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WATERY GRAVES Were Fonnd in Pennsylvania by Over 8,000 People. S0ID8 Rich SDOrfsmpn F Rnilt DUlll 9 Bam Paul a 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. - 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 ____ l oll an - 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 ------ Nasal (latarih offeml by^lm^mwfufiwiurereof S '' a0tent8 ’ bydrU<f ' fcl ' ‘ — —-------- 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. IS Iisenddress YOUB FIRM FOR Weioht, SALE” S/ruS) Ccr.T.s A 233 Broadway, g&y- %' , $ f ron atur fL tdlK Ul CD. <s & and trld?!-! you wear; if not sate, send for order btao- . r^ £iv!*; full instmettoas be rr to get a perfect fit w. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. PRICE LIST DECORATED CHAMBER SETS. Assorted ook.rs, Blue, Brawn. Pink, per set.................................. $2 oo Assorted l ands, Bine, t.reen, l’iuk, Ma- .....2 so AssortHl^Lsn‘Lc^Fldw,' . Ac., , Q 3 per set.............................. vaiiousik 00 Assorted colors, corat ious, per set 8 75 Wild Rose, ami other Dec rations, per set 4 15 ^aud^apf. *f n'r* Ldv, vvl* 1 Ac., "r per ^ ^ see............. 4 50 f i"r x ti Ewers and Basins Dish « Iiak ro, Ac. Full stock of Gla-swara. each as Tumblers, Ck^blet*, Bar Go *K Wines, Ac., Lamp G odi 54,111 Fixtures, inclini ng Burners, Wicks, Chiin* ’''^Vriofson application i_. F. llKOWN, IMPORT* R AXD JOBBCK OF Earthenware, Glassware, Tinwara, 19s Fast Bh) Sited, CHARLESTON. S. C. — | j 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, CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PELLS SE2 C303S BSAU2. A & Iiytl, only genuinr and rrlimbU* pill for «ale. NcvtrPftil \<P L JU Diamond ' T fit!che*ter's Brand, Fvgl-z \ ^SRr rod rat- , sry ^ (ullu: boxes, kcitital with LUk- rib* \ \y other. At l)rmrgl 4 ill> lH. Aucpt v yn no All i iu puxtc- board boxes, pink wrapper.*, are a dn!i£:er« ou» counterfeit. Seud 4 c. si amps) for rf * particulars ami ‘itolloi'fur l 3 dioa t M in V , r inter, by return vr.ul. 1 (1,000 teatl- monlaift from LACIES who have used rheiu. Name Paper. Chichester Chemical Co.. Madison S<|..riitla.,Pa. MOTHERS’ FRIENR MAKES GUILD BIRTH EASY IF USED BEFORE CONFINEMENT. Book to “Mothers’’ M ait.ep-Free. ItHADF1E1.1* KEOI I.ATOR Cl*.. ATI.AATAJGA. Sold by all Druggists. O. - SLm. Nashville, Tenn. College for Young Ladles, Is the leading school of this section. P'Tan IS*} with JO pupils, without grounds or huildiiiiis of its own. how has 3 buildings, lo«j rooms, 20 oificts, 3JO pupils from IS States, f ull cour.-e In Literature, Science, versity, fully Art, equipped Music, privileges in Vanderbuiit Uni¬ For catalogue Gymnasium, address and I’tMiilmt. a’luiodorn conveniences. Key. Gko. \V. F. Price, D. D , Nashville, Tenn. Plantation Engines With Self-Contained RETURN FLUE BOILERS, j COTTON FOR GINS DRIVING and MILLS. Illustrated Pamphlet Free. Addreaa 1% .James Leffel & Co. | RPK1NGFIE1.D, OlilO, op 110 Liberty Ht, New York* Road Carts! EVERYTHING ON WHEELS. 10 per ^■Buggies! cent, cheaper than anybody. Nam. th a paper. NA8UVlLL£. TKX* *»£ TO 9430 A MON Til can bemad:- worklag * I e for ns. Agents preferred who ran furnish a horse and give ibeir whole time to the,business, Spare moments may be profitably employed also, A few vacancies in town 3 and cities. 1 :. R JOHN- ^,9 I lease N * state ag? and Main business at.. Richmond, experience. Va. A’. Never fi.~ m ind a bout sending stamp f or reply. IS. F. J. Co. WASHINGTON M INFORMATION BUREAU, ’ COl.K At UEEBLK. Proprietor,. I Street X. W.. Washington. !>. C. General information furnished, ' urresp ,nd. nee solicited. _ _ * jy^SMITHPEALg ^ rhr'iiShi’al?'* O t PRACTICAL ^ S feio’en ^ jf ( /cZy/ J J o Ben'cm. d»y r»iih 4 r«i • COLLEGE, V,. S fS^VSS*^ DETECTIVES Wanted in every County. Shrewd men to act under instruction* In our Secret Service. Experience not necessary- Particulars free, Graauaa Detective Bureau t’o.ii Arcade.ClscicaatLO, Little G gOOQ **Eittier Hex. for Old Prevents Sports and cured and 1 Young, to 5 days. No K'ricture. S«nd Osin llnilnr to MF’ti. C'ti.. Box 107. Montgomery, Ala. Kf nfa 1 ki“S I 8 8" 11 EX — Kvi-ry nie t > invp tit<- ; $5.00 ft judici- fortune: u» ! y invented will lead for to ■■ “, a an <>i>p irt-m ty S?«J , , e .JVl h ^' r i ' rticn -» r »- r ' i u A Ran. .* <.«>, Mo. Blair’s Oral Be*, Pills 34» round ■ Groat Rhoumatic English Remedy. Gout and 14 Pill*. sk g® ! n S8 is day. Sv.uple-i worta 92 Write .15 Free, 10 Fft Lines not under h use’s feet. Ui-«-w- Vstri- Safety Iti-in llo'derC'o.,|{<>liy,Mieh. 1> VI.-VI’S Rl S. COl.hKIUC. Fbi tdelpUit. Px. J Scholarship and positions, iji.’iO. Write for circal ir. A gents wanted. $l*n O. hour. I-l. 50 new artic skport.N.y. es.Oit’lsue XV snd namp!es Ire-. Marshall, L >c PEERLESS DYES teS&SgS Ptao’B Remeuy for Cata-rh is tbe Beat, Kasieat to Uee, and Cheapest ’k bold by druggist* or Sf ’ nt niail- g :/0c. E. T. Hazeltine, Warren, Pa. L ^eeffle I prescribe and fc’tyen* Lj-yi s^^Cor*. DaTS.^g for the'cer lean cum TO 6 of tbia disear.c. 13 p CJ.H.LXt/HAHA’i ,'b U ffifcff Btrtc0 UT AmEterdam, , t»°* * - X. Y. Trade -/ 'IrI.OO. Fold by Druggists. N .......Twenty-t l ree, W. L. DOUCLAS $3 SHOE FOR CENT LEW EW. Beat In the world. Examine Ilia •5.00 GENUINE HAND-SEWED SHOE. •4.00 HAND-SEWED VVKET SHOE. •3.50 POLICE AND FARMERS’ SHOE. •3.50 EXTRA VALUE CAEF SHOE. •2.25’ WORKINGMAN’S SHOE. #2.00 GOOD-WEAR SHOE. •2.00 and #1.75 BOYS’ SCHOOL SHOES. All made in Congress, Button and Lace. W. L. DOUCLAS $3 & $2 SHOES FOR LAD1E8. Best Material. Best Style. Best Fitting- inside hurt ns. tbe hand-sewed feet. Every shoes, pitir and warranted. u^icks or wax tnreii to