Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1889.

It is directlr a! ovo tho ruins, and tho bodie have floated down Into them whero they burned. A walk tli rough tin town revealed a desolato sight. Only about twenty-five ablebodied men havo survived and are able to render any Assistance Men and women can bo ieeu with blaek eyes, bruised faces and cut heads. The appcaranco of worn of the ladies is heartrending. They were injured in tho tiood. and since that havo not sl-pU Theirf aces have turned a sickly yellow, and dark rings surround tho cyen. Many have succumbed to nervous prostration. For two days but little assistance could be rendered thein. No medical attention reached them. Thowounded remained oncared for in some bouses, cut oil' by tho water, and died from their injuries alone, ome were alire on Sunday, and tbir shouts could bo heard by tho people on tho shore. Services in tho chapel from which the bodies were buried consisted merely of a prayer by ono of tho survivors. No minister was present. Each colli n had a descriptive card on it. and on tho graves a similar card was placed so that bodies can bo removed later by friends. Father DeTlin. who lives in Ilazlewood, Pittsburg, hurried to the sceuo last Saturday, fearful that his brother and parents were drowned. Ho was happily mistaken in this supposition, fornone of his relatives had been injured. Mr. Derlin, who heeded tho warning as to tho danger of tho dam, had hurried his wife and two children to tho hills, but returned himself to save something from his house. While in the building, the ilood struck it and swept it away, jamming it among a lot of other houses and hurling them all around with a regular churning motion. Mr. Derlin was in a fix, but went to his ton story, clambered to the roof and escaped from there to solid structures and thence to the ground. His property was entirely ruined, but he thinks himself fortunate in. saving his family. J. J. Murphy, the Catholic book-seller, of Pittsburg, haunted tho Pennsylvania railroad morgue all day with a white, sad face. His brother James and his entire family have been lost, and Mr. Murphy is seeking for the remains. Every fresh arrival of ghastly burdens set him to anxious inquiry, but as yet he has not discovered his relatives. K. S. Frazer, the Pittsburg lawyer, was tramping among the ruins to-day Mr. Fr.izer has a sister here, whose family of four children was almost drowned, but managed to escape after an exciting experience. When the Hood came down upon them they were driven from the first to tho second story, and soon after to the third. They were kept there six hours, from 6 o'clock in the evening to 12 at midnight, before they were helped through the roof, and from there made their escape to the hills Ofver the house-tops in the neighborhood. Where Woodvale once stood there is now a sea of mud, broken but rarely by a pile of wreckage. Your correspondent waded Through mud and water up the valley today, over the site of the former village. As has been often stated, nothing is standing but the old woqlcn-inill. The placo is swept bare of all other buildings but tho ruins of the Gantier wire-mill. The boilers of this great works were carried one hundred yards from their foundations. Pieces, of engines, rolls, and other machinery were swept far away trora where thwy once stood. The wreck of a hose carriage is sticking up out of the mud. It belonged to the crack company of Johnstown. The enginehouse is swept away, and the cellar is tilled with mud so that the site is obliterated. A German watchman was on guard at the mill when the waters came. lie ran for the hillside, and succeeded in escaping. Ho tells a graphic story of the appearance of the water as it swept down the valley. He declares that the first wave was as high as the third story of a house. The place is deserted. No effort is being made to clean oil" the streets. The mire has formed the frrave for many a poor victim. Arms and egs are protruding from the mud and it makes the most sickening of pictures. WHEN THE DAM BROKE.

A Hero's Warning and Ride to Death A Look at the Empty Reservoir. Jotixstown, Pa.. June 3. A nameless Paul Revere lies somewhere among the namelcs3 dead. Wrho ho is may never be known, bit his ride will be famous in local history. Mounted on a grand, big bay horse, he came riding down the pike which passes through Conemaugh to Johnstown, like socio angel of wrath of old, shouting his portentous warning: "Run fox your lives to the hills; run to the hills!" The people crowded out of their houses along the thickly-settled streets, awestruck and wondering. Nobody knew the man. and some thought he was a maniac and laughed. . On at a deadly pace he rode, aud shrilly rang out his awful cry. In a few moments, however, there came a cloud of ruin down the broad streets, down tho narrow alleys grinding, twisting, hurling, overturning, crashing annihilating the weak and the strong. It was the charge of the flood wearing its coronet of ruin and devastation, which grew at every instant of its progress. Forty feet high, some say; thirty, according to others, was this sea, and it traveled with a swiftness like that which lay hidden in the heels of Mercury. On and on raced the nder, and on and on rushed the wave. Dozens of people took heed of tho warnin g, and ran up to the hills. Poor, faithfnl rider! It was an unequal contest. Just as he turned to cross tho railroad bridgo tho mighty wave fell upon him, and horse, rider and bridge all went out into chaos to jSether. The hero, who turned neither to right nor left for safety for himself, rode on to death for his townsmen. At 11 o'clock this morning Messrs. II. linger, George Singer, Louis Clark and R. Hussey Minus, of Pittsburg, relatives of members of tin South Fork Fishing Club, arrived from tho broken dam. They all had friends or relatives at the lake at the time of the disaster, and, being very anxious as to their fate, they made a daring break through the flooded district, and, after a rarcful examination, returned this morninjr. Mr. AY. Harry Singer, in speaking of the trip, said: "We left Pittsburg on tho day express, and got to Sang Hollow about V2 o'clock. We walked up to Johnstown, but could not get across there. We weut up Stony creek a couple of miles, and got a man to. ferry us across, and took the Franstown road around the hill to the lake. It is about ten miles from Johnstown to the lake by this road. We reached the club-house at 