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* the beet and most promising little
(South' It* record for the past
ie, its many new enterprises in oper-'
ilding and contemplated, prove this
nees statement and not a hyper-
___ription.
[that time it hae built and put into
ccesslul operation a ♦100,000 cotton
r and with this year started the wheels
eond of more than twice that capital.
■ put np a large iron and braes foundry,
(liter factory, an immense ice and bot-
; works, a sash and blind factory, a
i factory, opened npthe flnest sind granite
a the United States, now has
« oil mills in more or less advanced
1 capital of over half a million dollars.
( putting np the finest Bystem of electric
; that can be procured, and hae ap-
r tw 0 charters for street railways. It
r railroad ninety miles long,
A while located on the greatest system in
South, the Central, has secured connee-
i with it* important rival/the EaetTen-
, Virginia and Georgia. It has obtain-
t independent connection with Chat-
i and the West, and will break ground
isfew days fora fourth road, connecting
a fourth independent system,
i its five white and four colored church-
| recently .completed Ithas a 110,000 new
Irian church. increased its pop-
a by nearly one filth, vlt has attracted
d its borders fruit growers from nearly
f State in {he Union, until it is now sur-
on nearly every side by-orchards
[ vineyards. It has put up the largest
I In the State. It is the home
ape andits winemakingcapacity has
every year. It has successfully in-
ated a system ohpublic schools, with a
i years curriculu m, second to none,
v This is port of the record of a half decade
* 1 simply ah the of already
ows progress an
able city, with the natural advantages
if having tire finest climate, summer and
r, in the world.
i is the county seat of Spalding coun-
ated in west Middle Georgia, with a
’.fertile and rolling country, 1150 feet
wve sea level. By the census of 1890, it
ill hare at alow estimate between6 000 and
) people, and they are all of the right
-wide-awake, np to the times, ready to
ome strangers and anxious to secure de-
settlers, who will not be any lees wel-
i if they bring money to help build up the
_ There Is about only one thing we
I badly- Just now, and that is a big hotel,
l several small ones, but their accom-
ons are entirely toe limited for our
, pleasure and health seeking guests.
| you ass anybody that wants a good loca-
^n for a hotel in the South, just mention
' Griffin is the place where the Gkiffi.v News
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fin the Empire State of Georgia. Please
i stamps in sending for sample copies,
I descriptive pamphlet of Griffin |
This brief sketch is written April 12th, 1889,
l win have to be changed in a lew months
|s* embrace new enterprises commenced and
upleted,
IPBOFESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
HENRY C. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HAMPTON, GEOBgIa.
C Practise* in all the State and Federal
sorts. octDdiwly
JOHN J. HUNT,
ATTOBNEY AT LAW,
*: *. OBIFFIN, GEOBGIA.
Office, 31 Hill Street, Up Stairs,over 1 H.
White’s Wpk Clothing Store. mar22dAwly
ffiOS. R. MILLS,
ATTOBNEY A^P, LAW,
.Will practice in the State and Federal
Office over George A Hartnett’s
e'novSttf
JOHN U. STEWART. 30BT. T. DANIEL.
STEWART & DANIEL
ITTOBNEYS AT LAW,
Over Qeorge A Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ha.
in the State and Federal
CLEVELAND & GARLAND, *
DENTISTS,
GBimN, : : : r GEOBGIA.
s-——;—-— F a 1_4—j— ? ■ — ■—
D. L PARMER,
lATTOBNEY AT LAW,
WOODBCBT, GEOBGIA. ®
npt attention given to all business! where
I rlteSspecialty, practice in all the Courts, and
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LOOK!
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iff Is Tie Mil Time!
I acres Land in 13 miles of city, lying
condition and hands snfflcient on place
* acres inside dty limits.
“ W limits—good dwelling.
0 ** “ * •• “ « fruits.
I, ^ U H « II •< •<
‘ vacant lot* too numerous to
erty to sell will do well
a‘A fiSssasar
CUNNINGHAM,
later Details of the Disaster at
Johnstown.
—
THE CONEMAUGH TALLEY
Scene of Destitution, Desolation
and Actual Starvation.
