Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1889 — Page 2

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' was repeated anmbcr of times up to 1 o'clock, -when the water poured into Cinder street sexeral feet deep. Then the houses began rocking to and fro, and finally tho force tf the current carried buildings across "?ets and vacant lots and dashed them against each other, breaking them infragments. Theso buildings wero freighted vith tho poor wretches Svfco so shortly before had laughed at the :ry of danger. McCartney Bays in some cases he counted as many as fifteen people clinging to buildings. McCartney's wife was with him. She had three sisters, "who lived near her. They saw tho house in Vhich these girls lived carried away, and then they could stand it no longer, so they Jiorried away. The husband feared his wife would go crazy before he could drag her away, and they left the Hooded district and vent inland along country roads until they reached here. The waters are now receding here as rapidly as they rose last night, and as the banks uncover the dead are showing up. Already nine dead bodies have been pickc d up within the limits of this borough sine day-light. None of them have as yet been recognized. Five of those found are women. One lady, probably twenty-five years old, and rather handsome, had clasped in her Arms a babe about sir months old. The tlead body of a young man was discovered In tho branches of a huge treo which had been, carried down the stream. All the orchard crops and shrubbery along the banks of tho river have been destroyed. tThe body of another woman has just been discovered in the river here. Her foot was discovered above the surface of the water. A rope was fastened about it, and it is now tied to a treo awaiting assistance to land it. John Ik Webber and his wife, an old couple, Mike Metzgar and John Forney were rescued near here early this morning. They had been carried from their home in Cambria City on the zoof of the house. There were eeven others on tho roof of the bouse when it was carried off by the angry waters. They were all drowned. They are unknown to Webber, they having drifted onto. the roof from floating debris. Webber and his wife were thoroughly drenched, and were almost helpless from exposure. They were unable to walk when taken from the roof at this place. They are now at the hotel here. At 6 o'clock the banks on both sides of the river at this place were crowded with anxious watchers, and with horrifying frequency their vigils were rewarded by the discovery of a dead body. Within the last half hour three floating bodies have been recovered at this point, and Hundreds of people from Johnstown and up-river towns are hurrying here in search of their friends and relatives who were swept away in last night's flood. The most intense excite ment prevails here. The street corners ere crowded with pale and anxious people who tell of the awful calamity with Btill breath. 'Squire .Bennett has charge of the dead bodies, and he is having them properly cared for. They are being prepared for burial, but will be held here for identification. Four boys have just come from the river bank above here. They Ray that on the opposite side a number of bodies can be seen lying in the mud. They found the body of a woman on this side. She was covered with debris, but they hauled her out. She had only a few tatters i)f clothes on her, and her body was badly bruised. It is impossible to tell what the loss of life will be, but at 9 o'clock this morning the coroner of Westmoreland county ent a message out saying that one hundred "bodies had been recovered at Nineveh, half way from here to Johnstown. Sober-minded people do not hesitate to say that 1.200 is tioderate. "How can anybody tell how many are, dead!" said a railroad engineer to the re porter this morning. M have been at Sang Hollow with my train 6ince 11 o'clock yesterday, and I have seen fully five hundred persons lost in tho flood." J. W. Esch, a brave railroad employe saved sixteen lives at Nineveh. The most awful culmination of the awful night was the roasting of a hundred or more persons in xnidflood. The ruins of houses, outbuildings and other structures swept against the new railroad bridge at Johnstown, and from an overturned stove, or some such cause, the upper part of the wreckage caught fire. There were crowds of men, women and children on the wreck, and their screams were soon added to tho Awfal chorus of horror. They were liter- . ally roasted in tho flood. Soon after the fire burned itself out, ethers were thrown against the mass. There were some fifty people in sight when the rnins suddenly parted, broke up and were swept under the bridge into pitchy darkness. SCENES ALONG THE RIVER.

A Mother's Fathetlc Inquiry After the Loved Ones She Ieft at Jonitown. Sxsa Hollow, Pa., June l At 9:S0 a. m., the first train passed New Florence east. It was crowded with people from Pittsburg end places en route, people who were going

to the scene of the disaster with but little hope of finding their loved ones alive. Rich and poor were on board that train, all thinking of but one thing, and that was what will we see. It was a heartrending eight, and not a dry eye was in the train. Mothers moaned for their children, husbands paced the aisles and wrung their hands in muto agony. Fathers pressed their faces ngainst the windows in an 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 long the raging Conemaugh the train stopped, and bodies were taken on the express car, being carried by the villagers who were, out along the banks. Oh, the horror and infinite pity of it all!,. What a journey has been that of the last half-hour. Swollen, awful corpses lay here and there in piles of cross-ties or on the river banks sraong the tangled greenery. It was about 9 aclock when the first passenger train since Friday came to the New Florence depot with its load of eager passengers. They were no idle travelers, but each had a mission. Here and thero auen were staring out of the windows with redeyes. Among them were tough-looking Hungarians and Italians who had lost friends near Nineveh, while many were weeping on all sides. Two of the passengers on the train were man and wife from Johnstown. He was quite dignified and more or less self-possessed. She as petite, anxious and tried to control her feelings. om everv newcomer and possible sourco of information she sought news. ."Oars is a big, new brick house," said he. with a brave effort, but with loving brown eyes, mcit and red, and her lips trembling. t is a three-story house, and v I don't think there is any tronble, do you?" . he aid to the reporter, and without waitins for my answer, she continued with a . ob: There are my four children in the house, and their nurse, and I guess father and mother will go over to the house, don't jouf In a few moments all those in the -car Know, the story of the pair, and inanya pitying glance was cast at them. Their : house was one of the first to go. Etrc itJ in tne Titter. Uno Hozxow, Juno 1. The Associated ;?rc:3 reverter ea a relist train Bays; Just t - -- . . . , .

