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TRUE CITIZEN -EXTRA.
Were Found in Pennsylvania
by Over 8,000 People,
Some Rich Sportsmen Bnilt a Dam
and it Gay;
fire
ADDED HORROR
THE SCENE.
TO
robbers of the dead
HtfNG TO THE TREES.
Coffins
being- Sent to the Spot by
Train Loads.
The raging storms that 1 ave prevailed
through Pennsylvania during the past
few days, have resulted in an appalling
loss of 1 t'e near Pittsburg. The seine of
the terrible disaster is at Johnstown, Pa.,
in Cambria county, on the Balt,more &
Ohio Railroad and the Connemangh
River. Two and a Iialf miles northeast
of the town is a reservoir owned by a
rich fishing club. It is the largest res
ervoir in the United States, being three
and a half miles long and from one to
one and a half miles wide. Its depth in
some places is 100 feet. It holds more
water than any other reservoir, natural
or artificial, in the United States. The
lake has been quadrupled In size by arti
ficial means and was held in check by a
dam Irom 700 to 1,000 feet wide. It
is 00 feet in thickness at the base and
the height is 110 feet. The top has a
breadth of over 20 feet. Recognizing
the menace which the lake had to the
region below, the South Fork Club had
the dam inspected once a month by the
Pennsylvania Railroad civil engineer,
and an investigation showed that noth
ing less than some convulsion of Nature
would tear the barrier away and loosen
the weapon of death. The steady rains
increased the volume of water in all the
mountain streams which were already
swollen by the lesser rains early in the
week. It is now believed a cloud-burst
must aave been the culmination of the
struggle of the water against the embank
ment. The course of the torrent from
the broken dam at the foot of the lake
to Johnstown is almost 18 miles, and
with the exception of at one point, the
water passed through a narrow Y-shaped
valley. Four miles below the dam lay
the town of South Fork, where the
South Fork river itself empties into the
Connemaugh river. The town had about
2,000 inhabitants, and nearly all the in
habitants were drowned. Four miles
further down, on the Connemaugh river,
was the town of Mineral Point. It had
800 inhabitants, ninety per cent, of the
houses being on a fiat close to the river
and lew escaped. Six miles further
down was the town of Connemaugh, and
here alone was there a topographical pos
sibility of the spi ending of the flood and
the breaking of its force. It contained
2,500 inhabitants and was almost wholly
devastated. Woodvale, with 2,000 peo
ple, lay a mile below- Connemaugh, in
the flat, and one mile further down were
Johnstown and its cluster of sister towns,
Cambria, Bolivar and Connemaugh bor
ough with a total population of 510.000
on made ground. Stretched along right
at the river’s verge were the immeme
iron works of the Cambria Iron & Steel
Co., who have $5,00'.),0(.0 invested in
their plant. Besides this there are many-
other large industrial establishments on
the bank of the river, the damage to
which cannot be estimated.
The town of Florence is fourteen miles
from Johnstown, the principal scene of
the desolation. John McCartney, a car
penter, who lives in Johnstown, and es
caped, says that the people had been
warned early in the morning to
move to the highlands, but they did
not heed the warning, although it was
repeated a number of times up to 1
o’clock, when the water poured into
Cinder street several feet deep. Then
the houses began rocking to and fro, and
finally the force of the current carried
buildings across the streets and vacant
lots and dashed then against each other,
breaking them into fragments. These
buildings were freighted with the poor
wretches who so shortly before had
laughed at the cry of danger, and hun
dreds found a watery grave in a few mo
ments.
Th- tid.d wave struck B divar just af
ter dark and the waters spread out over
the whole country. Soon houses began
floating down, and clinging to the debris
were men, women and children, shriek
ing for aid. A large number-of citizens
at once gathered on the county bridge,
nnd they weie teinforced by a number
from Garfield town on the opposite side
of the river. They brought a number of
ropes and these were thrown over into
the boiling waters, as persons drifted by
in effort to save some of the poor beings.
