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A* Accurate Diagram of the Upper Conemaugh Valley, Showing the Lake and HeseiToir, Which Were the
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4 Vi B—Town of South Forks inhabitants).
C— Mineral Point (800 inhabitants). E —
he Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge, reported to
swept away. D—Town of Conemaugh
(2,500 inhabitants) 10 miles below the lake.
, _ F—Woodvale (2.000 inhabitants). G—Large
*>aoienm%U9. IJ—rfomef of the 5,000 axorP.tngmen employed by iron and steel works at Johnstown. S--Cambria Iron and Steel
Works. W—Cambria City. Johnstown and Cambria Cities and Conemaugh borough contained a total population of nearly 50-
TOOsaut*. M—Sheriflan (SOO inhabitants). T- Sang Hollow, 12 miles below Johnstown, urhe^e the railroad operator counted 75 dead >
waxes earned down the river. X—Continuation of the river and railroad toward Nineveh, Lockport and Bolivar (see small
nxagram), which were completely submerged.
The picture in the upper left-hand corner shows the City of Johnstown 1 miles distant) as photograhod by the Cambria Iron Co.
AFTER THE FLOOD,
Heartrending Scenes in Cone
maugh’s Valley of Death.
Horrors Witoessod During a Walk
Along the Torrent’s Path.
Thrillini? Stories and Pathetic
Incidents of tlie Inundation
4 Swath of Death Thirteen Miles
Door—D ead Bodies and Wrecked
Houses Everywhere—Tho Survivors
Sleeping on the Ground—Roughs
Invade tlie Stricken Town—An Es.
tlmate of tlte Loss of Life.
A correspondent e-f Cue New York World,
Who was amcag the first to reach Johns-
town after the awful disaster, sent tho fol-
lowing Vivid description of what ho saw ' ■
t Ik-*™ 3 4 «t«f y *■ 1 1111 wonusi/own t - proper,
- ■
over a rope bridge which was completed this
afternoon. I reached there at 5 o’clock last
night, aud tell only what I dkl s u and de
The mighty wave that rushed through this
Conemaugh valley on Friday mifes evening cut a
it,
way lay one of the most thickly popu-
fated centres of the Keystone State
and within "’
a few minutes from thf
time the dam at Lake Conemaugh
broke howeow were rolling over one another
In a whirl as they were carried by J the
treetRiug waters down the gorge between the
landless hills. At Johnstown the whole ecu-
ter of the city was cut as if a mammoth
place scythe had passed over the laud. At that
vania was Railroad a large Company,one stone bridge of the Pennsyl-
of the strongest
that that, company owns. The Conemaugh
Kiver is crossed by it at an angle. Into this
txngle houses, trees and fences that came
down the left side of the river rushed and
arches ware piled under one on top of another until the
the bridge were closed, the cur-
rent of the Conemaugh was changed and the
and wreckage timbers began to pile on high until rafters
the houses, projected above the stone. Then
•crashed nearly after all crowded with people,
one another until this terrible
wreckage No extended a half mile up the stream.
pen can tell the horror of tne shrieks of
the thousands who were in the mass of float-
lug ruin.
dry Shortly Umbers after the blockade had formed the
of the houses caught fire and the
mass nearest the railroad bridge became a
trfowmg bad furnace. Hundreds of pooi.de who
not been drowned or crushed in the mad
rush downstream were burned alive. Their
shrieks as the flames reached them made: he
most stout-hearted wring their hands in agon v
at their inability to render assistant The
bI «". ^ora upstream. Th- air became
plac tad MranwhilJ till, grater ?!u. hulk of ho-.id
mad to--Co*™ along right l-anf On,
rush carried a wav a ixntion of the store
the bridge, aiul then the'flood boro down upon
thousands of homes and Homed teem
further westward in the Lonemm-h.
It was only a littiu aft.-r five Friday after-
noon wheu thetn-st warnim i*ame. andr.s it
had been rainim* heavily Ml dav i. -> citiz
thought that tne slowiy rising waters only
meant a light flood Tins ihe iuhaoitants
were either groupyi m windows cr iu the
wouldtean would be .in S »mpo.M-u; S spectacle, mS-l th f but ^Pectei nothing
more No one seem, u to tlnnk it uecessarv
w ere caught m the leax fui r,;,h.
A Paul Revere Among the Der.J.