before reaching Sang Hollow, the end of the main line of the Pennsylvania road, is Signal-tower, and the men in it told stories of what they 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 screamed to the operators to save her, and one big, brawny, brave fellow'walked as far into tho river as he could, and shouted to her to try to guide herself in to shore with a bit of plank. .She was a plucky girl, full of nerve and energy, and stood upon her frail support in evident obedience to the command of the operator. Sho 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 seconds she was lost in the swirling water. Something hit her, for she lay on her back with face pallid and expressionless. Men and women in dozens, in pairs, singly, children, boys, big and little, and wee babies were there in among the awful confusion of water, drowning, gasping, struggling and fighting desperately for life. Two men on a tiny raft shot into the swiftest part of the current. They crouched stolidly, looking at the. 6hores, while between them, dressed in white and kneeling with her face turned heavenward, was a girl six or seven years old. She seemed stricken with paralysis until she came opposite the low tower, and then she turned her face to the operator. She was so close they could see big tears on her cheeks, and her pallor was as death. The helpless men on shore shouted to her to keep up her courage, and she 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 tho little girl had gone out of sight. "Well, we saw scores of children swept in there. I believe that when the time comes they will fiud almost a hundred bodies of children in there among those bushes." Just above New Florence is tho little town of Nineveh. It was here that I found the first charnel-house. Ono hundred and nine dead were here, the larger 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 mile. Thieves of the vilest sort those who steal from the dead and the unfortunate havsbeen busily at work robbing the. tmnks, boxes and articles of furniture, and there is nothing worth taking left except lumber. Every now and then ghastly outlines could be seen in tho water being swept down stream. Two miles from uSq" tower is the "Sx" tower of the Pennsylvania railroad, and here it is that the grestest railroad in tho world ends suddenly in the river. For more than a thousand feet tho 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 dispatches 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 until a late hour. No special trains could be hired; no locomotives were to be bought, and the situation can be appreciated. Hefased to Heed Warning. New Flouenxe, Pa., June 1. It is now very evident that more lives have been lost because of foolish incredulity than from ingnorance of the danger. For more than a year there have been fears of an accident of just such a character. The foundations of the dam were considered , to bo shaky early last spring, and many increasing leakages were reported from time to time, according to people who live in Johnstown and other towns on the line of the river. Ample time was given to the Johnstown folks by tho railroad officials, and by other gentlemen of standing and reputation. In dozens, yes, hundreds of cases this warning was utterly disregarded, and those who heeded it early in the day were looked upon as cowards, and many jeers were uttered by lips that now are cold among tho rank grass beside the river. Ono poor, nameless woman, who looked with sightless eyes at the gray clouds, from the slimy bank of a meadow just below New Florence, wore a smile that perhaps had its birth in that spirit of "who's afraid!" which has had such awful results. An awful, mud-bedrabbled, ghastly burden was it that came in among the meadows, and yet there was a' look of peace on the features that brought tears to the eyes cf the rough men who found her and who fastened the body by a short string to a post. She had led a hard-working life, poor creature. Her hands were rough, her face thin and worn, and her hair was streaked with gray, a the stormy sky just

after dawn. Whether incredulity and foolhardinoss numbers its flood victims by scores or by tho hundreds, no one yet knows, and it will be many days before tho writing upon tombstones and the tracing of the unknown dead are ended. There has grown up a bitter feeling among the surviving sufferers against those who owned the lake, and damage suits will be plentiful by and by. The Dead In the Driftwood. Pittsbukg, Juno 1. A young man who was a passenger on the Deny express which left Pittsburg at 11 o'clock this morning. proceeded to Sang Hollow, five miles from Johnstown, under special orders, and re turned to the city this evening, furnishes an interesting account of his experience. "When we reached Deny," he said, "our train was boarded by a relief committee, aud no sooner was it ascertained that wo were going on to Sang Hoi low than contributions ox provisions and supplies of every kind wero piled on board, filling an entire car. On reaching Sang Hollow the scene which presented it self to us was heart-rending. The road was lined with homeless people, some with a trunk or Military chair the only salvage from their household goods and all wear ing an aspect of most hopeless misery. Men were at work transferring from a freight car a pile I corpses at least sixty in number, and here and there a ghastly something under a covering snowed wcere the remaius of some victim of the flood lay awaiting identification or interment in a nameless grave. The corps of busy workers wero encaged in clearing awav the piles of driftwood and scattered articles of liuiiKeuoiu unu which rumunru me trucks and the roadside. Theso piles of debris told theirjown mournful story. There w ere beds, bureaus, mattresses, chair?, tables, pictures, dead horse and mules, overcoats. remnants of dresses sticking on tho brauchesof trees and a thousand other odd pieces of tiotsaru and jetsam from ruined homes. I saw a man get off the train and pick up an insuranco policy for fc!0 fMTO. AnntliAr (imlr awstv n ft, rti n baby's chair and a confirmation card in a battered frame. "On the banks of the little Conemaueh creek people were delving in the driftwood. which was piled to a depth of six or seven feet, unearthing and carrying off whatever could ne turned to account, under those piles uis tnougtit numbers 01 Domes are buried, not to be recovered excent bv the t ft ? A A . 1 It labor of xuauy days. A wo.nan and little girl