For half an hour all efforts were fruitless
until at 1 -st when the rescuers were about
giving up all hope, a little boy asiride a
shingle ro >f managed lo catch hold of a
rope. He caught it under his arm and
was thrown against an abutment, but
managed to keep hold and was success
fully pulled on to the bridge, amid the
cheers of the onlookers. His name was
Hessler, and his rescuer was a train hand
named Cirney. The boy was about six
teen years old. He said: “With my
father, I was spending the day at my
grandfather’s house in Cambria City. In
the house at the time were Theodore,
Edward, John Kurtz, Jx., and wife, Mils
Mary Kurtz, Treazy Kurtz, Mrs. R.
Smith, John Hersch and four children,
my father and myself. Shortly after 5
o clock there was tlie noise of roaring
waters and f creams of people. We
looked out doors and saw persons run
ning. My father told us to never mind,
as the water would not rise further. But
-oon we saw houses being swept away
and then wc ran up to the floor abeve.
The house was three stories and we were
at last forced to the top one. In my
fright I jumped on a i.ed. It was an
old-fashioned one with heavy posts. The
water kept rising and my bed was soon
x.iloat. Gradually it was lifted up. The
air in the loom giew close and the house
was moving. 8till the bed kept rising
and preyed the ceiling. At iast the
ports pushed the plaster. It yielded and
a section of the roof gave way. Then
suddenly I found myself on the roof and
was I eing carried down the stream
After a little this roof commenced to
part, and I was afraid I was going to be
drowned, but just then another house
with a shingle roof floated down until
nearly dead with cold, I was freed from
the house. I did not see my father. My
grandfather was in a tree, but he must
have been drowned, as the waters were
rising fast. John Kurtz was also
tree. Miss Mary Kurtz and Mrs. Mary
Kurtz I saw drowned. Miss Smith was
also drowned. John Hirsch was in
tree, but the four children were drowned
'1 he scene was terrible. Live bodies and
corpses were floating down with me, and
away from me I would hear persons
shriek and then they would disappear,
and all along the line people were trying
to save u-, but they could do nothing,
and only a few were caught.” This
boy’s s'orv is but one incident, and show
what happened to one family. God
only knows what happened to hundreds
who were in the path of the rushing wa
ters.
The accumulation of buildings which
were swept by the angry waters to the
Pennsylvania bridge at Johnstown piled
up fully fiity feet high, were burned to
the water’s edge on Saturday. Before
the buildings toftk fire many persons,
dead and alive, were taken from them.
Some of the tin fortunate s were wedged
in so tight it was necessary to chop their
legs off to release them. The Catholic
church was destroyed by fire. A number
of people were on the roof when the
structure took fire, and all of them were
consumed in the flames. The damage,
as yet, is inestimable, regardless of th
loss of life. Tlie Pennsylvania Railroad
loss will be enormous; an official report
of the damage done to the railroad prop
erty is very great. Much of the track,
rails, ties and are carried away. From
Lang Hollow comes the report that the
first reports of loss of life were entirely
too low. It is believed now that fully
8,000 persons have perished. Of these
700 or 800 were burned in the fiery fur
nace at the viaduct. Two thousand cof
fins have been ordered for bodies already
rescued at that point.
Charles Luther, a boy, stood on an ad
jacent elevation and saw the whole flood.
He s iid he heard a grinding noise far up
the valley, and looking up he could see
a dark line growing slowly toward him.
H e saw that it was houses. On they
come like the hand of a giant clearing
off his table. High in the air would be
tossed a log or a dam, which fell back
wilh a crash. Down the valley it moved
slowly, and across the little mountain
city. For ten minutes nothing but mov
ipg_ houses was seen, and then the water
came with roar and rush. This lasted
for two hours, and then it began to flow
more steadily.
The pillaging of houses in Johnstown
was something awful to contemplate and
describe. Men armed themselves with
shot guns and revolvers, and woe to
strangers who looked even suspiciously
at any article. Goods of great value
were sold in Johnstown for a drink of
whiskey. A supply store has been estab
lished in Jownstown. A line of men
women and children extending for a
square waited patiently to have their
supplies granted. The school house h s
been converted in!o a morgue, and the
dead are being buried. A hospital has
bocn opened near by, and is full of pa
tients.