THIRTEEN MILES OF RUIN-
Dead Bodies Found by the
Score and Hundreds.
THIEVING HUNGARIANS
8HOT, HANGED AND DRIVEN INTO
THE FLOODS TO PERISH.
NEARLY A 8COKK OF THE HUMAN
COYOTES ALREADY KILLED.
Several. Towns Entirely Swept Out o*
Existence—It Was the Dam's Weakness,
and Not a Water-Spout That Caused the
Catastrophe—The Number of Dead
Placed Everywhere from Eight to
Twenty Thousand—The Lost in Money
Estimated at Over •40,000,000—Unlaw¬
fulness Prevalent '
in Many Places.
Whisky Barrels Fished from the Debris
and the Contents Fought Over by the
Thieving, Drunken —The Town of
Nlnevah Now a City of the Dead.
Pittsburg, June .4.—The horrors of
tlie - appalling oalamity at Johnstown
and beginning in the Conemaugh valley are only
to be realized.
It is still impossible to give an accur¬
ate idea of the "number of the dead. No¬
body places the estimate lower than 14,-
000, and one of the Pennsylvania rail¬
road surgeons says 20,000 will not sur¬
prise him. The positive fact that one
building alone remains in that portion
of Johnstown oalled Woodville, which
had 15,000 inhabitants, is pretty good
evidence that 14,000 is a conservative
estimate.
Hirer Gorged With Dead Bodies.
At cute point neat JWbnstown theCon-
nearly 400 down bodies the-Conemaugh found by river, ten
were
that occupants of the only two houses in
vicinity. t
4 Plague Predicted.
The horrible stench of decaying
bodies perv ades the air at Johnstown,
and it is predicted that when the waters
have entirely forth receded epidemic and the will hot June seize
sun comes an
upon the survivors who may remain in
the vicinity. In dty weather the scarcity
of water is no more apparent at any
other town in America than it is in
Johnstown.
The Less Not Lem Than •40,000,000.
The work of reviewing the living and
dead lias so engrossed the attention of
the public that the question of the finan¬
cial loss has been neglected.'
personal The damage losses, cannot to property, fall short including of $40,-
000 , 000 .
I heard in Johnstown that the great
Char tiers steel works are swept away,
with all valuable machinery. This alone
entails a loss of $2,000,000.
It will amount to several millions,
even for the Cambria Iron company
alone. It is even a matter of serious
doubt whether, the company wfli re¬
build, and it is known that the cost of
rebuilding repairing what would remains. not surpass The the Cambria cost of
Iron company had the biggest iron and
steel mill in America, and it was the
support of the town. . Its mill extended
for a distance of a mile along the Penn¬
rebuild, sylvania railroad Johnstown tracks. If it does well not be
may as
blotted from the from the have map. lost The tradespeople their entire
town
stock. Their books are washed iway,
and probably xi.— the major a their their j or part long lonj of - homes. their
customers are gone to >
There Wm No Water-Spout.
The cause of the calamity, it is admit-
L Conemaugh lai
of the dam alone. No cloud burst or
water-spout frailty Of the occurred dam and .to the compel tremendous it—the
pressure of the water behing was the
only cause of the catastrophe.
The Club May Have to Pay Damages.
It is reported that the Sportsman as¬
sociation, which owned the South Fork
dam, was bond compelled of $3,QQ0;000 to file an before indei their
fying charter issued. When the lull
was
ting these privileges was before 4he
legislature the the representatives repn from
Cambria and d Blair Blair counties eoi * * .itissaid. rigorously
gave way < ■■■I___.... icomfition that such an in-
demnifying bond should be filed. This
bond was to be filed with the protho-
natorr of Cambria oounty;
Father Boyle, of Ebensburg, said
records at the oounty seat had no traoe
of such a bond. He found the record of
the charter but nothing about the bond.
Tony Keating and other membere of
the association went to Ebensburg Sun¬
day to examine their records. As the
association is known to be is oomposed much talk of
very wealthy wV^ii^topTyatw being people, compelled there to
of their ]
a part of f the the damages. damages.