were brought from Johnstown, py someyi

- . V means which I conld not ascertain, the woman was in confinement, and was car ried on a lounge, her sole remaining piece of property, one was taken to L.atrobo lor hospital treatment I cannot understand how it is that peo ple are unable to make their way from Sang Hollow to Johnstown. The distance t !A .1 U A. 1 1. is enon, anu li suouiu cormuuj e a comparatively easy task to get over it on foot or horseback. However, there seems to be some insnnerable obstacle. All those who made the trip on the train with me in order to obtain tidings of their friends in Johnstown, were forced to return as I did. Tho railroad is in a terrible condition. Tho day express and the limited, which left Pittsburg Friday morning, are lying be tween Johnstown and Conemaugh, having been cutoff by the flood. Linemen were set down from our train at every station to repair the telegraph wires which are damaged. Tremendous efforts are being oxerted to repair the injury sustained by the railroad, and it is only a question of a counle of days until through communication is re established. Our homeward trio was marked by a succession of sad spectacles. At mairsviiie intersection two nine gins lay dead, and in a house taken from the river there was the corpse of a woman. I think that tho loss of life is altogether underestimated. It is my opinion that when the number of dead is finally ascertained it will be found not far short of 5.000. Among the Saved. Louisviixk, Ky., June 1. A telegram re ceived hereto-night, from Johnstown, Pa., states that the following, all formerly from Louisville, were saved: Mrs. and Mr. A. J. Moxhara aud children. Mrs. Charles Mar1 shall. Thomas J. Johnson. Claudo M. John son. Mrs. Lou Dudley. Johnson Allen and family. It was feared Charles Marshall was lost. Mr. Moxham is president of the Johnstown Steel Company; Marshall was a cniet engineer oi the company. INCIDENTS OF THE FLOOD. DISASTER TO TWO TRAINS. Passengers Become Frightened and Jump Into the Water Many Urea Lost. Philadelphia, June 1. Information was received about 11 o'clock to-night 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 safe at Conemaugh. Assistant Superintendent Trump telegraphs from Blairsville Junction that the day express, east-bound from Chicago to New York, and the mail train from Pittsburg, bound east, were put on the back tracks in tho yard 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 tho hills near by. Many, in their excitement, threw themselves into the current and were drowned. It is supposed that about fifteen persons lost their lives in this way. When Superintendent Trump reached Ccfaemaugh, he immediately gathered together the remaining passengers of the two trains and had them conveyed to Edensburg by wagon, a distance of about ten miles. Theso survivors are now at that place. The conductors of the trains went with the passengers to Edensburg, and the Pullman conductor, who is supposed to have a list of those under his charge, is there also. It is impossible to give the names of any of these who lost their lives, but it is known that Mr. E. McCullough, of the Westmoreland Coal Company, and his whole family were 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 had deserted the cars, the railroad otlicials state the Pullman cars attached to the day express were set on fire and entirely consumod. Superintendent Trump fully contirms the reports already sent out about the terrible disaster in and near Johnston. He says it will never be known exactly how many lives were lost, but the number will reach among the thousands. After providing for the passengers who were sent to Edensburg, Superintendent Trump made his way to Illairsville Junction, a distance of nearly twenty-five miles, walking most of the way on the north bank of theConemaughriver. In reaching Blairsville Junction, he telegraphed the news of the awful calamity to his superior officers. He described the devastation wrought by the resistless flood at Johnstown as 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 half miles. Superintendent Trump states that there was a train-load of provisions and groceries in the company's yard at Conemaugh, and the cars were broken open by the citizens, and as a result they were well supplied against possible want. In concluding his statement, he says that he conld give many more details of the horrors that came under his observation, but he thinks the ground has been pretty well covered by his dispatches. Secretary and Mrs. Halfortl Safe. Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Pittsburg, June 2. President Harrison's private secretary, Elijah Halford, and wife, were on the train which was swept away, but escaped, and were in the mountains when I left. He was on his way East, and he stated it was the greatest horror he had ever seen or heard of. DEBRIS AT PITTSBURG. Rescuing People from Rafts and Floats A Little Ilaby Laughing in a Cradle. Pittsburg, Pa., June 1. Crowds of curious people thronged the river fronts and the bridges spanning the stream all day long. The immense quantity of floating debris afforded the attraction. At Woods Knn, the driftwood gorged until it projected 200 feet into the river. Venturesome men and boys gathered upon it searching for valuables. At noon, Harry Jenkins, fourteen years of age, was thrown out of a 6kiff under a bargo and was drowned. Sammy Wolfe fell off a coal boat under the Seventh street bridge and was drowned. At Allegheny Junction this afternoon ten men attempted to capture and land a large runaway raft of boards. Before the men could gain control of the unwieldy craft it struck the shore and went to pieces. Its occupants were rescued, but had a narrow escape. The beautiful garden farms along tho valleys of the Alleghenv and Kiskiminetas rivers are completely submerged and the vegetables ruined. At Avenue A a bed-post floated down, and at the top of it was a pair of pants in which was contained an elegant gold watch. A man named McCaul residing at Verona, noticed a large piece of driftwood floating down. He was impelled to go to it. He could not tell why, which he did in a boat. To his intense surprise he found in the center of it a cradle, in which a few-months-old babe lay, and which looked up into his face aud laughed. Mr. McCaul took the child to his house where it is now well cared for. The newspaper offices in this city were besieged all day with throngs clamoring for the latest details of the hood, and begging for names of victims. "Names names!" was their cry continually sent up, but none could be given. The lack of tele?raph facilities made this impossible, lauy wrung their hands in despair as the thought of the possiblo fate of some loved ones " residing in the devastated districts passed through their minds. Assistant Superintendent Wilson, of the West Pennsylvania railroad, is in recoipt of a telegram stating that a number of peopla are lodged in trees and wrecks of buildings along the line, some of whom are alive, and asking thatrescuing parties be advised at the stations of tho road. Great inconvenience is experienced in moving on the Pittsburg & Western on account of the flooded condition of that railroad's tracks. The hands of the coaling ieeta bavo been working like beayew