Just as the shadows began to fall upon
the earth Saturday night, a party of thir
teen Hungarians were noticed stealthily
picking their way along the banks of the
Connemaugh towards Sang Hollow. Sns-
liicious ot. their purpose, several farmers
armed themselves and started in pursuit.
Soon their most horrible fears were real
ized. The Hungarians were out for plun
der. Lying upon the shore they came
upou the dend and mangled body of a
woman, upon whose person there were a
number of trinkets of jewelry aud two
diamond rings. In their eag<rnes3 to
secure the plunder, the Hungarians got
into a squabble, during which one of the
number severed the fingers upon which
were the rings, and started on the run
with his f arful prize. The revolting na
ture of the deed so wrought upon the
pursuing farmers, who by this time were
close at hand, that they gave immediate
chase. Some of the Hungarians showed
fight, but being on'numbered were com
pelled to flee for their lives. Nine of the
■biutes escaped, but four were literally
driven.into the. surging river, and to
their death. Tlie inhuman monster
whose atrocious act has been described,
was among the number of involuntary
suicides.
In another incident which has just
been brought to notice, an old railroader,
who had walked from Sang Hollow,
stepped up to a number of men who were
congregated on the platform stations at
Curranville, and said: “Gentlemen,had
I a shotgun with me half an hour ago, I
would now be a murderer, yet with no
fear of ever having to suffer for my crime.
Two miles below here I watched three
men going along the banks stealing jew
els from the bodies of the dead wives and
daughters of the men who have been
roblied of all they held dear on earth.”
He had no sooner finished the last sen
tence, than five burly men, with looks of
terrible determination written on their
faces, were on their way to the scene of
plunder, one with a coil of rope over his
shoulder, and another with a revolver in
his hand. In twenty minutes, so it is
s'ated, they had overtaken two of their
victims, who were in the act of cutting
pieces from the ears and fingers from the
bands of the bodies of two dead women.
With the revolver leveled at the scoun
drels, the leader of the posse shouted:
“Throw up your hands, or I’ll blow your
heads off.” With blanched faces and
trembling forms, they obeyed the order
and begged for mercy. They were
searched t and as their pockets were
emptied of their ghastly finds, the indig
nation of the crowd intensified,and when
the bloody finger of an infaut, encircled
with two tiny go.d rings, was found
among the plunder in the leader’s pocket,
aery went up: “Lynch them! lynch
them!” Without a moment’s delay ropes
were thrown around their necks, and
they were dangling to the limbs of the
tree, in the branches of which, an hour
before, was entangled the bodies of a
dead father and son.
Johnstown is a desolate sea of mud, in
which there are interred the remains of
many human bodies. It was once a
hands', me portion of the town. The cel
lars are filled up with mud, so that the
person who has never seen the city can
hardly imagine that houses ever stood
where they did. Streets, solidly built
up with houses, have been swept away.
Nothing but a small two-story framed
house remains. It wa3 near the edge of
the wave, and thus escaped. One side
was taken up, and it hangs to one side,
making a picture of misery. The walk
up to the wrecks of the houses was in
terrupted in many places by small streams.
Occasionally, across the flats could be
seen the remains of the victims. The
stench arising from the mud is sickening
to the extreme degree. Along the route
were strewn tin utensils, pieces of ma
chinery, iron, pipes, wares of every con
ceivable kind of store. Whole house*
had been swept down Main street and
become lodged. Wreckage is piled high
as the second story windows. The re
porters could look from the wreck into
the auditorium of the opera house. The
ruins consists of parts of houses, trees,
logs and reels from the wire factory.
Many houses have their side w'alls and
roofs torn up, and one can walk directly
into what has been second-story bed
rooms, or go in by way of the top. Fur
ther up town a raft of logs lodged in the
sireet, and did great datnagq. At the
commencement of the wreckage, whi ch
is at the opening of a valley,of the Conne
maugh, one can look up the valley for
miles and not see a house. Nothing
stands but an old wooden house.
