o’clock the baggage of Mi3s Annio
Chism of Nashville, Teuu., was found. She
was a missionary on her way to Brazil for
tho Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
of the Methodist church. Among
her effects was a Bible, and in
it was a message to be filed
at Altoona, and addressed to the Methodist
Book Concern, at No. 30 East Twentieth
street, New York, announcing that she was
on the train. Se also had a watch, some
money and a Greek Testament. It is evi
dent that many lives were lost on this train
—more than at first supposed. The whole
train affair is still a mystery; at least, the
passengers have not so far been found and
located. The body of a nicely dressed lady
was found yesterday, which was so much
decomp sed as to bo unrecognizable. The
effects of Miss Chism were sent to Altoona.
A RIOT AT THE LABOR CAMP.
There was a small sized riot at the labor
camp this morning on account of there not
being food euough for the men,'or utensils
to cook it with. Mr. Fliun, who is at the
head of the labor buroau, made a speech to
the moo, and stated that it was impossible
to get things down from tlie railroad, but
said that they would be gotten down as
soon as possible. He also stated that they
did not want men who expected to
live on the fat of the laud and
that this was principally a work of char
ity, even though the men did get paid for
their work. A few minutes later, as Mr.
Flinn was drinking some black coffee and
eating some bard crackers and cheese, two
workmen came up to him and commenced
to complain because they did not have soup
and meat. This enraged Mr. Flinn, and
after telling them that he thought lie was
as used to good eating as they were, he
ordered the guards to take the men out of
to wn and not permit them to come back
again. This seemed to have the desired
effect and there was no more trouble. This
morning twenty time keepers from
l'ittshurg arrived and they are now
hard at work getting the names
of the men employed. This morning it
was stated that 5,000 men were at work,
and it is expected that by to-morrow at
least 10,000 men will be employed, but even
this large force will not be able to remove
the debris in less than several weeks. Last
Bight about 500 of the laborers had no tents
tosleep in, but word has been received
from \V ashington that tents are on tbeir
wav. and it is expected that thev will arrive
to-night.
UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
Adjt. Gen. Hastings Orders the Soldiers
on Picket Duty.
JonNSTOWN, Pa., June 6,7 p. m.— At
noon to-day the boroughs of Johnstown and
adjoining boroughs, or what is left of them,
Practically passed under martial law.
Adjt. Gen. Hastings says he has not de
clared martial law, vtt soldiers are on guard
and no one is permitted between the lines
hole s they have an order from the adju
tant general. Sight-seers are debarred
altogether, and the town is inaccessible,
except to newspaper men and other
People who have business there. Every
point is guaoded and soldiers patrol
the dividing lines. They are very active
and deport themselves like old veterans,
they guard the approaches rigorously and
cave orders to stop any one who crosses the
hne. It is possible that tho Eighteenth
regiment will be ordered out from the fact
that it takes so many soldiers to cover the
ground. A special guard will have to be
put at Kernville, Mifivalo and Cambria
hity, and other {mints, and this alone will
take a regiment of soldiers. The adjutant
general was “at first backward
at ordering out any troops, from the fact
that it would naturally create the impres
sion that there was trouble hero. The only
reason for calling out troops is to relieve
the Pittsburg and Johnstown police, who
cave had little or no sloep for several days.
IDENTIFYING THE DEAD.
Ihe real work of ascertaining who the
living and dead of Johnstown are was
started this morning. A corps of clerks
under the direction of tho relief committee
started out this morning, and they will go
to every house in the vicinity and secure the
Mines of the living. Another corps of men
will endeavor to find out who the missing
are, and in this manner it can be nearly
th ‘£ know “ j ußt ' **ow many were lost in
too Hood. Revision of the registration
H!)£ ilofnina Petal#.
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list shews that only 13,000 people had reg
stered up to 1 o’clock this afternoon at the
different registration Btations. By this list,
it is apparent that large numbers of sur
vivors will not take tho trouble to go and
register at one of the stations, and conse
quently the plan of having the registers
make a canvass was adopted.
DANGER OF INSANITY.
—s
The Strain on People’s Minds Just Be
coming Apparent.
Johnstown, June 6, 10 P. m.— Dr. G. G.
Gross, who is now in charge of the Johns
town bureau of the state board of health
and sanitary inspectors, assured your cor
respondent this afternoon that there is no
immediate danger of an epidemic in Pitts
burg. “The danger,” said he, is that ihe
people will be scared into being sick. But
work looms up before us like a mountain.
We need thousands of men to work on the
debris and clear it of carcasses.”
At a meeting of the general relief com
mittee, held on the Johnstown ruins this
afternoon, the following resolutions were
adopted:
Resolved, That the functions of this commit
tee are simply to receive contributions of
money, to be responsible for its safe deposit
and to pay it out upon the orders or requisi
tions of other proper authority; that the pay
ment of wages of labor and other current ex
penses in the judgment of this committee can
only be properly done in the manner
provided for in the resolution
adopted by the committee at its last
meeting; that the employment and payment of
labor to remove the inconceivable amount of
debris in which are buried thousands of human
bodies and corpses of animals, and of restoring
streams to ttieir normal channels is of tho
most importance to us, and it is also of
national conoern, as, if it is not thoroughly
effected, the tainted waters may carry pesti
lence into the regions through which they
pass. This will involve an expense
of which no approximate estimate
can be made. It will be enormous.