A nameless Paul Revere lies mew here
among the nameless dead. Who he is may
never be known, but his ride r*. *u rVtniv > in
locai history. Mounted on a grand big bar
horse, he came riding down vlie pike which
passes through Conemaugh to Johi'stov a like
some __ angel of wrath of old shouting his per-
tails!” tentous “Run warning: the hills!'’ “Run for Tne your lives to the
to people crowded
aut of their hous s along the thickly settled
knew itreet, the a west me., aud and wondering. thongut. he 'Nobody
u.a... some was a
cuaniac and laughed. On at a quick pace he
rode, and shrilly however, rang out hi- aw:Yd cry. In a
few moments, there came a cloud of
ruin down the broad streets, down the narro w
alleys, turning, grinding, crashing, annihilating twisting, hurling, over-
the weak and
the strong. It was the charge of the flood,
wearing irs coronet of ruin ana devastation,
which grew at every instant of its pro cress.
Forty others, feet higb.some mis say. thirty according to
was sea, and it traveled with a
swiftness like that which lay hidden in the
keels of Mercury. On and on* raced the rider,
md on and on rushed the wave. Dozens of
people the hills took heed Poor ot faithful the warning rider; it and ran up
-jo was an un-
*qual contest. Just she turned ao: -s the
raiiroad bridge the mic bridge ity waver■-iiup- >r*hiiJi.
md horse, rider aud all wvui , ;sto
ihacss together. A few f«x> fur fleer on s. '*-'ral
»rsof iae PsKinsylvnnir Railrruitre-*.! from
Pittsburgh were caught up &n i huric-d into
Ihe lauldivn, ur.d the heart ci* the to .vr
reached at the heir, who turned neither to
right nor left for safety tea* iiirosiif, but rode
Sii to death for his townsmen.
Harrowing Story of an Eye-Witness.
A correspondent telegraphs a word-picture
if J ohnstown as it looked after the subsidence
>f the flood. He says:
“The point of observation was on the hilh
side, tVoodvale midway between the woolen mills of
and Johnstown proper, which I
dons -cached of tho after city a journey through the por*-
from which tbc Waters,
‘ecedinw fast, are revc&liiig scenes of
mparafleled horror*. From the point
>n the hillside referred to, an excellent view
>f ths site of the town can be obtained. Here
t can be seen that from the line of tb.a
Pennsylvania ;he Railroad which wind* alone
St. John’s base of CathcJic Prospect Cilurrh Hill, to a point.at which
ni‘1 from the bridge formerly stood,
*for,e to Conemaugh,
>n the Conemaugh River, but twelve houses
yy actual count remain, and they are
suck condition '
n a as to be p raa-
sically useless. To any one familiar with tlip
County, geography of the iron city vivid of fdeh CambriA
this will convey a of a
swath averaging one huff milt in width and
three oreadth miles of the m fcitgili. In all the length and
tion of J ohnstown most peaceful and costly por¬
lept those adhering not a shingle the 'buildings remains, ex-
to men-
lioned.
“But do not think for eti instant that this
Ikmprehends in full the awfulness of the
fcene. What has just been mentioned is a
of large territory swept as clean as if
fey a gigantic broom. In the other direction,
dong Alexander the course Kennedy’s, of Stony Creek, as far
is the President
if the town councils, some few
if the houses still remain, but they are up-
ride down, piled on top of each other, and in
many ways so torn asunder that not a single
)Me <;f them is available for any purpose
whatsoever. It is in this district that the
oss of life has been heartrending. Bodies are
icing dug tip in eVery direction,
“Gfi the main street from which the waters
™ve work receded possible, sufficiently to render access and
bodies are being exhumed,
They Those are charge as thick as potatoes have in a field,
in seem to the utmost
iiffl cultv m securing the removal of bodies
•T^JSSc'TSSKLa. description. Boards have scene laid beg.
rars Wk been front
to desk, and and as fast as the hands Of a larg®
>ody recognizable of men shape, women can put the remains
■ ,, they are laid out for
possible identification, possible. and removed as
prickly ‘though as have Seventy-five still remain,
many been taken away, and
:nr-y are being brought in every moment It
|*s something horrifying to see one portion of
-he huge school taken up by rows and
rows of corpses, each with a clean white
the sheet covering promiscuous it, and on heap the other side of
room a of bodies in ail
sorts of shapes and conditions, looking for
*U the world like decaying tree trunks.
Among the number identified are two beauti-
ml young ladies named respectively Mrs.
Richardson, who was a teacher in the k vindor-
gar ten school, and Miss Lottie Yost, whO@@
sister I afterward noticed at one of the cor*
aers near by, weeping as if her heart was
broken. Not a single acquaintance did she
:ount in all of the great throng who passed
aer by, although many of them tendered sin*
'ere sympathy, which, was accentuated by
heir own losses.”
