Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 June 1889 — Page 1

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Weekly Established in 1823.

The Johnstown Calamity Assumes Awful Proportions.

The Death List Beyond Ex2 at ports.

A REPORTER FINALLY REACHES THE SCENE OF THE GREAT DISASTER.

The Flood Now Menaces the Eastera Slope of the Mountains.

Washington City Encroached Upon by the Waters of the Potomac.

The Baltimore & Ohio Hoad Crippled and Many Localities in Danger.

SANG HOLLOW, Pa., Jane 2—1 a. m.— The firat accounts sent out, of the Johnstown disaster, are far below the wildest estimates placed upon the extent of the calamity, and instead of 2,000 or 3,000, it ,?is probable the death list will reach 8,000 '—many say 10,000.

It is now known that two passenger trains, two sections of the day express on the Pennsylvania railroad, have been thrown into the maddened torrent and the passengers drowned. These trains were held at Johnstown from Friday at 11 a. m., and were laying on a siding between the Johnstown and Conemaugh stations. The awful torrent came down the narrow defile between the mountains, a distance of nire mille, and with a fall of 300 feet in that distance, sweeping away the villages of South Fork, Mineral Point, Woodvale and Conemaugh, leaving but one building standing, a woolen mill, where but an hour before stood hundreds, and dashing on with the roar of a cataract and the speed of the wind, upon the fair city at the foot-hills, the plane in which but yesterday sat Johnstown, in the mountains like a jewel in a queen's diadem. The Gautier steel works sat in this plane, and the city below it, the railroad tracks bounding it at the base of the mountains on the north. Here the trains were standing when the tide of water, like a catapault, came down on them with suoh resistless force that the trains, locomotives, Pullmans and all •were overturned and swept down the torrent, and were lodged against the great stone viaduct along with forty-one locomotives from the Johnstown round Chouse, the heavy machinery and ponderous framework of the Gautier mill, the accumulated debris of more than a s* -.-."thousand houses, furniture, bridges, iL? plumber, drift, and human beings. Tne ^-YfW arches of the stone viaduot choked .,,',*Vip immediately, and the water banked over the entire level of jtbe valley upon which the city if stood, to the depth of, what, /from the water works, indicate about '"thirty-eight feet. In the great sea thus formed, hundreds, perhaps thousands of people, were struggling for life,

I The scene to-day is one of the most harrowing possible for the imagination *of man to conceive. The accumulated ... ".drift gorged up at the viaduot to a ^height of forty feet, and then took fire from the upsetting of stoves or lamps. *As the flames crackled and roared among the dry tinder of the floating

Ihouses, human bodies were seen ^pinioned between the house roofs, ^locomotives, iron beams, freight, ^passenger, ',v Pullman and bagbaggage ctrli heavy iron beams, the ,greedy flames licking witb haste their diet of human flesh. The soene was horritie beyond description. From infancy a few days old to the wasted figures of age, were burned before the eyes of the beholders, and no reeoue from such a if ate was possible. Strongmen turned away with agonized expressions, and women shrieked at the horror of the scene.

The dead has been computed at not 'less than eight thousand, and the number may exoeed that estimate. This 4 seems incredible, but until the waters will have abated and the work of removing the dead from this tremenduous mass, it will be impossible to tell how many lives have been lost.

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proper by means of a basket suspended from a cable as passengers are removed from wrecked ships. Here the scenes were magnified in their horror. Here were the residences of the little city's most wealthy and intelligent people. Here were found the body of John Dibert, the banker, and his entire family consisting of a daughter and two grandchildren, Win. Overbeck, John Dorsey, of Depew & Co., tobacconists, Philadelphia, and one of the most popular traveling men on the road. Dr. J. C. Cooper and-wife, J. Q- Benschoff, bookseller? Mr. Wm. Gilmore, wife and family James Howard, Neil McAuley and wife, Mrs. Droling and family of three, Mrs. Cyrus Elder, wife of the general superintendent of the Cambria iron company.

