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The Facts and from Johnstown Are Yet Meagre.

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JT IS ANYWHERE FROM 5,000 10,000 LOST HUMAN BEINGS.

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The People Everywhere Respond to the Occasion—The Flood at Washington.

I JOHNSTOWN, Pa, June 3.—The devel opraents of every hour make it more and more apparent that the exact number of lives lost in the Johnstown horror will never be known. All estimates that have been made up to this time are conservative, and, when all is known, will doubtless be found to have been too small. Over one thousand bodies have been found Bince sunrise to-day, and the most sceptical concede that the remains of thousands more rest beneath the debris above Johnstown bridge.

The population of Johnstown, the surrounding towns and the portion of the valley afTected by the flood is, or was, from fifty' thousand to fiftyfive thousand. Associated Press representatives to-day interviewed many leading citizens of Johnstown who survived the flood, and the concensus of opinion was that fully thirty per cent, of the residents of Johnstown and Cambria had bsen victims of the continued disasters of fire and water. If this be true, the total loss of life in the entire valley cannot be less than seven thousand or eight thousand, and possibly much greater.. JQ! .the «-i devoured by the flames,and whos6 ashes rest beneath the smoking debris above Johnstown bridge, no definite information oan ever be obtained, as little will be learned of the hundreds that Bank beneath the current and were borne swiftly down the Conemaugh, only to be deposited hundreds of miles below on the banks and the driftwood of the raging Ohio. Probably one-third of the dead will never be recovered, and it will take a list of the missing, weeks hence, to enable even a close estimate to be made of the number of lives that were snuffed out in that brief hour. That this estimate can never be accurate is understood when it is remembered that in many instances whole families and their relatives were swept away and found a common grave. The total destruction of the city leaves no data to even demonstrate that the names of those unfortunates ever found place on the pages of eternity's history. "All indications point to the fact that the death list will reach over five thousand names, and in my opinion the missing will reach 8,000 in number," declared

General D. H. Hastings to-night. At present there are said to be 2,200 recovered bodies. The great difficulties experienced in getting a correct list is the great number of morgues. There is no oentral bureau of information, and to communicate with the different dead houses is the work of hours. The journey from the Pennsylvania railroad morgue to the one in the Fourth ward school house in Johnstown occupies at least one hour. This renders it impossible to reach all of them in one day, particularly as some of the morgues are situated at points inac csssible from JohnBtown. At 6 o'clock in the evening the six hundred and thirtieth body had been received at the Cambria City depository for corpeee. The names of the lately identified are Burgess O'Neill, wife and children John Smith, Joseph Kramer, Mrs. George

Alt, Lauther, James Sclick, Julius Bishop, John Clenole and Kate MoEnery. There are ten there at present unknown. At Millville was the body of a girl 15 years of age, making the forty-sixth corpee received there. An angry mark on the wrist looked as if a bracelet had been torn from the arm. At the morgue situated at the Franciscan convent in Johnstown, the bodies of Mrs. and Miss Shad Jons* (colored) Charts Renkew, Brown, of Woed-

vale, and a eon of Richard Fitzharris were identified. Seventy bodies have been received at the Pennsylvania railroad station. Those identified are:

Sohelheim, Mrs. D. J. Wildman, Fanny Prosser, Mrs. E. M. Parsons, John Myers, James Jones, Thomas Thoburn, Mm. Loach, mother of county superintendent of schools, Mra. Lucy Livermore, David Surdny, Mrs. Margaret Frank, Mrs. Molly Burkhardt, Miss Molly James, Frank Davis, of 603 south Fourth street, Steubenville, Ohio Miss Alice Kenna Christie, formerly of Brintons Mrs. Maggie Stoppel, Mrs. Maria Lucas (colored), Williams, a boy 15 years old Dr. H. P. Wilson,Catherine Myers, the family at Patrick Fagan (huBband, wife and two grown danghiew), Joha Murphy, Oharfee Beam, Mary Callahan, Samuel Hite Samuel Blough, Chas. Murr, John S. Buchanan, Superintendent of Cambria iron works warehouses Mrs. John W. James, Bessie Prosse, Manfeld Mrs. Mary Downey, Paul Geddes, Win H. Overbeck, Anne Ovens, Ore Lewis, Mary Ann Owens, Anne Jones, Richard Jones (ex-bur-burgess), Gottlieb Schutzdndeick, Geo. Geddes, H. G. Rose (district attorney), Geo. Helsel. At fourth ward school house a great number of victims are being prepared for interment. Yesterday 200 were disposed of, and to-day as many more received attention. Those identified are: Charles A. Marshal, Mrs. H. T. De France, son of Dr. Poland, daughter of Dt. Poland, Mrs. Katz9n stein, son of Mrs. KatzeneteiD, Mr. Long, a butcher Moses Strauss, Frank Wheat, Sadie Gageby, Mrf, Ella Lay ton. Miss. Mary Ley den the Hurlbut house porter, colored, supposed to be Wm. Henry, Jacob Wild, Mra. Jacob Wild, Mra. W. W. Jones, Howell Powells, two sons, one two-years-old, other but a few days old Geo. Baldwin, Wm. Leyton, Mrs. O'Connell, Mr. McKay, John O. Richards, aged 53 Patrick McNally, Charles F. Butler, assistant treasurer C. I. Co. Mrs. S. M. Jones, Jesse Hamilton, Miss Harrigan, James Murtha, Wm. L.Davis, Sam B. Eldredge Miss Liura Hamilton,Mrs.Knorr,