.curing their craft. The Allegheny river

tose twenty-three feet, but is now at a stand-still, aud no serious damage is feared. .V THE PENNSYLVANIA LINES. Wannouts nmerous and aiany or its ureat Bridges Carried Away. Viiiladelpiiia, June 1. Dispatches received at the Pennsylvania railroad office this afternoon give the damage sustained to railroad property as follows: One span of tho bridge crossing the west branch of the Susquehanna at Linden is gone, and it is feared that tho whole bridge will go. This bridge was previously reported as being ballasted with a heavilyloaded freight tram. The Philadelphia & Heading railroad bridge over the west branch of the Susquehaupa, which was carried from Muncy down against the Pennsylvania Company's bridge at Montgomery, where it was lodged for awhile, worked its way under the latter structure and swept down to the Pennsylvania road bridge at Eewisburg, carrying that bridge completely away. Additional information from the "Philadelphia fc Erie branch is as follows: The four-span bridge across the Juniata river at Grauville, three miles west of Lewistown, has been carried away. The water is still rising in the Juniata.- Between Granville and Tuscarora, a distance of forty miles, nothing is known of tho condition of the road-bed , or the bridges. There are twenty bridges south of Kalston on the Northern Central branch. Of these five are washed away, and all the rest are badly damaged, with one exception. The Cumberland Valley railroad lost a new iron bridge . crossing tho Potomac river near Williatnsport, Md. The bridge crossing Sinnemahoning creek at Sinnemahoning is gone, and the bridge over the same stream at Keating is badly damaged, and will also go. The railroad yard and tracks at Emporium have 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 railroad station thero. This would indicate that nearly the whole city is overflowed. At Steelton two and a half feet of water flows over the Pennsylvania railroad tracks, and tho steel plant at that place is also submerged. Idtlications point to the present trouble being the worst ever experienced by tho Pennsylvania Railroad Company. During tho blizzard of March. 1888, the road was blocked on the New York division and east of Altoona for nearly live days. That memorable blockade was caused bv snow, the road not being damaged in any way. The present suspension of traflic caused by the washing away of bridges and viaducts, heavy landslides, long and deep washouts, and the fall of masses of rock from mountain sides to the track below, between Altoona and Johnstown, a distance of forty miles, and east of the former city, is expected to last fully as long as tlio snow blockade of a jear ago. The condition of tho river at Harriaburg is such that the Pennsylvania railroad officials decided at 9 o'clock to-night to run no move trainsbettoeen Philadelphia and Harrisburg .until tle water subsides, and orders wererissucr tb that effect. The last report received from Harrisburg showed that the tracks wero submerged at Steeltont and that the water was. still rising. This action of the railroad officials closes up the lino from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, and it cannot bo definitely stated when travel will be resumed. ALONG THE It. & O. The Railroad's Tracks and Ilrldges Washed Out at Several Points. Baltimork, Md.tJuH I. On the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Gaithersburg the water is said to 'be nine feet in depth. A message was received from tho Pennsylvania Railroad .Company, requesting the O. to allow it to bring the Pennsylvania trains that are shut up in Wheeling, W. Va., over the B. &, O. line. The Baltimore & 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 dispatch from Eliott City, Md., says: Hundreds of people line the banks of the Patapsco to-day,' iwatching the rushing I flood, which has receded but a few 'inches since last night Nothing since the flood of 1S08 equals this. All communications further west by rail are cut off. Half the bridge over tho iiver at Grays is carried away. The contents of dwellings were removed. Several buildings have been swept down the stream. The only death reported is that of Wm. Hudson, a flour-packer at Orange Grove, below Lickester. Last night as ho was returning across the suspension bridge, it was struck by a huge log and broken. Both man and the bridge were swept away. A special from Frederick, Md., says: The rain has poured incessantly since Thursday night. 1 he wheat crop in this county has been damaged to an extent that cannot now bo estimated, and early fruit has been destroyed. The Potomac at Point of Rocks and vicinity is rapidly overreaching its banks, and the damage there will be great. Advices from Westminster, Md., says surrounding lands are inundated, and many of the workmen are unable to get to their homes. Between New Windsor aud Linwood and between Linwood and Union Bridge the Western Maryland railroad is covered to a depth of one to three feet by the waters of Little Pipe creek, and the track is washed away for a considerable distance. The extent of tho damage cannot be ascertained until the flood subsides. Second Vice-president King, of the B. &. O.. thinks there will be no serious loss. Last night at 7 o'clock everything beyond Washington was side-tracked, and trains Nos. 2, 6, 4 and 46 are still stationary beyond Piedmont, but trains Nos. 5, 42 and (emigrant) have been started west from Piedmont. The Pittsburg division will be open, probably, by to-night,andbet ween Piedmont and the river the tracks are free. Two feet of water flows over the bridge at Harper's Ferry, which is heavily loaded with locomotives and cars. The tracks on both sides of the river are submerged, as they are at Point of Kocks and St. John's run, between Cumberland and Martinsburg. The Cambria branch, leading to Johnstown, is still blockaded. RELIEF MEASURES. Two Trains with rhjIcians, Clothing and Provisions Sent from Pittsburg. Pittsburg, June 1. To-day's contributions in this city to the relief fund is nearly 100,000. A largo number of committees are at work, and will no doubt secure a great deal of money, as well as provisions and clothing. Collections will be taken up in all the city churches to-morrow lor the benefit of the sufferers. Seventy physicians answered a call for a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce this evening. All volunteered to tender their services to the chairman of the relief committee, and as many as may be needed will visit the scene of the terrible disaster whenever called upon. Arrangements are being made to have as many of the sick and injured brought to the hospitals in this city as arc able to stand the transportation. The physicians subscribed $431 to the relief f unnd. Tho executive committee of the Allegheny county G. A. Ii. this evening called a meetiug of all old soldiers in Select Council chamber, city hall, for to-morrow evening. when contributions for the flood sullerers will be received. This evening Chairman McCreary, of tho executive committee of the Relief Association, sent an appeal for am io an me iowiis in western Pennsylvania. At 2 o'clock this afternoon a car loaded with provisions and clothing snnnlied by Gusky, was sent out. At 4:i5 o'clock tho second regular relief train was sent out. It consisted of six box cars and one nassenger coach. Tho cars contained clothing and provisions, also 150 cotlins. In the passenger coach was the volunteer relief crew, about sixty m all and composed mostly of members of tho Americus Kenublican club. Tho train was under the charge of James B. Scott, and the orders were to get into tho flooded city if possiblo. Twelve policemen accompanied the nartv. As the relief train passed out of the Union depot the large crowd that were gathered about cave the nartv a hearty cheer. A telegram was received from Governor I oraker. of Ohio, askiug if the relief com mittee were in needof any teut. and if so. he uau j.uaj wnicn were ai xneir aisposni. -nr. McCroa, on behalf of tho executive commit