__ ““
An Estimate of the Number of Dead.
it* Adjutant-General is'eude-vorm^'to Hastings whose bureau S
Johnstown **eeonfof make
thin" ^bodies like a found/sent* iwmil-te the number
if to Governor Beaver
}u Vast Md.idav ioiX)d«aths his would'be offic-ai estimate tMt at
absolutely lar^ nmnC proven
l'his Lthi does not include nevtr the H
that will be known of Positively-,
1 .1 Sof Sg S-tog 'J “SL btl, S?, L a Sil, S3 ,t\ l,?,r
k
i a *.e attention To There 1 are J as T n
:hem the cloSfing thm* are <
w d pressed for food. aU
*.*„,. ncce^^irics of fife Their necessity no^
.vdl coniim.o, not for a day for
* wvl., but for months They are
,, Ik destiMts “ of a , "‘ ! l that ,t cues
«.c l »rc
bodies, as are the very dead whose half nude
Jodies line the banks of tho Conemaugh for
niles. Their ordinary means of earning a live-
ihood are gone, with the rest of the town, but
flierc is abundant work for every one. But
there must lie money to pay the workmen.
People m Jouustewm itself is conimg m from
anj * aere ls e ‘ lou S J to ieaeve
-ho*.: e ‘‘ ‘ ' lli
'
The Death Score.
m,___ cccmuuttec ... at ^ Johnstown T , , in ..... their last
K , P- a ced tee number of lives lost at
• “ ttthabRants * } n of their 80 rity are and figur- the
*. own
immediately^adjoining. •
. wns But it must be
remembered that the tidal wave swept teh
miles through a populous district before it
reached the locality over which this com-
jnittoe has supervision. It devastated a tract
r- ilere 8120 ani few ‘ shape of Manhattan Island.
a1 '®, a facts that- will show the
geographical outlines of the terrible dis-
ttst ' er: .The Hotel Hurlburt, of Johnstown,
A massive three-storv building of 100 rooms,
Las vanished. There were in it seventy-five
gueste at the time of the flood. Two only are
no w mmwn to be alive. The Merchants’Hotel
. leveled. How
: s but many were inside it is not
;:n °wn. from as yet no one has been seen who
fame there or heard of an inmate escap-
' n ^te At the Conemangh round house forty-
locomotives were swept down the stream,
mid before they reached the stone bridge all
“-w* iron and steel work had been torn from
merr boilers. It is almost impossible in this
ST® 31 * catastrophe to go more into details.
, °£ed G^9°? mto cn the the stone seething bridge at 6 o’clock and
:C mass of ruin below
r 3 ®* -At one place tne blackened body of a
Y 33 s f vn l 111 smother, fourteen skulls
romu Recounted. Farther along the bones
oeeairie tmcXer ann thicker, until at last at
me placeit caaAaan seemed,as aboil u a concourse of people
a» or ontsrfcahiment. Sad
-'en car. ,ca ::: a buncc and incinerated. At
ms time t^c shio-ta was still rising to the
teet t* l * 15 expected that
" n J 1 ^ cSO ®F n *- e cnarred bodies will be
^an _ rotting the entired mass of burned
v*aiming* In the Torrent's Path.
I walked late yesterday afternoon from
New Florence to a place opposite Johnstown,
a distance of four miles. 1 describe what I
actually lying saw. the All ri along banks. the way In bodies were
seen on half buried vet* in the one places
woman was mud, only .
limb showing. Iu another was a mother with
a babe clasped to her breast. Further alona
lay a husband and wife, their arms wounc
around each other's necks. Probably fifty
bodies were seen on that side of the river,
and it must be remembered that here the cur-
rent was the swiftest, aud consequently fewei
of the dead were landed among the Pushes.
On the opposite side bodies could also be seen,
but they were all covered with mud. Neai
Johnstown the wreckage became grand in its
massive proportions.
The scenes, as I neared Johnstown, wen
the most heartrending that ir.au was ever
celled to look upon. Probably three thou¬
sand people were scattered in groups along
the Pennsylvania Railroad track and every
one of them had a relative lying dead eithei
in the wreckage above, in the river below, oi
in the still burning furnace. Not a house
that was left standing was in plumb. Hun¬
dreds of them were turned on their sides and
in soma cases three or four stood one on top
of the other. Two miles from Johns¬
town, on the opposite side of the
river from where I walked, stood one-
half of the water-works of the Cambria
had Iron beeu Company, built of massive a stone, structure It filled that
was
with planks from houses, and a large abut¬
ment of Wreckage was piled up fully fifty feet
in front of it. A little above, on the same
side, bria Iron could be seen what was left of the Cam¬
[dents Works, which was one of the tioest
in tho world. Some of the walls are
still standing, it is true, but not a vestige Of
The the valuable machinery remained in sight.
two upper portions of the works w- r
swept away almost entirely, and under tin
pieces of fallen iron and wood could bo seen
the b xlies of more than forty* workmen.