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Pittsburg Charles H. Wilson, a female resembling Miss Ella Liytou, and Nellje Williams John Burns, brakeman C. 1. company Miss Jennie Nells, John Andrews, Frank H. Harris, Arthur Smith, Carrie S. Barbour, George Randolf, Franlc Diamond, Annie Falcon, a lady supposed to be Mrs. Gefe, James G. Cox, Mrs. James I. Froubesser, Amelia Robb, Wm. Penrod, James J. Murphy, Bessie Murphy, a young lady with initials "W. H." on ring Miss Holter, M. L. Davis, A. John Steum, Mary Davis, Peter Brown, Minnie Layton, Chas. Fitzarris, Charles Bohnke, Thorns# Matthews, Bertha Hoffman, Mrs. B. F. Hoffman, Florence Hoffman, Fred A. Hoffman, Marion Hoffman, Joe Hoffman, Dr. W. C. Beem, A. Lytle, Laura Hamilton, Mrs. John D. Hornick, Conrad Weeee, August Derris.

The dead at Kernville are: Three .children of N. Shanks, Mrs. Walter Dawes, Mrs. John Howker, Mrs. Ream, Mrs. Wesley Stuff, Mrs. Jacob Swank, Luther Bowman's child,Jeesie Hamilton, Mrs. L. W. Delaney, Otto Cooper, Annie Reese, Windsor Reese, Ella White, Maggie White, Chaslee Musoer, Mrs. Ed Brennan, a daughter of Bernard Cunse, Mrs. Knolley, Sallie Lavry, Mrs. Kinney, mother of Joeeph Kinney a child of John Murl, Mrs. Robert Nixon, Mrs. Dyer, James Howard, Mrs. J. J. Craig, J. J. Craig, Mrs. Rachel Forkee, David Fisher, Margaret Fisher, George Fisher, John H. Fisher, Fisher's servant girl, Mrs. Kinney, and five unknown bodies.

At other points: Mrs. A. W. Lockhart, of MoKeeeport Mrs. Lockhart's father, a servant girl, Mr. Umbrey Hoff and son Peter Brown, Minnie Linton, three unknown. Kernville is in a deplorable condition. The living are unable to take care of the dead. The majority of the inhabitants were drowned:

A lean-to of boards has been erected on the only street remaining in the town. This is the headquarters for th* committee that controls the dead. As quickly as the dead are brought to this point they an placed in boxes and then takan to th* wmetory and buried.

A supply store ^has opened in the town. A milkman who was overcharging for milk thia morning, narrowly escaped lynching. The infuriated men appropriated all his milk and distributed it among the poor and then drove him out of town* The body of th* "Hun" who was lynched in an orchard last night was removed by his friends daring the night

The inhuman monster had cat off his viotim's four fingers of th* right hand, He

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dropped the fingers iato his pockst,wh*r* they were found when he WM captured. The act maddened the men and took him to an orchard on the hillside and hong him.

A man is now in a temporary jail in what i9 left of the town. He was caught stealing a gold watch. A shot was fired at him, but he was not woanded. The only thing that saved him from lynching was the smallnsss of the crowd. His sentence will be the heaviest that can be given him.

Services in the chapel from which the bodies were buried consisted mostly of a prayer by one of the survivors.

No minister was present. Each coffin had a descriptive card on it and on t°he graves a similar card was placed, so that the bodies can be removed later by friends.

The Cambria hospital has now 300 patients. Dr. Burk, with an efficient corps of assistants, is in charge. Two of the patients died yesterday. Miss Hughes, a young lady aged 20, and Mrs. Teeters, a lady aged 83. The remainder of the patients are doing well. Several injured people have had operations performed upon them.

A committee from Altoona and Mountain lodge No. 282, F. & A. M., arrived in Johnstown in the morning. They had driven over the mountaics. The horses were covered with mud and when they drew up at the station stood panting and steaming after their dash down the mountain side. upper part of Johnstown is full to overflowing. Many have been carried to the surrounding houses. One of their patients died on their hands and several are veryjlow. Hospitals have been eetablished at Conemaugh and Mineral Point, but little could be learned of how many patients they contained and how many they were faring.

David Creed, brother of Thomas Creed, of Pennsylvania, has been lost with his entire family. The remains Of John Ryan, ex-sheriff of Cambria county, have been tound to^ay. There was much comment over the finding of the body of a nun cut in two. It was at first though that she was a resident of a Johnstown community, but as none of them have been reported missing the supposition is that she was traveling at the time of the accident on the day excess. A broken hearted couple are

Dhomas Ley den and his wife, hard working people of the little town of Minersville. All day they have been trudging over the slippery ooze at Johnstown, asking every person for news of their daughter Mary. Mary was a dishwasher at the Hurlbut house and the porter states that he saw her pinned beneath a falling timber.

