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A* Accurate Diagram of the Upper Conemaugh Valley, Showing the Lake and HeseiToir, Which Were the Source Of the Unparalleled Inundation.—Secured froth Pennsylvania State Geological Surrey, and kindly loaned us by the Baltimore, Md, HERALD..-gee Key Below, *«•> VI 3 m jo 'J JwTSi <*• •**■-*. * * -S isaffiP* l 1 0 %, ivy r m N X u If m i! Vife 'd’OAf C/?£J4 w ?** CMISl S' $ m Si 4/f / Aj */* Wuif or Covfww iMfi (j Att/et) C1tUort(0* *1 To Ffftfi OtAtfSV/LLt: r#e Town sr T»e ernf doonrr.f Aukud • - . ki:y. •A —Conemaugh Lake and Reservoir (sev¬ g. if* , .-3 eral town), miles whose long broken and 14 dam miles flooded above the. Johns¬ valley. 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. 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