6:?0. worn out by the tramp. We found that Mr. James Clark, son of Charles J. Clark, the two Shay bo3s and Mr. Lewis Aaron had started from the lake on Saturday on horseback to South Fork station to take the train to Altoona. They got no further than Altoona, owing to washouts, and they are still there. There was no ono at tho lake when we arrived, except the custodians of tho building and some workmen. A. J. Keating and George Wilson arrived last night about 11 o'clock. Tho lake is completely dried out. The dam broke in the, center at 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon, and at 4 o'clock it was dry. That great body of water passed out in one hour. "Messrs. Park and Van liuren, who are building a new drainaeo system at the lake, tried to avert the disaster by digging a slnicewaypn ono side to ease the pressure on tho dam. They had about forty men at work, and did all they could without avail. The water passed over the dam about n foot above its top. beginning at about 2:0 o'clock. hatever happened in tho way of a cloud-bnrst took place during the night. There had been but little rain up to dark. When the workmen woke in tho morning tho lake was very full, and was rising at the rate of a foot an hour. It kept on rising until 2 o'clock, when it first began breaking over tho dam and undermining it. Men were sent three and four times during the day to warn people below of their dauger. When the hnal break came, at 3 o'clock, there was a sound like tremendous and continued peals of thnnder. Trees, rocks and earth were shot up into midair in great columns, and then the wave started down tho ravine. A fanner who escaped said that the water did not come down like a wave, but jumped on his house and beat it into fragments in an instant. Ho was safe upon tho hillside, but his wife and two children were killed. "At the present tirao the lake looks like it rross between tho crater of a volcano and a jhnge mud puddle, with stumps of trees and jrocKs scattered oter it. There is a small stream of muddy water running through the center of the lake site. Tho

dam was seventy feet high. The break is about two hundred feet wide, and there is but a small portion of tho dam left on either side. No damago was done to any of the buildinss belonging to tho club, Tho whole South fork is swept, with not a treo standing. There are but ono or two small streams showing hero and therein the lakn. A great many of the workmen carried oil baskets full of lish which they caught in the mud." Frank McDonald, a conductor on tho Somerset branch of the Baltimoro & Ohio, was in tho Pennsylvania railroad depot when tho flood came. He said when he first saw tho flood it was thirty feet high, and gradually rose to at least forty feet. "There is no doubt that tho South fork dam broke," said Mr. McDonald. "Fifteen minutes before the flood camo Decker, tho Pennsylvania railroad agent, read me a telegram he had just received, saying the South fork dam had broken. As soon as they heard this the people in the station, numbering 200, made a rush for a hill. I certainly think I saw 1,000 bodies go over the bridge. The tir&t house that came down struck the bridge, and at once took tire, and as fast as the others came down they were consumed. I believe I am safo in saying I saw a thousand bodies burn. It reminded me of a lot of flies on fly paper, struggling to get away, with no hope and no chance to save them. I have no idea that had the bridge fceen blown up the loss of life would havo been any less. They would have floated a little further with the same certainty of death. Then again it was impossible for any one to have n ached the bridge in order to blow it up, for the waters came so fast that no one could have done it. I saw fifteen to eighteen bodies 50 over the bridge at the same time. I otlered a man $20 to row me across the river, but could get no one to go. and we Anally had to build a boat and get across that way." Sneered at the Warning. Johnstown, June 3. About 11 r. m.. May SO, the storm burst upon the city of Johnstown, and continued until 11:30 a. m. on Friday. At 8 a. M. tho torrent began to pour into tho city from the creeks and rivers. At 10 A. M. there was no outlet for the people. The first message from the lake at South Fork was received at 10 a. m. on Friday that the dam was weakening. But the people, or the few who heard the report, laughed to scorn this message, saying

they had heard such newsbef ore. The second message came at 11:30 a. m. -It was to the effect that the dam was likely to burst at any moment. At 2:30 the hnal message was received, advising the people to flee to the mountains for their lives, as the dam must surely burst within the hour. There was no such warning to the people as should have been given. The messages were held by a few officials about the railroad who neglected to sound the alarm until it was too late. At that time the water had reached the second story of some of the dwellings in tho lower part of the city. All bridges had been swept away by the avalanche 01 water then pouring through the city. The warnings, which were received in ample time for all to have escaped, were sneered at and cast aside as being an old story. About 3:30 tho whistles and bells gave a warning that the dam bad broken, but then it was too late. There was a roaring sound, and before the people could realize the danger the water was upon them in a mass, carrying everything before it. Had they taken j 1 r ii warning in me morning irom 1110 meiKea received thousands of lives would have been saved. No Complaints Were Made Against the Dam. Pittsburg, Pa., Juno 3. The fecretary of the South Fork Fishing Club stated today that tho club had not filed an indemnity bond, and that no complaints had ever been made about the safety of the dam by any of the Johnstown citizens. STORIES OF NARROW ESCAPES. An Eye-Witness Tells of tJie Awful Raih of the WatersA Train's Mad Flight. PiTTsnuRG, June S. George Johnston, whose lumber-yard is in this city, was a witness of the destruction of Johnstown. He owes his lite to the fact that ho took a warning at which thousand of others laughed. "I had gone to Johnstown," said Mr. Johnston, to place a couple of orders. 