The South Fork Fishing Club.
jSSSSKSg Their handsome cottages and dub
houses now stand on the brink erf an
enormous _ rity, took five three miles long, Id build two
miles ^eep. It It years and
the <lam which ch burst burst Friday, sev-
vairin Canal company, which utilized
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. WEDNJ MO] fG, JUNE 5.1889.
lake and surrounding ground and made
it the moet exclusive resort in Amerioa.
Vast wealth did not gain admission
unless-it was hereditary. Milli onaires
who did not satisfy every member of the
dub might cry in vain for admission.
No amount of money oould secure per¬
mission to wilfnot stop over night at the dub's
hotel. It dare rebuild the dam.
Public sentiment would prevent it and
the inhabitants of the surrounding
country would certainly resort to mob
violence.
Bo it may be set down that the club
has disbanded forever. It is an awful
cloud hanging over these men, and they
fed it tembly at the present time, al¬
though they are only remotely responsi-
The dam was pronounced \y its
builder, the late o^sino^S^amiea Gen. James K. More-
hsTand C
twice a month by competent engineers.
Aside from the losses already indi¬
vania cated, railroad that sustained must reach .by far the in Pwrasyl- the mill¬
ions, Pittsburg probably railroad exceeding riots o*1877, that another of the
terrible event prominent in the history
of legheny western county Pennsylvania. had to But the then mfijor Al¬
portion of the Ipss. This pay time Provi¬
dence is alone to answer, unless there %b
something to the talk of damage and
criminal suits against the South Fork
club, but this may untangled. disappear when the
wreck has been
The Swath of Death.
the The Conemaugh mighty wave valley that rushed Friday through
on ©Ven¬
ning cut a swath of death thirteen miles
long. thickly In iteway'lay ’■ * one “ of the most
stone st
the time
broke, houses in were whirl rolling, over one
another a mad as they were
carried by the seething waters down the
gorge between the endlbss hills. At
Johnstown the whole center of the city
was out as if a mammoth scythe had
passed overland. <•
of At that Pennsylvania place was a Railroad large stone bridge
the company,
one of the strongest that that company
owns. The Conemaugh river this is crossed
by houses, it at an and angle. fences Into that angle down
trees came
to the left side of the river rushed and
were piled one on top of another until the
arches under of the the Conemaugh bridge were closed, changed the
current was until
the wreckage and timbers began to projeoted pile on high above the
rafters
stone. Then the ■ houses, H nearly all
crowded with people, crashed one after
another until this terrible fc wreokage ex¬
tended a half mile up the stream. No
pen can tell the horror of the shrieks of
thousands who were in the mass of
floating rain.
HUNGARI AN PLU NDERERS.
Sixteen of the Fiends Deceive the Fate
they Justly Deserve.
- BwBfc a wM Dtoh Axwra — Mws Hun '
garians into the Conemaugh mar kept at
Kerinrille, there Monday until all morning, and drowned.
them
ings. Sheriff Dick says'that he will
stand no more nonsense of this kind,
and will shoot, hang, or drown <
Hungarian in Cambria oounty, but
he will put a stop to their fiendish
iessmess.
of Pittsburg, shot a
Hungarian the caught telegrams robbing received, a corpse. the
From and drowning
lynchings, these shootings, reach the total of sixteen of
fiends
since Sunday.
Ghouls Punished by
Hungarians Sunday evening noticed
their were
ing way along the
Conemaugh oftheir toward Bang several Hollow. farmers Sus¬
picious armed themselves purpose, and started in pursuit
Soon their most horrible fears
realized Lying upon the shore they
came upon n the ■■■ dead .. and mangled body
of a woman upon whose person there
were a number diamond of rings. trinkets In their of jewelry
and two eager¬ Hun¬
ness to secure into the plunder squabble, the during
garians whioh got of their number a severed the
one
finger upon which were -the rings, and
started on a ran with his of fearful the prize. deed
wrought The revolting the nature pursuing farmers, who so
by this time up close at hand, that
were
they gave immediate chase. Some of
fight, the Hungarians but being outnumbered showed a disposition were to
com¬
pelled to flee for their lives. Nine of
the brutes escaped, but four were literal¬
ly driven into the surging river and to
their death. The inhuman been described monster
whose atrocious act has
was among the number of the yt volun¬
tary suicides.