When Superintendent Pitcairn tele
graphed to Pittsburg Friday night that
Johnstown was annihilated, he came very
close to the facts in the case, although
he hud not seen the ill-fated city. Tue
loss of life is simply die tdful. The most
conservative people declare that the num
ber will reach 5,000. Every hour or so,
forces of men working on various heaps
of debris, find numbers of bodies
buried in the wreckage. It is believed
that when the flames are extinguished in
the wreckage at the bridge and the same
is removed,that hundreds aud hundreds
of victims will be discovered. Up to
nine o’clock Sunday night 180 bodies
had been embalmed at Nineveh, and
there is a report that 200 more have been
discovered half buried in the mud on an
island between New Florence and the
place named. Hundreds of men, women
and children are sleeping on the hillsides
under tents that were sent from Pitts
burg and other places.
Adjutant-General Hastings, National
Guard of Pennsylvania, assumed charge
of Johnstown on Sunday. Nothing is
legal unless it bears his signature. One
effect of this systematic work is making
itself felt. One town is guarded by
Company H of the 6th regiment. Spe
cial police are numerous, and regulations
are so strict that even the smoking of a
cig.r is prohibited. Alexander Hart is
in charge of the special police. He has
lost his wife and family. Notwithstand
ing his great misfortune, he is doing tho
work of Hercules in his own way. A
supply depot has been established at that
point, aud many needy people are being
relieved. The bodies that are dug out
of the fiat he in the station until the
coffin can be obtained. They are buried
unidentified on Prospect Hill. Dart-
mou h Club, at which the employes ot
the Gautier Wire Works boarded, was
carried away by the flood. It contained
many occupants at the time. None were
saved. The estimates of the losses of
the Cambria Iron Co. is given at $2,000,-
000 to $2,500,000. But little, if any,
of this great loss can be recovered.
Four immense relief trams arrived at
Johnstown Sunday night, and the sur
vivors are being well cared for. A por
tion of the police force of Pittsburg aud
Alleghany are on duty, and better order
is maintained than prevailed the day be
fore. Communication has been restored
between Cambria City and Johnstown by
a foot bridge. The work of repairing
tracks between Sang Hollow and
Johnstown is going on rapidly, and
trains will probably be running in 24
hours.
Five hundred tents arrived from Ohio
Sunday in charge of Adjutant General
Axlin. Sixty-five have been put up on
the hillside at Florence, aud are now oc
cupied by families. General Axlin went
on to Johnstown to assist Major Angler,
who is in charge during Gen Hastings’
ibsence.
President Harrison did not attend
church Sunday, but spent his time in
communicating from Washington with
the people in the flood-stricken districts,
with a view to granting them such suc
cor as lay in the power of the govern
ment. All officials that could aid, were
kept constantly at their posts, ready for
orders. The President has offered to
extend to the people in distress any suc
cor which the government could give.
He said the government would supply as
many tents and rations and soldiers to
assist in the work of reclamation as pos-
ible. The government lias about 2,000
tents, which it can lend to the sufferers.
The government has also under i s con
trol several thousand tents belonging to
the militia, and these will he loaned if
needed. The offer of soldiers whs made
for the reason that it was thought they
might be useful iu clearing away the
debris, searching for the drowned and
guarding property. Sundry was a day
of fearful suspense to Private Secretary
Halford; Mrs. Halford aud her daugh
ter Jeannette, left Indianapolis on the
train that gut out of Pittsburgh Sunday
morning, nnd he had thought that the
train got past befoie the flood was at its
worst, but word came from the Pennsyl
vania Railroad that it was reported that
the train on which they were had been
lost about Johustown. Between 5 and 6
o’clock Sunday evening a telegram came
from the Philadelphia office of the Penn
sylvania Railroad stating that they had
opened communication with Altoona,and
had learned that Mrs. Halford nnd daugh
ter were all right, but had lost all their
baggage.
Clara Barton, president of the Red
Cros3 Association, left Washington, D.
C., for Johnstown, Dr. Hubbeil, field
agent for the corps of trained workers
accompanying her. He says he will work
through the flooded distriet, distributing
food, clothing, medicine, and necessary
irticles of house furniture, with Johns
town as headquarters.