1 had scarcely reached tho town, about 3 o'clock in tho afternoon, when I saw a bulletin posted up in front of the telegraph office, around which quite a crowd of men hand congregated. I pushed my way up and read that the waters were eo high in the Conemaugh that it was feared the three-mile dam,' as it was called, would give way. I knew enough about Johnstown to feel that my life was not worth a snap once that dam gavo way. Although tho Johnstown people did not seem to pay much attention to the warning I was apprehensive. I had several men to 8ee, but concluded to let all but ono go until some later day. So I hurried through with my most urgent transactions and started for the depot. 4The Conemaugh had then got so hi gh that the residents of the low-lying districts had moved into the upper stories. I noticed a number of .wagons filled with furniture hurrying through the streets. A few families, either apprehensive of the impending calamity or driven from their houses by the rising waters, had started for the surrounding hills. Johnstown, yon see, is in a narrow valley, and lies principally on the V-shaved point between the converging rivers. 'I was just walking up the steps to the depot when I heard a fearful roar up tho valley. It seemed at first like a heavy train of cars, but soon became too loud and terrible for that. 'I boarded a train, and as I sat at the carwindow a eight broke before my view that I will remember to my dying day. "Away up the Conemaugh came a yellow wave wlioao crest was white and frothy. I rushed for the platform of tho car. not knowing what I did, and just then the tram began to move. Terrified as I was I remember feeling that I was in tho safest place, and I sank back in a seat. "When I looked out again what had been the busy mill-yards of the Cambria Iron Company was a yollow, turbulent sea, on whose churned currents nouses and barns were riding like chips in a brook. The water rushing in upon the molten metal in the mills had cansed deafening explosions, which, coupled with the roar and grinding of the flood, made a terrifying din. 'Turning to the other side and'looking on down the valley I sawhe muddy water rushing through the main streets of tho town. I could see men and horses floundering about almost within call. House-tops were being filled with white-faced people, who clung to each other and looked terror-stricken upon the rising flood. It had all come so quickly that none of them beemed to realize wnat had happened. Tho conductor of my train had been pulling frantically at tho bell ropo, and the train went spinning across the bridge. I sat in my seat transfixed with horror. Houses were spinning through beneath the bridge, and I did not know at what moment the structure would give way under the strain. "The conductor kept tugging at the bellrope and the train shot ahead again. Wo seemed to fairry leap over the yellow torrents, aud I wondered for an instant whether we had not left the rails and were flying through the air. My heart gavo a bound of relief when we dashed into tho forest on the hillside opposite the doomed town. "As the train sped along at a rate of speed that made me think tho engineer had gono mad I took one look back upon the valley. What a sight it was! The populous valley for miles either way was a seething, roaring caldron, through whose boiling surface roofs of houses and the stand-pipes of mills protruded. The water, was fairly piling up in a mill further up, and I saw the worst had not yet come. Then I turned my eyes away from the awful sight and tried not to even think until Pittsburg was reached. 'l cannot see how it is possible for less than 5,000 lives to have been sacrificed in Johnstown aloc. At least two-thirds of the town was swept away. The water came so quickly that escape from the low district was impossible. People retreated to the upper floors of their residences and stores until the water had got too deep to allow their escape. When the big ilood came the houses were picked up like pasteboard boxes or collapsed like egg-shells. The advance of the flood was black with

houses, logs and other debris, so that it struck Johnstown with tho solid force of a battering-ram. Xono but eye-witnesss of .he flood can comprehend its size and awfulness as it came tumbling, roaring down upon the unprotected town." Incidents of the Deluge. Johnstown, June 3. Almost every ono has a 6tory of a remarkable escape. Michael Konesen, an Irishman, tells a most wonderful story of his escape. Ho says ho was walking down Main street, when he heard a rumbling noise, and, looking around, he imagined it was a cloud, but in a minuto the water was upon him. Ho floated with the tide for some time, when ho was struck with some floating timber and borno underneath the water. When ho came up ho was struck again, and at last he was caught by a lightning-rod and held there for over two hours, when he was finally rescued. Mrs. Annie Williams tells a rather remarkable story. She was working at a sewingmuchine when tho flood came on. She heard some people crying, and jumped out of tho window, and succeeded in getting on the roof of an adjoining house. Under the roof sho heard the cries of men and women, and saw two men and a woman, with their heads just above tho water, crying. "For God's sake either kill us outright or rescue us!" Mrs. Williams cried lor help for the drowning people, but none came, and she saw them give up, one by one. James P. McCanagh had a terrible experience in tho water. He Raw his wife was safe on tho land, and thought his only daughter, aged twenty-one, was saved, but i'ust as he was making for tho shore he saw ter, and went to rescue her. Ho succeeded in getting within about ton feet of land, when the girl said, "Good-bye, father," and expired in his arms beforo he reached the shore. While tho searchers were at work in