Nat * Vestige of Some Villages Left,
The towns of Wood vale and Cone-
maugh borough, above the face Johnstown, of the earth are
swept as cleanly off
as if they had never had an existence.
Of the first named town not a house is
left standing. souls barely Out of half a population dozen have of
13,000 accounted far. Of these a Joseph T.
been of
Braoken, with one his children, swam
all the wot down the stream to a point
beyond Johnstown, His where they suc¬
ceeded in landing. daughters mother-in-law, lost
one son and two are
Bad as his case is, it appears one of the
most fortunate of the m-fated town.
Mineral City Wiped Out
Mineral City, six miles above Johns¬
town, is entirely wiped out It had
abont 200 inhabitants.
It is said that fully 100 bodies
sir> evening in a a sort erf pocket
Pennsylvania railroad signal
tower at Sang Hollow, where it was ex¬
pected there would be a big find.
A. resident of Mineral Point soys that
thffie is no doubt that the South Fork
dun broke and caused the flood. -He
says that pieces of the bridge and other
fragments erf the dam ware carried down
stream, ! wT Mg— *~* -*
<t
that point Sweep.
A Clean
A tour of the valley east of Johnstown
station shows that tn6 entire region is
cleaned out just as if it tod been swept
with a mammoth broom. Houses, sta¬
bles, street lamps, railroad tracks—every¬
thing comedown is gone. the The valley frightful took all torrent with
that against the
it and pushed it forward
doomed city of Johnstown. *
The Orent Fire at the Drtfig e.
Shortly after 1
mMIHk
stout hearted i r in agony
at their ■
SgjjiT /gruesome J .■SKttft stream, the odors air
came so great t ms in the vioin-
ity were farced Stheplaoo. balk
Meanwhile the ( it of houses
had gone down «» right i»»k.
One mad rash areas
the stone brid„ itss
The ».«d *d as Thick m Files.
On the south h side of Johnstown where
rammers are at work are betwarn 300
and 600 bodies. The bodies are lying
among the mass of wrecked buildings as
thick as flies. * **» *
A CITY OF rue. DEAD. ,
The Entire Town of Nlnevah Filled With
Nineveh is literally a city of the dead.
The entire place is filled with ooiqNses.
At the depot oyer 100 corpses are piled
up and boxed. On the streets coffin
boxes cover tie sidewalks. In the im¬
Devoe provised have undertaking shops Sampson A
embalmed and placed in
their shrouds 193 persona At every
place thick there were flowers the dead in in strewn around
as Most of the as bodies a ^balm^ a a conservatory. 1 Sunday
e
night the morning had been by taken the n people out of _ the Ninevah, river in
at
who worked incessantly night and day
searching the river.
Meetly Women and Children.
The bodies when found were placed in
a for-hourse wagon, frequently twelve
at a time, and driven up to Robert
near Ninevah the fully thfcfourths are
women and rest children, but few
men being found there.
The Dead M*t Rapidly Swelling.
one row at the planing mill were
children’s bodies awaiting em-
had been < in so as
to destroy three diamond her features. rings. ....... The her hand is
were cry
now for more coffins, as the death list is
mounting up appallingly.
The State Board of Health.
Members of the state board of health
have arrived in Ninevah and determined
river to prooeed to dean at it once of the to dead dredge out the
and prevent
the spreading of disease, .To this end
they have wired the state department to
furnish them with the proper appli¬
ances town. They have taken charge or the
.
Water Like a Solid Wall.
f
The ..... given twenty the
sent warning from South Fork
was
•eight Agent Deokert
The Warning Unheeded.
When the great wall that held the
body of water began to crumble at the
top he sent a messagi
essagos have
been sentdown at each flood since the
lake was made. The he warnings so often
proved useless that it little attenf tion ‘ was
paid to it this time. .,
The Fire the Crowning Horror.
The fire in the drift about the railroad
bridge is still burning fiercely, and will
continue to do so for several days. The
road depot bridgelBB full of dead,’all of whom
is
have been identified except five. The
fire was at first looked upon as a crown¬
ing horror, but it may turn out a bless¬
ing, as it will destroy a vast area of
debris that it would otherwise take
months to get out of the road.
