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WATERY GRAVES
Were Fonnd in Pennsylvania
by Over 8,000 People.
S0ID8 Rich SDOrfsmpn F Rnilt DUlll 9 Bam Paul
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and it GST} J Wav a *’
FIRE ADDED HORROR TO
the scene.
•KUJBBEkS PntJDm OF THE DEAD
HUNG TO THF Tprrc iABLO.
« — being
o »s Sent to the Spot by
Train Loads.
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1 ue . stomas that
raging l ave prevailed
through Pennsylvania during tho past
few flays, have resulted in an appalling
less of lfe near Pittsburg. The seine of
thc terrible disaster isat Johnstown, Pa.,
in Cambria county, on the Ihdt more &
Ohio Railroad and the Connemaugh
River. Two and a half miles northeast
of ihe town is a re ervoir owned by a
lich fishing club. It is the largest res-
cr voir in the United Stales, being three
and a half miles long and from one to
one and a half miles wide. Its depth in
some places is 100 feet. It holds more
water than any other reservoir, natural
or ariificiel, in the United States. The
lake has been quadrupled in 6ize by arti-
ficial means and was held in check by a
dam irom 700 to 1,000 feet wide, "it
is 00 feet in thickness at the base snd
the height is 110 feet. r lhe top has a
breadth of over 20 feet. Recognizing
the menace which the lake had to tho
region below, the South Fork Club bad
the dam inspected onee a month by the
Pennsylvania Railroad civil engineer,
snd an investigation showed that noth-
ing less than some convulsion of Nature
would tear the barrier away and loosen
the weapon of death. The steady rains
increased the volume of water in all the
mountain streams which were already
swollen by the lesser rains early in the
week. It is now believed a cloud-burst
must have been the culmination of the
-Hnggle of the water against the embank-
orient. The course of the torrent from
Ihe broken dam at the foot of ihe lake
lo Johnstown is almost 18 miles, and
with the exception of at one point, the
water passed through a narrow V-shaped
valley. Four miles below the dam lay
the town of South Fork, win re the
South Fork river itself empties into the
Connemaugh inhabitants, river. The town had about
2,000 and nearly all the in-
habitants were drowned. Four miles
further down, on the Connemaugh river,
was the town of Mineral Point. It had
800 inhabitants, ninety per cent, of the
houses being on a fiat close to the river
and few escaped. Six miles further
down was the town of Connemaugh, and
here alone was there a topographical pos-
sibility of the spreading of the flood and
the breaking of its force. It contained
2,500 inhabitants and was almori wholly
devastated. Woodvale, with 2,000 peo-
pie, lay a mile below Connemaugh, in
the flat, and one mile further down were
Johnstown and its cluster of sister towns,
ough Cambria, Bolivar and Connemaugh bor-
with a total population of 30,000
bn made ground. Stretched along right
at the river’s verge were the immense
iron works of the Cambria Iron & Steel
Co., who have $5,000,000 invested in
their plant. Besides this there are many
other large industrial establishments on
thc bank of the river, the damage to
"
which cannot be estimated.
The town of Florence is fourteen miles
from desolation. Johnstown, John the principal scene of
the McCartney, a car¬
penter, who lives in Johnstown, and es¬
caped, says that the people had been
warned early in the morning to
move to the highlands, but they did
not heed the warning, although it was
repeated a number of times up to into 1
o'clock, when the water poured
C'iuder street several feet deep. Then
the houses began rocking to and fro, and
Anally the force of the current carried
buildings across the streets and vacant oth
lots and dashed then against each r,
breaking them iuto fragments. These
buildings were freighted w.tli the poor had
wretches who so shortly before
laughed at the cry of danger, and hun¬
dreds found a watery grave in a few mo¬
ments.
The tidal wave struck B slivnr just af¬
ter dark and the waters spread out ovei
the whole country. Soon houses began
floating down, and clinging to the debrii
were men, women and children, shriek¬
ing for aid. A large number of citizens
nt once gathered on the county bridge,
ond they were reinforced by a number
from Garfield town on the opposite side
iff the river. They brought a number of
ropes aud these were thrown over into
the boiling waters, as pe sons drifted by
m effort b. save some of the poor beings,
For half an hour all efforts were fruitlesi
uutil at las’ when the rescuers were about
giving up all hope, a little boy astride t
shingle roof managed to catch hold of s
rope. He caught it under his arm ant.
wns thrown against an abutment, - ni *
managed to keep hold and was sucee-s-
fully pu le i on to the budge, amid t.:c
cheers of the onlooKcrs. IDs name was
Hessler, aud his rescuer was a train hat i
named Ctrncy. Ihe boy was about six-
teen years old. He said: “>\ ltn my
father, I was spending Cambria the miy (. at my In
grandfather's house m ltv.
the house at tha time were Theodore,
Edward, John Kurtz, Jr., and - l1 * 3
Mary Kurtz, Frenzy Kurtz, Mrs. .