Johnstown proper, this morning, they came upon a house and heard a noise under it. They chopped through the roof and discovered a man in tho top story of tho house. He was pulled out, but was too. weak to give his name, and no one has identified im as yet. Quito a novel scene was witnessed yesterday near Johnstown borough. Some women, who managed to escape from the town proper had to wear men's clothes, as their own had been torn oti'by the flood. In one house in Johnstown there is 1,700 in money, but it is impossible to get at it. The force of the flood can be estimated by the fact that it carried three cars a mile and a half, and the tender of an engine weighing twelve tons, was carried fourteen miles down the river. A team of horses which were standing on . Main street just before the flood, were found a mile and a quarter below town, yesterday. To-night, while coming down Main street, the attention of the reporter was attracted to a beautiful woman, whoso facial expression told of a broken heart. Being asked what she had lost, she said: 4Tho kindest-hearted husband that over graced a home would still be with me had he not sacrificed his life in the rescue of others. For ten minutes before the dreadful torrent cam) down upon us he had been carrying people from the houses across the sjtreet to the secoud floor of our own house. He crossed tho street the seventh time to rescue a lady, but failed to return. That is all I know. My heart will burst with grief." The lady was Mrs. Lindsay, tho wife of tho most prominent wall-paper man of Johnstown and. the daughter of Mr. Ludwig, a wholesale liquor dealer. The miracle, as it is called, that happened at the Church of the Immaculate Conception has cansed a tremendous sensation. A largo number of persons will testify as to the nature of the event, and, to put it mildly, the circumstances are really remarkable. May devotions were in progress on Friday night when the water descended on Cambria City. The church was filled with people at the time, but when the noise of the flood was heard, the congregation hastened to get out of the way. They succeeded as far as escaping, from the interior is concerned, and in a few moments the church was partially submerged, tho water reaching fifteen feet up the sides and swirling around tho corners furiously. The building was badly wrecked. the benches were torn out and in general tho entire structure, both inside and outside, was fairly dismantled. Yesterday morning, when an entrance was forced through the doorway, tho ruin appeared to be complete. One object alone had escaped the water's wrath. Tho statue of tho Blessed Virgin, that had been decorated and adorned because of the May devotions, was as unsullied as the day it was made. The flowers, the wreaths, and the lace veil were undisturbed and unsoiled. Not a wrinkle was observable in its outlines. Tho marks on the wall showed that tho surface of the water had risen to a height of fifteen feet, while the statue, which is three feet high, had been saved from all contact with the liquid. Every one that has seen the statue and its surroundings is firmly convinced tho incident was a miraculous one, and oven to the most skeptical the affair 6avors of the supernatural. At 6 o'clock to-night George Irwin, a resident of Hillside, Westmoreland county, was discovered in a dying condition in a clump of bnshes just above the tracks of the Pennsylvania ; railroad, about a mile below Johnstown.,. When stretched upon two railroad ties near the track below, his touguo extended from his mouth and he gasped as if death was at hand. By the assistance of stimulants he was in a degree revived, and told the following story: T was visiting friends in Johnstown on Friday, when the flood camo. We were submerged without a moment's warning. I was taken from tho window of the house in which I was then a prisoner, by Mr. Hay, the druggist at Johnstown, but lost my footing, and was not rescued. I clung to a log until 1 struck the Cambria ironworks, when I caught oh the roof of the buildings. I remained' there for nearly an hour, when I was knocked again from my position bv a piece of raft. I floated on ton of this until I got down here, and I stuck in an apple tree. I saw and heard a number of other unfortunate victims, when swept by me, appealing for some one to save them. One woman and two children were floating along in apparent safety when they struck the comer of a building, and all went down together. I would rather havo died than been compelled to witness that sight. I havo not had a bite to eat since Friday night, and, as heaven is my judge, I don't feel hungry. I am afraid my stomach is gone and I am about done for." He was taken to a hospital by several soldiers and several railroad men who rescued him. A man named Christ. Myers has been rendered completely insane by th fact that his mother, father, two sisters and a brother are among the missing. When notified of the loss of his family; he threw up his hands and exclaimed: "My God, what will como next!" From that time, which was last night, until tho present, he has been hopelessly insane, even at times becoming violent ana warning to kui nimseii. s A man named Dougherty tells a thrillinir story of a rule down the river on a log. When the waters struck the roof of the house on which he had taken shelter, ho jumped astride a telegraph pole, riding a distance of somo twenty-three miles from Johnstown to Bolivar, before ho was rescued Thomas D. Williams, his brother, wifo apd infant child, who lived in Johnstown, arrived in Pittsburg to-day. Friday morning the water was In the lower part of their house. Some of their neighbors urged them to go to the mountains with them, but on account of Mr. Williams's brother being injured, they delayed tilj danger was more apparent. The water rose slightly. They moved to the upper part of the house, but kept marking the advance of the water, and for an hour previous to the rush they saw it was on a standstill. Suddenly they heard great shrieking and a rush of som'e mighty force. Looking out they saw a vast volume of water advancing upon them. The partition of the house separated and lodged on one side. Upon this they clambered and floated for several miles, surrounded by tho lloating debris, and passed by people in the same condition as themselves. They finally drifted to a

brick house which had withstood the force of the deluge. Mr. Williams broke inthe window, meanwhile securing a safo hold of his child by grasping its clothing with his teeth. The houoo was empty, fly aid of the materials in the house. Mr. Williams and his brother and half a dozen persons from the water got in. Saturday night Earties in skill's came to their relief and rought them to the mountains. Their own clothing was in shreds, but in this house they found sufficient to cover themselves. Attending school at Seton Hill Seminary, in Greensburg, aro a number of young ladies from Johnstown who, as yet, aro not aware of tho terrible calamnity which bofell the city and who, doubtless, some perhaps, have lost their near and dear friends. The Sisters of Mercy, in whose care they are. have refused to allow any perhaps to be brought to the seminary until the worst has been learned, when they will be made acquainted with tho awful catastrophe which has befallen their city. WORK OF TIIK COMMITTEES.