» Under Control.
Later— The fire in the drift above
the bridge is under control and is being
rapidly smothered to the Pittsburg fire¬
men in charge of the work.
Under Martini Law.
A temporary martial government has
been established over the ruined city of
Johnstown under the adjutant general
of Pennsylvania, assisted by the military
companies from Pittsburg and volunteer
officers. Attempts at disorder and vio-
marauders have been lynched and shot
■■■■i to death, Hlthmrworkof for of the people in d the solemn
i I .—i succor > and
haven’t .. the „ ...... patience
rescue to wait the
tedioqs prooess of the law.
The Area of th* Flooded Region.
The area of disaster from floods floods ii is ex-
tended considerably other what was
sense ise • of ap-
valley o(f dties
in the the Cumberland,__
Shenandoah, the Juniata and the Upper
Potomac, that have been cut off from
communication with the outside world
since last Thursday, shall be heard from
again. Vanished. F
Large Building*
Here are a few facts that will show the
geographical outlines of the terrible dis-
The hotel Hurlburt, of Johnstown, a
rooms, massive has three-story varnished. There building of in 100 it
were
seventy-five guests at the time of the
flood. Two only are known to be alive.
The Merchants’ hotel is leveled How
yet many were has inside been is not who known, but from as
no one seen came
there car heard erf an inmate escaping. ,
Forty-One Locomotive*.
At the Conemaugh round house forty-
one locomotives were swept ^ down the
stream, and I * " * *
stone had been bridge a their boilers.
-------rn torn from It is
almost impossible in this great catas¬
trophe to go more into details.
Saturday Waa Pay-Day.
the Satfirday pambna would Iron have work*. beenpay-day The mohey, at
3TKS. a no mom
•80,000, was drawn from from the. " * bank *
wasriaced on
Friday evening and was office. Bias! It in is still the t
r a
there and is a .. _ Jtefl*
many prof e and amateur thieves
who are on
tTnlaWftilx>«si f|ot
If ever military aid was needed, now
is the time. The
5»to
I on. They large can quantities beoonatant- of
seen cany
‘“SftS&X markable. "Whisky A»ta a -
plenty. Men actually seems marvelously carrying
are n
around ip pails. Barrels of the stuff
are constantly located among the drifts,
and men are scrambling over each other
and fighting like wild beftste in their
.mad search for it
To Rollevo the Suffering.
toss thousands that are now exposed to
the elements in the desolated region are
earnestly of called responding for. Meetings the call tor have the
purpose to
bodies Something decently decently must taken taken be done to of.” of. get The the
with the care care smell of
caying re bodies. reeking At the edge of the i
ruins the body body Of Of alargeoolored large very colored woman,
> a a
in An advanced stage of decomposition,
is lyisg like the body of an animal.
Attempted Bank Robbary
On Saturday night an attempt link wab
made to rob the First National all
of which except the vaults <had been
destroyed. The thieves were discovered
by ensued. the citizen’s Six erf patrol, the and scoundrels a lively chase
were
shot, but it is not known whether any
were killed or not, as their bodies would
have such been had washed been the away immediately The natural it
ease.
gas has been shut off and no fire is
allowed in the town.
AN ENGINE’S RACE,____
The Wonderful Flight and Escape of an
Engineer and Conductor.
H. M. Bennett and S. W. Skilts, en¬
gineer and freight conductor which of happened engine No. to 1185, be
an extra
lying broke, at tell South graphic Fork story vraeu of their the dam
a won¬
derful flight and escape on the locomo¬
tive before the advancing flood.
At the time mentioned Bennett and
Skilts point waiting were on carders. the signal The tower fireman at that and
flagman were on the engine caboose. and two
brakemen were asleep iff the
They Heard a Roar.
Suddenly the men in the tower heard
a loud booming looked in the direction
of the sound and were almost transfixed
with horror to black see, two miles above
them, a huge, wall of water,,at
least valley 100 feet them. in height,ruahmg down the
upon
One Look wa* Enough.
Only one look the fear-stricken they men
gave rushed tiie for awful the locomotive, sight, and at then the
same
time giving the alarm to the sleeping
brakemen in the caboose, but with no
avail. It was impossible tp aid them
wrench, threw the
open and away darted the engine on
mad race for life.
