Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 31, Number 39, Jasper, Dubois County, 14 June 1889 — Page 6

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SCENES OF WOE.

CoMmAuga V Alley Dte9ttr Almost Indanoribxbla. Scmki ml Death, Devastation and Wn Appalling Enough to Make the SirengMt Heart Quail The Search for the Dead. arfca N'Nmber of Victim will Kraen MH)r TbHUMtotU (ihiotU Ih Huma far to ItnhbinK tit Dead -4 awltt KetriUutloH Vaek m the ItnlHK.I Kite of th OUf Pitwburoh, Pa., Jane 2. The first force ot rescuers ami press represents sires wlto bad been making every effort for two days to gain au tmtrauce into the valley in which was located the city of Johkitowii, accomplished their purpose jat as the light of this morning's sun Maoha $rir the mountain tojw surrounding h place 01 uesoiauou. me news re ceivd la this city during the day con Arm in allium every detail all of the gravest fears, tdatetuents and conjectures that have been entertained. All reports rre tk.it the city is literally & ruin, the Ascription or which is simply impoi 2de., .. . From Johnstown ta. fMinrral Point tawor the Penusylvwu!aadbed has been completely swept awafc": For a distance -of oae-fourth of a mim the road is uum jared, then eoines another complete wreck to a point above South Fork. Twenty-seven Pennsylvania railroad locomotives and an unknown number of balk freight cars and passenger coaches are lying m the river bed under the de bris of Johnstown at the Stone bridge. The town of Woodville aud Cone 'mangh borough, above Johnstown, are swept a clearly off the face of the earth a if they had never h:id an existence. Of Woodville's population, of fifteen .hnndred souls, barely half a dozen have 4mmh accounted for. The Hungarian colony at4 Ct.rabria City are stealing and plundering every thing t&ny can reach. TRe-work of' exhuming jsnedeod at Johnstown has only begun, &ut already more than one hundred bodies have been carried out of the ruins. Eleren carloads of finished coffins and thirty undertakers arrived during the daf, and the work of interment which bewail thk afternoon will rapidly yjrsjtrtss nader the direction of a spe--eially-orgauized force of men. Nineveh will hereafter be known as the ityof the dead, for at this point the Cencmaugh has given up a large portion of its dead. When the waters receded from the fields and bottom lands over which it had flowed, the stiff, staring and naked, bruised and wangled bodies of men, women and children, from the aged the infant, lying in the soft mud, was a horrible sight, making heartsick those "'hr witnessed it. Nnneraacher's plan-Inr-mill was used as a temporary morgue, aud it wai there that the blood.stained, swollen and disfigured remains whites and negroes were first placed .for protection aud ideatiticfltlon, if such a thing were possible. Some of the faces were wreathed in dimpled smiles; upon others death stamped looks of agony aud horror that spoke the inexpressible lanjCHage of the soul while struggling with leath. Most of the bodies recovered at this place wore Catholics, and around thlr necks hung emblems of their religion. The attire and features ef a majority showed them to he ef the lowly yet there were hi any hearing evidence of culture, reflaement Aid pros- , perity. The Horror lHcreafil. Joh.vstow.v. Pa.. June 2. The magnitude, of the horror increases' with the boar. It is believed that not less than tne tfc' sand of the drowned found lodgment benettithe mass of debris in the Urinsgle 0fgjpuad that tbeConemaugh out wft of the, bank between the river woper and ttie Pennsylvania .railroad SrWge. There was the greatest funeral fijTe la history. The victims were not on lit, Wnt were parts of its horrible construction. W'jole houses were was lied into ' apeac ef the triangle. Hen-coops, pig- !, stables, the refuse of the gutter, the otctatns ef. sewers, whole lumber.yards boom upon boom of logs, comosm1 the Mass, when the njpetting of a eook-stove ignited thsLawM, and the work ef erematlnnT&eean. It was a costly sacrifice to the demon of the Jlood, blug a literal breast of fire. The smoke reie in a huge, funnel-shaped dottd, and at times changed to the form of au hour-glass. At night the flames would light up this misty remnant of