The condition of the streets is one of unparalleled desolation. Fine thoroughfaree in the most densely populated parts of the town are denuded of the houses which once were the pride of .- their inhabitants. It is not exaggeration to say that not a single structure is left within the confines of the city save as a place of habitation and all must be torn down and rebuilt. The gorge has so obstructed the sluice ways of the viaduct that the water although all congestion of the streams debauching into the Conemaugh is not great, the water does not recede as fast as it othsrwise would. All boats and water craft having been swept away, the means of getting to the deluged streets, now fit rivals for the pan*'" of Venice, is attended with danger.

Notwithstanding the dire distress of their fellow-citizens, the "Huns" were caught purloining and' searching .the trunks of the victims of this awful tragedy. All food supply having been destroyed, and all places of ^shelter having been rendered insecure hundreds took refuge on the elopes which surrounded the city on all sides^The scenes of these camps were pathetic. Little children crowded around their elders orying for food aibd shivering with the cold mountain air. For sixteen hours the little city was cut off from the world and the tragediee of that awful night can never be told.

The Pennsylvania railroad tracks at Sang Hollow, three miles west, were torn out and absolutely washed away for a distance of three quarters of a mile. The heavy steel rails were twiBted about as if they were Blender dapper wires, and in some instances were broken off by the strain brought to bear on them. One track was swept into the river, the rails and ties of the east track was thrown on top of the west bound track, and in ODO place they were twisted into a plait. The stone ballast was washsd from between the ties for over a mile, and in one place the rails, ties and ballast were all swept away and the heavy railroad bed was beaten as hard as a cemented floor by the force of the current sweeping over it.

Food, clothing and money is needed by the inhabitants of the stricken city. They need shelter, also. The citizens of Pittsburg and Allegheny have started a relief fund, which is growing rapidly, but the sum needed is more than any one community can give. Food has been forwarded from cities and towns along the

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The actual loss of life cannot possibly be ascertained within a week or ten days. The damage done the Cambria iron works' mills is incalculable, and they will have to spend a fabulous sum in repairs before they can resume work, which will not be for several months.

It is believed that at least eight thousand persons have perished. Of these Beven or eight hundred were burned in the fiery furnace at the viaduct. Two thousand coffins have been ordered for bodies already rescued.

The property lose will be about eleven million dollars. C. W. Hoppenstall, of Lincoln avenue, east end, Pittsburg, distinguished himself by his bravery yesterday afternoon. He was a messenger of the mail train, which had to turn back at Sang Hollow. As the train passed a point where the water was full of struggling people, a woman and ohild floated in near shore. The train was stopped, and Hoppenstall undreesed, jumped into the water, and in two trips saved both mother and child. Among the identified dead are:

JAMES MCMILLAN, superintendent Cambria iron company, store, wife, four children and daughter-in-law.

JOHN P. Linton, leading lawyer, wife and five children. MRS. THOMAS KIRLEN, and two children.

NOLAN and seven of family.7 MRS. WISINGEK. MRS. SARAH PALMER. DR. GEO. WAGNER, wife and three children.

FRANK P. BOWMAN, wife and two children. MRS. RICHARD, WORRHINGTON and seven children.

WM. HOWELLS. MRS. ANN HOWELLS. MRS. JOHN REEZE, Cora, Lizzie and Alva Reeze, Rachel Reeze, mother of John Reeze.

PEARSON FISHER, wife and six children. MRS. ECKSTEIN.

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alL What a journey has been that of the last half hour. Swollen, awful corpses lay here and there in piles of oross ties, or on the river banks among the tangled greenery. It was about nine o'clock when the first passenger train sinoe Friday came to the New Florence depot with its load of eager passengers. They were no idle travelers, but each had a mission. Hera and there, men wen staring out the windows with red eyes, and among them were tough-looking Hungarians and Italians, who had lost friends near Ninevab, while women were weeping on all sides. Two of the passengers on the train were man and wife from Johnstown. He was quiet and dignified and more or lees eelf-possessed. She was petite, anxious, and tried hard to control her feelings. From every new comer and possible source of information she sought news. "Ours is a big new brick house," said Bhe with brave effort, but with loving brown eyee moist, and red lips trembling. "It's a three story house and I dont think there iA any trouble, do you?" she said to me, and without waiting for an answer she continued with a '•there are my fonr children in the house and their nurse and-and-and-, I guees father and mother will go over to the house don't you?" In a few moments all those in the car knew the story of the pair, and many a pitying glance was cast at them—their houee was one of the first to go.