Strict Regulations Adopted to Preserve Peace and Order Relieving the Distressed. Johnstown, June 3. The citizens committee are making desperate efforts to preserve peace, and tho Hungarians at Cambria City are being kept in the house by men with clubs, who will not permit the Hungarians to go outside of their houses. There seems considerable race prejudice at Cambria City, and trouble may follow, as both the English and Hungarians are getting worked up to a considerable extent. Quite an exciting scene took placo in the borough of Johnstown last night. A Hungarian was discovered by two men in tho act of blowing up the safe in the First National Bank building with dynamite. A cry was raised, and in a few minutes a crowd had collected, aud the cry of "Lynch him" was raised, and, in less time than it takes to tell it, tho man was strung up to a tree in what was once about the central portion of Johnstown. Not content with this, tho vigilance committee riddled the man's body with bullets. He remained hanging to the tree for several hours, when some person cut him down and buried him with the other dead. The stealing by Hungarians at Cambria City and points along tho railroad has almost ceased. The report of several lynchings and the drowning of two Italians while being pursued by citizens yesterday put a damper on the soulless pilfering for a time. Deputy Sheriff Rose was patrolling the river bank. He found two Hungarians attempting to rob several bodies and at onco gavo chase. Ho found two taking to the woods, and pulled out a pistol and shot twice, wounding, both men badly. From latest reports the men are still living, but aie in a critical condition. Armed men are this morning patrolli ng the city. The people who have property in the limits are permitted to enter the city if thev are known, but otherwise it is impossible to get into town. This regulation seems harsh, but it is a necessity. A man is now in a temporary jail in what is left of Kernville. Ho was caught stealing a gold watch, and a shot was fired at him, but he was not wounded. The only thins that saved him from lynching was the smallness of the crowd. His sentence will be the heaviest that can be given him. The body of the "Hun," who was lynched in an orchard, last night, was removed by his friends during the night. The inhuman monster had cut off his victim's four fingers of the right hand. Ho was noticed before he escaped, and dropped the fingers into his pocket, where they were found when ho was captured. The act maddened the men, and they took him to an orchard on tho hillside and hung him. Battery B, of Pittsburg, arrived in the city this morning under command of Lieut. Shepard, who went to the headquarters of Adjutant-general Hastings in the tower. The General had just gotten up, and as the officer entered. General Hastings asked, 44 Who sent you beret" 4 "I was sent hero by the Chamber of Commerce," replied the Lieutenant. 44 Well, I want to state that there are only four people who can order you out tho Governor, Adjutant-general, major-general and the commander of the Second Brigade. Yen havo committed a serious breach of discipline, and my advice to you is to get back to Pittsburg as soon as possible, or you may be mustered out of service. I am surprised that you should attempt such an act without any authority whatever." This seemed to settle the matter, and the' battery started back to Fittsburg. In justice to Lieutenant Shepard, it might be stated that ho was told that an order was issued by the Governor. General Hastings stated afterwards that the sending down of the soldiers was like waving a red flag, and it would only tend to create trouble. Ho Baid everything was quiet here, and it was an insult to the citizens of Johnstown to 6end soldiers hero at present. The Washington Infantry came in over tho Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and when Captain Shannon reported to Adjutantgeneral Hastings that gentleman said there was no need for soldiers aid. If any were needed, he would order out the State Guards. He said he had nothing to do with independent organizations, consequently he would not advise them further than to say there was no need of any soldiers. A train of five cars came in from Cumberland. Md., this morning, loaded with provisions and thirty men to help clean up the debris. The relief train from Pittsburg, over the B. &- O. road, reached here at 2 this morning, after an exciting ride up the mountain. All along the road, at each town, contributions were made to the already welllilled cars of provisions. McKee sport added two to the three, taKen from Pittsburg, two moro were added at liraddock, three at West Newton, and so on all the way to Johnstown until, when the latter place was reached, the train had ten loadea cars. ' Mrs. J. C. Campbell, of Allegheny Ctty, and Mrs. W. V. Hughes, of Pittsburg, have reported at the scene of the disaster for the relief of the homeless children. Airs. Hughes said: 4Ve are here for the purpose of attending to the wants Of the sufferers." As soon as children report to her, who are devoid of parents, they will at once be furnished with transportation and sent to Allegheny City, there to be cared for by the Christian people of that place. The relief committee from Ohio are pitching their canvas tents on the hillside. They have nine hundred of these canvas tents, and they are being eagerly utilized as fast as erected. At the request of Adjutant-general Hastings, Maor-general Schofield, acting Secretary ot War, has detailed two army officers, who volunteered their services, to assist General Hastings in maintaining order at Johustown. These officers aro Captain Gageby and Lieutenant Miller. The Cambria hospital has now three hundred patients. Dr. Burk, with an efficient corps of assistants.' is in charge. Two of the patients died yesterday, Miss Hughes, a young lady aged twenty, and Mrs. Teeters, a lady aged eight y-threo. 