The Rev. W. H. Bartee, pastor of St. John's Reformed Church, has saved his family but his church and residence are total wrecks.

R. S. Frazer, the Pittaburg lawyer, was tramping among the rums to-day. Mr. Frazer has a sister here whose family of four children was almost drowned, but managed to eecape after an exciting experience. When the flood came down upon them they were driven from the first to the second story and soon after to the third. They were kept there six hourafrom 6 o'clock in the evening to 12 at midnight before they were helped through the roof and from there made their eecape to the hills over the housetops in the neighborhood*

Where Woodvale once stood then is now a sea of mud, broken but rarely by a pile of wreckage. Your correspondent waded through mud and water up the valley to-day over the site of the former village. As has often been stated, nothing is standing but the old woolen mill. The place is swept bare of all other buildings but the ruinB of the Gaatier wire mill. The boilers of the great worn were carried 100 yards from their foundation. A German watchman was on guard at the mill when the_ water came. He ran for the hillside and succeeded in escaping. He tells a graphic story of the appearanoe of the water as it swept down the valley. He declares that the first wave was as high as the first story of a house. The place is deserted. No effort is being made to clean off the-etreeta. The mire has formed the grave for many a poor victim, arms and 1*2* are protruding from th* mud, and it makes th* most sickaning of picture*.

A rope ferry is now being operated in the lower pert of the town. An effort is made to oonstruct a bridge across the Conemaugh, at the point wnere th* old county bridg* stood. A man named Maguir* WM met on his way bom Sooth Fork to Johnstown. He said he WM standing on the edge of the lake when the walls burst. The waters were rising •11 day, and were on level with pile of dirt, whioh he said was above the walls of the dam. All of a sudden it bant with report like cannon, and the water started down th* mountain side, sweeping before it trees, as if they were chips, and boulders were rolled down if they were marbles. The roar WM deafening. Th* lake WM emptied in an hoar and a half. AD th* water, he •aid, WM now oak Th* railroad is in*

There is but one street in the town, About one hundred and fifty-five house* •re standing where one* there stood a thousand. None of the large buildings of what was onoe a thriving little borough have escaped. One thousand pie is a loir estimate of the number of lives lost from this town. Bat few of the bodies have been recovered. It is. directly above the ruins, and the Wift 16®r*P^ P°'e 'n J*hnatown to-day: have floated down into them, when they tdtebave*beenbened*lo'ald'us SutaSoiUn town and many have not refined to wort We

burned. A walk through the town revealed a desolate site. Only about twen-ty-five able-bodied men have survived and are able to render any aanstanco. Men and women can be seen with black eye*, bruised faoss and cut heads. The appearanoe of some of the ladies is heartrending. They were injured in the flood and since that have not slept. Their facea have turned a sickly yellow and dark rings silrround the eyee. Many have succumbed. For two days but little assistance could be rendered them. No medical attention reached them. The wounded remained uncared for in some houses, cutoff by the water, and died from their injuries alone. Some were alive on Sunday, and their shouts could be heard by the people on the shore.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., 0 ESDA YMOKN1NG, JUNE i, 1889.

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terrible ooedi ion. Ati twenty to thirty feet deep in the teaokfc On hia way down be •topped at Mineral Point, where sixteen amuse win WMhed away and emral uvea lost, At East OmaMimich thi houses were carried away by the fie The kiss of life is large at thi* point

Three days have passed the flood gataa wen opened and the waters rnahed down upon the mountain city. Order is •lowly •rising' oat of chaos, theanrvivon •re •lowly realizing what is the h—t course to pursue. The great ory Is fori men who will work, and not stand mm wto will work, and not stand idly I ried into the cauldron with by and do nothing bat gase at the rnins.1 turned neither to the right The following order wa* ported on tel-1 safety for himself bnt rod

and many nave not refined to work, ws are now so organized.tint enptorsMntcaa to found tor every man who wants to work, and Men offered work who refuse to take the Mine, end who are able to work ma»t leave Johnstown for the present We cannot afford to Med men wbo will not work. All wbo work will be cold

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MUM. Strangers and idlers who refuse towoik wlli be ejected from Jobnuown. Br order of cUlzetu eommtttee.

Officer* were stationed at every avenue and railroad that enters the town. Ail suspicious characters are rtoppid. But one question is asked—it is "will you work?" Jf an affirmative anawer is given, a man escorts him to the employment bureau where he is put to work. If not, he is turned baok. The committee haa driven one or two men oat of th* town. There is a lot of idle vagabtfbd negroes in Johnstown who will not. work. It is likely that a committee will escort them out of town. They hav* caused th* most trouble during the pMt few days. It is a fact, though a disagreeable one to say, that not a few of the relief committees who came to thia city came only out of curiosity and positively refused to do any work, but would hang around the cars eating the food. The leaders of the committee* then had to do all the work. They deeerve much credit.

An old man sat on a ohair plaosd on a box at the intersection of two streets in Johnstown and begged for men. "For God's sake," he said, "can we not find men. Will not some of you men help? Luok at those men who have not slept for three days and are dropping with fatigue. We will pay well. For God's sake, help us." Tears rolled down his cheeks as he spoke. Then he would threaten the group of idler* standing by and again plead with them. Every man, it EtexB, wants to be a policeman, where he can bulldoze strangers and annoy reporters.