Smith, John Hersch and four children,
my father aud myself. Shortly after 5
o'clock there was the noise of roaring
waters and screams of people. M e
looked out doors and saw pereo -
ning. My father told us to never ,
as tbe water would not rise lurtncr
soon we saw houses ™ 8 ? C.k nvV
and then we ran up to die floor auo .
The house was three stories ana we v
«t last forced ta t e °P 0 *" *
fright I jumped on with a cetr. heavy It post-.. was i
old-fashioned one
water kept Gradual!} rising an ni J e 1 l-
afloat. it was i a
air in the room giew close ani n
.
was moving. Still the bee * C P *’ , °
and pres-ed pushed the the ceiling. T ; . d ., *,
posts p «s sr. 1
.
a section of the roof gave way.■ ■
suddenly I found myse.f down on the rooi an
was being earned
After a little this roof commencea to
part, and I was a.raid I was g>
drowned, but just then another nouse
with a shingle roof floated
cold, I freed * n-m
nearly dead with was
the house. I did not see my father. J»y
graudfatber was in a tree, but he n.u*L
have been drowned, as the waters weie
rising fast. John Kurtz was also in a
tree. Miss Mary Kurtz and Mrs Mary
Kurtz I saw drowned. Miss Smith was
also drowned. John Hirseh was m a
tree, but the four children were drowned.
The scene was terrible. Live Bodies and
corpses from were floating I down with me, and
away me would hear persons
^nek and then they would disappear,
and all along the Hue people were trying
and and to to save save only only u«, u*, but but few few they they could could do do nothing” nothing,
boy’s a a is but were were incident, caught.” caught.” This This
what s'ory one and shows
'y happened to one family. God
cn knows what happened to hundreds
w k° were in the path of the rushing wa-
tors.
The accumulation of buildings which
were Pennsylvania swept by the angry "Johnstown waters to the
fu'iy fifty bridge at piled
up feet high, were burned to
the water’s edge on Saturday. Before
the buildings took fire many persons,
dead and alive, were taken from them,
^ 1° ome tight f the it unfortunates were wedged
legs so off release wag necessary them. to chop their
to The Catholic
church was destroyed by fire. A numl>er
of people were on ihe roof when the
structure took fire, and all of them were
consumed in the fl imes. The damage,
hs loss yet, is inestimable, regardless of the
of life. Tne Pennsylvania Railroad
loss will be enormous; an official report
of the damage done to the railroad prop-
erty is very great. Much of the track,
rails, Lang ties and are carried away. "that From
lb How comes the report the
fir-t reports of loss of life were entirely
too low. It is believed now that fully
8,000 persons have perished. Of these
TOO or 800 were burned in the fiery fur-
nace at the viaduct. Two thousand cof-
fins have been ordered for bodies already
rescued point. *
at that
Charles Luther, a boy, stood on an ad-
jacent # elevation and the whole flood,
saw
He s id he heard a grinding noise far up
l ^ lc * valley, and looking up he could see
u dark line growing slowly toward him.
He saw that it was houses. On they
come like the hand of a giant clearing
off his table. High in the air would be
tossed a log or a dam, which fell back
with a crash. Down the valley it moved
slowly, and across the little mountain
?*ty. For ten minutes nothing but mov-
ing houses was seen, and then the water
came with roar and rush. This lasted
for two hours, and then it began to flow
more steadily.
The pillaging of houses in Johnstown
describe. was something awful to contemplate and
Men armed themselves with
shot guns and revolvers, and w r oe to
strangers w tio looked even suspiciously
at any article. Goods of great value
were sold in Johnstow n for a drink of
whiskey. A supply store has been estab-
lished in Jownstown. A line of men
women and children extending fora
square waited patiently to have thdr
supplies granted. The school house h-s
been converted into a morgue, and the
dead are being buried. A hospital has
boen opened near by, and is full of pa-
tients.
Just as the shadows began ”1 to fall upon
the earth Saturday night, party of tliir-
teen Hungarians "were noticed stealthily
picking their way along the banks of the
Connemaugh their towards Sang Hollow. Sus-
picious 01 purpose, several farmers
firmed themselves and started in pursuit,
Soon their most horrible fears were real-
ized. The Hungarians were out for plan-
der. Lying upon the shore they came
upon the dead and mangled body of a
woman, upon whose person there were a
number of trinkets of jewelry and two
diamond rings. In their eagerness to
gecure tbe plunder the Hungarians got
into a squabb'c during which one of the
number severed the tinkers started upon which
W( . re tbe r j U(rfJ and 011 the run
with his f arful prize so’ The revolting na-
turc of m<V ‘lie deed wrought upon the
PU1 -s U atliand farmers who by this time were
close that they gave immediate
c hase Some of the Hungarians showed
fi.»ht but hein * outnumbered were com-
polled to flee for their lives Nine of the
brutes escaped but four were literally
driven uriven into into the sumi™ nver. liver and ana to to
them death. The inhuman monster
whose atrocious act has been described,
was among the number of involuntary
suicicles.