mortality. The effect upon 'the living, Ignorant and intelligent, was the same. That volume of smoke, with its dual ;cjh, produced a feeling of awe in many haf. was superior in most canes to that im. the awful moment of the storm's jrrath on Friday afternoon. Hundreds ood for hours regarding the smoke and , wondering if it forboded another visitation direr than ita predecessor. It m with a feeling of absolute loathing that all people hereabouts this morning awoke to find that nothing but a mass of j calcined human bones, stoves, old I Iran and other appreximately indestructibl matter, from which only a light blue ir was arising. General Hastings ok precantiona to prevent the extension f the fire to another hnge pile a short distance away, and this will be searched rf-day for bodies of flood victims. A lUilty Off a Jettnutnwn. 3ohxstowx, Pa., June 3. Coaematigh, tWoedvale, Kernvllle, Cambria City and tker surrounding towns in the flooded "tlMrict are as badly off as Johnstown, At Coaemaugh the inhabitants of the lower lying jwrtion of tlie town have been literally wiped out of existence. At Wood vale the percentage of death is even greater than at Johnstown. Kernvllle has osly a home or two as a monument to Its former respectable proportions. Cambria City is not even a ghost of its ienaer self, while all nlong the iTte ot th torrent the Isolated hssMs oi hundreds are without oecupanta. The relief provisions for Johusw must be extended to those other jri&ces as rapidly as railroad trausportafacilities can be furnish). The Viwhs named alt lie between Johnstown smA the Mouth Fork dam, whose bursting otwied the illwter. At Woodvale the leail bodies of hundreds are lying in the debris, relatively as numerously ns they ia Johnstown. At Couemangh, the .! coHdltlon of things pruvall. Hi irearclty of the living at both plaees weaken the recovery of bodies very slow ark. ihi WHhi' t nt Sim Hollow. Haws Hollow, Pa., June 1 ftp. tn.The rorts of th number drowpd vrv with person wivi inr an aetiiaate of the

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hc-sra thtiterinteHdent Pitcairn aariac that the number would not fall far short of Ave thousand. Others put It at thre tlMMwasdntl dawn as low as eight huudred, anywhere hetwe the two figures Memthmetl. U, K. ThomHo, train master, said dead bodies are lying iloag the hanks of the river betwee Hang Hollow . iz:r :.- r..TA . : v: eiteasest, and men oould be seen ruuuing in every direction, eating as they went. IE very trala is crowded with people going to tke sctfiie. Everybody has but one objective point Johnstown. L. L, Kmltli, General manager of the Gautier Steel-works, was oa the train on his way home from Milwaukee, where he had been attending a meeting of the wire manufacturers. He has lived ia Johnstown all his life. He said: "lean not imagiue that the flood did as much dam age in Johnstown as reported. The water would have to rise thirty feet hinher than it was last June before it got above Walnut street. About niue-teuths of the town is above Walnut street, so you see that the flood must have been very high to have reached that portion of the town. That railroad bridge did the whole damage. Had I been there 1 would hare blown It up with dynamite had I been ap prised ia time of the flood that was comlag." Knzineer De I.ozier said he helnrf out tour vest lay afternoon, aud all that coitld lw seen was the tojw of the houses. He left Saug Hollow this morning about nine o'clock. He counted eighty-five people going down on drift. One of the most touching incidents, he said, was the drowning of a father, mother and three children. They came down on a roof, aud just opposite the town the raft struck a pile of drift and went to pieces. All five went down in the mad current A moment later two heads were seen above the water, and their two befalls clutohlnif at the roof. rhat was the last seon of that family. This is but one incident of a hundred that are related by pobple Jiving ,alemr tha river. Mr. De Lozler said the scenes can not be overdrawn. He saw one woman go down on a raft with both eyes lying out on her cheeks. She was dead, havlne been crush- among the timbers. Men and women with arms broken, blood treamlng down over their faces, and their