The difficulties to which the representatives of the press have been subject in their efforts to depict the horrors of the situation here are almost beyond description. For the first forty-eight hours eight or nine correspondents struggled for precedence of the only wire in operation, and when the Associated Press fiaaily obtained possession of this only means of communication from the desolate valley there

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disappointment on every side. But the troubles of this bureau, instead of being now ended, were really only begun. The electric fluid WM subject to interruptions that were frequent they were terrifying, and afc-liiiuafcit -"-"vered*. The surroundings even now are not such as to encourage careful literary productions. The improvised offioe of the Associated Press is in an abandoned tile factory, that first became a morgue, before the disciples of Fabian shared the quarters with the dead. As the wind blowB from the blackened ruins on the river, the emanations ot burning and decaying flesh steal through the windows and add to the horrors of the experience. A narrow board that rests upon the heads of upturned barrels iB the table at whioh are asated the representatives of the Aissslated Press,and tallow candles in bottle* have usurped gas and electric light The operator who in this crisis has distinguished himself by a display of fortitude and endurance seldom witnessed,is seated on a low stool and graspa firmly the box relay on the circular table that surrounds him, and ticks away at a rate of forty worda a minute to the operators that receive simultrneously on the great Associated Press circuit, that radiate* from Johnstown bridge to New York, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Minneapolis. After seventy-two hour* of almost continuous service, broken at no tiide by more than a couple of hour* hMty slumber, WM Connelly, jr., the As-

aooiated Preea agent, who chartered a I train, beat all competitors to the scene of horrors, forced thi* afternoon to succumb to the mandate of nature and aeekxepoee in hia Pittsburg home. During hia brief absence his place is filled by lea* able, though no les9 zealous, representatives, who note carefully every turn of the panorama in thia Bhifting scene of disaster.

THE JOHNSTOWN PAUL RfcVKKE.

He Bode on to Desth to Save His Own Townsmen. JOHNSTOWN, Pa, June 3.—It is almost impossible to oonceive the extent of the smoking ruins. An area of eight or ten acre* above the dam is covered to a depth of forty feet with shattered houses, borne from the resident center of Johnstown. In each of these houses, it is estimated, there were from on* to twenty or twenty-five people. Thi* ia accepted as data upon which to estimate the numbsr that perished on thi* spot and if the data be correct th* bodies that lie beneath these ruins must run well up into th* hundreds if not thousands.

A nameless Paul Revere lies iomewhere among the nameleas dead. Whs he is may never be known, but hia rid* will b* famous in local history. Mounted on a grand, big bay horse, he cam* riding down th* pik* whioh

and it traveled with ••wiftMSi like that whioh lay hidden in the heels of Mer nnjr.

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Conemaugh to Johnstown like aom* ang*l of. wrath ot old, shouting hi* portentiou* warning: "Bun for your live* to th* hilh run to th* hills." Th* people crowdad out o( their house* along th* thickly settled streets, aw* *truok and wondering. Nobody knew th* man and aom* thought h* wa* a maniao and laughed. On, at a de*dly pec* he rode, and ahrilly nog out his awful cry. Is a few moments, now*v*r, there earn* a cloud ol ruin down th* broad street*, down the narrow alleys, grinding, twiating, hurling, overturning, crwhing, annihilating th* weak and the

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thehfUa. Poor faithful ridtr! Itwa* •n unequal oontset. net as h*tnra*d •croas the railroad. bridg* the nighty •we fell upon him, andnorae, rider and bridge all went oat into th* chaos tog*th*r. A tew feet farther of thcPsuMylruua railroad train from Pittsburg were ought up and hurthe hero who nor left for rod* on to death for his townsmen.

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A Trtaendoaa Sruuloi Caused Kcmarkabl* Occurrence. JOHNSTOWN. June S.—The miracle, as It called, that happened at theChurcb oT the Immaculate Conception has caused a tnmeodoas sensation. A large number of penoiuwllltMttfr to the feature of the want, sad to put It salkllf tbeetfcomataneetarenallyremarkable. MaydevoUooswgte lanrogrese on jMdsy night, when the water descended on Cambria City. The ich was filled with -people at the time but Mien the noise of the flood heard,' the congregation hastened to get out of the way. Titer suoeeeded as for esosping from the interior la concerned, and In a few moments the church wss partially submerged the water reaching fifteen feet op the itdes and swirling around fhe corners furiously. The building was bMly wrecked, the benches were torn out, and la general the entiiestrnctuie both Inside and outside was fairly HimnnM Yesterday morning when an entrance was toned itbioiwh the blocked doorway the ruin appeared to be c&mplete. One object alone had escaped the water's wrath, The statute of the Blessed Virgin that hsd been -decorated and adorned because of the Hay devotions was as unsullied ss the day It was made. The Sowers, the .wreaths, the lace ?etl were undisturbed and unsoUed. Not wrinkle was observable In Its outlines. The marks on the wall showed that while the statue, which Is three feet high, the surface of the water had risen to a height of fifteen feet while the statue had been saved frem all contact with the liquid. Every one that has seen the statue and Its surroundings is firmly convinced the Incident was a miraculous one, and even to the most skeptical the affair savors of the supernatural. •There are about thirty Catholic priests and nuns Here. The iters are devoting themselves to the care of the slclfand Injured In the hospitals while the priests are doing anything and everything and making themselves generally useful. Bishop Phelan, whs reached ben on Sunday evening, returned to Pittsburg on the 3 o'clock train yesterday afternoon. He has organized the Catholic forces In this neighborhood, and all are devoting themselves to bard work assiduously. What the hospitals would have done without the sisters Is a difficult question. There are nine Charity, seven Franciscan and seven Benedictine sisters.