Just before reaching Sang Hollow, the end of the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad is "S" signal tower, and the men in it told storiee of what tney saw, so piteous, I could not listen to half of it and command my attention. Here are some little odds and ends of happenings they told me of:

A beautiful girl came down on the roof of a building, which was swung in near the tower. She screamsd to the operators to save her, and one big brawny, brave fellow walked as far into the river as he could, and shouted to her to try to guide herself into shore with*a bit of plank. She was a plucky girl, full of nerve and energy, and stod upon her frail support in evident obedience to the command of the operator. She made two or three bold strokes, and actually stopped the course of the raft for an instant. Then it swerved and went out from under her. She tried to swim ashore but in a few Beconds Bhe was lost in the swirling water. Something hit her, for Bhe lay on her back with face pallid and expressionless. Men and women in dozens, in pairs, singly, children, boys, big and little, and wee babiee, were there among the awful confusion of water, drowning, gasping, struggling, and fighting desperately for life. Two men on a tiny raft shot into the Bwifteet part of the current. They crouched, stolidly looking at the shores, while between them, dreesed in white, and kneeling, with her face turned heavenward was a girl 6 or 7 years old. She seemed stricken with paralysis until she came opposite the tower, and then she turned her face to the operator. She was so close they could see big tears on her cheek, and her pallor was as death. The helpless men on shore shouted to her to keep up her courage, ancLshe resumed her devout attitude and disappeared under the trees of a projecting point a short distance below. "We could not see her come out again," said the operator, "and that was all to it. Do you see that fringe of trees," said the operator, pointing to the place where the little girl had gone out of sight. "Well, we saw scores of children swept in there. I believe that when the time comee they will find almost a hundred bodies of children in there among those bushes."

Just above New Florence is the little town of Ninevab, it was here that I found the first charnel house. One hundred and nine dead were here, the largest portion of which were women. Here it was that the awful work of the freshet could be realized. What have been fertile farms look like worn out brick yards. Great trees have been twisted and torn like weeds and the broken household goods of hundreds of houses line the shores for miles. Thieves of the vilest sort, those who Bteal from the dead and the unfortunate, have been busily at work robbing the trunks, boxes, articles of furniture, and there is noth iag worth taking left except lumber. Every now and then ghaBtly outlines could be seen in the water being swept down Btream. Two miles from "S" tower is the tower of the Pennsylvania railroad, and here the greatest railroad in the world ends suddenly in the river. For more than a thousand feet the entire track is wiped out, rails, ties, and even ballast. The north track is entirely washed away.

This is the nearest telegraph point to Johnstown and the delay in getting off news despatches has been fairly maddening. The Associated Press expedition was the first on the field and was ready with thousands of words of specials, but no wires could be had from 11 a. m. until ilmost 2 p. m. No special trains could be hired, no locomotives were to be bought and the situation can be ap predated.

THE LOSS OF THE THBOUGH TRAINS.

Farther Details of Thin Terrible Incident of the Great Disaster. PHILADELPHIA, June 1.—Information

was received about eleven o'clock tonight at the office of the Pennsylvania railroad of a frightful disaster to two of the through trains from Pittsburg, which have been supposed to be sate at Conemaugh. Assistant Superintendent Trump telegraphs from filairsville junction that the day express, eaat bound from Chicago to New York, and the mail train from Pittsburg, bound east, wen pnt on the back tracks in the yards at Conemaugh when the flooded condition of the main. »tracks made it apparently unsafe to proceed further. When the continued rise of the water made their danger apparent, the frightened passengers fled from the two trains to the hills near by. Many in their excitement threw themselves into the current and JN drowned. It is supposed that about fifteen persons lost their lives in this fiy. when Superintendent Trump