Several Pittsburgers, relatives of the
'owners of the South Fork Fishing Club,
.which owned the reservoir that caused tht
disaster, made their way with extreme
difficulty to the reservoir, and returnee
to Johnstown on Monday. One of there
tells the followjog story : The .lake it
completely aned out. The dam broke ii
the center at 3 o’clock Friday afternoon,
and at 4 o’clock it was dry. The great
body of water passed out in one hour
Messrs. Park & Van Buren, who wen
building a new draining system at the
lake, tried to avert the disaster by dig
ging a siuice-way on one side to ease the
pressure on the dam. They had about
forty men at work, and did all they coule
without avail. The water passed over
the dam about a foot above its top, be
ginning at about half-past 2 o’clock.
Whatever happened in the way of t
cloudburst took place during Thursday
night. There had been but little rain uj
to dark. When the workmen woke
Friday morning the lake was very fall,
and rising at the rate of a foot an hour.
It kept on rising until 2 o'clock, when it
first began breaking over the dam and
undermining it. Men were sent three ci
four times during the day to warn the
people below of danger. When the final
break came, at 3 o’clock, there was t
sound like tremendous and continuous
bursts of thunder. Trees, rocks and
earth were shot up into mid-air in great
columns, and then started down the ra
vine. A farmer, who escaped, said flit
water did not come down like a wave,
but jumped on his house and beat it tc
fragments in an instant. He was safe on
the hillside, but his wrife and two chil
dren were killed.
Rescuing parties who are at work on
the mass of unburned wreckage on the
river above Stone bridge are finding bod
ies and fragments of bodies at the rate oi
from ten to fifteen an hour. - In other
parts of the submerged district many
bodies are being taken out. A careful
\ estimate at this time of the bodies re
covered everywhere put it from 700 tc
800, Bodies are being picked up in
pockets, like ore, in all sorts of unex
pected places. The bodies have to b(
dug out of the sand and it caused no end
of work. Kcrnville is.in a deplorabl
condition. The living are unable to take
care of the dead. A majority of the in
habitants of the town w r ere drowned. A
building of boards has been erected on
the only street remaining in Cambria.
This is headquarters for the committee
that controls the dead. As quickly as
the dead are brought there they are placed
in boxes aud then taken to the cemetery
and buried. A supply store bus been
opened in town. A milkman, who was
overcharging for milk, narrowly escaped
lynching. An infuriated man appropri
ated all his milk and then drove Km out
of town. The body of the Hungarian,
who was lynched in an orchard Sunday
night, w r ns removed by his fnends. The
inhuman monster had cut off four fingers
of the right hand of a woman. He was
noticed before he es aped, and dropped
the fingers into his pocket, where they
were found when he was captured. The
act maddened the men, and they took
him to an orchard on the hillside and
hung him. Services in the chapel from
which the bodies were buried, consisted : " Inch moused such a storm of indigna-
merely of prayer by one of the survivors. I G°n among the survivors, is viewed with
No minister was present. Each coffin wore calmness, and there is a growing
Ind a descriptive card on it, and on the i sentiment that it is, after all, the best
graves a similar card was placed so that ' solution of the problem. Yi eeks nnd
the bodies can be removed later by months will be required to remove the
fr.ends. The latest estimates place the
number of dead at 12,000, bat the exact
number will never be known.
Ihe stealing by the Hungarians, at
Cambria City and points on the railroad,
principal citizensrto form & Soliciting
committee. Over $50,000 was sub
scribed at once, aud Ex-President Cleve
land will act as chairman; several of the
stock exchanges raised $50,000 in a few
minutes. In Philadelphia, over $150,-
000 was subscribed on Monday.
On Tuesday, the sheriff requested Adj.
Gen. Hastings to call out one regiment
of the National Guard. He stated that
he did not want them called out on ac
count of any trouble, but to guard
against anything that might happen.
General Hasrings immediately tele
graphed to Pittsburg to order out the
14th regiment. The Cambria Iron Works
company are already preparing to get
heir works iu operation. Mr. Moxham,
he iron manufacturer, is mayor pro tem
of Johnstown. He 19 probablv the
busiestman in the United States.* For
days without sleep, he sticks nobly to
his task. Hundreds of others are like
him. Men fall to the earth from sheer
fatigue. There are many who have not
closed their eyes in sleep since they
iwi Ice Friday morning. They are a
hollow-eyed, pitiable looking lot. Many
have lost, near relatives, and ail friends.