In another incident . which . . , , has . just .
been brought walked to notice, an old railroader,
who had from Sang Hollow,
stepped up to a number of men who were
congregated on the plat orm stations at
unauville, and said: ‘Gentlemen,had
1 a shotgun with me half an hour ago, I
would now be a murderer yet with no
fear ot ever having to suffer for my crime.
I wo miles below here I watched three
men going along the banks stealing jew-
sis from the bodies of the dead wives and
daughters of the men who have been
robbed of all they held dear on earth.”
He had no sooner Sni-hed the last sen-
fence, than live burly men, with looks ot
terrible determination written on their
faces, were on their way to the scene of
plunder, one with a coil of rope over his
shoulder, and another with a revolver in
his hand. In twenty nrnutes, so it is
stated, they had overtaken two of their
victims, who were in the act of cutting
piec. s from thc cats and fingers from the
hands of the bodies of two dead women.
With the revolver leveled at thc scoun-
drcls, the leader of the posse shouted:
“Throw g^yith up your hands, ot I'll blow your
beads p blanched faces and
trembling forms, they obeyed the order
a j d begged for merev. Thev were
searched, and as their pockets were
t5ed of thtir ghastly finds, the iu Jig-
nR jj, m n f the crowd intensified,aud when
bloody finger of an infant, encircled
. wo tinv god rings, was f und
amon „ the plundir in the leader’s pocket,
a crv went up: “Lynch them! lynch
them!” Without a moment’s delay rope’s
%verc thrown around their necks, and
they were dangling to the limbs of the
* tbe hrauches of which, hour
{re j u an
be f ore was entangled the bodies of a
dead father and son.
Johnstown is a desolate sea of mud, in
^ ^ bere are interred the remains of
many human bodies It was once a
1 aids* me portion of the town. Thecal-
lars are filled up with mud, sa that the
1HTSOn who has never seen the city can
hardly imagine that houses ever stood
v , lure they d id. Streets, solidly built
tl]) with houses, have been swept away.
Nothing but a small two-story framed
. ^ y t was near the edge of
the wave> and tbu , esca ped. One side
was taken up. and it hangs to one side,
niaki ng a picture of misery. The walk
up t0 tbe wrecks of the houses was in-
terrupted in many places by smalls 1 reams.
Occasionally, across the fiats could be
seen the remains of the victims. The
stench arising from the mud is sickening
to the extreme degree. Along the route
were strewn tin utens Is, pieces of ina-
winery, iron, pipes, wares ol every con-
cdvable kind of 8tore . Whole houses
had been swept down Mam street and
become i odgc d. Wreckage is piled The high
as the second story winoows. re*
porters cou!d ioo k from the wreck into
the auditorium of the opera house, me
ruins con6 ists of parts of houses, trees,
logs and ret ls from the wire factory
v boiiSes have their side walls and
rO0fa torn up . aud one can walk directly
Jnl0 wbat has been second-story bed-
raon *« or go in by way of the top. Fur-
^ town a „ {fc of logs lodged in the
jtreet an d did great damage. At the
~
! pommencement at the opening of of the valley,of wreckage, which
a the Conne
maugh, one can look up "the valley for
miles and not see a house. Nothing
stands but an old sjooden house,
When When Superintendent Superintendent Pitcairn Pitcairn tele- tele-
graphed Johnstown to Pittsburg Friday night that
close the was annihilated, he came very
to facts in the case, although
he had not seen the ill-fated city. Tr.e
loss of life is simply dreadful. The most
conservative people declare that the turn-
her will reach 5,000. Every hour or so,
forces of men working on various heaps
debris, find numbers of bodies
buried in the wreckage. It is believed
that when the flames are extinguished in
the wreckage at the bridge and the same
is removed,that hundreds and hundreds
of victims will be discovered. Up to
nine o’clock Sunday 2 ig’nt 180 bodies
had been embalmed" at Nineveh, and
there is a report that 200 more have been
discovered half buried iu the mud on an
island between New Florence aua the
place named. Hundreds of men, women
ancbphildren are sleeping on the hillsides
unucr tents that were seat from Pitts-
burg and other places.