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reached Conemaugh h« immediately gathered the remaining p—angers of the two trains and had then oooveyed to Ebensburg by wagon, a distance fit about ten miles. 11M

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now at that place. The conductor of the trains went with the passengers to Ebensburg and the Pullman oonductor, who is suppossd to havs a list of than under hia charge, is than also. It is impoaaible to give the names of any of those who lost their lives, but it is known that Mr. E. McCullough, of the Westmorelsnd ooal company, and his whole family wen saved. Mr. Trump stated that if the passengers had only remained where they were instead of jumping into the water, the terrible loss of life would have been avoided. After the people bad- deetrted the can the railroad officials state the two Pullman can attached to the day express were eet on fire and entirely consumed.

Superintendent Trump fully confirms the reports already sent out about the terrible disinter in andjraar Johnstown. He teysit will never be known, exactly, how many livee were loat-, but the number will reach among the thousands. After providing for the passengers who were eent to Ebeneburg, Superintendent Trump made his way to Blairsville junction, a distance of nearly twenty five miles, walking most of the way on the north bank of the Conemeagh river. Onreaching Blairaville junction he telegraphed the news of the awful calamity to his superior officers. He describee the devastation wrought bythereeistleaa flood at Johnstown ss being something awful to behold.

The round house at Conemaugh was completely destroyed and a number of freight engines were washed down to the stone bridge at Johnstown. All the works east of Johnstown bridge are completely washed away. West of the bridge some of the works remain but they are badly damaged. The railroad track is entirely washed away between Conemaugh and bridge No. 6, a distance of about two and a halt miles. Superintendent Trump states there was a train load of provisions and grooeriee in the company'e yard at Conemaugh, and the cars were broken open jy the citizens and as a result they were well supplied against possible want. In concluding his statement he saya he could give many more details of the horron that came under his observation, but he thinks the ground has been pretty well covered by his dispatches. After concluding his report, Mr. Trump returned to Pittsburg.

THE NtWS AT PHILADELPHIA.

The Dispatches Kecelrert at the Headquarters of the Pennsylvania Road. PHILADELPHIA, June 1.—A dispatch

received at 5 p. m. from Pittsburg statea that the Pennsylvania railroad people have succeeded in getting a temporary wire through from Sang Hollow to the western end of the railroad bridge which iswsst of Johnstown. The debris lodged against the bridge and piled up to a distinoe of probably forty feat, itfiifcatedto be still burning. Until the flames die out so as to admit of passage across the bridge, nothing can be done toward repairing the heavy washout between the bridges and Johnstown station. The dispatch also states that the Cambria iron company's plant on the north Bide of the Conemaugh river at Sohnstown is a complete wreck. Until this dispatch waa received it was not thought here that this portion of the plant had been seriously injured. It was known that the portion of the plant located on the aputh bank of the river was washed away, and this was thought to be the extent of the damage to the property of that immense corporation. The plant is said to be valued at $5,000,000.

Dispatches received at the Pennsylvania railroad office this afternoon giving the damage sustained to railroad property as follows: One span of the bridge crossing the west branch of the Susquehanna at Linden is gone, and it is feared that the whole bridge will go. This bridge was previously reported ss being ballasted with a heavily loaded freight train. The Philadelphia & Reading railroad bridge over the weet branch of .the Susquehanna, which was carried from Muncy down against- the Pennsylvania company's bridge at Montgomery where it was lodged for awhile, worked its way undsr the latter structure and swept down to the Pennsylvania railroad bridge at Lewisburg, carrying the bridge completely away.