J. J. Murphy, the Catholic bookseller, of Flttsbui*. haunted the Pennsylvania railroad morgue all day with a white, sad face. His brother, James, and bis entire family have been lost, and Mr. Murphy is eeeklng for ttie^remains. Every fresh arrival of ghastly burdens seta him to an anxious inquiry, but as yet he has not discovered his relatives.

THE FLOOD AT WASHINGTON.

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wiJluBuiua,' june J.—nil fapann ut me ums bridge across tbe Potomac river here have been carried away by the flood.

After reaching the highest mark on record yes„rday afternoon, the Potomac began to rail rapidly, and this morning tbe streets In south Washington were free from water along the river front. Hundreds of Ash were left behind by the receding stream and were caught with the hands by boys and men. who searched through the wet grass of tbe Smithsonian grounds and elsewhere. The fish commission spread huge nets out in the river near the monument, for the purpose of recovering as many of the German carp which escaped from the brooding station ss possible. Besides the carp, a million young shad, twe inches long, were set at liberty by the flood. Several schooners and large biati have been left

expressed that the foundation

of the Washington monument might htve been seriously damaged, and a carelhl examination will be made.

The Long bridge, which It has been feared all ild be swept away by the turbulent river and the boats and debris which smashed against

It, remained Intact, though badly strained, until about 2 o'clock this afternoon, when one of the spans next tbe draw broke loose and started down the river. One other span will have to be cut away and to-night or to morrow tbe work of repairing the bridge will begin. It Is badly wrecked and torn and will cause considerable loss to the Pennsylvania railroad, which crosses It to make Its southern connections.

The railroad situation has brightened up considerably. The Pennsylvania railroad to-day again made connection with Ne York and places west as far as Harrisborg, for the first time since Saturday.

Mr. J. Lowrle Bail, the superintendent of the railway mall service, states that the transportation of the malls Is In a confused state. The New York Central Is clear, and last night a special train containing the accumulated mall for the west was dispatched. Mall from the west was coming east on the same line. The southern con-

nections are Interrupted, hut mall matter Is now being sent by thejChesapeake Bay line to Norfolk, and thence to Weldon, N. C. From that point the commnnlcatlon Js maintained.

The Pennsylvania Bond.

NKW YOB*, June 3.—The Pennsylvania railroad company Is making every effort to repair their road. Five train loads of workmen have been sent to the flooded district this morning, and over

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hundred carloads of building material. The road Is still closed west of Harrisburg and south .of Washington.

The Militia.

HARRISBURG, Pa., Jane 3.—Governor Beaver arrived here this morning over tbe Northern Central railroad from Annapolis, and has been In communication with Adjutant'General Hastings at Johnstown. He has received a call for troops from Sheriff McCandlees, of Allegheney county, who telegraphs that the situation is such that it Is positively necessary to send at least four or five regiments of tbe national guards to prevent pillage, -robbery and bloodshed. Gen. Hastings telegraphs: "Have perfected good organization. Do net think It necessary to call for troops. Be assured that everything will be done within possibility to relieve the survlvon andcaraforthedead." Tbe governor, although perceiving no necessity for ailing out the troops, has ordered tbe Fourteenth regiment to be ready atamomeotsnotlceto march to the scene of the

dlturtw General Hastings also telegraphed the following to the manager of the postal lines telegraph company in this city: "Better inform General Beaver that this morning's reports give the number lost at Johnstown at between twelve toflfteen bundred. The neatest disorder prevails. The place is lnwith thieves and vandals, who are robbing deed and appropriating everything they can lay their bands on. These people are eating alprovisions sent

the most everything In tbe here for tbe flood sufferers.'

At Harrisbnrs.

HARBISBCBO, Jane S.—The Susquehanna river here has fallen six feet In twenty-four boon, and aH danger to the Cumbetand Valley railroad bridge has passed. The loss In this city will reach probablft&fty thousand dollars.

The Stores Klse where.

niiTimiK JnneS.—The loss of life by the recent Hoods so far reported in Mffiand was as follows: Joseph Granger, of Lettebuig, drowned In tniiitmi creek Geo. Derrick, ofT reranlonMlHs, drowned In Pipe .creek Mrs.. Charles McFadden. of Tanqtown. drowned In the creek near that

drowMdtnUie creek near.that play a colored man, name not glvin, drewned in WtewMhslo cOontf James Lsntoo. of Monrwlt, Frtwni Sy drowned In the Monocasy Theodora WoHT "f Wllllaassport, drowned In the

cr**oingt HOUU1MUHI ---1 Cumberiand,drowned in the Potomac. strong. It was the oh*8* of th* flood I gumST*. T., Jane t-The taa«te by Opod wearing it* coronet of ruin and devasta-1 in this alane will exesad half, a miiilon. tioaiwhich grew at *V*rr instant of its I Trainee* rauw*ds centering henaieheslnprogreas.