tee, answered the telegram, stating that they could use 500 tents, and to forward

tnem immeaiateiy. Business was practically suspended at tne postoiiice to-day so far as eastern mails wero concerned, rmladelphia mall was sent via Wheeling, and New York mail via the Pittsburg & Lake Erie to Buffalo. The postofflce employes this afternoon subscribed $141 to the relief fund. It was rumored to-day that the loss of life would probably bankrupt some of the life insurance and beneficial orders in the city. Some of the insurance companies have very large risks in Johnstown, but all claim that they are eaual to the occasion without serious result. Among the secret associations who will suffer, however, are the Improved Uruer ot Hentasophs, the Koyal Arcanum, Knights of Pvthias and Odd fellows. This afternoon a number of large fish globes were placed in conspicuous positions. a cara attacnea asked for voluntary contributions. Bv this novel method sev eral hundred dollars were added to the general relief fund. Manager . P. Harris this evening telegraphed his representative to arrange for a benetit performance at his theater, to-morrow (Sunday) afternoon. Manager Harris gives free use of his theater, and Manager Harry Smart, of "My Fanner," ana all tne members of his com pany, also, give their services free. It is expected that at least Sl.000 will be realized. Dnrincr the ilav fonr nerRons "were drowned. Late this evening a pile of drift struck the gay rods at Davis island dam with terrific force. The mass parted and the body of a man was released. The re mains were recovered and were taken ashore. Governor Beaver has ordered out the Tenth Regiment of the State Guards for service at Johnstown. This step is necessitated by the descent of bands of wreckers who feed like vultures upon catastrophes of the kind. The wreckers have flocked from all parts of the country in such numbers that military defense is becoming each hour more imperatively necessary. There is undoubtedly need for military protection throughout the district. The citizens are utterly paralyzed and helpless to protect themselves from the vandals who have swarmed from all sides to enrich themselves with all kinds of plunder. l nree th ousand coffins were ordered at 6 o'clock last night from this city. Contribution from the President. Washington, June 1. The President has sent a telegram to the Mayor of Johnstown, Pa., expressing his sympathy for the people of that city in their recent calamity. He also made a contribution to the relief fund. General Schotield. actincr Secretary of War, has asked Governor Beaver by telec rap ft wnat the v ar Department can do to aid the sufferers by the floods in Pennsylvania. He says the department has no tents, all the extra ones having been sent to Charleston during the earthquake, and have never been returned. Aid Urged from Ohio. Columbus, O., June l. Gov. J, B. Foraker issued his proclamation to-night, in which, referring to the Pennsylvania flood disaster, he urges every city and town in the State of Ohio to forward generous contributions promptly to Hon. Wm. G. Deshler, of Columbus, O.. who will forward the same to tne proper reliet committee in Pennsylvania. DAMAGE AT WASHINGTON. Rising Waters Invade the Markets, Break Dams, and Injure Shipping Washinoton, June l.The Potomac is booming here, and the gravest fears are entertained by property owners along the river front and in the lower sections of the city. Last night, after a fall of rain almost equivalent to a cloud-burst, the lock-gate at the end of the Chesapeake & Ohio canal was carried away by the ris ing water, and several canal boats were washed into Kock creek, where they were destroyed. Since then the river has been rising rapidly, and the flood waters from Harpers Ferry and the upper tributaries are swelling in every moment. Along B street north, in the neighborhood of the center market, the country produce venders were driven off early in the day, and the street was turned into a lake that floated chicken coops, market truck and all sorts of odds and ends. Enterprising, bare-legged urchins rigged up temporary bridges and exacted toll from people who were obliged to pass between South Washington and the business part of the city. Cellars were flooded and much damage to property resulted among the commission-houses. Up in Georgetown the scene along the river front was exciting. The docks were under water, and lumber, coal, 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 craft, seizing and carrying off the treasures of the flood. The shipping has so far escaped serious damage, but tho situation is full of danger. At the Long bridge the water at sunset was almost level with the bridge floor. Several barges have already struck and sunk here, and the railroad men are making every 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 is carried away to-night, which is by no means improbable, the result will be a serious and long interruption of railroad traffic between the North and South. The cofferdam at the Long bridge has been greatly injured, and much of the work which has been done upon the Patomac flats, at an expense of millions 'of dollars, will be undone. It is not yet possible to estimate the losses sutiered by merchants and warehousemen, but one individual has lost $30,000 worth of coal on one dock. Tho fire under the boiler at the Washington monument was put out by tho rising water. The water at midnight has reached within a few feet of Pennsylvania avenue. The Baltimore &. Ohio station is surrounded by water, and is inaccessible to passengers. The flood damage here is already $1,000,000. THE SWOLLEN RIVERS. Portions of Xlarrlsburg Inundated and Many , Families Compelled to Move. Harrisburg, Pa., June l.The great rain storm has entailed a great loss here. In tho east and south ends of tho city tho water rose above the banks of Paxton creek, swept away bridges and reached the first stories of the houses. Last night hundreds of families were in distress and forced to leave their homes. Mayor Fritchy conducted the relief expedition, which utilized all the boats to be had, and while tho rain came down in torrents, he and his assistants did good work. While thus engaged the Mayor and one of his officers narrowly escaped drowning. The Susquehanna river at this point is eighteen feet above low water mark and rising every hour. Independence island is completely covered. The tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad sonth of here are covered by about two feet of water. Trains from the Kast stop here, and at this writing the probability is that it will be several hours before traflic to the West will be resumed. Advices justreceived, from points up the river say that the beautiful fish-honses built by Harrisbnrgers, about ten miles from here, were washed away, as were sheds and outhouses of every kind. Great embankments have caved in, culverts and sewers demolished, and great trees laid prone. A party of newspaper men, reprohenting New York and Philadelphia journals, came here early this morning with the expectation of reaching Johnstown. Finding travel to the West at a stand-still from this point, some of them went down tho Cumberland valley with the intention of boarding a Baltimore & Ohio train and going to the West by a circuitous route. Fall of Logs and Wreckage. Freeport, Pa., June l.The water is receding here now, having reached twentyone feet in the channel, but is running full of logs of all dimensions from tho Clarion river. Half a million have passed here today, and a gentleman . just arrived from Ked Bank says a million will pass here tonight. That stream is swept clear of logs, .all sawed, lumber and their saw-miih.