bodies cut, bruised aud bleeding. were a frequent sight. One Thousand Del and nrlar Bottles ; Ih a l'rr. j JonxsTowv, Pa.. June 2. It is imnos-I slble at this hour to state the exact loss i ot life, but it is safo to placo it anywhere , from eight to twelve thousand. A Men can not be taken without finding some , one who has lost friends. Some of them J have lost whole families. The scenes in Johnstown are beyond description. In ! the once peacef ul river houses are strewn I without a limit. The worst of the wreck ' is at the Pennsylvania road bridge. It was an arched bridge, and the arches were very narrow. When the flood came aud swept the buildings with it. all of ; them clogged in these arches. For fully j one mile houses and parts of honses are ' lylug along the stream. In this very . debris Is where the most of the bodies are j supposed to He, It is a conceded fact that at least one thousand bodies are: uere, wun mtie or no possibility of ever being brought out. THE CLIMAX OF HORRORS. About eight o'clock this morning, by some means other, the debris took fire, uu wuiutu bi uerveiy as it u were teu oy oil and fanned oy the winds of Heaven. It started at the bridge, and burned clear up the river as far as there was any fuel for the flames. Summary ,f untie-. Johxstowx. Pa.. June 2. A nartv of BAarliara anu ivrt t,u ,), lilnc. IuuIm I of a woman to--'ay. The thieves were caught. In one of their iockets was found a woman's ear, entire, sliced from the head with a sharp knife. Iu the ear lobe was a sparkling diamond ring. Tho captors placed ropes around the necks of the villains, and then strung them up to the nearest tree until they were dead. They then cut them down and burled them. Further Investigation of the conteat of the pockets of the fiends brought . i . , ..... . . i, iuriu in re quantities oi jeweiry auu tne mutilated finger of a little girl, on which was a gold Land ring. The I"tnnrrs Tako a Hand. Johnstown, Pa., Juno 3. At five o'clock yesterday a posse of farmers surrounded n gang of fnmteeu Hungarians, who were robbing the dead, and suckeded, after a lively battle with rocks and clubs, in driving three of them into the middle of the stream, where they sank beneath the waves to rise no more. Without Heats or Food, HHrt Vrasnl with Ai'xlHy. Sa.no Hollow, Pa., June 3. Advices from Johnstown are that practically every building hi the olty has either been entirely wrecked, or damaged so that it will have to be rebuilt. Whole streets were swept clear of all trace of habita tion. The people who escaped to tha hillsides have no boats to get around with, and are hard pressed for food. They are camped out iu the brush, and the women and children sun greatly from hardships, besides being half crazed with anxiety over the fate of friends and relatives. The water is not receding nmeli, because the choked up railroad bridge acts as a dam, and will do so until the debris that clogs the arches is removed, which will be a big job. The Peiiasy Ivan la railroad track Is torn away bodllyor. distances of a mile or more ia two orUtee places, The Baltimore Ohio traclJsuffered also, but not so severely. i from Klshtvte 1'lttron Thousand Lives I.o-t. PirrsBUROH, Pa., June 2. -Adjutant-General Hastings, who was In the vicinity of Johnstown last nk'lit, stated that the total list of dead in the Conemattgh disaster will not fall below wight thousand, and may n-ach fifteen thousand persons. General Hastings has ordered two thousand coffins to be tent to Johnstown. Twenty-six undertakers are to go there at once from tills city. The Ponnsylviuta llallroad Comimny are sending n carload of skiffs to Nitievah, hoping to get into Johnstown by this means. It was reliably stated last night that not a liviug soul had entered or departed from Johnstown since the hour of the disaster, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding. Bach hour adds new horrors to tiia story. Sumo of the roliorts reaehlug tha elty to-ulglit are appalling.

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b7upWardWo2 tv1 yearfS 1 Ml TnZ Slp?raesw5K .S'lISTnlS 5 ' ?SU tH Nntional Guard to ralive off floating drift He said he got VV '""S;, '"'i lu , tnf ir,t,0, ., i,i,- tourteouth and Kiahtet-nth resi-

CCHOFS OF THE DELUGE.