At this point there is a bend in the ri ver
and the fiery furnace blazing for a quarter ot
a mile square above the stone bridge cam?
into view.
hastening “My G od!” screamed a woman who was
up the track, “can it be that any
are in there?”
“Yes, over a thousand,” replied a man who
had just came from the neighborhood, audit
is now learned that he estimated the number
at one thousand too low.
Tho ‘lies of misery and suffering and
agony and despair can hardly be chronicled.
One man, a clerk named Woodruff, was reel¬
ing along intoxicated. Suddenly, himself' with a
frantic shout., he threw over the
bank into the flood and would have been
carried to his death had he not been caught
by some persons below. "Let me die,” be ex¬
claimed, when they rescued him. “My wife
and children are gone; I have ilo use for my*
life.” An hour later I saw* Woodruff lying
on the ground entirely overcome by liquor.
Persons who knew him said that he had
never tasted liquor before.
A » 1 story,
James M. Walters, ah attorney, spent the
thrilling night ih Alma stbi’Jr. Hall, One Jchnstefivh, of and relates a
the most carious oc-
Clifrenees 'alters of the whole disaster was how Mr.
got to the hall. He has his office on
^ second floor. His home is at 1S5 Walnut
street. He says he was in the house with his
family carried when the waters Walters struck it. All was
away. Mr. s family drifted
5 11 a r °o f in another direction. He passed
doom several streets and alleys until he eame
to the ball. His dwelling struc-c that edifice,
and he was thrown into his own office About
200 persons-had taken refuge m the hall, and
™freon the second, third and fourth stories,
The men held a meeting and drew up some rules
f 1 *| re bouu d respect Mr Walters
t
™ s l* nt *“tnen. The sick were
The weaker women and children
ha 1 th ® bes * accommodations that could be
had. while the others had to wait. The scenes
sobs and most agonizing. pierced the Heatrendmg darkness. shrieks,
moans of children mingled gloomy withitna
crymg sobs of the Under the sup-
women g*.»ar-
dianship of the men all took more hope. No
roar*’of -a
tiers S mingle 1 wdh Sri*£
watem the hous^ of t V
dying* Ssofytwo in the surrounding women^gcTv^orVmature In all this
birth
r hildren Pr Matthew-' cru'hed’bv is a k iwro <5 AV er«l
0 f hjs ribs were failin'* t ; mbe*
all he attended the sick. When two womenIn
a house across the street shouted for help, he
with two other brave young men climbed
across the drift and ministered to their wants
No one died durm** tne night, but women and
children surrendered then* lives on the suc-
ceeding Miss Rose dav Young, as a result of of the terror and ladies fatigue. in
hall, frightfully one young bruised.
tho was broken. cut and
Mrs. ?,*alters's Young family had a leg saved, All of Mr.
were
Tougns mvaae rne stnesen rown.
Probablv fifty barrels of whisky were
washed ashore just below Johnstown, and
those men who had lost everything in this
world sought solace in the fiery liquid. So it
was that as early as 6 o’clock last night the
shrieks and cries of women were intermingled
with drunkards’ howls and curses. Wfca*
fact was that worse than anything, trains however, was the
brought hundreds incoming of from Fittsburg with
Ac Slavs and Bohemians toughs in rifling' who joined bodies,
the
deayormg stealing furniture, to insulting control of woman rescuing and en-
assume any
parties bushes that and in tried the to limbs seek of the bodies There under the
trees. was
”o one in authority, no one tc
ake command of even'a citizens’ posse
could it have been organized. A lawless
mob seemed to control this narrow neck of
land that was the only approach to the city
of Johnstown. I saw persons take watches
from dead men’s jackets and brutally tear
finger-rings ruffians also from the hands of women. The
climbed into toe overturned
houses and ransacked the rooms, taking
whatever tbev thought valuable. No one
dared check them in this work, and-eon-
sequently would have the been scene if the was net as had riotous as had ife
In they* toughs not drunk,
sway. fact, became beastly
after a time and were seen lying «rc*and in a
Sleeplng on the Ground.