This morning the river was full of everything from Johnstown and vicinity. Pianos, organs, trunks, chests, bedding, beer, lard, oil, ale. soda fountains, etc. No dead bodies have been found here, but at Leechburg six have been taken out. A Big Flood at Richmond. Richmond, Va June 1. Franklin, Maine and Carry streets, and all intervening streets to the river are covered with water. All the wharves are 6ubmergod. Fires have been put out in the gas works, and the city will be in darkness before morning. One hundred families have been forced to remove their household effects.- No trains have left the city to-day, except over tho York River railroad for Baltimore via West Point, and now their track is under water. Bridges in : every direction are washed away. ! A Flood Coming Down the Allegheny. Pittsburg, Pa., June 2. Last night tho Western Union Telegraph Company iorwarded a bulletin to the Chamber of Commerce from Oil City, Pa., stating that a reservoir at Cnba, in New York State, at the headwaters of the Allegheny river, holding sixteen hundred acres of water had broken loose at S o'clock p. in. and was rushing down tho river, stating there would be, sixteen feet of water at that place this morning. If this report proves to be true, it means a terrible flood for Allegheny river valley and all lowlands. Collieries Flooded. SuAMOiiN, Pa., June 1. Seven bridges and twenty houses in this vicinity have been swept away. The damage to mining property cannot be estimated. A number of collieries are flooded and many are completely wrecked. It will take two weeks before the miners can resume. The Reading Coal and Iron Company will be the greatest sufferers. The losses are estimated at $250,000. There were no fatalities. Damage at York. , . York, Pa., June 1. The flood in the Susquehanna river here readied its greatest height about 6 o'clock this morning, when all bridges, save one, were under water. Business places and residences wore flooded. The damage in this city alone will amount to $25,000. James Mcllyaine was drowned this morning. Traffic Suspended at Elmira, N. Y. Elmira, N. Y., June 1. The damage done to property in this county by the flood up to this hour (6 r. M.) will exceed 300.000. The water is higher than it has ever been known to be. 1 rathe is totally suspended. OTHER CASUALTIES.