The survivors of the flood are now, and must
be for some time, wholly dependent upon the
issues to them of food, as there are no
goods here except those sent to the relief com
mittee, and no places in which commerce can
be carried on. A method for the distribution
of money to the survivors, and the agency for
making such distribution, should receive
serious consideration. It is the sense
of this committee that another committee
ehould be appointed for this purpose,
consisting in part of citizens of this locality
and members appointed by the governors of
states or by the chambers of commerce of the
cities from which contributions have been
received, or in such other way as will give this
agency a national character and assure the
country that its generous bounty will be judi
ciously and fully applied to the relief of the
victims of this great calamity.
TO BE NATIONAL IN SCOPE.
The relief committee is to be made na
tional in scope. Action to that effect was
taken at a meeting of the finance commit
tee of the local relief organization this after
noon. ibe committee which took this re
markable action was composed of James
McMillan, Cyrus Elder, W. C. Lewis, G. W.
Swank, John D. and Dwight Roberts. The
committee also discussed the advisability of
p yiug off tho men now working in the
ruins on Saturday night, as promised. It
was decided that as money is of no use to
tho men while here and might induce them
to leave the city, it would be better to defer
payment for awhile. The matter was re
ferred to the chairman, John B. Scott.
RECEIPTS OF THE COMMITTEE.
Up to to-day, the committee has received
in actual cash contributions $25,796, with
$57,115 promised in addition. The greater
part of this is represented by telegrams from
a distance instructing the committee to
draw ou certain banks. This is an impossi
bility, as there are uo banking facilities
here. The committee hopes that contrib
utors will .forward their money by
express. To-day J. D. Roberts
stated that Philadelphia had promi;ed
$300,000, which is at the disposal of the
committee. Gov. Beaver has reported
SIOO,OOO on hand, but has not made any
move to send it. so far as known. Pittsburg
has about $300,000 in reserve. The follow
ing is a partial list of contributions received
to-day: New York Mail and Express
SIO,OOO, New York Herald $5,000,
Bethlehem $5,000, Thomas Cornell SI,OOO,
Louisville $3,000, Utica $3,000, Allentown
$2,000, Judge Benhing (Pottsviile) $1,300.
A tour of the outlyiug districts of Johns
town was made by the Associated Press cor
respondent. Affairs are brightening slowly,
and moving forward with some system.
Supplies have arrived at Mineral Point,
and accommodations are being provided for
the comfort of the survivors. The
same arrangements are being made at Cone
maugh and Woodvale. There is much less
sickness at these places than was expected.
STEEL WORKS TO BE MOVED.
The Change Will Prove a Serious Set-
Back For Woodvale,
Johnstown, June 6—11:10 p. m.—L. D.
Smith, of the Gauter Steel Works at Wood
vale, issued an order requesting all his em
ployes to report at the mill office to-day.
The mill, which makes street railway sup
plies a specialty, is to be removed to Mox
ham, another suburb of Johnstown. This
will leave only the woolen mill and
chemical works in Woodvale. The
removal of the mill will be a serious
blow to the town’s future prosperity.
The now site is located on Stony creek near
the Moxhara steel works. The rubbish at
the old mill will be cleared up as quickly as
possible. Mr. Smith will put all the men he
can secure at work immediately. The new
mill will Le built in a few weeks.
Capt. A. J. Logan at Morrellville un
loaded thirty cars of relief goods to-day.
He advises that all goods be consigned to
him, but to send no committees, as it only
creates confusion. Diafts for the relief
funds should bo addressed James B. Scott.
A FIGHT FOR SUPPLIES.
A carload of supplies was unloaded on
the track in Johnstown to-day by the relief
committee. There was a rush for the
goods. The strong overpowered the weak
and get the best. A fight occurred. A
carload of goods from Cleveland came to
hand to-day. It consisted cf water buckets
containing bread, butter, coffee, etc. To
each bucket was tied a big coffee pot.
Mr. Logan states that money is now
needed, and that ladies should be sent to
this point to attend to the wants of womeu.
At South Fork supply trains for Johns
town are stalled. The people have, it is
said, broken some of the cars open and are
helping themselves to what they want, not
withstanding that they are not suffering.
At Couemaugh, Mineral Point and Wood
vale, provisions and clothing are still badly
needed.
A WOOLEN MILL BURNED.
Byron’s Kernville woolen mill was de
stroyed by lire to-day. At one time it
looked as' if tho whole village would
be destroyed. The mill was a three
story brick building situated in
the midst of the wrecks of several houses.
The ruins were on fire several times, but
were extinguished after a hard fight by a
bucket brigade. Mr. Byron’s handsome
residence near by was ruined by water.
The Kernville people are being fed as fast
as possible.
In Cambria City and Minersvilla there is
immediate suffering.
A lad named Denny Fisher, whose
mother, sisters and brothers had lost their
lives in the flood, to-day committed suicide
while in a fit of despondency, by hurling
himseif from tha top of a building and
drowning. _
DISPOSAL OF THE CORPSES.
Tho Cremation Plan Gaining: Now
Followers Daily.