I walked along the hillside and saw hun¬
dreds of persons lying on the wet grass
ing w/apped in blankets or quilts. It was grow¬
cold and a misty rain had set in. Shelter
was not to be had, and houses on the hillsides
that had not been swept away were literally
packed from top to bottom.' The bare ne¬
cessities of life were soon at a premium and
loaves of bread sold at fifty cents. Fortu¬
nately, burg arrived however, the relief train from Pitts¬
at 7 o’clock. Otherwise the
horrors of starvation would have been added.
All provisions, however, had to be car¬
ried over a rough rocky road a distance of
four miles (as I knew, who had been com¬
pelled to walk it), and in many and' cases they
were seized by the toughs, the people
who were in need of food did not get it. It
may sound strange to say much about the
damage to property, but' it must be re¬
membered that the living are those who now
suffer and aid is asked for the thousands who
are left homeless and without a change of
clothing. losses, The damages, including personal
cannot fall short of $40,000,000.
I learned in Johnstowi% that the Great
Chartiers Steel Works are swept away with
all the valuable machinery. This alone en¬
tails a loss of $2,000,000. One million will
not make the Cambria Iron Works whole.
Rich and poor were served alike by this ter¬
rible disaster. I saw a girl standing in her
bare feet on the river's bank clad in a loose
petticoat and with a sawl over her head. At
first I thought she was an Italian woman, but
her face showed that I was mistaken. She
was the belle of the town —the daughter of a
wealthy Johnstown banker—and this single
petticoat left her, and shawl were not only all that
was but all that was saved from the
magnificent residence of her father. She had
jscaped to the hills not an instant too soon.
Pathetic Incidents,
The sail scenes will never all be written.
One lady told me of seeing her mother crushed
to body pieces carried just off before down her the eyes stream. and the mangled Williani
v r aroer lost six children and saved a babd
about eighteen months old. His wife died
just three weeks a^o. An aged German, his
wife and five daughters below floated Ninevah, down where on their the
house to a point five daughters
house was wrecked. The were
drowned, but the old man and his wife stuck
in a tree and hung there for twenty-four
hours before they could ba taken off.
One of the most pitiful sights of this ter¬
rible disaster came to my notice when the
body of a young lady was taken out of the
Conemaugh River. The woman was ap¬
parently quite disfigured. young, though Nearly her features all the
were terribly
clothing except the shoes was torn off the
body. The corpse was that of a mother, clasped for
although cold in death the woman a
young male babe,* apparently not more than
a year old, tighly inner arms. The little one
was huddled close up to its mother’s face,
who, when she realized their terrible fate,
had evidently raised little the babe the last to her motherly lips to
imprint upon its lips
kiss it was to receive in this world. The sight
was a pathetic one and turned many a stout
heart to tears.
Among the miraculous escapes to De re-
;orded in connection with the great disaster
is that of G-edrge J. Leas and family. He re¬
sided on Iron street, Johnstown. eight When people the
rush of water came there were
yn the roof. The little house swung around
yff its moorings and floated about for nearly
half an hour before it came up against the
bank df drift above the stone bridge. A
threeryear-old cheeks girl with prayed sunny all the golden while hair that
md dimpled would them, it seemed that
God save and
Sod really answered the prayer of this inno-
;ent little girl and directed the house agairst
he drift, enabling Leas every one of little the eight girl to in
jet off. Mrs. carried the
ler arms, and how she got off she doesn’t
mow. Every house around them, she said
vas crushed, and the people either killed or
Irowned.
DEATH’S HaRVFST.
VOLUNTEER AID DISPENSED WITH AND
THE STATE ASSUMES TItS WORK.
Tuesday was (he last clay for clearing
away the effects of the flood at Johns¬
town, Pa., by volunteer authorities. The
state of Pennsylvania takes hold of the
stupendous work of restoring the valley
to the condition before the flood, and
d 1 work done will be under the supbr-
VISIO 1 of Adj’t-Gen. Hastings. Yolun-
t or-, who have so untiringly worked for
tho object of restoring order hive fin¬
ished their self-imposed task. Alter
twelve days of almost superhuman work
by the army of volunteers, the state will
assume its proper place in the work and
do what every citizen of the common¬
wealth lies known for days to be its duty.
A weary aud dreary succ s-sion of rainy
days lince the flood continues and Tues¬
day broke amidst a drizzling rain. With
but a single exception, every day thert
since the deluge has opened with rain,
but wh lc the rain, has nude the work
more disagreeable, it has had some good
results. But for the a’most continuous
rains the river would have become too
low and shallow* to float away tho debris
that is fast being loosened and thrown
into the river. The continued full
stream has rendered the work of getting bridge
the wreckage away from the stone
much less a:citrous and more speedy.