They Saw the Deluge.
approaching Then they in could its see might- the awful As the deluge
men
on the the flying two engine brakemen looked rush behind out to they the
saw
slightest cab, but they had not time to gather the
idea of the cause of their
doom. The ear men and signal tower
.Were tossed high in the air and disap¬
peared ir. tiie engulfing water.
* An Exciting Race.
hnman Thi^engine creature leaped sped forward down the like val¬ a
ana
ley. But it fast Hope, as it however went the flood gained the
upon ascendant, for, if the engine was cotfld in be
got across the small below bridge would over Johns¬
town the track lean toward
the hillside.
Death Ahead aad Behind.
In a few breathless moments the
shrieking locomotive whizzed around
the curve aad Was in sight It of 01 the Uie bridge. Dndge.
Horrors I Ahead stood a fre’^' freight engine,,
with the rear end almost on on the bridge!
Engineer Bennett then i reversed the
lever and succeeded in cheeking his en¬
gine as it glided across the bridge.
Saved.
When TIUCU it came W to a ** stop,, MO he and his M
companion jumped and ran np to to ti; the
hillffide locomotive as the bridge they had and just the tender left of <
the we were
swept swept away away into into the the current current like like a
bundle bundle of c matches.
A A Train Conductor’* Story.
The There rumor to tte effect that the day
express a the Pennsylvania railroad
MPwjMflHHHHVIPIBMVMRPRPB which left Pittsburg on Friday morning
had been wrecked and overflowed, neat
Johnstown, has been confirmed by the
conductor, S. E BelL To the writer
Conductor Bell gave the following ac¬
count of the disaster:
“When we arrived at Conemaugh on
Friday we heard of the washout at
Lilly’s, lay just at above Conemaugh us. We until were ordered further
to over
orders. At 8:45p. m. 0 ragi ng^ toreent
I H HQI place. the laitor The til
the „„ middle of the train, turned
were
over and thrown from the track.
“As the coach rolled down the em¬
bankment at the side of the track we
noticed two men climb out of the car
window cm the roof The car turned
over again and again and still they were
seen on top, but after the third time we
saw them no more. It is impossible to
tell how many persons were lost the! on the
train. I didn’t go through con
after we lef Johnstown.”
IT TOOK A* HOUR
For the Water of the Great Dam to Moko
. It* Etcape. ..............T;
The dam broke in the center at 3
o’clock on Friday afternoon, and at 4
o’clock it was dry. The great body of
water passed out in one hour. Messrs.
Park and Van Barm, who are building
a new draining system at the lake, tried
*to avert tile disaster by digging a sluice
way on one side to ease the pressure cm
the dam. They had about forty men at
workond they did all they amid with¬
out avail.
foot The above water its passed top, over beginning the dam at about about
a
half past 0 Whatever happened in the
way of a cloud burst took place during
rain the night. to There dark. had When been the but workmen little
woke np in the morning the lake
v^ up tim wax
fuH Mdw» rising at rate of a
It Ireptwa rising until at 3 o’clock it
thratior
the ravine.
A farmer who escaped said that the
water water did did not come down like a wave,
BfttWtotKUS*
Great Low of Bridges.
Friday the Pennsyvania night it was railroad said every between bridge
on
Harrisburg and Altoona, a distance of
long four miles bridge this over side the of I
, ,
SpsiXssJS motives are in the debris at Johnstown,
a gigantic item in the loss aooouni
No Slghteeer* Wanted.
Pittsburg The following by the telegram citizens’ was oommtttee: sent to
“For God’s sake tell the sightseers to
keep away from Johnstown few the pres¬
ent, What we want is people ‘ ’
not to look on. ”
A Cold Woto.
A small oold wave has struck Johns¬
town, and the people are badly in need
possibility to g et anythin g to eat
WASHING TON F LOODED.
The National Conltel Almost COT Off’hjr
Water.