Johnstown, Pa., June 6, 11:45 p. m.—
There is a strong movement on foot in
favor of applying the torch to tho wrecked
buildings in Johnstown, and, although the
suggestion meets with strong opposition at
this time, there is little doubt that the ulti
mate solution of the existing difficulties
will be by this method. An army of men
have been for two days employed in clear
ing up the wreck in the city, and
although hundreds of bodies have
been discovered, not one-fifth of
tha ground has yet been gone
over. In many places rubbish is piled
thirty feet high, and not infrequently these
great drifts cover an area of nearly an acre.
Narrow passages have been cut through in
every direction, but the herculean labor of
removing the rubbish has yet hardly begun.
At a meeting of the central relief com
mittee this afternoon Adjt. Gen. Hast
ings suggested the advisability of drawing
a cordon around the few houses that are
not in ruins, and applying the torch to the
remaining great sea of waste. He explained
briefly the great work yet to be accom
plished if there were hopes of thoroughly
overhauling every portion of the debris,
and insiited that it would take 5,000 men
months to complete the task. Of the hun
dreds of bodies buried beneath the rubbish,
sand and stones, the skeleton of the putrid
remains of many was all that could be
hoped to be recovered.
THE PROPOSITION DEBATED.
A motion was made that after forty
eight hours’ further search the debris of
the city be consumed by fire, engines to be
ou hand to play upon any valuable build
ing that, despite previous precautions,
might become ignited by a general confla
gration. This motion was debated for
nearly half an hour. Those whose relatives
or friends still rest beneath the wreck
remonstrated strongly against such sum
mary action. They insisted that all
the talk of a threatened epidemic was only
sensational gossip, and that tho search for
bodies should only be abandoned as a last
extremity. The physicians in attendance
warned the committee that fqrther exposure
of the putrid bodies iu the valley could have
but ono result—typhus, or some other
epidemic equally fatal to its victims. It
was a question whether the living should
be sacrified to tho dead, and
wnether the sway of sentiment
or mandate of science should be the ruling
impulse. Although the proposition to burn
the wreck was defeated, it was evident that
the movement was gaining many adherents,
and the result, doubtless, will be that in a
few days torches will be applied, not only
to the field of waste in Johnstown, but also
to the debris that chokes the stream above
the Pennsylvania bridge.
WOFUL SIGHTS AT NINEVA3.
Ninevah saw some woful sights to-day.
During the period of daylight 746 bodies
were consigned to earth from the morgues
about town. Father Doirn conducted re
ligious services at the Columbia Catholic
church in Cambria City. This army of
dead was placed in trenches. Less than
100 had been recognized by friends. None
of them were claimed for private burial,
however, as in a majority of instances the
survivors were too poor to stand the expense.
These bodies were gathered from up and
down the river below Johnstown, and the
commissioners of Westmoreland county
furnished part of the ground, where they
sleep to-night.
Johnstown and the adjoining villages are
now under thorough military and police
regulation. Each place has been provided
with men enough to keep out intruders and
none save those who are actually employed
will be allowed to remain.
Officers are arresting men every hour,
some of them for slight provocation. The
forces caring for the dead are about ex
hausted. Several of the undertakers were
obliged to give up to-day. Lack of sleep
ing accommodations and consequent broken
rest and the roughest of army fare, con
sisting largely of salt pork, bread and
black coffee, has had the usual effect when
coupled with hard work and damp
weather. Notices wore posted on all
the margues to-day, stating that after to
day bodies would be held only twenty-four
hours for identification. If they are not
recognized at the expiration of that time
they are photographed. Recognition is a
difficult matter.
The work of blasting the gorge at the
Pennsylvania bridge was proseau ted to-day
with much better Buccess than on any pre
vious day.
MENACES TO HEALTH,
Prompt Action by the Sanitary
Authorities Necessary.
Johnstown, Pa., June 6.— Two hundred
bodies were recovered from the ruins yes
terday. Some were identified, but a great
majority were not. At the Fourth Ward
school bouse, wnere most of the undertak
ing work is done, tbere was some slight
trouble over the question of liquor. Rev.
Mr. Beall, of the Presbyterian church,
has charge of this morgue, and
objected to the undertaker drinking
whisky. Inasmuch as a man with
a cast iron constitution could not work
at anything iu this place incessantly with
out a stimulant of some kind, the undertak
ers protested against Rev. Beall’s prejudice,
it is said, and threatened to cease attending
the bodies. Tais had the effect of modify
ing Rev. Beall s temperance scruples.
AT THE HOSPITALS.
At the hospitals tbere are now but few
patients. Most of those at the Kernville
institution have been discharged, while on
Prospect Hill the number in small. Mother
Sebastian, mother superioress of the Mercy
convent in Pittsburg, came to Johnstown
yesterday morning to relieve the sisters
who had been nursing the sick up to date.
Several of these nuns left Johnstown last
night to obtain much nee led rest.
Burials go on apace. In addition to util
izing the regular grave yards several farm
ers have given small plats of ground, aud
these are gladly accepted.
Thirteen bodies were found in a cluster
yesterday on Franklin street, and a few
minutes afterward twelve more were
found.
EPIDEMIC POSSIBILITIES.