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THI 6BR1BAL UUKT.

Tfce Paeple sf Un Oowatry Are BespeaJIsg Liberally to the Oeeastoa. touuNin, JnneS.—The work of providing

Httaborg and New Orleans. The National sanlcorpswas pot In charge. xdefoUcmtgr telegram was received byPresi•lent Harrison this evening traa Governor Be® who has made his way frwn Tort to Harrti ''HAHKISBDRO, Pa., June i—To the Washington:

BUFFALO, N. Y., June 3.-A relief train on ttoe Western New York ft Pennsylvania railroad will leave here to night for Pittsburg with contrlbugm of food, clothing, etc., for the flood sufferers.

WASHINGTON, Pa.. June 3.—Pension Commissioner Tanner to-day sent the following telegram to United States pension agent at Pittsburg "Make special and current vouchers from the towns In Pennsylvania ruined by floods and pay at once on their receipt. Where certlficatM have been lost In floods send permit to execute new voucher without preeentlng certificate to magistrate. Permits signed ln blank forwarded to-day. Make special all original certificates ot pensioners residing in those towns, and pay on receipt of vouchers regardless of my Instruction of May

132OSTON,

June 3.—The house to-day suspended

Its rules and admitted a bill appropriating S10.000 for the relief of the Pennsylvania sufferers. WASHINGTON, June 3.—No application for rations has yet been made upon the war depart mentbythe Pennsylvania authorities, but they have applied for tents which could not be supplied. General Schofleld, who la acting as secretary of war, called at the White house this morning and remained with the president for hours conferring with regard to the b»st means ot relieving the dietress prevailing at Johnstown. The president Is In constant communication with the state authorItiee on the subject.

CINCINNATI, June 3 —Subscription for Johnstown sufferers amounting to $10,001) were taken on 'Change to-day. Mr. Theodore Cook was appointed treasurer. ..

PITTSBURG, Pa., Junes.—A. J. Moxham, president ot the relief committee, has fully arranged a storage and distributing system for relief funds and aitlclee and they can be sent direct to Johnstown.

THE LOCAL RELIEF.

Committees Appointed to Solicit Subscriptions for the General Belief Fond. The meeting of citizens In tbe council chamber last evening to arrange for aiding the Johnstown, Pa., sufferers was very poorly attended, there being but twenty-two persons present Tbe meeting was called to order by Mayor

Daily Established

Is belag actively

On Saturday the board of trade for

yded 11,000. and Ux!ay, through the board of trade and from otter aonreea, a&out twenty-five hundrad dollaiswas secured. Tbe railway and telegraph companies will forward supplies sad

SSS?t£SS&iS"vl£2^S£.

5BMgK8ffi£38!WjanworciK, June S.—The Masonic relief committee which went from Pittsburgh to Johnstown, phed President Harrison this afternoon tbe appointment of a national an—mi— to take charge of sanitary affairs at the seene ot of disaster it was urged that the prea?¥££•?raany decajlrg «rp» wouldtaeeda

Inttons of the water of between

nisburg: President

everything Is quiet snd that he can slttation without the aid of troopa. The supply of far equal to tbe demand, bat supplies of elothlng Is still greatly needed, also of food: Con.ervatlve«Umatesplace the loss of life at from

l0M 01

property at from *25,000,

UUJ to (40,000,003. The people are at work heroically and will have a large force to-morrow clearing away the debris. The sympathies of the world are freely expressed. One telegram from England gives 11,000. I w'll '•sue a general appeal to the public to-night, its universality greatly encourages oar people. I will communicate with you promptly lf anything unusual occurs. JAXKS A. BKAVKB."

CHARLESTON, S. C.. June 3.—At a meeUng of the today i600 was subscribed for tae relief of the flood sufferers of Pennsylvania. A dispatch was sent to the mayor of Johnstown requesting him to draw for the amount

A special meeting of tlie city council win be held to-morrow to extend help to the sufferers. A generaUubscrlpUon will be started for the same pur-

The News and Courier to-day says: "We have learned to know what timely help means in a season of disaster and distress, and we at least should give without waiting to be asked."

HAKrroitn, Corfti., June 8.- The house to-day ioncurred with the senate in passing theresoiuilon appropriating $25,000 for the flood sufferers In Pennsylvania.

NEW YORK, June 3 —The Fourth National i»nir has subscribed through the chamber of commerce funds (1,000 for the relief of the Johnstown sufferers.

The United States express company announces It will carry free ot charge over its lines, supplies donated for the relief of the sufferers by floods in the Johnstown district.