The fumes ari.-ing and from animals decomposed most
bodies of persons are
offensive, and at times almost overpower*
ing. So noticeable has this becomejthat
each gang searching for the dead carries
disinfectants, and when the body is lo¬
cated dm vicinity is thoroughly saturated
with di-infectanls. By this means, tlie
work which otherwise would be unbear¬
able,is less offensive. The horror of the
situation has not diminished, but rathgi
grows. Tne search for the dead contin-
i*cs. and in all sections and directions
bodies are being found. Numbers ol
bodies arc now coming to the surface of
the waters, and those whose work has
made them competent judges been say found as
many more bodies as have
are lying somewhere.
ROBBERS HUNG-
O .c of the most brutal tragedies ever
known iu the history of crime in Ten¬
nessee w.is expiated Wednesday by the
murderous perpetrators, who were hanged
10 a tree by a inob on Wcdnc-dty.
Tuesday evening one week ago; E. Ii.
Reynolds, aged 45, and Thomas J.
Lloyd, aged 21, went to the house of
Rev. Jacob Harness, a Baptist minister,
in Scott county, believing him lo have a
large amount of money concealed in the
house. They icached the house about
midnight on Wednesd iy and demanded
admittance, Rev*. Mr Harness tvas
away from the house, and his wife and a
half-witted son. aged 16, were sleeping
in the saffle room. Mrs. Harness, who
was about fifty years of age, went to the
door and told the men they must leave.
They broke down the door and ru-hed
in. shooting the old lady dead in her
tracks th- fir. t thing, the boy, awak¬
ened by the noise, rushed out at anothei
door. They followed him out, and,
overt iking him, beat him to death with
gardeu hoe. Ihey carried him back
and threw him m the doorway, his^ legs
protruding. They next ransacked the
house, secured $74, and then, to com
up the terrible crime, applied the torch.
Thev were arrested and jsiled at Hunts¬
ville. Both the villains confessed their
crime before they were executed, and
slid thev d<serve) what they gote
A HEFfD.
By the capsizing of a boat in the har¬
bor of Providence, R. L, John Morau,
aged eighteen, James McNiff, nineteen,
and William Hart, Hamilton, sixteen, were
drowned. James McNiff aged eigh¬
teen, was saved. proffered was a assist¬ good
swimmer and declined
ance in favor of Hamilton,
COILS TIGHTENING.
POSITIVE CLEWS REACHED IE
CHICAGO'S MURDER CASE.
8ULL1TAN, THE LAWYER, ARRESTED FOR
CONNECTION WITH CRONIN’S MURDER.
In the Cronin inquest, at Chicago, Ill.,
John C. Garrity, a saloon keeper, testi¬
fied that he was acquainted with Detec¬
tive plicity Coughlin, the under indictment for com¬
in assassination. Witness de¬
clared that Coughlin came to him and
said that ho wanted to hire a tough
character known as “Major” Sampson, to
slug a man. Witness told Sampson
about it, and a few days later Sampson
told him (Garrity) that the man Coughlin
wanted slugged was Dr. Cronin, lie
wanted him slugged with a baseball bat
it and disfigured for life. If it killed him
would not make much difference. J.
D. Haggerty, a railroad cletk, gave the
most important testimony. After the
trial of Cronin, he said, Alexander Sulli¬
van told him that Cronin was a scoundrel
and a menace to the Irish cause. It was
the impression of the witness that Sulli¬
that van was trying to express the opnion
Cronin should be exterminated.
Witness was of the same opinion at that
time. About that time, a circular had
been issued saying that many Scotland
yard detectives had left England for
America to attempt to find out some of
the secrets of the order, and every person
who was a member was on the lookout
for informers. Tim Crane, who has
since died, circulated the statement that
Cronin Was a dangerous man and a
traitor. At that time Sullivan was not
alone in his opinion. LeCaron, who was
a friend of Alexander Siiilivan, whs a
member of the committee which tried
Cronin. He was introduced to witness
by Sullivan at the trial as a man worthy
of confidence in the Irish cause. He was
opposed to Cronin at that time on ac¬
count of the statement of Alexander Sul¬
livan. Chief of Police Hubbard testified
that he asked Woodruff, the horse thief,
what he knew of the Cronin matter, and
if he really was the one who drove the
trunk from the Carlson college. “He
said,” continued the chief, “that he took*
the trunk about midnight on May 4th.