Adjutant-General Hastings, National
Guard of Pennsylvania, assumed charge
of. Johnstown on Sunday. Nothing is
legal unless it bears his signature. One
effect of this systematic work is making
itself felt. One town is guarded by
Company H of the 6th regiment. Spe-
cial police are numerous, and regulations
are so strict that even the smoking of a
cig r is prohibited. Alexander Hart is
in charge of the special police. He has
lost his wife and family. Notwithstand-
ing his great misfortune, he is doing the
work of Hercules in his own way. A
supply depot has been established at that
point, ami many needy people are being
relieved. The bodies that are dug out
of the flat lie in the station until the
coffin c in be obtained. They are buried
unidentified on Prospect Hill. Dart-
inou’h Club, at which the employes ot
the Gautier Wire Works boarded^ was
carried away by the flood. It contained
many occupants at the time. None were
saved. The estimates of the losses of
the Cambria Iron Co. is given at $2,000,-
000. to $2,500,000. But little, if any,
of this great loss can be recovered,
Four immense relief tra’ns arrived at
Johnstow n Sunday night, and the sur-
vivors are being well cared for. A por-
tion of the police force of Pittsburg and
Alleghany are on duty, and better order
is maintained than prevailed the day be-
fore. Communication has been restored
between Cambria City and Johnstown by
a foot bridge. The work of repairing
the tracks between Sang Hollow and
Johnstown is going on rapidly, and
trains will probably be running in 24
hours.
Five hundred tents arrived from Ohio
Sunday in charge of Adjutant General
Axlin. Sixty-five have been put upon
the hillside at Florence, and are now oc-
cupied by families. General Axlin went
011 Johnstown to assist Major Angler,
who is in charge during Gen Hastings’
absence.
President Harrison did not attend
church Sunoay, but spent his time in
communicating from Washington with
the l )eo P le in the flood-stricken districts,
witl * a view to granting them such sue-
cor 88 la Y in th ® power of the govern-
ment - A- 11 officials that could aid, were
kept constantly at their posts, ready for
orders - The President has offered to
extend to the people in distress any suo-
cor which . the government could give,
He said the government would supply as
many tents and ra,ior!S nnd soldiers to
assist in the work of reclamation as pos-
sib,e ’ The government has about 2,000
,ents > which ifc Cfin ltnd to Hie sufferers,
Thc government lias also under its con-
trol several thousand tents belonging to
the militia, and these will be loaned if
ueeded - The offer of soldiers was made
for the reason that it was thought they
mi ght be useful in clearing away the
debris< searc h in g for the drowned and
guarding ”, property. Sundry was a day
learf to Pji v a te Secretary
IIatford . M rs. Halford and her daugh
ter Jeannette, left Indianapolis ou the
trahl that gut * out of Pittsburgh Sunday
morning) °t ua he had thought that the
tr;iin f p«t { befo.e the ilowl was at its
wcrst bu wwd camc f rom the p enngyl .
VuUia Kai j road that it was reported f that
the trjlll on which thcy wer( had becn
lost about Johnstown." Between 5 and C
o’clock Sunday evening a telegram came
froin the Philadelphia office of the Penn-
sylvania Rail,oad stating ° that thev had
d communication ith Altoona,and
ha d learned that Mrs. Halford and daugh-
ter ba wcre all fight , but had lost all their
e
B, lrt0 „ president ot the Red
Cr08 , Association, left WasMnjtton, I).
C., for Jolinstviwn, Dr. Ilubbell, field
agent for thc corps of trained workers
accompanying her. He says he wii 1 work
through the flooded district, distributing
food, clothing, medicine, and necessary
articles of house furniture, with Johns¬
town as headquarters.
This regulation harsh, but it . .
seems is a
necessity. The citizens’ committee are
making desperate efforts to preserve tbe
peace, and Hungarians at Cambria City
are being kept in their houses by men
with clubs who will not permit Hr.nga-
ri.ins to go outside of their houses. There
seems considerable race prejudice at
Cambria Cn'y, and trouble may Jollow, as
both English and Hungarians are getting
worked up to a considerable extent,
Quite an exciting scene took place in the
borough of Johnstown on Monday. A
Hungarian was discovered by two men
in tbe act of bloving up a safe in tbe
First National bank building with dyna-
mite. A cry was raised, aud in a few
moments a crow r d had collected, and the
cry of “Lynch him” was raised, and in
less time than it takes to tell it, the man
was strung up to a tree in what was
once the central portion of Johnstown,
Not content with this, the vigilance com-
mittee riddled tbe man's body with
bullets. He remained hanging to the
tree for several hours, when some
person cut him down and buried
him with the other dead,
Order is slowly arising out of the
chaos. Tne survivors arc siowiy realiz-
ing what is the best course to pursue
The great cry is for men, min who will
work and not stand bv and do nothing
but gaze at the ruini. The following
order was posted on a telegraph pole in
Johnstown: “Notice—During the day
men who have been idle have been
begged to aid us in clearing the town,
and many have refused to w ork. We
are be now so organized that enployment
can found for every man who wants
to work, aftd men offered work, who re-
fuse t0 take the sam and who are abie
to work, must leave Johnstown for the
preseat . We can't afford to feed those
who will not work. All the work will
be pa id for. Strangers and idlers who
refuse to work will be ejected from
Johnstown. Bv order of the Citizens’
Committee.” Officers were stationed at
every J avenue aad ra n rcad t h a t enters the
t0WI All suspirious look ng churac-
ters are stopped But one question is
ftsked It is“Will ; von work!'' If an
affirmative a swe r is "criven. the man es-
cor ts him to the employment bure. u, i
_
where he is put to work. If not, he is
turned back.