Dr. Benjamin Lee, the Pennsylvania
state board of health’s representative, was
asked yesterday what, in his opinion, were
the prospects of an epidemic in Conemaugh
valley. He said: “Godonly knows. No man
living can tell what will come out of these
piles of drift and wreckage. To-day we put
a portion of our corps of sanitary inspectors
into the thick of the debris and In a little
while the bodies of fifty dead animals,
mostly horses, had been removed and hauled
away for burial. If this percentage is kept
up there is a fearful amount of decomposed
animal matter to be removed or counter
acted. But we will fight this thing to the
end.” A house to house canvass was ordered
by tho sanitary authorities to-day, and it?
revelations as far as it went were' startling
in the extreme. It was found that four,
and oven six families were being crowded
into a single house; that as high as fifty,
slept in one room; that the doors and win
dows were left closed to shut out the stench
and dampness, and that as a result pneu
monia prevailed. He ascribed its growing
prevalence to the crowded rooms, damp
1 oeiJura and exposure. A oold drizzle that
SAVANNAH, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1889.
fell intermitting yesterday added to the
gravity of the situation.
ORDERED TO SCATTER.
In all cases where families were found
huddled together and in ill-ventilated apart
ments they were told to scatter and, if pos
sible. abandon the ground floors altogether.
It was found that many families had not
availed themselves of the opportunity of
procuring warm clothing from the 'free
supply stands, and some were not aware
that such institutions existed. They were
instructed where to go for the garments they
needed. They were urged to keep fires
going continuously. As soon as fire engines
can lie procured they will be put to work
pumping the water out of the cellars. But
the greatest of all the sanitary problems
confronting Johnstown is how’to get the
dead bodies out of the river bod and debris
before disease has followed their decomposi
tion. Reasonable beings who walkthrough
miles of noisome desolation cannot keep
down the conviction that this is an impossi
bility. The improvised hospitals are already
full of patients, and all the physicians iu the
city are weak and nervous from sleepless
days aud nights of labor.
A WALL OF SOLDIERS.
The Sanitary Question Now the Upper
most One ot the Hour.
Johnstown, Pa., June 6.—A wall has
been thrown around Johnstown and nobody
can enter unless it is shown that he has
business in the city. The Pennsylvania
railroad has been making every effort to
keep out the crowd, but the Baltimore and
Ohio, which op tied yesterday, brought iu
a flood of people from Somerset this morn
ing. Gen. Hustings heard of it, ami a con
ference was held hetweeu himself, John B.
Scott and Roger O’Mara of tha Pittsburg
police fores. It was decided to send a com
pany of the Fourteenth regiment to Somer
set for thepu pose of preventing any further
rush of people this way. A commiiteo
of citizens accompanied the militia. Thev
will stop off at all stations along the road
aud remoustrate with the people against
coming to Johnstown. The crowd of curi
ous ones is constantly growing, much to the
hindrance of the work of removing b Hies
and clearing away tho debris. On tho
Pennsylvania railroad tho side gates are
practically shut and it is hoped that this
move will have some effect on tho Balti
more and Ohio. There is but one bridge
across the Couemaugh, and nothing but a
pass from Adjr. Gon. Hastings or Mr. Beott
will carry one over it.
REMOVAL OF BODIES.
The state board of health and Pennsylva
nia railroad are to-dav co-oporating in the
work of removing bodies from the debris
abovo the stone bridge. The sanitary ques
tion is the paramount one of the hour. The
state board of health is looked up to as a
more potent factor than the militia and
civic forces combined. This afternoon the
work of tho board was distributed. Dr. Leo
taking a train to Pittsburg, with the inten
tion of establishing headquarters in the city
hall. There a force of sanitary inspectors
will be established, half of which will go
up the river by boat, and the remainder
tiito a construction crew up the railroad.
Tne latter have adopted cremation as
a cry, and to-morrow night the desolate
valley will be lit up with bonfires of tho
wrecKage, which will be the pyre of hun
dreds of dead bodies. Dr. Morrell, deputy
chief of the state board of health, said to
day : “The point has come to this horror
when sentime.its should be laid aside. To
endanger t :e lives of the living, that the
dead may bo identified, is no longer justi
fiable. Besides, the bodies are all past
being embalmed, and friends can scarcely
recognize the features any longer. Identi
fication is possible only by clothing or jew
elry on the persons.”
TOO MUCH CAN’T BE GIVEN.
A Statement as to the Need for Money
at Johnstown.
Pittsburg, Juno 6.—Contributions are
coming in rapidly for the relief of the
Johnstown sufferers. It is estimated at
the chamber of commerce that $300,000 has
been subscribed. Among the heavy con
tributors are: Andrew Carnegie, George
Westingbouse, and the Standard Oil Com
pany, who gave $5,000, $15,000 and SIO,OOO,
respectively.
Chairtnau McCroery, of the relief com
mittee, issued the following circular to
night:
Pittsburg, June 6, 1889.
To the Chamber of Commerce Relief Committee:
Hon. W. Flynn, in charge of our laborers at
Johnstown, reports that it will require 10.000
men thirty days, with all modern implements
to clear the wreck along the lines of destruo
tion, take out the corpses and carcasses of ani
mals. and to place the city in a sanitary condi
tion. This will cost double the amount
now in the hands of the com
mittee The destitute are orougbt to this
city and are clothed and boused and sent free to
friends all over the land. We ask that the gen
erous subscriptions wiiich are coming from all
over the country bo continued until sufficient
funds are provided to complete above work, of
which due notice will bo given through the
press. William McCrkbky.