Additional information from the Philadelphia & Erie branoh is as follows: Ths four span bridge acrosa the uniata river at Granville, three miles -west of Lswiston, has been carried away. The water is still rising in the Juniata. Between Granville and Tusoarora, a distance of forty miles, nothing is known of the condition of the road bed, or the bridges. There are twenty bridges'south of Ralston on the Northern Central branch. Of these five are washed away and all the rest are badly damaged with one exoeption. The Cumberland Valley railroad lost anew iron bridge crossing the Potomac river near Williamaport, Md. The bridge crossing Sinnemanoning creek at Sinnemahoning is gone, and the bridge over the same stream at Keating ia badly damaged and will also go. The railroad yard and tracks at Emporium ^iave been badly washed away.

At Williamsport, Pa., the west branch of the Susquehanna is said to be thirty feet high. There is eighteen inches of water on the floor of the railway station there. This would indicate that nearly the whole city ia overflowed.

The oondition of the river at Harrisburg is such that the Pennsylvania railroad officials decided at 9 o'clock tonight to run no more trains between Philadelphia and Harrisburg until the water subsides, and orden wen issued to that effect. The last report received hen from Harrisburg showed that the tracks wen submergsd at Steel ton and that the water was still rising. This action of ths railroad officials closee up the line from Philadelphia to Pittaburg and it cannot be definitely stated whan travel will ha resumed.

A messsnger nached Bedford, Fa* from Altoona, at midnight, and telegraphed the Pennsylvania railroad officials hem that the line was dear from Gnaoa W Huntington, a distance of sixty miles. Toie news had a woodsr-

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fully cheering effect upon the officials gathered in the manager's office. The messenger wss ordered back to Altoona with messages aaking for information as to the location of the storm-bound trains supposed to be in the neighboorhood of that piece.

AT HAJUU8BUBG.

A Great Loss Katailed by the Storm at the State Capital. HARRISBURG, Pa, June L—The gnat rainstorm haa entailed a gnat loaa hen. In-theeast and south ends of the cityf the water roae above the banks of Paxton creek, ewept away bridgee and reached the first stories of the houses. Lest night, hundreds of families wen in distress, and forced to leave their homes. Mayor Fritchey conducted the nlief expedition, which utilized all the boate to be had, and while the rain came down in torrents, he and his assistants did good work. The Susquehanna river at thin point is eighteen feet above low water mark, and rising every hour. Independence ieland ia completely coveted. The trscks of the Pennsylvania railroad aouth of here are covered by about two feet of water. Advioee'juet received from pointe up the river say that the beautiful fisKr housss built by Harrisburgers, about ten milee from here wen washed away, aa wen eheds and outhouses of evsry kind. Great embankmentehere have cave4.in, culverts and sewers demolished, and great tress laid prone. A party of newspoper men, representing New York and Philadelphia journals, came here early this morning with the expectation of reaching Johnstown. Finding travel to the weet at a standstill from^this point some of them went down the Cumberland valley with the intention of boarding a Baltimore & Ohio train and going to the west by a circuitous route.

At 9 o'clock to night the Susquehanna iBa raging, whirling mass of murky water the surface covered with thousands of feet of logs from the broken booms at Williamsport and Lock Haven. The river is now within two inchss of the highest point reached by the memorable flood of 1865 and still rising at the rate of six inches an hour. Broksn bridgee from the Juniata river passed the city this evening and housee, trees and other debris fairly litters the boeom sf the swollen river.

This afternoon Mayor McCollum,of Pittsburg, wired Governor Beaver for tente for the homeless and destitute people of Johnstown. As no trains are lsaving for the west the possibility of forwaroing tents is very slin. In South Harrisburg, where the houses are halt submerged, there are grave apprehensions, and the night will be an eventful one. No livee have yet been lost, but there have been many narrow escapee. To-nignt the river bank is lined with people.

Later—At 11:30to-night the river is eight inches higher than' during the flood of 1865. The water is backing up south Harrisburg in most appalling fashion and cellars in south Second street are inundated. Logs are pounding the Cumberland Valley bridge over the Susquehanna, and the crushing noise is regarded with alarm. A report has just been received that a portion of the old camel-back walking bridge has been swept away.