Vessels Wrecked and Lives Lost In the Recent Big Storm on the Lakes. East Tawas, Mich., June l.The heaviest northeaster for several years hat prevailed since Thursday morning, accompanied by rain and snow. The tug Music let go a large raft off Harrisville, as it was dragging her on shore. The life-saving crew leit here yesterday m tow oi the tug Music, and rescued the crew of the schooner Mary Hat tie, ashore at Whitestone Point, from the rigging. The men were nearly perished when rescued, but are receiving all possible attention. The vessel is a total wreck, with no insurance on vessel or carco. The steamer Kate Williams let go the schooner General Sigel thirty-hvo miles out. A seaman named Munday, of San dusky, was lost overboard from the schooner Our Son, and Frank McLean was struck by a boom and badly injured. Family Crushed to Death. New Orleans, June 1 On Wednesday afternoon a severe storm swept over a portion of Do Boto pailsh, this State, doing considerable damage in some localities. A large red-oak tree was blown on the cabin of Joe Raffael, a negro, wlio, with his family, were witnin at the time. The cabin was demolished and the Inmates were crushed in its ruins. KaffaeL's wife, his daughter, seventeen years old, a son eleven years of age, another son five years old. and a third fifteen months old, were instantly killed, and the oldest son, Joseph, slightly wounded. The only person in the cabin who escaped injury was Kaffacl himself. Two Sisters Drowned. " Kansas City, June 1. Thursday afternoon two sisters, daughters of a farmer named Dickinson, living south of Txjroy, Kan., attended the Decoration day exercise at that place, and started to walk home. The bridge across tbe Neosho rlverhad been almost washed away, and two planks were stretohed across tbe strLnpcra. The girls started across those, the older holding the younger's hand. Halfway across, one ws seized with dizziness and lost her balance. Both fell into the water and were drowned. Relief for the Flood Sufferer. The relief committee of the Indianapolis Board of Trade has voted $1,000 to the Conemaugh valley sufferers. Yesterday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, Mr. V. T. Malott received the following telegram from James McCrea, general manager of the C, 8t L. & P. Railroad Company: "The suffering consequent upon the awful calamity at Johnstown and In the valley will he very great, and it seems to me that your city should organize a committee at once, with a view to furnishing some relief. We will transport free all supplies." The message was delivered to the chairman of the relief committee of the Board of Trfde, and in less than an hour the committee hell a meeting, and voted $1,000 to the sufferers. The money was sent by telegraph at 5:30 o'clock, and in a message acknowledging its receipt, Mr. McCrea stated that provisions would be greatly needed. The relief committee will meet again to-morrow morning, and at a conference, to be held to-day, the advisability of calling a citizens mass-meeting for to-morrow evening will be considered. Death of a Pioneer. Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Tipton, Ind., June 1. Joseph McJunkJ died at the home of his daughter, here, yesu day evening at the age of seventy-seven rea The deceased came hero from Penntyl'ani 1806, and was one of tho pioneer merchant Tipton. The remains will be intered in Fairt . Cemetery to-morrow. Insanity of Senator Stanford's Niece. Norwalk, Conn., June 1. Mrs. Thomas L. C. Gunning, niece of United States Senator Stanford, of California, became violently insane a few evenings ago at their residence on Mott avenue. With a long stiletto, she drove the servants from the house. She was subsequently secured and quieted, but her condition is serious, and there are faint hopes of her recovery. Cost Tier SlOO a Glass and Imprisonment. Wichita, Kan., June 1. Mrs. Catharine Schmidt was found guilty yesterday of soiling three glasses of beer, and was sentenced to three months in the county Jail and lined $300. This is the first instance in the State where a woman has been sent to Jail for violating tho prohibition law. Tho woman is a widow with two children, and of limited means. Severe Earthquake Shock in Texas. El Paso, Tex., June 1. A severe earthquake Phock was felt here yesterday afternoon. Many clerks ran out of business houses into the street when the earth betrau to tremble. One building was badly cracked by the shock. Losses br Fire. Appleton, Wis., June l.The works of the Appleton Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of farm Implements, were namaged by tiro last night to the extent of $30,000. One hundred men are thrown out of work. HIS OWN ADVEKTISEK. IIow a Young Austrian Brought Ills VYauts to Public Attention. Philadelphia Inquirer. A resnectably-dresscd yonng man, with a heavy brown mustache and a frank, open countenance, attracted a great deal of attention yesterday afternoon. He stood at the southwest corner of liroad and Chestnut streets, sandwiched between two large f asteboard signs thrown over his shoulders. Jpon the signs were stenciled the words: lcho suche arbeit work wanted." Above the stenciled letters were scrawled in lead pencil: "Am a good penman." The young man stood on tho corner for over an hour. He was stared at by thousands of fashionably-dressed promenaders, but ho was perfectly at ease, and did not even lose temper when a couple of dudes stepped up and began to ridicule him. A crowd gathered around him, and tho tali reserve otllcer had to clear the sidewalk. Au elderly lady stopped, opcued her purfe u nd kindly off ered the man a dollar bill. Ho refused to accept it. aud told the lady that he was no beggar. Finally, a solidlooking man stopped, and held a whimpered consultation with, the young man. He handed the enterprising work-seeker hit

card, and told hint to call In the mernin Then the yonng man took the signs off hu back and chest, tucked them nimer his arm, and started for home. He talked about himself to a reporter as he strolled up Broad street. 'Mynamois Julius Schwank,r he said; 'I am thirty-two years old, and am living; at 1213 Filbert Mreet. I am an Austrian, but have lived for the past nine years in. Kngland, where I was a traveling salesman, for a glass and china house. X cam to this country between three and four months ago. and remained in Kew York until three weeks ago looking for work. I could not lind anything to do, and I came to this city. I have trieiL hard to lind work, but have met with nos success. I heard of a man who got a good, position by stringing Mgns like min around his neck, and I resolved to try it. The man who gave me this card and told me to call on him is a book publisher. I don't know what kind of work he wants me to do, but I guess it is canvassing." IIOW STANLEY SAVED HIS NOTES.