CONTRIBUTIONS COMING IN.
Help Given by the Knights of Honor
# Order.
Philadelphia, June 6.—The supremo
dictator of the Knights of Honor, Hon. A.
R. Savage of Auburn, N. Y., has issued an
official distress call for aid fi r the flood suf
ferers in Pennsylvania. Lodges are di
rected to forward contributions to J. W.
Branch, supreme treasurer, at St. Louis.
cash contributions.
Cash contributions to the Johnstown re
lief funds continue to pour in, and a con
servative estimate of the total amount so
far collected in this city places the grand
total at $690,000, of which the banking
house of the Drexels holds $366,000. Dona
tions of the ncco.saries of life—clothing,
bedding, furniture, etc. —are also coming ii
at a rupi i rate, aud fifty-five carloads of
goods have already been started on their
errands of mercy. As soon as
the pressing and immediate needs
of the flood-stricken sufferers can be satis
fied, acunferer.ee between the governor,
mayors of Pniladelphia and Pittsburg and
representatives of the relief committtees of
New York, Boston and other cities will be
held, aud a dofi ite and systematic plan for
the distribution of the money contributions
will bo arranged. This meeting will proba
bly be held in this city on Saturday next.
Washington Doing Well.
Washington, June 6.—The citizens’ re
lief committee have $17,457 in cash for the
benefit of the Johnstown sufferers, and con
tributions are still coming in. The Host re
lief fund amounts to $3,500, the Star fund
to $2,300 and amounts raised in depart
ure its and other sources will bring the total
amount up to about $30,000. Six cars of
clothing and provisions left for Johnstown
during the day.
Chattanooga’s Fund.
Chattanooga, Tknn., June 6.—The
Chattanooga fund for the Johnstown suf
ferers has rescued $2,73L
New Hampshire Appropriates SIO,OOO
Concord, N. 11., June 6.—1 he legisla
ture to-day appropriated SIO,OOO tor the
Couemaugh sufferers,
DANGER OF DISEASE DENIED.
The Flood Acted as a Scavenger In All
Places of Filth.
Philadelphia, Pa., June 6. — A special
dispatch to the Medical .Yeins of this city,
from a staff correspondent at Johnstown,
Pa., to-day, says: “Notwithstanding the
fact that mauy of the reporters of the daily
papers have sent messages from here indi
cating that diseases, tho result of exposure,
are exceedingly common, the fact is that in
three of the largest hospitals very few oases
of any kind exist, and in over 90 per eout.
of these tha individuals are suffering from
injuries occurring during and after tho
flood.
BUT FEW CASES OF PNEUMONIA.
Cases of pueumonia are very few, and the
report that measles is to a large extent epi
demic is entirely false. Too much care can
not be exercised in the selection aud dis
pensing of much of tho second-hand cloth
ing which is sent forward in relief trains by
cliaritable persons. From some clothing
which we saw distributed we feel sure that
lack of such care may readily result in the
production of a large amount of contagious
disease. Tho danger of malarial poisoning
is, we believo, not present, simply because
conditions favorable to the production of
such miasmas are absent.
THE FLOOD AS A PURIFIER.
“The water, sweeping through the
valley with enormous force, has carried
in tho soft mud of tho river
banks to the distant and lowly
bottom lands, and has covered the entire
site of Johnstown with a layer of cure
sand and gravel varying in depth from a
few inches to a foot. Asa consequo ce of
this, all cesspools have not only been thor
oughly washed out. but afterward filled
with sand. Every particle of dirt and city
filth has been washed away, aud it would
be hard to find, hygienically speaking, a
more cleauly spot than the main portions
of what was once Johnstown.”
The danger will bo tho accumulation of
new tilth, owing to the large number of
strangers living in tents and the outdoor
life of the survivors.
DANGER OF INSANITY.
“The mental condition of almost every
former resident of Johnstown is ono of tho
gravest character, and the reaction which
will set in when the reality of jthe whole af
fair is fully comprehended, can scarcely
fail to produce many cases of permanent or
temporary insanity. Most of the
faces one meets, both male and female,
are those of most profound melancholia
associated with au almost absolute disre
gard of tho future. The nervous system
shows tho strain it has borne by trernulous
ness of hand and of lip in men us well us
women. This nervous state Is further evi
denced by a peculiar intonation of words,
persous speaking mechanically, white tho
voices of many rough-looking men are
changed into such tremulous notes of so
high a pitch as to make one imagine
that a child, on a voyage of
tars, is speaking. Crying is so rare
that your correspondent saw not a tear ou
any face in Johnstown, hut the women t.iat
are left are haggard, with pinched features
and heavy dark lines under their eyes. In
deed, tho evidence of systemic disturbance
is so marked in almost every individual who
was present at the time of the catastrophe
t at it is possible with the eye alone to sepa
rate the residents from those outside.”
FATE OF THE TRAINS.
An Official Statement by the Railroad
Authorities.