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. 2S2, F. and A. M., arrived in Johnstown in the morning. They had driven over the mountains. The horses were covered with mud, and when they diew up at the station stood panting aud steaming after their drive down the mountain side. Thev brought physicians and medicine. Botn were badly needed. The hospital in the upper part of Johnstown is full to overflowing. Many have been carried to the surrounding houses. One of the patients died on their hands and several aro verv low. Hospitals have been established at Coneinaugh and Mineral Point, but little could be learned of how many patients thev contained and how they were faring. There aro about thirty Catholic priests and nuns here. The Sisters aro devoting themselves to the care of the sick and injured in the hospitals, while the priests are doing anything and everything, and making themselves Generally useful. Bishop Phelan reached here on Sunday evening and returned to Pittsburg on the 8 o'clock tram yesterday afternoon. Ho has organized the Catholic forces in this neighborhood, and all are devoting themselves to hard work assiduously. What the hospitals would have done without the Sisters is a difficult question. There are nine Charity, seven Franciscan and seven Bcuodictine Sisters. Among the priests are: Rev. Fathers Guido, Goebel, Cosgrave,

Gallagher, Troutwein, Kosenstein, Doren. Cockran, Boyle, Smith, O'Conncll and Lambing. The following order was posted on a telegraph pole in Johnstown to-day: Notice During the day men who have Wn idle have been bopped to aid us in clearing tho town, and many have not refused to work. We are now so organized that employment can be found for every man who wants to work, and men ottered work who rcfuo to tike the same, and who are able to work, must leave Johnstown for tho present. Wo cannot afford to feed men who will not work. All who work will be paid for the same. Htraneera and Id 1 ere who reluo to work will he ejected noin Johnstown, liy order of Citizens Committee. Ollicers were stationed at everv avenue and railroad that enters the town. All suspicious-looking characters are stopped, lint ono question is asked, it is: 'Will you work?'7 if nn affirmative answer is given, a man escorts him to tho employment bureau, where he is put to work. If not, he is turned back. The committee bos driven one or two men out of tho town. There is a lot of idle vagabond negroes in Johnstown who will not work. It is likely that a committee will escort them out of town. They have caused the most troublo during tho past few days. It is a fact, though a disagreeable one to say, that not a few of the relief committee who came to this citv. came only out of curiosity, and positively refused to ao any work, but would hang around the cars eating the food. Tho leaders of the committee then had to do all tho work. They deserve much credit. An old man sat on a chair placed 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 yon men help? Look at those men who have not slept for three days, and aro dropping with fatigue. Wo will pay well. For God's sake, help us." Tears rolled down his cheeks as he spose. Then he would threaten the group of idlers standing by, and again plead with them. Every man, it seems, wants to bo a policeman, where he can bulldoze strangers and annoy reporters. Adjutant-general Hastings this afternoon telegraphed President Harrison, requesting that government pontoons be furnished, to enable i sale passageway to be made across the held of charred ruins above Johnstown bridge, for the purpose of prosecuting search for the dead. Lato to-night an answer was received from the President stating that the pontoons would be at once forwarded b3' the Secretary of War. Work of the Associated Pre. Johnstown, Junes. The difficulties to which the representatives of the press have been subject in their eflorts to depict tho horrors of tho situation here are almost beyond description. For the first forty-eight hours eight or nine correspondents struggled frantically for precedence over the single wire in operation, and when the Associated Press finally obtained possession of this onljT means of communication from the desolate valley, there was chagrin and disappointment on every side. But tho troubles ot this bureau, instead of being ended were really only begun. The electric fluid was subject to interruptions that were as frequent as they were terrifying, and at times it seemed as though the onlv wire which connected chaos with the universe was to bo severed. Tho surroundings even now are not such as to encourage careful literary productions. The improvised office of the Associated Press is in an abandoned tile factory that lirst became a morgue beforo tho disciples of Fabian shared quarters with the dead. As tho wind blows from the blackened ruins on the river the emanations of burning and decaying flesh steal through the open windows and add to the horrors of the experience. A narrow board that rests upon the heads of upturned barrels is the table at which are seated the representatives of the Associated Press, and tallow candles in bottle-necks havo usurped the gas and the electric light. Harry W. Orr, of Pittsburg, tho operator who in this crisis has distinguished himself bj' a display