Wrecked Buildings Burned. NEW FLORENCE, Pa., June 1.—JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 1.—1:40 p.m.—Tne most

accumulation of buildings which were swept by the angry waters to the Pennsylvania railroad bridge, piled up fully fifty feet high, have burned to the water's edge. Before the building took fire, many people dead and alive were taken from them, and in several in stances the unfortunates were so wedged in that it was necessary to chop their legs off to relesse them. The Catholic Church was also deetroyed by fire this morning. A number of people were on the roof when the structure took fire, and all of them were consumed in the flames. The Pennsylvania railroad's loss will be enormous. Full half a mile of the track between Sang Hollow and Johnstown has been washed out Bnd much of the track, rails, ties, and all are carried away. The fire at the bridge at Johnstown has done great damage. The facing and keystones are damaged. Considerable track ia destroyed above JohnBtown.

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WIKLESBARRE, Pa., Juue 1.—The Susquehanna river at this point began rising rapidly at 3 o'clock this afternoon, and is continuing at the rate of afoot an hour* Reports are coming in this evening from the country districts, to the effect that the crops have been very much injured by the tremendous wind and heavy rain. Several washouts on the mountaina have occurred, and trains due here from Buffalo and other pointa are delayed.

At 8hamokln.

SHAHTOKIN, Pa., June L—Seven bridges and twenty houses in this vicinity have been awept away. The damage to mining property can not be estimated. A number of collieries are flooded and many are completely wrecked. It will be two weeks befon the minee can resume. The Reading ooal & Iron company will be the greates sufferers. The losses are estimated at $250,000. Then were no fatal itiea.

At York.

YORK, Pa., June 1.—The flood in the Susquehanna river here reached its greatest height about six o'clock this morning, when all bridges save one wen under water. Businsas plaoss and rseidencee wen flooded. The damage in this city alone will amount to $25,000. A number of bridges in the country have been swept away and the loss in the oounty, exclusive of the city, is sstimated at $100,000. Jsmes Moll vane was drowned this morning.

At Carlisle.

CARLISLE, Pa, June 1-—The heaviest flood ever known in the Cumberland valley is now in progress Than is greet lorn of property along the line of the Oeittyebuig& Harrieburg railroad. All the bridgee, perhapa ten to twenty, have tieen carried away.

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Up in Georgetown, the scene along the river front wes exciting. The docks were under water, and lumber, ooal, cement, provisions and all kinds of property had been carried away. Hundreds of men were actively at work trying to save merchandise, by removing it from the mills and warehouses to higher ground. Swarms of river men floated about in water crafts, seizing and carrying off the treasures of the flood. The shipping has so far escaped serious damsge, but the situation is full of danger. At Long Bridge the water, at sunset, was almost level with the bridge floor, several barges have already struck and sunk here, and therailrond men are making evenr effort to prevent the accumulation of drift against the bridge. The water is still creeping up, however, and the bridge is in a precarious condition. If it carries away to-night, which is by no mesns improbable, the result will be a serious and long interruption of railroad traffic between the north and south.

The coffer dam at the Lang bridge bas been greatly injured, and much of the work which had been done upon the Potomac flats, at an expense of millions of dollars will be undone. It is not yet possible to estimate the losses suffered by merchants and warehouse men, but one individual has loet $30,000 worth of coal on one dock.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 1.—There is a rapid current in the river, and lumber, canal boats and Bmall houses, and much debris washed away from above, are passing down stream all day. Yesterday evening trains on most of the rosds were annulled until further orders. Near Cherry Hill there is a big washout, and others are reported. Washouts are reported on the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac road, above and below Frederickeburg, Alexandria and Washington trains are running regularly though between Ft. Runyon and the Long Bridge the tracks are submerged.

WASHINGTON, June 1.—At half past 12 to-night the water had reached Pennsylvania avenue at Sixth street, and was half way to the street car track on the eouth side, and nearly to the doorsteps. A strong current is sweeping through street, and around the corner of Sixth and Pennsylvania avenue: The Center market is surrounded and the floor is flooded. The water is within a foot of the waiting room and car shed of the Pennsylvania railroad station. A number of flat bottomed skiffs are doing a good ferry business at the corner of Sixth and Pennsylvania avenue, in transferring people who wish to cross to the southwest part of the city.