Philadelphia, Pa., June 6.— So many
conflicting reports have beon published
concerning the loss of passengers and the
damage to trains overtaken by the flood at
Conemaugh, last Friday, that General
Manager Pugh was asked to furnish the
Associated Press with an official statement
of the exact number of people known or
presumed to have lieou drowned from
tho two sections ol' the day ex
press, aud also a statement its to
what became of the trains. JSupt.
Pitcairn at Pittsburg, who has had the
matter under iuve tigation, was communi
cated with by telegraph, and these facta
were elicited: "As near as can be learned
nineteen lives wore lost, two cars, a passen
ger coach and baggage car, were washed
away. The baggage car has been found.
The missing coach may have been carried
down to the debris at Johnstown bridge.
Borne hours after the flood struck tho train
three Pullman sleepers came in contact
with a burning car of lime and were de
stroyed.
possible victims.
Some of the passengers heretofore men
tioned as being do :d, nave turned up alive
iu various parts of the country, and
some of the names now given
may be those of persons still alive, but not
yet located. The names are: Mrs.
Talbot and two or three children
of Cleveland, O.; Miss Stinson of
Norristown, Pa.; Cyrus ,Stuck of
Reading, Pa.; John Ross of Pittsburg or
Iron City; Mrs. J.*R. Ranuey of Kalama
zoo, Miob.; Jennie Paulson of Pittsburg;
Bessie Bryan of Philadelphia; M. Mlzell of
Newark, N. J.; Agnes C. Christman of
Beauregard, Miss.; L. Phillips (colored) a
Pullman porter, of New York: Mrs. S.
Wineford and daughter, and Mrs. Smith
and child of Dayton. O.; Mise Harnish of
Dayton, O.; Andrew Ewing cf Ligonier,
Pa.; Mrs. Mary Swauey .of Pleasant Gap,
Pa.
TWO MISSING WOMEN.
Richmond, Va., Juno 6. —Thesad intelli
gence was received here this evening by
Howard Swinelord of this city that his
mother and his brother’s wife were among
the victims on the train wrecked at Johns
town, Pa. The two ladies left St. Louis
the day before the disaster,ten route to the
former home of the elder Mrs. Swiueford
iu Union county, Pennsylvania, aud
have not bo-n heard from
sines the dreadful calamity.
John T. Kennedy of Pittsburg, a cousin
of Messrs, Swinefo and, went up to Johnstown,
and to duy telegraphed that there were no
traces > f them, aud botn he and VVard
Bwineford seemed of the opinion that they
wore lost. This was also the opinion
of the railroad officials at Johnstown,
after learning the date of tho de
parture of the ladies from St, Louis.
Howard S wineford left for Pittsburg this
evening. In tho former city he will meet
his brother aud Mr. Kennedy and prose
cute a search for the missing.
LOCK HAVEN’S LOBSBS.
Twenty-Nine People Drowned end
Great Damage to Property.
Lock Haven, Pa., June 6.—The flood
from above reached here Friday <>vening,
and before midnight the river had over
flowed its bauks aud commenced to spread
all over the city, carrying devastation and
ruin into every home. The whole city was
under water, and on Saturday morn
ing the only way to get through
the streets wi in boats. From mou tain
to mountain the waste of waters '-.or-;? i out
like ou# vast ocean. The river was re , ring
aud thundering ou one side and Raid Engle
ere* kon the other, It was n< noun I
of Saturday tb it the flood reached the
diKf IS ffiuS
many portions the water was twelve feet
deep.
LOGS FLOAT A WAT.
Booms gave way under the great pressure,
and millions of fet. of logs vi ere taken adrift,
small houses and buildings were upset, and
the streets were filled with lo„-s ami other
floating drift, which, in many place*, went
crashing through doors and windows. Tho
Hood came so rapidly that there was no
chance to remove goods fr >m stores, and
all the merchants have lost haxvily. l'eople
who li\rd in places w here danger of drown
ing was greatest were removed to the court
house in boats and for more than f rty
eight hours the greater part of the popula
tion were com pilled to remain in the second
stories of their homes.
IN' A TERIttRLS STATE.
The city is in a terrible state. The houses
are all tilled with mud fiom two to sis
inches in depth, and all day Sunday nothing
was done but shovel, scrape and wash them
out with dirty water from the streets. The
straits themselves are blocked with huge
piles of mud aud debris of ail
sorts. Only one person is knowu
to have been drowned in Lock Haven, but
in the country the list of dead numbers
twentv-o ght. Nearly all of the bodies of
these drowned bavo boon recovered. The
farmers on tho rich flats along tho river
hnvn suffered terribly in the loss of crops,
barns, house* and livo stock. The damage
in the c unty, including Look Haven, will
reach millions of dollars. Business is ut a
standstill.
A WATER FAMINE IMMINENT.
Both roservoirs that supply wator for the
city gave way amt a water famine seemed
imminent, but that danger is over, and
wator is being turned into the main pipes
from the stream itself. There is no gas or
electric lights, and desolation and destruc
tion are seen everywhere throughout tho
town.
The past since last Friday would seem
like some horrible dream were it not for
the evidences of tho groat calamity visible
everywhere. The perseverance aud energy
of the people remain, however, and all are
hopeful. I’he people are cheered to-day by
new'* that aid is offered aud the sympathy
of the country extended. Belief and sani
tary cmnmitteos have been organized, a
commissary established aud contributions
will bo carefully distributed. Hubert Flem
ing is treasurer of the relief fund.