of fortitude and endurance seldom witnessed, is seated on a low stool and grasps firmly tho box relay on the circular table that surrounds him as ho ticks away at the rate of fortywords a minute to the operators that receive simultaneously on the great Associated Press circuit that radiates from Johnstown bridge to New York, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, .Milwaukee, St. Paul and Minneapolis. After sovent3rtwo hours of almost constant service, broken at no timo by more than a couple of hours' hasty slumber, W. C. Connelly, jr., the Associated Press agent who chartered a train and beat all competitors to tho scene of horrors, has been forced this afternoon to succumb to the mandate of nature, and seek repose in his Pittsburg home. It rained New York newspaper men for half an hour this afternoon. None of them had reached here before. The Sun men got cut off at Harrisburg, went back to New York, then to Albany, to Buffalo, to Cleveland, then to Ashtabula, then to Pittsburg, and here by special train on the Baltimore &, Ohio. The Tribune, World aud Herald men went down from Harrisburg to Chambersburg. and drove from there here, 140 miles, without getting out of their carriages. It cost these men $070 to get here from New York. THE PENNSYLVANIA LINES. A Route to Be Opened Within Thirty-Six Hours The Wrecked Trains. Philadelphia, June a The best information that can be obtained to-day at trie Pennsylvania railroad offices in this city is to the efl'ect that a route will be patched up to Altoona within thirty-six hours, thus giving the eight hundred or more east and west-bound passengers laid up at that place an opportunity to get away from there. On the middle division of the main line the road is clear from Altcona to Petersburg, and they hope to get from Petersburg to Huntingdon some time to-day. From Huntingdon to Manayunk bridge there are eeveral bad breaks. All but one span of the Manayunk bridge has been swept away, East ot that point the Mays bridge is gone, and but one span remains of tho Granville bridge. From Lewistown to Harrisburg, a distance of sixty-live miles, the lino is clear. The railroad people expected to get a direct telegraph wire through to Altoona this afternoon over the main line route, when a correct list of the passengers on the day express and mail train washed away at Conemaugh, will be obtained, as well as the whereabouts of those who did not go to Altoona. From the best information obtainable, it can bo stated that only seven of the passengers were lost. From Altoona westward, on the main line, the track is open to within a short distance of South Fork, where the bridge was washed away on Friday evening. Between South Fork and Johnstown, 1,000 men are busy putting the railroad in shape. At Johnstown and west of there, several large gangs of workmen are employed. It is not believed that passengers can bo conveyed from Harrisburg to Pittsburg over the main line inside of a week or ten days. As to the transportation of freight and mails nothing definite can be learned. No direct intelligence of any sort has been received from Lock Haven since 9 o'clock on Friday night. Tho dispatch then received 6tated that tho lumber dam had broken and the town was flooded. The wildest kind of rumors are received in regard to the situation at that place, but they lack confirmation. It is believed, however, that the loss of property at that place will be enormous. Inquiries made at the Pennsylvania railroad ofhee as to the probable amount of the loss to that company resulting from the washing away of bridges, tracks, cars, eneincs and other property and the stoppa ge of traffic elicited the information'that at the proper time reliable data would be given a3 to the loss sustained. Direct communication with Altoona by telegraph has been had over the Pennsylvania railroad wires. The passengers on the day express and mail train caught at Conemaugh are scattered. Some went to Cresson, and others drove all the way to Altoona, a most dangerous ride. The officials at Altoona have been ordered to prepare a correct list of the passengers at Altoona, and this will be given to the Associated Press as soon as it is received here To-morrow morning, early, the westbound mails now detained at Altoona will be sent to Ebensburg via Cresson, bv rail and thence to Ninevah and Blairsvfllo by wagon. From tho latter point to Pittsburg the railroad is in working order. Tho west-bound passengers on the four westbound through trains now laid rp at Altoona can, if they fo desire, accompany these mails, and thns continue their journey. The

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Absolutely Pure. . - v . . i maun pi rnnrr trenjrth ami trhoiesnmenfa. More fcnnoraieJl thS the ordinary klnls . anl cannot ho sold In conn tliinS hAIv'l.NG frQWDBR CO., lUO Vail fVm. xY. conmanv will irive tho fnriliti tn tVn V f w v V u 3 1 bound passengers at Altoona who got to bound, the Atlantic exnrea nnH slioro evnress. and ther will ii niTrAA t . urn SklX ' opportunity to go to Pittsburg and proceed! York Central roads. Trobable Drowning of Twelve Pansengtri. Johnstown, Pa., June 3. Three inquiries sent by President Harrison tov day, caused a general belief that ex-PosU master-general Irank Hattonwas among! tne passengers who were killed on tW Pennsylvania road last Friday. President' Harrison knew that Mr. Hatton ca. vJ VA1 that train, and asked Adjutant-general! nuouugB, nu is nere m cnargO 01 ths troops, to ascertain Mr. IIattons fate. X ono here knew anything about his whereabouts. This afternoon William ITath-w Smith, general manager