The Great Explorer's Experience with fea pentltions Africans St Nicholas. On the bank of an African river, upon s tiny clearing, which Scooped ont of tho vast black forest that bristled along botU shores as far as the eye can reach betokened the neighborhood of a native village. a man was standing alone, taking rapid notes in a small book, while behind hint lay moored along the waters edge a iieet of canoes, crowded with the dark brown or black faces of Arabs and negroes, whoso crooked swords and lone ivory-stocked guns glittered in tbe morning unnshine. Tho solitary figure on the bank wemcd ta he the only white man of the whole party, and even he, lean and ragged as he was, with his face burned almost black br tha sun. and a matted mane of grayish-black; Irair and beard hanging loosely around it, seemed quite as &ava?e asany of his followers, lint, small and thin though he was, with plain, almost coarse features, and a dress of which any respectable scarecrow would have been ashamed, he had in his sunken eve that look of power and command which stamps the born leaderof men. And such, indeed, he was, for this man was no other than Henry Morton Stanley. So engrossed was Stanlev with the notes which he was making that he never saw the black, scowling face and fierce eyes which, peered out at him suddenly from the encircling thicket Presently another bead' appeared, and another, and another still: and then the matted boughs shook and Iiartcd, and several men stole forth with, ong spears in their hands. But Stanley's quick ear had caught the), rustle of the leaves, and, taking several strings of bends from his pouch, he advanced to meet them, uttering tne long, shrill, bloat-hko salutation of the country, 'pen-nen-hehr' (peace.) But there was little sign of peace among tho advancing savages, who darted threatening looks at him and kept muttering angrily among themselves. Then a hngo scarred warrior, who seemed to he theio chief, said, with a flourish of his epcar: "If the white man wishes peace, why does;. . he try to bewitch us?" How have l tried to bewitch yonT, asked StanlejT in amazement. "I come aqf-. your guest, not as your enemy. Yon all ecj that my men have laid down their gnns and swords, and are waiting to be friends with you." 'The stranger's word3 are not straight! answered the savage, fiercely. "Did w not see him making spells oi witchcraft against us and drawing them on the magi a. charm that he carries with him?" A sudden light flashed upon Stanlev it was his note-book that hatl oil ended them. "If the white chief means fairly by us let him throw his magic work into yonder tire audi then he shall be our brother and fliall eat withusjbnt if not, our epears shall reach his heart!" For one moment the bold traveler stood i aghast. To destroy his valuable notes, gathered with so much toil and suffering, would bo to tling away the fruit of his,' weary and perilous journey. Yet, to refuse. I might cost his life and the lives of all hist men. for tho savages were evidently in ' earnest, and all the thickets around him 1 were already swarming with tierce faces ' aud leveled weapons. ' All at once a bright idea came to him. Ia . his pouch lay a small pocket Shakspeare (tho companion -of all his wanderings), which was sufficiently like the objection- ; able note-book to have deceived a keener observer than an Afncan savage. Quick; as thought ho drew it forth and held it u so that every ono could fco it. "Is this the charm that my brothers wis!i me to bumP he asked, loud enough to bv heard by all present. . ' "It is! isitrroared a hundred voices at, once, while half a dozen bony, black hand were outstretched from the lront rank o the crowd as if to clutch tho formidable "witch-book." "And if I burn it," said Stanley.- "will you be friends with me, and give food to my men?" . Ve will, chorused the black spearmen. "Behold, then." cried the great le uler. and with ono jerk of his hand he flung tho Shakspeare into the lire beside him. In a moment it llamed up, shriveled away, and was gone. Then broke forth a yell of delight from the superstitious savages as they saw tho dreaded "magic" vanish into smoke. score of big. bare-limbed warriors, all smeared with paint and grease, rushed forward to overwhelm their "white brother" with sticky embraces, while others brought forward ariafulsof fruit, Ash, and Cotato-like cassava bread. Stanley's ungry men ate their fill, and all went as merrily as a picnic. The precious notes were aaved! Successive sowing of spinach, lettuce, radishes, peas, and sweet corn are made, ever- ten or iifteen days by those who liko to have these vegetables always fresh for the table. Bald heads nio too many when they ma;c he covered with a luxuriant growth of bairv by using the best of all restorers, Hail's if air Renewer. n, Many k Life TJ AS been saved by the prompt use of ii Ayer's Pills. Travelers by land or eea are liable to constipation or other derangements of tho stomach and bowels which, if neglected, lead to serious and often fatal consequences. The most sure means of correcting these evils is the use of Ayer's Cathartic rills. The prudent sailing-master would as soon go to sea without his chronometer as without a supply of these Pills. Though prompt and energetic in operation, Ayer's Pills leave no ill effects ; they are purely vegetable and sugar-coated ; the safest medicine for old and young, at home or abroad. " For eight years I was afflicted with constipation, which at last became bo bad that the doctors could do no more for me. Then I began to take Ayer's Pills, and soon the bowels recovered their natural and regular action, eo that now.I am in Excellent health." Mrs. C. E. Clark, Tewksbury, Massachusetts. 'I regard Ayer's Pills as one of the most reliable general remedies of our times. Thev have been in use in my family for auections requiring a purgative, and have given unvarying satisfaction. "Ye have found them an exceileut remedy for colds and light fevers." "VV. K. 'Woodson, Fort Worth, Texas. For several vears I have relied more upon Ayer's Pills than upon anything else In the medicine chest, to regulate my bowels and those of the ship's crew. 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