DANGER or SICKNESS.
Banger threatens now from sickness if
tho weather grows hot before the tilth can
be removed from the city. All dead ani
mals were removed at once, but in many
places the ground is covered several feet
deep with mud that emits a sickening odpr.
Disinfectants have been ordered, and every
precaution will be taken to prevent sickuess.
A number of manufacturing establishments
which stood on high ground are running
again, but hundreds of men who found em
ployment in lumber manufacture are idle,
with rio prospect of work for tnera.
WILLIAMSPORT ALL RIGHT.
Pood Enough on the Way to Last for
Several Days.
Williamsport, Pa., June fl.—Tho peo
ple breathe a littleeasier now that all appre
hension as to further suffering and hunger
have beu dissipated. Seven oars of sup
plies brought up yesterday evening by the
secretary of the c nninonwealth are on
hand. The mayor this morning tele
graphed the governor that enough provi
sions are on tho way to last the people here
several days. The relief committee his
been exceedingly husy aud is constantly
finding cases of suffering. There is a very
large class who are not applying tor relief,
but who have lost all their household goods
and all their clothing. These include good
classes of people, many of whom lived on
tho principal streets. Nearly every lawyer
who occupied a first floor ofiioo has lost all
his books.
Hamilton Goes to the Scene.
Washington, June (!.—Surgeon General
Hamilton, of tbeinatiuo hospital service,
left Washington to-night for Johnstown.
Pa., to confer with tho state board of Penn
sylvania regarding the sanitary condition
of affairs in the flood-blighted districts. He
will also ascertain to what extent, if any,
the marine hospital service can co-operate
with the slate health authorities m the
present emergency.
Forty Lives Lost.
Philadelphia, Fa., June 6.—Tele
graphic communication was opened with
IWllnfinite this evening. The Associated
Press correspondent there telograpbs:
“About forty lives have been lost in this
(Center) county. Tho damage to property
will reach 11,500,000.”
SEATTLE FIRE-SWEPT.
Tblrty-cne Blocks Destroyed and the
End Not Reached.
Seattle, W. TANARUS., June 6.—Fire broke out
at 2 o’clock this afternoon in the Pontius
building, on Front street, and by 4:30
o’clock was raging over a disrict of five or
six blocks with tremendous fury. The wind
was from the north and tho direction of the
fire was along the wator on Front
street and from the water
front to the big brick block between
Columbia and San Francisco streets.
The indications were that the whole busi
ness portion of the city would be swept
away, involving a loss of millions. The
magnificent San Francisco store aud the
stores in that, row were on tire and the
whole block seemed doomed. Tho local
firemen were helpless in the face of the
calamity and telegraphed in all directions
for aid.
TiißoaoH Tne heart of the citt.
At 4:k) o’clock tha conflagration was
rushing through the heart of the city. To
add to 'lie peril a smart breeze began blow
ing off the bay, fanning the flames and
about the same tirno I,'ooo feet of hose was
caught In the advancing flames and de
stroyed. The opera house block, the block
opposite, all the warehouses at the
foot of Columbia street and
also a great group of buildings in the rear
of the Post-Intelligencer newspaper offic
were then burning. The people in tin
Yester block, occupied by the Western
Union Tele. raph Company and the Post-
Intelligencer were moving out.
THIKTIftONE BLOCKS BURNED.
At 9 o’clock to-night thirty-one blocks
had been burned in the very heart of the
city, and there is imminent danger of the
loss of about twenty more. The Are was
not under control, and had reached the
great coal bunkers. Should there be de
stroyed the flames are certain to Communi
cate to a iargenumber of wo den buildings,
and the loss would be increased many fold.
A Bank Closes Its Doors.
Omaha, Neb., June 6.—The Bank of
Omaha, which was incorporated last fall,
with a capital of SIOO,OOO, very little of
whlo i was paid In, closed it! doors yester
day. Its liabilities are between tOn,ooo and
$70,000. Its assets are nominal, ihe fail
ure is due to bad loans and mismanage,
merit.
Inear. Asylum Changes,
Minneapolis, Minn., Jure 6.—The
OHM -if insane asylum trusts**, after a
lmijf serr.it meeting, decided to remora Dr.
■Bflilrr and ins ags,stanta, as a mult 4
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SOUTHERN TO THE CORE.
GEN. JUBAL EARLY STANDS BY HIS
COLORS TO THE LAST.
Tha Northern Method of "Vindlcatlnir
the Truth of History" Sarcastically
Portrayed—Sheridan’s Famous Ride
Slow and Short-Grant’s Memoirs
Contradicted - The Devastation of
the Valley.
Winchester, Va., June 6.— The graves
of 3,00 veterans in Stonewall cemetery
were decorated this afternoon in the pres
ence of 10,000 people. Gen. Jubal Early,
tho orator of the day, was introduced by
ex-Gov. Holiday in an eloquent speech.
Gen. Early in opening his address said:
“When I last saw Winchester, which was
tho theater of so many stirring
events, it was amid ths din of
battle, accompanied with the roar
of artillery and tho flash of musketry.