One dealer was charging $5 a sack for
flour, and was getting it in one or two
eases. Suddenly a crowd heard of the
occurrence and several desperate ones
went to the store and doled the flour
gratuitously to the homeless and stricken
army. Another dealer was selling flour
U $15 a sack. He refused to give any
sway, but would sell it to any one who
bad money: otherwise, he would not
allow any one to go near it, guarding
his store with a shot guD. Bodies are
recovered in Johnstown that have been
robbed by ghouls that flock to the scene.
It was known that one lady had several
hundred dollars in her possession just
before the disaster, but when the body
was recovered there was not a cent in
her pockets. The “Huns” attacked a
supply wagon between Morreliville and
Cambria City. The drivers of the
wagon repulsed them, but they again
returned. A second fight ensued, but
after a lively scrambling the Huns
were again driven away. After thtt,
the drivers and guards of the supply
wagons were permitted to go armed.
The debris wedged against the Dig
Pennsylvania Railroad stone bridge is
still buruiug, aud the efforts of the fire
men to quench or stay the flames are fu
tile. flhe mass which unquestionably
forms the funeral pyre cf thousands of
vict'ms who are buried beneath it, is
burning, and likely to burn for weeks to
come. The flames are not active, but
burn away in a sullen, determined fash
ion as though bent upon proving how
futile are man's efforts when the fire god
is aroused, nnd perhaps after all the
hand of Providence is in it, for the sug
gestion made by the physicians that the
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bodies
be
not
buried but
be
allowed
to
be
cremated iu
the
interest
of
the
public health
and
has almost ceased. The report of sev-
eral lynchings, and the drowning of twe \
Italians while being pursued by citizens
on Monday, put a damper on the soulie.-s
pilfering for the time. Deputy Sherifl
Rose was patrolling the river bank. He j
found two Hungarians attempting to roL !
several bodies, and at once gave chase. I
He found the two taking to the woods,!
and pulled out his pistol atid shot twice, 1
wounding both men badly. From the j
latest reports the men are still living, i
but are in a critical condition. lluj
sheriff has taken charge of Johnstown,
and armed men on Monday morning pa
trolled the city. People who have been
properly in the limits are permitted to
enter the city if they areknowD, but oth-
stupendous mats by artificial means, and
in the meantime the rotting, putrifying
remains of poor humanity buried therein
would be dealing pollution and death
to all the surrounding country.
It is being dynamited to allow the
water to pass the main channel. Many
skeletons aud fragments of bodies have
been found. The opening of this chan
nel will take the overflow from the lower
part of Johnstown proper.
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FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN' THE CRONIN
MURDER CASE AT CHICAGO, ILL.
I B. T. Boggs, of Chicago, Iil., an attor-
j ney, is the reputed censor guardian of
j the Columbia Club or Camp 96 of the
j Clan na-Gael. It was in this camp, as
I the story goes, that Dr. Cronin was tried
. . .- . - . - j for treason iu star chamber proceedings
ervi&e it is impossible to get into town.; nn( j 8en tenced to death. The police have
This regulation seems harsh, but it is a! f °r spme days had their eyes upon Mr.
necessity. The citizens’ committee arc Be SS s > i,nd Im ? e b( -’ tn zealously laboring
making* desperate efforts to pieserve the I to collect evidence enough to connect
peace, aud Hungarians at Cambria City
are being kept in their houses by men
with clubs who will not permit Hunga
rians to go outside of their houses. There
seems considerable race pujudice at
Cambria City, and trouble may follow, as
both English and Hungarians are netting
worked up to a considerable extent.
Quite an exciting scene took place iu tlie
borough of Johnstown on Monday. A
Hungarian was discovered by two men
in the act of blowing up a safe in the
First National bank building with dyna
mite. A cry was raised, and m a few
moments a crowd had collected, and the
cry of “Lynch him” was taised, and iu
less time than it takes to tell it. the man
was strung up to a tree in what was
once the central portion of Johnstown.