Washinoton, June 4.—Senator Gor¬ I
man, who was for many years at the.
head of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
oompany, said Monday that the flood
would ment of undoubtedly the canal. The cause canal tiie abandon¬ from
ran
Cumberland, Md., to W>
brought and a serious great deal competitor of tiie raii-
was a j of
prevented her of people Washington from having has not i
floods a
deep No mails interest have in been toe received and from disaster. the
west i since - ' Friday " morning, have been and circuitous the tele-
- -
ig. Communication with
the south has also been cut off. Balti¬
more, still in Philadelphia reach by rail and and New lightering, York but are
those cities have been almost as poverty-
stricken in information about toe dis¬
asters c?sx“5SrK by water as Washington. a .sr^^
Pennsylvania in the rush of railroad waters had and bee®-caught destroyed,
md among the passengers losing toeir
lives were ex-Postmaster General Hat-
A bulletin was received Sunday even-
rauroau omciaxs sut
Virginia Midland come reports of the
destruction of bridges and washouts
broken and the service south and west
is badly crippled.
Johnatnwn to be Rebuilt. '''
j
ident Johnstown, md Director Pa, June 4.~Vioe Pres¬
James McMillen, of
the Cambria Iron ton oompany, nifJStjlncalculable, says their
lore has been well w<
and while it has • entered" entered into into their their reve» reve.
nues, couraged, they but are will not daunted nor dis¬
work of clearing at the once rains begin of their tiie
mills preparatory up to rebuilding md
pairing tiieir re¬
works. They will also im¬
mediately works, which rebuild the Gautier iron
was obliterated by tiie
flood. This is the disposition of all the
others. A dozen of the business men
said: said: "True . pluck survives. Our
pockets happens a are light but, if nothing more
all of u* will be in business
again.”
Forty of Thirty-*!* Plttabarger* Drowned.
Pittsburg, June 4.— J. G. Gill and
thirty-five men started in all a wagon to got
up the mountain, md were drowned
by Gus the torrent McHugh, which overtook engineer them.
Pennsylvania an on to©
railroad, who lived in
rushed Conemaugh, down was the asleep valley. when the wife torrent
His was
away from home at the time Her hus¬
band and four children were drowned.
panted AdjtGm. ahII. by urei fl Axline. of Ohio, aoeom-
Fork, Pittsburg 6
with i 900 I tents,
- _
ter 6,000 perso ns.
The
field, Washington, acting June 4.— Gen. _____
secretary of war, has asked
Governin' Beaver, by telegraph, what
the sufferers war by department the floods 6an in Pennsylvania. Jo to aid the
He says toe department has no tents,
all toe extra ones having been sent to
Charleston daring tiie earthquake aud
have never been returned.
A Baby’* Perilous Trip.
Pittsburg, June 4.—John Crimes,
while searching amid the debris into©
Allegheny baby snugly opposite resting Verona, in its came across
a cradle. It
had floated a long distance on its
perilous trip, and had a most miraculous
escape.
Arrangement* Made.
Pittsburg, June 4.—A. J.
ident of the relief com
’ arranged for relief a storage funds and andt
i a
_
i be se nt direct to Johnstown.
At Williamsport.
Sunbubt, Pa, June 4.—It is now said
that thirty pereons lost thei **
Williamsport while they war---" by tiie * collapse 8 <
being earned!
mas
'
•fooot ah
toSlitilost ■*'
■division •lvanii snp
to f
left this e
its disaster.
says; "An
a scale of
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burg and Ctoctenatt
Soldier Thompson suicided
at the Columbus ‘
Unknowns e
Joel Daub, of
»<*
Three children were drov
the Oleutragy, near C
At Welisvilie, N.
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eorad himself to death 8
tone unsuccessful attempts.
At Vincennes, 1
irXEXo. serican house, toss *4,000. No
Henry A. F ‘
day 1
ofJa
% raco war has broken out _
Gretna, La, the whites stoning toe a
employes of the Union Oil oompany,
they wanted discharged.
inln^wUh 0 " glrr ‘ ^ ^
kick, while’to w_ ----
iDsilinff school brofefi t
The c
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by some _
* “Harrr will
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T IjOumrllm ___■ : pr mQu
was toe
her husband i
suicide. Neig
The first case under!
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vO LOO I t* 1 IrtRlU
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