He had beeu given $25 by two men tho
day before to do the job. At 11: 30, on
May 4th, the twro men, according to
agreement, rapped on the door of Dinan’s
stab’e. He opened the door and let out
the horse, with rugs on its feet, ami
hitched it to the w r agon. They then
drove to within one hundred feet of the
Carlson cottage. He was then told to
wait, aud the twro men went into the
cottage. They remained there five min¬
utes and then beckoned him to drive up.
He did so, aud the two men—King
and Fairburu—and a third man
came out with a heavy trunk.
The man was P. O. Sullivan. When
tho trunk was put iu the wagou, Sullivan
returned to the house, and Woodruff,
with King and Fairburu drove out Lin¬
coln avenue to Fullerton avenue, through
to Lincoln park. The men intended to
take the trunk and its contents in a boat
out on the lake and sink them, but ow¬
ing to the bright night and presence of
strangers, they changed their minds and
drove back. When they reached the
man hole at Fi: ty-niuth street, they tried
to they dump lucked the the trunk into it, but failing,
trunk open—they hav¬
ing !o t the key—took the body from it
and threw r it into the man hole. Wood¬
ruff was then told to drive off.
Other evidence was heard and toe coro¬
ner’s jury, after being out five hours and
a half, came into court and Commenced
reading their verdict. listened It was a with very
long document, but was to
marked attention. The verdict charged
thit “Dm Coughlin, P. O. Sullivan, Al¬
exander Sullivan, and one Woodruff,
alias Black, were either princ : pa!s, acces¬
sories, or had guilty knowledge of said
plot to murder Dr. Croniu aud conceal
his body, and should be held to answer
to the grand jury.” The verdict contin¬
ued as follows: “We also believe that
other persons were engaged in this plot,
or had guilty knowledge of it, and should
be apprehended and held to the grand
jury, and we further state that this plot,
in its conception and execution, was one
of the most brutal that ever came to our
knowledge, and w r e recommend that the
proper authorities offer a large reward
for the discovery and conviction of all
engaged in it, any way.” It is stated
that Maroney and McDonald are the
mysterious “Williams brothers” who
rented the Carlson cottage, where Cronin
was murdered, and bought the furniture
for it. That Maroney is a member of the
Camna-Gael executive committee, which
governs the whole organization, and that
iie has been identified by his photograph.
Officers were d spatched to the Alexander
Sullivan’s residence to make arrest.
Luke Dillon was instrumental in bring¬
ing about the arrest of Maroney and
McDonald in New York, on Tuesday. It
is given out that Maroney is suspected of
being the man who drove the buggy
that called for Cronin on tlie night of
the murder. Maroney is a dry goods
merchant. Both are Clan na-Uael men,
and Maroney has been prominent in the
affaiis of that organization. Alexander
Sullivan’s arrest was affected without
the slightest trouble. Before the verdict
was read in public, Coroner Hertz
merged for a moment from the room in
which the jury was in session. He beck¬
oned to an offic-r and handed him a
miteimus. The officer with a comrade
hurriedly left the h H, and jumping iuto
a c irriage drove direct to the residence
of Sullivan, on Oak street. Sullivan had
gone to bed a short time previous, but
after the object of the officers was cx-
plained and information given that he
would not be permitted my time for any
purpose, he promptly and quietly dressed
and unhesitatingly accompanied his vis-
itois Thc prisoner’s demeanor was
calm throughout the entire proceeding.
Entering the carriage, which had brought
the officers, the trio were driven to the
office of the county jail. After the usual
preliminaries,Sullivan was taken through
the cage to the gloomy prison itself.
The ex-preri lent of the Irish National
League of Ante ica was then immediate¬
ly incarceiated in o il N \ 25. in the tier
known a- ‘‘Muram-r’s R »w.”
the pope depressed.
The statue of Bruuo, at Rome, Italy,
was unveiled Sunday in the presence of
many government officers, with imposing
ceremonies. Thrty thousand people
irom all parts of the city marched in
procession. Deputy Bovio, iu a oration,
declared that there was bora a new reli¬
gion of free thought and liberty of con¬
science which would be worse tor tho
pap jcy, than the loss of temporal power.
The proceedings throughout were or¬
derly. The Pope is much
He refused to see anybody, and has
passed three days absorbed in prayer
his private chapel. Four buna red
grams have arrived at the Vatican de-
ploring the unveiling of the Bruno
ument. All the ambassadors
to the Vatican met in the Pope’s
THE GOBILLA.
A Fighter from Way Back, and a
Tough Customer to Handle.
“The gorilla is tho prize-fighter ol
Africa,” said Carl Steckelman, who has
personal knowledge of the Dark Conti¬
nent. He bad been speaking of a leop¬
ard skin on exhibition in his window,
and had been telling of the danger en-
countered in fighting with the original
owner of the skin.