Governor Beaver has issued an appeal
for aid to the people of the United
States, and on its receipt. Mayor Grant of
New York convened a meeting of the
principal citizens to form a soliciting
committee. Over $50,000 was sub-
scribed at once, and Ex-President C-levo
land will act as chairman ; several f- * - >h a
stock minutes. exchanges In Philadelphia, raised $50,000 in
over
000 was subscribed on Monday.
Several Pittsburgers, relatives I
owners of the South Fork Fishind
which owned the reservoir that caul
disaster, made their way withe
difficulty to the reservoir, and roj
to Johnstown on Monday. One of
tells the following story: The
completely dried but. The dam broke in
the center at 3 o’clock Friday afternoon,
and at 4 o’clock it was dry. The great
body of water passed out in one hour.
Messrs. Park A Van Buren, who were
lake, building a new draining system at the
tried to avert the disaster by dig-
ging a sluice-way "dam. on one side to ease the
pressure on the They had about
forty men at work, and did all they could
without avail. The water passed over
the dam about a foot aboveitstop.be-
ginning at about half past 2 o’clock,
Whatever happened in the way of a
cloudburst took place during Thursday
night. There had been but lTttle rain up
to dark. When the workmen -woke
Friday morning the lake was very fall,
and rising at the rate of a foot an hour,
It kept on vising until 2 o’clock, when it
first began breaking over the dam and
undermining four it. Men were sent three or
times during the day to warn the
people below of danger. When the final
break came, at 3 o’clock, there was a
sound like tremendous and continuous
bursts of thunder. Trees, rocks and
earth were shot up into mid-air in great
columns, and then started down the ra-
vine. A farmer, who escaped, said the
water did not come down like a wave,
but jumped on his house and beat it to
fragments in an instant. He was safe on
the hillside, but his wife and two chil-
dren were killed.
Rescuing parties unburned, who are at work oil
the mns3 of wreckage on the
river above Stone bridge are finding bod-
ies and fragments of bodies at the rate of
from ten to fifteen an hour. In other
parts of the submerged district many
bodies are being taken out. A careful
estimate at this time of the bodies re-
covered everywhere put it from 700 to
800 Bodies are being picked up in
pockets, like ore, iu all sorts of uncx-
pccted places. The bodies have to be
dug out of the sand and it caused no end
of work, Kernville is in a deplorabl)
condition. The living arc unable to take
care of the dead. A majority of the in-
habitants of the town were drowned. A
building of boards has been erected on
the only street remaining in Cambria,
This is headquarters for the committee
that controls the dead. As quickly as
the dead are brought there they are placed
in boxes 1 and then taken to the cemetery
and buried, A supply store has been
opened in towm. * * A milkman, who was
overcharging lynching. for milk, narrowly escaped
An infuriated man appropri-
ated all his milk and then drove h m out
of town. The body of the Hungarian,
who was lynched in an orchard Sunday
night, -was removed by his friends. The
inhuman monster had cut off four fingers
of the right hand of a woman. He was
noticed before he es aped, and dropped
the fingers into liis pocket, where they
-were found when he was captured. The
act maddened the men, and they took
him to an orchard on the hillside and
hung him. Services in the chapel from
which the bodies were buried, consisted
merely of prayer by one of the survivors,
No minister was present. Each coffin
hid a descriptive card on it, and on the
graves a sinnlar card was placed so that
the bodies can be removed later by
fr ends. The latest estimates place the
number of dead at 12,000, but the exact
number will never be known,
Ihe stealing by tho Hungarians, at
Cambria City and points on the railroad,
has almost ceased. The report of sev¬
eral lynchings, and the drowning of two
Italians while being pursued hy citizens
on Monday, put a dumper on the soulless
pilfering for the time. Deputy Sheriff
Rose was patrolling the river bank. He
found two Hungarians attempting to rob
several bodies, and at once gave chase.
He found the two takiug to the woods,
and pulled out his pistol and shot twice,
wounding both men badly. From the
latest reports the men are still living,
but are in a critical condition. The
sheriff has taken charge of Johnstown,
Ou Tuesday, the sht riff requested Atlj.
Gen. Hastings to call out one re°iment
of the National Guard. He stated that
he did not want them called out on ac-
count of any trouble, but to guard
against anything that might happen.