of the Asso ciated Press cam.? in from vu. ensburg. where he and Mr. Hatton have been in a pocket since the train wai iost. luev were on mo train together, and had a tptv unrrnw fsrnrA f mm An. All the nassenoer. tmdr or tViiran , number, who left the tram, wer kill I Mr. Hatton and Mr. Smith were luclcir! enough to stick to tho train. Mr. Smith was in a hurry to get West, and forced his' way'over tho mouutains to Johnstown. Mr. Hatton and the rest of the nasseupcrs are waitinir for tbo PnnsYlvania rnd i resume operations. Immediately on receipt of this news General Hastings forwarded ij to the President. The Passengers Did Not Take Warning. Johnstown, June 3. It is now definitely, settled that only about four lives were lost on the train that left Pittsburg on Friday morning last Conductor Bell, who had1 charge of the train, stated to-day, that, inr his opinion, only four passengers were lost Said he: "We were between Conemaugh and Johnstown when tho engineer saw tho; flood coming. Ho gavo us word, and wa ran through the train and told the passengers to run to the mountains for their lives, but the majority of them thonght it was only a wave, and remained in the cars, while the train men ran to the mountains. When tho flood came it washed away tho. car next to the smoking-car, and left the1 others remaining. Tho people in the PulU man car were ducked, but none of theni were otherwise injured. The three or four i passengers who were lost were men, but I do not loiow their names." Four of tho young ladies who were oa the train were saved, but owing to fright were unable to leave Prospect, whero tbey were takn. until to-dav. when thev 1 were taken to Ebensburg. AID FOR THE STRICKEN CITIES. Action of Washinsrton Officials The Prei j dent to Preside at a Relief Meeting. Washington, June 3. A subscription, for tho relief of sufferers by tho Johnstown flood was started at tho Postofflce Department to-day. First Assistant Postmastergeneral Clarkson headed the list by a subscription of 100. The indications are that nearly $1,000 will be raised in this department. Postmaster-general Wanamaker had already subscribed 61,100 in Philadelphia. Pension Commissioner Tanner to-day sent the following telegram to the United States pension agent at Pittsburg: 'Make 6pccial and current Vouchers from tho towns in Pennsylvania ruined by floods, and pay at once on their receipt. Where certificates have been lost in floods send. permit to execute new vouchers without presenting certificate to magistrate. Permits signed in blank forwarded to-day,-Make special all priginal certificates of , pensioners it siding in those towns, and pay ; on reoeipt of vouchers, regardless of my instruction of May 13." The following telegram was received by President Harrison this evening, from, j Governor Heaver, who has made his way from York to Harrisburg: IIarkisdurg, Ta.t June 3. To the President, Washington. The fberifl" of Cambria county says everything is quiet, and that he can control the situation without aid of tmonf. The Teople are fairly houeed, and good order prevail. Tbo supply of food, so far, is equal to the demand, hut supplies of clothing '"C still greatly needed; alw of lood. Conscrva' es estimates place the loss of life at from SAnA o 10.000. and the lo , of property frori "K)tOOO to 40,000,000. The people are i rk heroically, and will have a laro fore jorrow clearing a way the debris. The sympathies of the world are freely expreyed. One telegram from England gives $l,00O.. I will l.aue a general appeal to the public to-night. Help comes from oil quarters. Its universality greatly encourages our people. I will eommunicato with you promptly if anything unusual occutf. Jamls A. Veavkr. The President to-nisht received from P. McQuaid, president of tho Jacksonville Auxiliary Sanitary Association, a telegram saying that that body had placed Aj.OdO, subject to the President's sight draft, to used for the Johnstown flood snilerers. To this the President replied, as follows: I have received your dispatch with great gratification, and will draw for tho amount you hava appropriated, aud -will see that it is expended for tho purposes you have at heart. At the invitation of the President tho commissioners of tho District met him in conference this evening. Ar a result, a meeting of citizens will be held at 3 o'clock to-niorrowf and President Harrison will preside. Generous Citizens of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Juno 3. In pnrsuancacf 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 of the Johnstown sufferers. Diexel it Co. were chosen as tha treasurers of tho fund. The firm of Drexcl & Co. started tho fund with a contribution, of 10.000. Several subscriptions of $1,000 were annouueed, and lato this afternoon the fund had reached a total of $4-VC0-Manv subscriptions wen also sent direct to rvl A-. Crt' lmnk. including SlO.OOO from the Philadelphia fc Emj ing railroad, fc..000 from the rnu adelphia beer brewers, $1,000 from the Haldwin locomotive-works, and other large individual contributions. lP to this evening tho direct subscription to Drexel fc Co. amounted to Sl03,70r, making a total of the two funds of over $l-J.pt? a'his is exclusive of the Pennsylvania hailroad Company 'a subscription of 25,000. and that of the Cambria Iron Company of Ntt000. Tho amounts will be dispensed at Johnstown aud vicinity by tho officials ol those corporations, l.argt; quantities oi provisions, clothing, etc., have been contributed and will bo forwarded to Johnstown as quickry as possible. The Kethlehem Iron Company to-day contributed $5,000 for tho roliet of i-O