“Contests with all wild animals pah
in comparison with that in which one
must engage in meeting the gorilla,” he
said. “The gorilla is found in only a
comparatively Africa. lurks small portion of western
He in the woods along the
coasts for several hundred miles north
of the mouth of the Congo. I have
never and, by seen a gorilla in the open country,
the way, I think that the fact
that he stays in tho woods accounts for
the fact that he is almost a biped instead
of passing a quadruped. through the You see the reaches gorilla in
forests out
with his long arms, and seizing the
branches of the trees, rises on his hind
legs himself and with walks on them, supporting
his hold on the branches.
Habit has thus almost made an upright
creature of him.
"The gorilla is as brave as brave can
be. The male gorilla docs all the fight¬
ing for the family. If you approach a
pair of gorillas the female will run
screaming through the woods or will
climb the highest tree, uttering all the
while cries not unlike a woman in great
fright. But the male gorilla will come
straight at you. He does not know
wliat fear is. He will fight any number
of men.”
“How do you figlit them?”
“With pistols, It is very unsafe to
trust to a gun or to a poor weapon of any
kind. The gorilla is so tierce ami pow¬
erful that you have but one chance at
him at the best. The woods where lie
is found are so thick that it is impossi¬
ble to see him accurately at any dis¬
tance. If you fire at him as he comes
at you down the tree a limb may turn
the course of the bullet. Before you
can fire a second time ho will be upon
you. He drops from limb to limb and
comes safest at a rapid, swinging pace, The
way is to hold your lire until lie
is at arm’s length and then fire steadily
into him with a pistol.
“The gorilla is easily killed. An
ordinary effect pistol shot will have the same
upon him as it has upon a man.
The hunter’s dang t is in not making
the shot tell, Once I was passing
through the forest with a bodyguard of
natives. The natives are furnished by
the Dutch traders with a miserable gun,
the barrel of which is made of gas pipe.
The natives had learned to be suspicious
of their guns. When they lire at any¬
thing they point in the general the direc¬
tion, pull the trigger, and fling gun
at the object. They throw tlie gu n bc-
cause their they are afraid it will explode in
Well, hands, as it very frequently does.
we dropping came upon a gorilla. A native
saw him from a tree coming
at he us. fired Aiming at missed. the descending He had form,
and not
turned before the grim monster was
upon him. Standing aud throwing iiis
gorilla arms around seized the throat negro’s in his nock manlike the
his
jaws and was crushing the lifo out of
him ball into when him w e canning close and fired a pistol the
at range. But
wounds inflicted were mortal, and tlie
native died in great agony.”
“Are the gorillas numerous in the
stri •ip of country* where they are found <”
“They are scarce. In making that a trip
once unusual. I saw two in one day, but and was
They are The tlie fiercest gorilla in
bravest of animals. male
going into battle sounds a fearful warn¬
ing by beating its breast and giving for
forth sounds that make the dense
est resound, He is a dangerous antag¬
onist, and you are all the time reminded
by ing his with appearance that you are contest¬ man’s
a creature that lias a
faculties and appearance, a giant’s
strength, and a monkey’s agility*.”—
Indianapolis Neics.
Badly In Debt.
The thirteen Southern states, includ¬
ing Kentucky and Mi souri, have funded
debts aggregating $95,858,643, besides
an unfunded debt amounting to $20,000,-
C00 more. Of the Southern states, Ken¬
tucky alone has a sinking fund, nnd in
her case it nerrly covers the small d *l>t
of the state. Three-quarters of the debt
of Texas and about the whole of Mis is-
sippi’i are due to the school funds ol
those states, so that the debt is insig¬
nificant in each case. In round fig¬
ures, $119,000,000 is the aggregate Of
the debts of the Southern states, includ¬
ing the unfunded debt. The remaining
twenty-five states, comprising all those
of the North, the Northwest nnd tin*
Pacific slope, owe lc-s than $18,000,000,
funde i and unfunded, if the amounts in
the several sinking funds are subtracted
from the nominal aggregate. It appears
that ten Southern sta es are loaded with
more thin two-thirds of all the state
debts of the Union.
The Misses Chattaway, for many year*-
the custodians of Shakespe ire’s birth¬
place, and the collection of relics at
Stratford-on-Avon, are soon to resign
iheir post. The number of visitors to
Stratford has grown steadily, until last
year it reached 17,000, and the sisters d >
irot feel strong enough to continue their
duties. They have been custodians 17
years.
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