General Hastings immediately tele-
giaphed to Pittsburg to order out the
14th regiment. The Cambria Iron Works
company their works aie in already preparing to
the iron operation. Mr. Moxham,
manufacturer He* in mnvor mobaKy nn tem
0 f Johnstown. is J the
busiest man iu the United States For
( j ays vrithout sleep, he sticks nobly to
his task. Hundreds of others are like
him. Men fall to the earth from sheer
fatigue. Them, are many who have not
closed their eyes iu sleep since they
aW( hollow-eyed, .j- e Friday" "pitiable morning. They are
looking and'ail lot. Many
have lost near relatives chargin’^ friends,
One dealer was $5 a sack for
““s. ard 8.S,.«,iS w-ir treitiiur it in nni> r.r two
of the
occurrence and several desperate ones
went to tha store and doled tbe flour
gratuitously to the homeless and stricken
army. Another dealer was selling flour
at $15 a sack. He refused to give any
away, but would sell it to any one who
had money; otherwise, he would not
allow any or e to go near it, guarding
his store with a shot gun. Bodies are
recovered in Johnstown that have been
robbed by ghouls that flock to the scene.
It was known that one lady hud several
hundred dollars in her possession just
before the disaster, but when the body
was recovered there was not a cent in
her pockets. The “Huns” attacked a
supply wagon between Morrellville and
Cambria City. The drivers of tbe
wagon repulsed them but they again
returned. A second fight ensued, but
after a lively scrambling the Huns
were again driven away. After tint,
d nvers and guards of the supply
wagons d ebris were permitted to go armed.
wedged against tne big
Pennsylvania Railroad stone bridge is
still burning and the efforts of the fire-
men to quench or stay the flames are fu-
* lle - Ihe mass which unquestionably
forms the funeral pjre cf thousands of
victims who are buried beneath it, is
burning and likely to burn for weeks to
come.- The flamts are noL active, but
hum away m a sullen, determined fash-
ion as though bent upon proving how god
fatile arc m;,Q 5 when the fire
is aroused, and perhaps after all
anfl afmSd men on Monday mormng pa-
trolled the city. People who have been
properly in the limits are permitted cth= to
enter the city if they are known, but
crw i Se it is impossible to get into town.
hand of Providence is in it. for the sug¬
gestion made by the physicians that the
bodies be not buried but be
allowed (o be cremated iu the
interest of the public health and
which aroused such a storm of indigna¬
tion among the survivors, is viewed with
more calmness, and there is a growing
sentiment that it is. after all, the be«t
. 1,,.
ke the
jfyiug 1 , and
terein
death
pntry. tv the
% [Many
l have
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nel will take the overflow from the lower
part of Johnstown proper.
WASHINGTON. I). C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMI VrS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM T1IE NATIONAI, CAPITAL,.
J. Lowrie Bell, superintendent of the
railway mail service, stales that thc
transportation of mails is in a confused
state, owing to r.dlroad interruptions
throughout the country.
Justice Qray, of the United States
Supreme Court, and Miss Jeannette
Mathews, daughter of the late Justice the
Mathews, were married Tuesday at
residence of the bride.
Every conceivable scheme has been
worked to have thc President and the :
cabinet photographed iu a group. Per-
sonal friends of the chief executive and
members of the cabinet have Sol cited it
as a personal favor to photogiaphers, but
all the overtures have been refused.
Gen. Harrison and Mr, Wananiaker arc
especially averse to having their photo¬
graphs displayed in public places.
A committee of the Pennsylvania Ma¬
sonic fraternity sent to President Har¬
rison requesting the United States gov¬
ernment to send out a sanitary commis¬
sion immediately, and warning him that
unless prompt action was taken to re¬
move the dead bodies and animals from
any stream m which the Connemaugh
empties, the water would be polluted and
carry plague germs to the people. This
would affect the country from Pittsburg
to New Orleans.
After reaching the highest mark on
record Monday afternoon, the Potomac
began to fall rapidly and the streets in
South Washington were free from w’ater,
and along the river front it gradually re¬
ceded throughout the day, bringing the
wharves once more to view. Several
schooners snd barge boats have been left
high and dry some distance from the bed
of the river and will have to be hauled
out into the stream. There has been a
sufficient cecessiou.of the flood to permit
a partial examination of the Potomac
flats, aud Col. Hains, engineer in charge,
says the damage will be much less than
had been anticipated. Reports are be¬
ginning to come in from the surrounding
country and show emit damage to have
been done to roads and crops as well as
to places near small streams. Many
bridges are down.
During Monday evening, President
Harrison received the following dispatch:
“Jacksonville, Fla., June §.--The Jack
sonviiie Auxiliary Sanitary Association
tender their heartfelt, sympathy to then-
unfortunate countrymen who have been
visited with the most appalling disaster
of modern times, and direct me to notify
you that $2,000 of trust funds in their
hands has been appropriated for the re¬
lief of the stiffertrs of Johnstown and
other places devastated hy the flood.