Tbe Mutual life Insurance company, throusb President Blchard A. McCurdy, has sent tbe following notice to Its general agent for Pennsylvania: "Notify all Mutual life policy holders in Johnstown and vicinity, that thirty days extension of time will be allowed in payment of premiums, and all death claims caused by calamity paid Immediately on proofs and Identification

PHILADELPHIA, June 3.—In pursuance of a call Issued by the Citizens' Permanent relief association, a largely attended meeting of citizens was held at the mayor's office to-day, for the consideration of measures for the relief ot the Johnstown sufferers. Drexel A Co. were chosen as the treasurers of the fund. Tbe firm of Drexel A Co started the fund with a contribution of tlu.000. Several subscriptions of $1,000 were announced, and late this afternoon the fund had reached a total of 145,000. Many subscrlpUons were also sent direct to Drexel 4 Co.'s bank, Including (10,000 from the Philadelphia ic Bead-

1108,706 making a total of the two funds of over tl48,000. This exclusive of the Pennsylvania railroad company's subscription of $2a.030 aod that of the Cambria Iron company, of $20,000. The amounts will be dispensed at Johnstown and vicinity by the officials of these corporations. Tj»rgH quantities ot provisions, clothing, eta. have been contributed and will be forwarded to Johustown as quickly as possible.

Bbthlbhem, Pa., June 3 —The Bethlehem Iron company to-day contributed $5,0JO for the relief of the Johnstown sufferers, and requested the Johnstown authorities to draw upon the company for ^WASHINGTON. June 3.—A subscription for the relet of the sufferers of the Johnstown flood was started at tbe poetofflce department to-day. First Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson headed the list by a subscrlptlon of $100. The lodlcationrfare that nearly |1,000 will be raised In this department. Postmaster General Wanamaker had already subscribed »1,100 In Philadelphia.

Wal-

Becond ward—Messrs. J. H..Duncan, K. M. meeley and Harry Donbam. Third |ward.—Messrs. Hugo Duenweg, J. Q. Button and Den Stunkard. ...

Fourth ward—Messrs. E. A. Hess, Charles GoldsmlttCand G, J. Hammersteln. Fifth ward—Messrs. J. H. Allen. Frank Schmidt and John CUff.

Sixth ward—Messrs. Jesse Bobertson, Treseel and W.G.Davis. ... :. .. But a few of the persons constituting the above committee were promt, andtbemMyr. Qmwfore, was riven the power to change the com®

It-

tees if It should become Impoesiblelorany of them to serve. It was also decided tonrge the commit

tees

to commence work Immediate^ Thepneral

Putnam, A. Hen, W. M. Lyons and Mayor Danaldson. the latter b«ng chairman. Every member of each of the comml'tees Is requested to_ meet at tbe mayor's offlee at 10 a. m. to-day, that the work maybe apportioned and that eiKh ™a£ know his territory. They will solicit foqd. clgthlng and money, of which money will he asost deniable. beeanse it will be most QKful to the sufferers. Provisions and dothliy will be .quite, acceptable. A notloe was received fiom the Bt nOlroad the meeting stating that the eweartldea to the snffertng district rhe committees will be urged to immediate and active work, and almost evtfy one tothe dtr may expectto haveian opportunity to contribute somethlng befoce the day lsgope.^

The members of Asbury Church contributed KB to the sufferer*, Sunday evening. The fends contributed by the Congregational Chnrch were f«jf warded yestwday.

TuKxmnaiwtn receive subeerlptloes from [oonraucD OK POCBTH PAGE.]

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NEWS ROUND 1BOOT TOWN.

Everything in Readiness for Iht

Opsniog of the Spring ••sling of the Rset Association.

THE LIST OF BNTRIE8 FOR THE EVENTS OF THE DAY.

The Oil Excursion Committee* Meet to Arrange for the Reception of the Many Visitor*.

The spring race* begin this afternoon. Th* day's race* will be the 2:32 trot, pan* $500, mad th* 2:21 pec* for pan* ot $500. The track, notwithstanding th* rain*, is in excellent condition and fast time will be madp. Madam* Marantett* will giv* an exhibition with her celebrated saddle horae, Woodlawn. Th* anooiation haa arranged with the attest car companies to carry p*aa*ng*r* through from Sixth and Main to th* ground* without change of can for fifteen centa round trip. In th* 2:32 trot the entries are" a* follow*:

Lucky Boy, b. g., H. Simons, Louisville, Ky. Jailff.Mk. gj.1. Monroe,Lawmiee, llleh. Bock Island Maid, b. ULTW. McKlnney, Fnnsas

City, Ma Jean Wilkes, b. tod.

W. P. Ijams, Terre Haute,

Egmont Chief, b. s., Meant View Farm, Kldorado, EL. Lizzie Mc., ch. m., ft. O. & L. Dorsey, Middletown, Ky.

Frank B., br. *., Jac. Bender. Hamilton, O. Mpdgy A., bL m., C. J. Ires. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Pools sold as follows: Field, flO Frank &, $6 Jean Wilkes, $2,

The entries in the 2:21 pace are as folIowa: J. I. R., blk. g. W. T. Campbell. Dallas, Tex.

George, b. g., 6. P. Barnura, Fort Wayne. Ind. .• ^Monkey Bolla, C. M. C. Weedman, Farmer City, Daisy C-, g. m.. 6. Cutsinger, Kdlnburg, Ind.