Itrm anti IhHHkhi ? Mi-laarh I. IrrMt Ih UHtftlH with th OrrwkrlntlHr lHtT Ih I ho CMH-miuxU Vllxrhft MiimiIhh l'rHM m MMrr j 1'tdHt t VIpw. H.KKisnuH4i, Pa., Jmu 4. Adjatant- , Ueneral Hasiings yesterday st th r! I . 1 !..... ..V. ... , u IM..1.1 rostai ivi le;raph Company at tuit Better Inform tJoreraor IWvr tim thti morniat's reports v Uw mmr kwt at JehftotoKN at boiwecs twrsa4 ! Ummisaml. Tie irrelt AirAc yrli. TM plHetf U iufe!l WtUi ihlv a raa4at. wao n rohfc.'ntf thf UeuJ m1 ayfwecfaniat rver jr 'HltK ibcy csm Uy tfctr hmni oa. Tkm pi& pt rv Nttinic ainit every thlMf la the haM t provl'km Mt hre tor t!f Hood m)?r"r. Tell tSevfrutw lt4rr that ytm run rea u ttireet att any Utimx ht way wit hi mmrI eato wits pertieo here will receive piwt attaUoa from at. The present Intention of the norYrstor is to end no troop to Johnstown, Vat he has requested that the Fourteenth lteglment be kept in readias to hwvh to the ne of tho dlater. General Hastlugi telegraphed: "Hare gooil organization;, don't think it newssary to call for triMips. lie assured that every thlug will bo done within possibility to relieve the survivors ami care for the dead." Sheriff MrCnn dles of Alkgh-euy County telegraph a follow: "Have just returned from Johnstown. ments were ready to move with car and rations, aud the AdjuUut-Genral countermanded tho orders. General Snowden telegraphs that tho FiM Hrlgado Is r ady to respond to tho call for duty at Johnstown, and General Wiley telegraphs hist willingness to respond to any demand made on him. Hush Huldekoper. surgeoa of the First Itrigade, wires that the Hospital Corp Is ready to go as volunteers. Colon! Keck, of Wllkesbarre, states that his regiment is ready to do duty. Governor Heaver is ia comaunlcnioti with General Hasting, who U In John--town, aud giving uecessary instructions. j Three Ifmulrett ltlir Dl.rnrrnl Ih the Sa ml. Joh.vstow.v, Pa., June .1. Three hnaI dred ltodies were discovered thlj afternoon in the sand at Kernrillo, near the mouth of Sandy Creek. Tho i sight can not be described, and is one of the most distressing evor ! witnessed. A crowd of at least llt-e hnaj dred gathered around, endeavoring to j find the bodies of some friends, or rcla- ; lives. There were no coffins thero at tho j time, and the bodies had to be laid on th j ground. A rain is now falling, bat this i duos not Interfere with the work. Mt t the rebelling party have been up for two days, yet they work' witU a ditenaition that Is wonderful. Engine No, 15, of Pittsburgh, which is playing a stream on the fire at the ?toua bridge, has it now nlmost extinguished, and the fire is about out. Ky to-morrow the task of getting nut the bodies undT the burniug pirtrs will bo co:um(ice! ia earnest. Tito runrraN lictHii-Kvrr Man ltl Own CofriH.M:kr. ' JoH.N.STOw.f, Pa., June S. The coSSns are now beginning to arrive, and oa many streets on lhj hillside they are stacked as high as th second nud tldrJttory windows. At Keravitl, in this r4spect, the people are not so fortunate. It would seem that erjry man is his own cofiin-makfr, and many a man can bo seen here aud thers claiming what remains of his house in which prhaps ms foHm tU( remln of a loved one, a he nd Is busily patching it together with nails find hoops or any aratlable thing ti ho'.rt the body '. some dear member of his Tamily. Funerals are now taking placo In the tipper portion of the town. Ths coffins are conveyed to the cemetery la wagons, each one carrying two, three or more. Few mourner fellew. There Is no time for mourning. Annthr lllty Ih 3ffl f Asltaare. Harrihruro, Pa.. Jane 4. A es?9 was received at the Pennsylvania railroad Station at this point yesterday from Williamsport over the Northern Central wires, stating that a meeting had been held In that city yesterday afternoon at which the following was authorized to W issued to the pttbllc: 'The city of Williamsport has been sorely