Not conteut with this, the vigilance com
mittee riddled the man’s body with
bullets. He remained hanging to the
tree for several hours, when some
person cut him down and buried
him with the other dead.
Order is slowly arising out. of the
chaos. Tne survivors are slowly realiz
ing what is ihe best course to pursue.
The great cry is for men, men who will
work and not stand by and do nothing
but gaze at the ruins. The following
order was posted on a telegraph pole in
Johnstown: “Notice—During the day
men who have been idle have been
begged to aid us in clearing the town,
and many have refused to work. We
are now so organized that enployment
can be found for every man who wants
to work, and men offered work, who re
fuse to take the same, and who are able
to work, must leave Johnstown for the
present. We can’t afford to feed those
who will not work. All the work will
be paid for. Stiangers and idlers who
refuse to work will be ejected from
Johnstown. By order of the Citizens’
Committee.” Officers were stationed at
every avenue and railroad that enters the
town. All suspicious look ng charac
ters are stopped. But one question is
asked. It is, “Will you work?” If an
affirmative answer is given, the roan es
corts him to the employment Lure u,
where he is put to work. If cot, he is
turned back. f
Governor Beaver has issued an appeal
for aid to the people of the United
States, and on its receipt, Mayor Grant of
New York convened a meetim.' of the
him aud his camp with the removal of
Dr. Cronin. “My belief is,” said Mr.
Bcggs, “that the oath of the Clan-na-
Gael forbids me to disclose the names of
the officers or members of the order, or
its objects or proceedings. However, I
will tell you frankly that I hope the oath
of secrecy may be suspended until this
thing is c- eated up. If the Clan does
not. acquit itself of all connection with
this crime it will be totally wrecked and
the Irish in American will perish with
it. I will say we have contributed about
$5,000,000 to free Ireland and $80,000
of it has been stolen and a horrid mur
der committed to cover up the theft,
and we will not contribute another cent.
But if the oath of secrecy should be sus
pended by the chief executive officer, -the
order will instantly be acquitted of com
plicity in the crime.”
AMERICAN VESSEL
SEIZED IN’ BRITISH WATERS BY
I8H GUNBOAT.
A special di?patch from Ottawa, Ont.,
says: “The marine and fisheries de
partments received a dispatch from Capt.
Knowlton, of the cruiser Vigilant, re
porting that he had seized an American
vessel. When two miles north of Cape
North, he discovered a part of the crew
of the Gloucester schooner Mattie Win-
ship, engaged in fishing, they being at
the time barely two miles from land. He
immediately proceeded to overhaul the
vessel. On boarding the Winship, Capt.
Knowlton obtaining no satisfactory ex
planation from the American skipper,
made the formal seizure for violation of
the fi.-hing laws, under the existing
treaties. The government will await a
full report by mail be ore taking action.
The skipper of the Mattie was not in
possession of a license under the modus
vioendi.
RUSSIA OBJECTED.
•T. Lowrie Bell, superintendent of the
railway mail service, states that the
transportation of mails is in a confused
state, owing to railroad interruptions
throughout the country.
Justice Gray, of the United States
Supreme Court, and Miss Jeannette
Mathews, daughter of the late Justice
Mathews, were married Tuesday at the
residence of the bride.
Every conceivable scheme has been
worked to have the President and the
cabinet photographed in a group. Per
sonal friends of the chief executive and
members of the cabinet have sol cited it
as a personal favor to photographers, but
all the overtures have been refused.
Gen. Harrison and Mr. Wanamaker are
especially averse to having their photo
graphs displayed in public places.
A committee of the Pennsylvania Ma
sonic fraternity sent to President Har
rison requesting the United States gov
ernment to send out a sanitary commis
sion immediately, and warning him that
unless prompt action was taken to re
move the dead bodies and animals from
any stream in which the Connemaugh
empties, the water would be polluted and
carry plague germs to the people. This
would affect the country from Pittsburg
to New Orleans.