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A Scene of Destruction Surpassed Only by That on the Pennsylvania. BALTIMORE, Md., June 1.—On the

Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Gaithersburg the water is said to be nine feet in depth. A message was received from the Pennsylvania railroad company requesting the Baltimore A Ohio to allow it to bring the Pennsylvania trains that are shut up in Wheeling, W. Va., over the Baltimore & Ohio line. The Baltimore A Ohio would gladly have granted this request, but the road is not able to bring its own trains in that city to Baltimore, owing to the demand on that road. A News Ellicott City (Md.) special says: "Hundreds of people line the banks of the Patapsco to-day, watching the rushing flood, which has receded but a few inches since last night. Nothing since the flood of 1868 equals this. All communications farther weet by rail are cut off. Half the bridge over the river at Grays is carried away. The contente of dwellings were removed. Several buildings have been swept down the stream. The only death reported is that of William Hudson, a flour packer at Orange Grove, below Ilcheeter. Advices from Westminster, Md., say the surrounding lands are inundated, and many of the workmen are unable to get to their homes. Between New Windsor and Linwood, and between Linwood and Union Bridge, the Western Maryland railroad is covered to a depth of one to three feet by the watera of Little Pipe creek, and track is washed away for a considerable distance.

Laet night at 7 o'clock everything beyond Waahington waa aide-tracked, and trains 2, 4 and 46 an still stationary beyond Piedmont, but trains 6, 62, and two emigrant trains have been started west from Piedmont. The Pittsburg division will be open probably by to-night, and between Piedmont and tne river the tracks an free. Two feet of water flows over the bridge at Harper's Ferry which is heavily loaded with looomotivee and can. The tracks on both aides of the river an submerged, as they an at Point of Rocks and Sir John's Run, between Cumberland and THartiwahniff- Then an four bridge* undermined between CI en Cove and Hyndman. The Cambria

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The Hirer Beaches Pennsylvania Atenae at WashinctoB, aad Is WASHINGTON, June l.—The river is very high here, and ie rising. The water has reached etnet, and has put out the fin in the engine house at the Washington monument, and stopped the elevator. Cellars on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue.an 'flooded.

The Potomac is booming hen and the gnveet fears an entertained by property owners along the river front and in the lower sections of the city. Last night, after a fall of rain almoat equivalent to a cloud bunt, the losk-gate at the end of the Cheeapeake St Ohio canal, waa carried away by the rising water and washed aeveral canal boate into the Rock creek, when they wen destroyed. Since the the river has been rising rapidly, and the flood waten from Harper's Ferry and the upper tributariee an swelling it every moment. Along etnet. northern the neighborhood of the Center market, the country produce venden were driveif off early in the day, and the street wss turned into a lake of floating chicken coops, market truck and all sorts of odds and ends. Enterprising bare-legged urohins rigged up a temporary bridge and exacted toll from people who were obliged to pass between south Washington and the bueinees part of the city. Cellars wen flooded, and much damage to property reeulted among the oommiseion housss.

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GoUL ». ne of Disaster. SANG June 1,10:40 pm.

—At 9:30 toe firat train passsd New Florence east. It wss crowded with psople from PittBburg and plaoss en route, people who are going to the soene of the dieaeter with little hope of finding their loved ones alive. Rich and poor wen on board that train, all thinking of but one thing, and that was what will we see. It waa a heart-rending sight and not a dry eye was in the train. Mothere moaned for their children, husbands paced the aisles and wrung their hands in mute sgony. Fathers pressed their faces on windows in vain endeavor to see something, they knew not what, that would tell them in a measure of the dreadful fate that their loved ones had met with. All akngthe raging^ Conemaugh the train stopped and bodies wen taken on the expreeB^ car, feeing carried by the villagers, who jwen out along the banks. As each stop was made the train was utterly deeertea, as the passengers rushed' to the spot when the bodies were being taken on board, so ss to see if perchance they could recognize in one cf the bloated corpses a relative.