Black York, blk. g., Herri Hudson, Indianapolis. Pools sold: Daisy a, $10 field, $ia

THE OIL EXCURSION.

A Largely Attended Meeting or the Be*' cepUon Committee but Evening. The meeting of the recepUon committee on the oil excursion at the Board of Trade rooms! last evening was largely attended. Mr. H. Hulman was chosen chairman and stated the objects of the meeting. On moUon of Mr. B. G. Hudnut, Mr. A. z. Foster was elected chairman of the reception committee, the members of which he urged personally to be preeent Thursday morning to receive visitors. Mr. Max Hoberg and Mr. W. G. Legget were chosen aa a committee on decorations, and will visit the business meh at once to urge tbe Importance of decorating for the occasion. Tbe Board of Trade room Is being put In good ahape by Mr. Hulman, and the room at 642 Wabash avenue baa also been engaged, both of which places will be headquarters for tbe reception of visitors.

The business houses arid private residences are earnestly urged to decorate. Members of the reception committee will see tbe necessity for prompt attendance at the reception rooms te be In readiness for the reception of visitors.

Mr. Dlall la making preparations for a suitable display at tbe oil welt Thj Hrtlln nt th. 1 panymet in Justice Felsenthal's office yesterday afternoon and by unanimous voteincreased the capital stock of the company to $4,000 They also levied an assessment of 20 per cent of the capltal stock, making the first assessment M00. Tbesune company leased from Mary M. and Ked., Markle a tract of land surrounding and Including the site ot the old Markle mill, north of the city. The work Is to be commenced within sixty days, $600 is to be expended for drilling purposes within ninety days, and $800 Is to be expendedwlthln four months ifsuch amount of money should be necessary to complete a paying oll or gas well.

John J. Brake haa leaaed to Colin flcott. ot Ohio, the unoceupled part of lot 96. In Hose's subdivision, said lot being located in the northeast corner or north Eleventh street the fiwt dtay north of Wabash avenue. The tract Is 76^4 feet by 100 feet. The lease Is for five yeare, the lessee to r^veonfr eighth ot the petroleum oil found and $600 per year tor gas found. A well Is to be completed within four months from date.

The Chesapeake ft Ohio Canal Abandoned WASHINGTON, June 3.—8enator Gorman, who. was for many years at the head of the Chesapeake A Ohio canal company, said last night that the flood will undoubtedly cause the abandonment of the canal. The canal ran from Cumberland, Md., to Washington, and brought a greatdealofcoal to this city, and was a serious competitor of the railroads.

WASHINGTON,

June 3.- -The wreck of

the Chesapeake & Ohio canal is the,, most Berious result of the flood in the.. Potomac. The canal cost more than eleven million dollars. Since its commencement the total expenditures have reached nearly forty million dollar*. Senator Gorman says the canal will have to be abandoned, as the company is BO poor it will be unable to raise the funds with which to make the repair* needed.

Griffin to Meet Tommy Warren. BOSTON, June 3.—Johnny Griffin, the. Braintree featherweight, who surprised the sporting men by defeating Jack'. Havlin in remarkably quick time, haa been selected to go to San Francisco to meet Tommy Warren. It is understood the winner of the Havlin-Griffin flgnt would be selected by the California ath-, letic club as the man to meet Warren, ... and he will be sent there at once.

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Danalduon.

and

Colonel Thompson being present suggested a mode of proceeding, which was that a committee from each ward should be appointed, and that a general committee should be ap pointed— the former committees to solicit and the latter mmntee to attend the transmission of funds and provisions. Mr. Spencer Bail was made secretary of he meeting. The following were the ward cemvrautd—Messrs. D. Greater, Dr. Elder and

The Cronln Case.

MILWAUKEE, June 3.—A special to the Evening Wisoonsan from Racine aaya it now transpires that the skiff that was missed from Chicsgo about the time of the disappearance of the murdered Dr. Croninwas picked up by theWert and towed into Racine three days after the occurrence. It contained two pad-, dies and a man's kid gloves.

Another Yacht Race.

LONDON, June 3—There wasanothsr yacht race to-day, in which the Valkyrie,,, Irex and Yarana competed. The Volleyrie finished third. The official time is s* follows: Irex, 3:55:51 Yarana, 4:00:07 VaJkyrie, 4:09:58.

Consols Appointed.

WASHINGTON,

June 3.—Th* president

has appointed Charles lx Knapp, of New York, to be consul general of the United State* at Montreal, and Alexander Reed, of Wisconsin, to be consul at Dublin.

A Qniet Woddlsg.

Mr. C. W. Mancourt and Miss S Matilda Ball were married last evening *t the reaidenoe of tbe bride's mother on First strest. They left on a 10 o'clock train for a wedding trip.

Fsnlfa Motes.

The swar bounties commission have signed a report and referred it to their respective governmutt

Mrs. Maybrlek. who. It to alleged, iwlsoned hef husband. Is so ill that she Is unable to appear In oooitlt is alleged that Mr. Maybrlek below his death wrote tohls brother that it his lUnass proved ratal an autopsy ought to be betd.