This amount is subject to your sight
draft, to be expended at your discretion.
P. McQuaid, President Jacksonville,
Auxiliary Sanitary Association.”
To this the President replied as follows:
“I have received your dispatch with
great gratification, and w r ill draw for the
amount you have appropriated, and will
see that it is expended for the purpose
you have at heart.”
In response to a call issued by the
commissioner of the District of Colum¬
bia, a public meeting to devise means of
aiding the sufferers by the flood at
Johnstown and vicinity, was held Tues¬
day. Theie was a large attendance, in¬
cluding the commissioners of the Dis¬
trict, President Harrison, Private Secre¬
tary Halford, Postmaster General Wan-
namaker, Secretary Noble and many
representatives of business and social
life . of Washington. . Shortly after three
o’clock the meeting was called to order
h T Commissioner Douglass, who intro¬
duced President Harrison as presiding
officer ol the meeting. He said this was
no *i m e f° r n speech; that while he
talked, women and children wreie suffer-
in S lor f he relief which the meeting was
called to grant. Calls for subscriptions
were made and the response^ were nu-
merous and for finite large amounts, a
half dozen being $500 each. About
$10,000 was raised in thc hall, Th*
President, in dismissing the meeting, this
s.id: “May I express the hope that
wcik will be earnestly and thoroughly
pushed, and that every man this and woman
present here will go from meeting
to use their influence, in order that
supplier of food and clothing so much
i n i so promptly needed may be supplied,
i5ud that either to-night or to-morrow
morning cars well freighted with relief
gn from Washing ton."
HORRIBLE CRUELTY,
AN INSANE XIAN CONFINED IN MINXES
SOTA BEATEN TO DEATH.
A mim i ef committed in the insane
agvlum at Rochester, -Minn , about April
-j g j. bas r, ist l ta k< tl out. The victim
uas a laticnt named Taylor Goombs.
c< ' oml swas washing the ^s ceil : n*» at the
lum and muttering to what he
wou td do if he had a revolver, when he
was attacked by Edward Puti rson and
Au „ ust Reekman, who commenced
pounding him over thc head with a cane
a nd hickory mop handle. Then they
made him stand up) and Beckman com-
menced pounding, knocking him down
and jumping on nis chest. Coombs died
t wo hours later. A painter, who saw
the deed, was told if he disclosed the
murder thev (Beekman and Peterson)
would kill him. The managers of the
a sj lum called m th ; coroner, who made
the examination. Beekman and Ptter-
gQU claim ! d tb it Cooaibs’ death was
cauged b v falling from the scaffold,
*
Wht . n the fac!s came out the men were
d i scbarged , warrants isuied and Beek-
m an was arrested Monday, and Peter-
fc on's capture is expected soon. Tht
as y i um authorities say Coombs was in-
i dug j r j ous aEd t-a-ily managed, and it v is
dec;arc<! tliat LiS dea h was uo thino
j ?hort of .^Hi.eraie murder,
HE PREDICTED IT,
; Rev. John Jasper, the Richmond, Va.,
colored preacher who teaches that “tht
nindo move,” predicted the recent storm,
With the accompaniment of Judgment
Day.
Flying Machines.
Attempts to make birds the models
upon which man should construct a fly-
ing apparatus are almost without number
History is fnll of such attempts and their
failures. Three years ago, at the meet-
mg of the American Association for the
advancement of science, a certain profes-
sor, Isaac Lancaster, read a paper before
the Buffalo Convention, in which he pro-
Jessed to give the results of many years'
study devotel to the observation of
birds in flight. “Iu 1876,” said Prof.
South Lancaster, “I went to the Gulf coast of
Florida, below Tampa ‘cotttitiuotuly Biv, and
resided then- for live ,ea, 8
engaged in this matter. > rom Tampa
Bay to the Keys,soaring birds are found
in profusion. These consist of buzzards,
frigate birds, various cranes, gannets,
eagles pelicans, gulls, herons, and oth-
ers of less importance. The buzzards
would habitually rest in the sea breeze
along thirty the inner or bay coast, between
and fifty feet above the water,
ing thc uiud for hours at a time ou mo-
tionlcss wings. They were birds of
from four to six pounds weight, with an
equal number of square feet of wing sur¬
face. I watched a score of them on one
occasion for fourteen consecutive hours,
made during which time not n dozen flaps were
for each bird. If a bird can float
indefinitely in calm air without using
muscular exertion, being for mechanical
purposes as rigid as a board, then a board
or metal body of the right shape and po¬
sition ought to be aole to do the same
thing. the In construction it must preserve
essential features of the bird's wing.”
The professor said that uothiug was nec¬
essary to success but a nice imitation of
the figure of a bird when floating in the
a ; r>
Georgia's Prosperity.