At Sang Hollow along stop was made, and some men from across the river called out: "Conemaugh is laid low, Cambria City gone, Johnstown utterly demolished and not a house stands in Colville." As this dreadful news came from the opposite bank, one poor woman yelled "My God, my babiee are gone," and fell in a faint. Then the ories and shrieks from passengers became more terrible, and when the train stopped at its destination it was a sorry sight to mourning humanity that left the cars. Death was strewn all along the railroad from New Florence to Sang Hollow. Not less than a dozen bodies were picked up while many others were seen in the wreck and the river, strewn along the river banks. As the train reached Sang Hollow a huge black crow sailed out into the very middle of the boisterous stream, and darting down perched into the swift waters. The crow then flew away and disappeared, out on the next wave the body of a small child appeared.

Another Keport.

BALTIMORE, June 1.—A dispatch re- ,. ceived by President Mayer, of the B. !fc O., to-night from Superintendent Patton, of the Pittsburg division, timed 9 p. m., says the Cumberland division ia opened to Johnstown, and that the most conservative reports place the list of drowned at from five to seven thousand. Aqpther dispatch says that the loss may reach ten thousand souls.

General Storm News.

Reports from central New York, Virginia and other Atlantic coast states tell of widespread destruction. On the eastern elope of theAlleghenies the waters were rising st midnight. Various cities and towns report damages from seventy-five to three hundred thousand dollars. Livee have been lost at many places.

Belief.

HARRISBURG, Pa., June 1.—President Harrison wired Governor Beaver this morning that he could supply as many tents as are needed. He added that he could be drawn upon for $300 for the destitute people.

Governor Foraker, of Ohio, sent this telegram to Governor Beaver just after the latter had left for Annapolis, Md., to officiate aa a member of the board of visitors:

Newspapers announce that sufferers at JohDstown are In need of tents beyond what you can supply. If so, we can send you any number up to 1,000. Answer whether or not I shall do so.

Both despatches were forwarded to the governor.

Indianapolis' Quick Response, INDIANAPOLIS, Junel.—The relief com-

mittee of the Indianapolis board of trade has voted 81,000 for relief of Conemaugh valley flood sufferers.

Terre Bante's Interest.

Mr. J. A. Parker, it is feared, was in the neighborhood of Johnstown. Mrs. Hice and daughter, mother and sister of Mrs. Frank Mills, of this city, live in Johnstown.

Mr. George W. Davis' father and mother and sister and brother live in Johnstown. At midnight he had little hope for them, as their residence was in a locality most likely to have been caught by the great torrent.

The K. of L, Lecture.

M. H. Butler, of Pennsylvania, will be in the city over Sunday, and would be pleased to meet the business men, laborers and mechanics of our city, and his old comrades of the army of the Poto-« mac at the hall over Pixley & Co.'s on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mr. Butler will return to the city and deliver a free lecture at the court house Tuesday .. evening, June 4th, on the aims and ob jects of the K. of L.

A Widow Sent to Jail for Selling Beer. WICHITA, Kan., June 1.—Mrs. Cather-,

ihe Schmidt was found guilty yesterday of selling three glassee of beer, and was sentenced to three months in the oounty jail and fined S300. This is the first instance in the state where a woman haa been sent to jail for violating the prohibition law. The woman is a widow with two children and of limited means.

The Knights of Pythias.

Major A. M. Preston, of Indianapolis, editor of the Pythian Journal, is in the city in the interest of his paper and the order.

Mmnrn Will Law, J. Fredericks, C. W. Schmitt and Henry Davy were oreated knights on Tussday evening, becoming members of Oriental lodge.

Terre Haute Wins Again,

A special to THE EXPRESS says Tern Haute made three in first, two in second and two in eighth, and Decatur two in fourth, two in seventh and one in ninth. Batteries: Schneider and Dorsey tor Tern naute, and Baraaa and Conn for Decatur.