After reaching the highest mark on
record Monday afternoon, the Potomac
began to fall rapidly and the streets in
South Washington were free from water,
and along the river front it gradually re
ceded throughout the day; bringing the
wharves once more to view. Several
schooners and barge boats have been left
high and dry some distance from the bed
of the river and will have to be hauled
out iuto the stream. There has been a
sufficient cecession of the flood to permit
a partial examination of the Potomae
flats, and Col. Hains, engineer in charge,
says the damage will be much less thaa
had been anticipated. Reports are be
ginning to come in from the surrounding
country and show great damage to have
been done to roads and crops as well as
to places near small streams. Many
bridges are down.
During Monday evening, President
Harrison received the following dispatch:
“Jacksonville, Fla., June 8.—The Jack
sonville Auxiliary Sanitary Association
tender them heartfelt sympathy to their
unfortunate countrymen who have been,
visited with the most appalling disaster
of modern times, and direct me to notify
you that $2,000 of trust funds in their
hands has been appropriated for the re
lief of the sufferers of Johustown aud
other places devastated by the flood.
This amount is subject to your sight
draft, to be expended at your discretion.
P. McQuaid, President Jacksonville,
Auxiliary Sanitary Association."
To this the President replied as follows:
“I have received your dispatch with
great gratification, and will draw for the
amount you have appropriated, and will
see that it t? expended for the purpose
you have at heart.”
In response to a call issued by the
commissioner of the'District of Colum
bia, a public meeting to devise means of
aiding the sufferers by the flood at
Johnstown and vicinity, was held Tues
day. Theie was a large attendance, in
cluding the commissioners of the Dis
trict, President Harrison, Private Secre
tary Haliord, Postmaster General Wan*
namaker, Secretary Noble and many
representatives of business and social
life of Washington. Shortly after three
o'clock the meeting was called to order
by Commissioner Douglass, who intro
duced President Harrison as presiding
officer of the meeting. He said this was
no time for a speech; that while b«s
talked, women and children were suffer
ing for the relief which the meeting was
called to grant. Calls for subscriptions
.were made and the responses were nu
merous and for quite large amounts, a
half dozen being $500 each. About
§10,000 was raised in the hall. The
President, in dismissing the meeting,
s iid : “May I express the hope that this
wcik will be earnestly and thoroughly
pushed, and that every man and woman
present here will go from this meeting
to use their influence, iu order that
supplies of food and clothiDg so much
ud so promptly needed may be supplied,
and that either to-night or to-morrow
morning cars well freighted with relief
mav go lrom Washington.’’
HORRIBLE CRUELTY.
AN INSANE MAN CONFINED IN MINNEft
SOTA BEATEN TC DEATH.
The Vatican authorities at Rome art
; alarmed at Russia’s objecting to Carbolic
missions in the Balkans, and that Em-
peaor Francis Joseph is also alarmed.
The latter, in rtply to strong appeals tc
interfere, said he was bound not tc took effect,
•swerve from the pence alliance. * escaped.
A murder committed in the insane
asylum at Rochester, Minn., about Apri
1st, has just leaked out. The victim
was a j atient mimed Taylor Coombs.
Coombs W83 washing the ceiling at the
asylum and muttering as to what he
would do if he had a revolver, when he
was attacked by Edward Peterson and
August Beekman, who commenced
pounding him o ver the head with a cane
and hickory mop handle. Then they
made him stand up, and Beekma-; com
menced pounding, knocking him down
and jumping on nis chest. Coombs died
two hours later. A painter, who saw
the deed, was told if he disclosed the
murder they (Beekman and Peterson j
would kill him. The managers of the
asylum called in the coroner, who made
the examination. Beekman and Peter
son claimed that Coombs’ death was
caused by falling from the scaffold.
When the fact s came out the men wer*
discharged, warrants issued and Beek
man was arrested Monday, and Peter
son’s capture is expected soon. The
asylum authorities say Coombs was in
dustrious and easily managed, and it i*
declared that his death was nothing
short of deliberate murder.
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* POOR PRACTICE.
On Tuesday, a negro desperado firec
five shots st an Atlanta, Ga.. policeman,
and the officer fired six shots at the man
he wished to arrest, but none of them
The would-be prisonei