Borne carefully compiled statistics
bearing ou the progress and prosperity
of Georgia, are of the mogt gratifying
chaiaeter. It is shown that the value of
property has increased from $225,093,-
419 in 1879, to $327,863,331 in 1889,
being an increase of $102,769 912 in ten
years. This is independent of the rail¬
road property, which has increased in the
same time from $9,836,129 to $29,304,-
127, an increase of $19,437,998, or 212
per cent., m iking an aggregate increase
of ail taxable property in the state in ten
years of $122,207,910, or 53 per cent.
'1 he percentage of increase in the chief
items is also an interesting ftudy. In
ten years the value of improved land has
increased 29 per cent., city and town
property 73, live stock 22, farming im¬
plements mining 69, cotton manufactories 393,
investments 102, banking stock
61, and iron works 91 per cent.
A Loxdon cabman ran against the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone and knocked
the venerable statesman down, He
was on his feet iu an instant and gave
chase to the reckless driver,and overtook
him and held him fast until a policeman
arrived and aire-ted niin.
When you suffer from dyspepsia, heartburn,
malarial affections, kidney disease, live- com-
fila wish nt and enrich other wasting blood diseases. When you
to the and purify the system
generally. When yon wish to remove all feel¬
ing bottle of weakness, weariness, lack of energy, try
a of brown’s Iron Hitlers, and see how
greatly it will h. nefit you. Jt surpasses all
known remedies as an enrielier of the blood,
and a perfect regulator of the various bodily
functions. Ask your druggist.
The breweries in I etroit, Mich., have passed
into the control of a British syndicate.
Is it any Wonder
that Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
outsells all other blood and liver medicines,
since it possesses such superior curative prop-
eriies as to warrant its manufacturers in sup¬
plying through it druggists) to the people under conditions (as they are such doing,
medicine as ne
other is sold under, viz: that it must
cither benefit ^r cure the patient, or the money
paid for it will bo promptly returned. It cures
all diseases ausing from deranged liver, or
from impure blood, as biliousness,‘Mver com-
plaint,” all skin and scalp diseases, sa't-
rheum, tetter, scrofulous sores a-:d swellings,
fever-sores, hip-joint disease and kindred ail-
iya Tits
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Keep a big piece of rock salt where (he
stock can get at it any I ime.
Catarrh Cured.
A clergyman, after years of suffering from
that loathsome disease. Catarrh, and vainly
trying every known remedy, at last found a
fit! disease sending a self-addressed stamped
envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, 88 Wanen
fet.. N. Y., will receive the recipe free of charge.
A Difficulty Surmounted.
It is often very difficult to tell what kind of a
laxative to give to a very young child who is
Buffering from constipation. The only medicine
which is at thc same time perfectly safe, effec¬
tive, and pleasant 1 » take, is Hamburg Figs. 23
cents, pose one Fig. Mack Drug Co., N. i.
Orrini!!, the l’nrndluc ot I-nrinei n.
Miid, equable climate, certain and abundant
crop*. Pest fruit. ijl-Hin, Full grass and stock
country in the world. information free.
Address Oreg. Im’igr’t’n Board, Portland, Ore.
The Mother’s Friend, used before confine
nient, lessens pain and makes labor compara¬
tively easy. Sold by all druggists.
Vlgof and Vitality ye quickly ptven to every
pert ieeliug of tiie body by llood's Sarsaparilla. That tired
Is overcome, the blood is purified and vital-
Jzed, stomach strengthened, appetite restored.
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DECORATED CHAMBER SETS.
Assorted ook.rs, Blue, Brawn. Pink, per
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Assorted l ands, Bine, t.reen, l’iuk, Ma-
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SHE WI2L3 C73E7 T3
The world ought to ITM I ___ wM 1 know trnat B S. S. has
fionc for me in t lit- cure of a lnulimiant Cancer,
which was so bad as loABatio considered incura¬
ble hy the physicians in Chicago, where I
went to be treat of cl. adver-^jhJ One j ft lof iisement my luighbors sent
r.ie n copy an in regard to
Swift’s Specific, and 1 39 ®® began taking fr. 1 got
relief from the first few f#71 doses; the poi -on v, as
gradually cured forced out of Lvl my system, is and I was
soon sound and 3B MM well. It now ten
months since I quit tak- iug S. S. S. and I hav»
had no sign of return of Ihe dreadful disease.
Au Wns. Ann Both well.
Sable, Mich., Dec. 23, \n
Send for 1 toots on Blood Diseases r.nd Cancers,
mailed free. Tns Swift Specific Co.
Drawer 3. Atlanta, Ga,
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O. - SLm.
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Is the leading school of this section. P'Tan IS*}
with JO pupils, without grounds or huildiiiiis of its
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^eeffle I prescribe and fc’tyen*
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