After a do perate and most unequal strug
gle, which lasted from day break until dusk
of evening, my command was compelled to
retire on that occasion before the over
whelming force of the enerav, which num
bered noarly, if not quite, 60,000 men of
whom more than 10,000 were cavalry,
superbly armed and equipped, while my
entire forcef of all arms did not exceed
12,000, or 13,000 at farthest. My command
retired fighting and all stores aud ths
wounded, with the exception of those whose
condition prevented their removal and
some who wero on the field of battle, were
safely carried to the rear, as was my artil
lery, with the exception of three pieces
from whiob the horses had been killod, ren
dering it impracticable to carry them off.
OBJECT OF THE GATHERING.
“It is for the purpose of rendering hom
age to tbu memory of tno brave men who
fell ou that occasion, as well as on other oc
casions, especially under the lead of the im
mortal Jackson, that you are here as
sembl'd, and that I have oome to unite
with you with all my heart. There is one
thing which must, strike with great force
the impartial studont of history who may
read accounts of tho different battles an 1
campaigns of war written from the federal
or union standpoint, and that is
the wonderful capacity the confederate
soldier had of multiplying him elf m the
field of batilo. According to many of
these accounts there was scarcely a battle
or campaign in which the confederate* did
not outnumber the union soldiers.”
After giving a description of the battle of
Cedar Creek, the general said: “You will
peroetve that Sheridan made his famous
poetic ride, ‘twenty miles away,’ over a
distance of ab ut ten miles and that, it took
him from early in the morniug uutil about
noon to inako it.”
grant’s memoirs contradicted.
He then contradicted the personal mem
oirs of Gen, Grant and the Army and
Mavy Journal in reference to these battles,
saying: “These will give some idea of how
our adversaries vindicate the truth of
history, and it will alio show that our men
had the faculty of multiplying themselves,
not only on the field of battle, but also
after they were killed, wounded or cap
tured.” In speaking of the devastation of
the valley, "Bo that a crow flying over it
would be forced to carry rations.” Gen.
Early said that Gen. Sheridan was
placed in command of the army, that
had been organized for the campaign in the
valley on Aug. C, and the orders previously
given to Gen. Hunter were turned over to
him for bis guidance. “It will be seen from
tho directions of Gen. Halleck that tue de
vastation of this beautiful valley was due
rather to the ’magnanimity’ of Grant than
to the barbarity of Gen. Sheridan. The
men whose bodies now lie in this cemetery
gave their lives for what they not only be
lieved to be, but wbat I insist was a just
and righteous cause.
DEFEAT NOT CONDEMNATION.
“That cause was lost, but that did not
prove that it was wrong, for the history of
tho world abounds with instances in which
might has proved more powerful than
right. The fact, therefore, that the cause
for which these bravo soldiers gave their
lives fulled of success, aud that we havo
accepted the result w.th a determination to
abide the issue us a final settlement of the
questions which led to the conflict, does not
justify those time-servers who pretend to
have discovered that they were on tha
wrong side in the contest either from want
of manly courage or from some sinister
motive of self-interest. As I have said on
former occasions, ‘lf I ever repudiate, dis
own or apologize for the cause for which
Ijae fought and Jacksnu died, may the
lightning of heaven blast me and the scorn
of all good women a-id true men be my por
tion,’ aud again I say that the con
federate who has de-er;od since the
war is infinitely worse than the one who
deserted during the war, for the former
has gone over to the enemy at no personal
risk to himself and simply from motives of
gain, while the latter took his life in his
hands, knowing that he would be shot if
captured, and iu a number of cases he was
tempted to leave the service to go to the as
sistance of his family, which lie was induced
to believe was starving at home.” The gen
eral closed by paying a high tribute to the
ladies of Virginia and the south.
DECORATIONS AT LEXINGTON.
Lexington, VX, June 6.—The annual
decoration of confederate soldiers’ gravos
took place to-day. The Ladies’ Memorial
Association and ci izens generally profusely
decorated the graves of Stonewall Jackson
aud the mausoleum of Gen. Robert Edward
Lee.
FATAL FIKEIN A HOTEL.
The Night Cleric and Two Servant
Olrla Perish.
Stbvev’s Point, Wis., June 6.—The St.
James hotel, with all its contents, was
totally destroyed by fire lost night. Night
Clerk Charles Satball and two of the girls,
Maggie iiiley and one known as Nettie, are
missing, and there is little doubt that
all three lost thair lives. Tue two
first named were on the second floor when
the fire broke out. They came dowu-stairi,
bat went back to secure their wearing ap
parel. All who escaped saved nothi out
what they had on their giersou*. The sta
bles and adj icent buildings to the hotel
were saved with bard work. A number of
traveling men lost their baggage and sam
ples. The loss is 115.000, with insurance of
$lO,OOO.
QALVBBTON'3 CELEBRATION.
tome of the Crack Military Compa
nies in the Prize Drill.
Galveston, Juneti.—The Semi-Centen
nial celebration opened Tuesday with about
000 regular troops from Gen. Stanley's
command at Saa Antonio and eight
companies of the state militia, in
cluding the Walsh Zouaves of St. Louis,
Hale Zouaves of Kansas City, More nant
Zouaves of Memphis, Hermitage Guards of
Nashville and tna McCarthy Guards of
Ldtle Keck as interstate competitors. The
drilling for interstate prims comißemajjg