striken by the most severe flood "ever known in th State of Pennsylvania. All have suffered great loss. Large numbers of our citizens are wholly destilnto and suffering for the neeessarls of life. Those of our people, able so to do, ar giving what they can, bnt are unable to furnish the tslbsf needed. We appeal to a generous public la the name of God to help ns. Let every thin? lie sent to tho HCaj vr4i Thrt I.ffjIoH r "Unknown. Johnstown. Pa., June 4. Two hundred and fifty bodies were reoeived at tin Pennsylvania railroad depot yesterday. After being washed they wre placed in caskets and arranged in long rows on tho deHt platform for identification. Oily a few of the number were recognizedsome were so terribly dlsfigared as to be wholly unrecognizable. The wakingrooms In which the embalming was done presented a sickening sight. Hamas forms frightfully burned or oot or bruised, were laid upon a rough board table, washed and coffined. If they were not recognized in a very abort time, thy were placed on wag las and takon to !h Adams-street school-house, where they will be kept us long as inmlble and then buried in a grave bearag the legend "Uuknowa." a Sanltwry .MfaiHrc. PittsrvroH) Pa., June 4. A wtoaniltont was secured by the Allegheny City ciuttciliAen's committee yesterday and will leave this morning to expioro tlw Allegheny river np as far as the KHkiininet&s for dead bodies. The latter will be takn out of the water a a sanitary preoawtioii. A message for the Chamber of Commercn was recelvrd last night from General Hustings asking for one thouuM' men with axes, picks, shovels, etc. vTrnMl Ih Tlm. Johxstown, Pa., June I. Stephen C d11ns, Assistant Superintendent of Malls, arrived here yesterday, aad made arraugenwnts for i esumptlon of service today Kast and "West The destruction of life at Kast Conmattgh was less than reported, not more than twealy-fire having perished. The projifrty, howevr, for three tnaret tip from the river, was totally destroyed. About i:ii p. in. Friday word was te . graphed front .Soaih Fork that the dam was breaking. Almost immediately tfe whistles of sercrat locomotives wers blown so long atd load that th peojdo rnshed from their homes, and set-lag ths water cawing, ttsd to Dm mn.talt.

THE VALLEY OF DEATH.

GlimM at tlw Work ef Drslht la tht Caormsitrtti Vllr iisrt4 thm twi ttt KmhmuMMPThr KiHt4a tMWr t the Wstra. tht Johxstown, Pa.. Jaa ft. Frm Johns town up ths valty eay ewmmaaieati'Mi has been opened m far as CoaomaNgh, two milos, and it is Mib4o for any u bore to readily bokold a sight nvr be fore seen ia this world, and which no on who does not e it himself wilt over beIkve did really oxUt It Is deribd here as well as words can deserib, but morely as a duty to history, and not with th idea that any one who can not look at it will ever thiuk it true. Krery one has soon the light beam-shafts and rods in a factory lying in twit.l, broken and crii-r.- shaiH after a fire has de stroyed tho factory. In the sap above John4town the water has picked up a foar-track raitro.vl, cvered with trains, freight and pasfagsr, and with niachmo hops, and otbr heavy hnildtngi with heavy content, and ha torn the track t piece, twisted, turned aad crossed it as fire never could. It has tossed hug freight locomotives lik barrels, and car llkeijckl boxes. and. torn thf.u ti pieces ami jcatterel thfm over mile of territory. It ha in one place jt a stream of water a city block wiue between the railroad and the bluft, and in another place it has changed the coarpe of the river as far ia the othr ..... - a a. direction, anu tett u a Bunun-u varus inland, or which are the tracks that for' nterly sklrte-1 tho hiuks. Add' to this that in the midst of this. fire, with the singular fatality that has made it everywhere the companion of th ilood in this rsa t 2'ruiik I a jl ldtslrAil o tfa its vestibule cars that the flood had wrecked; at. toirrCpXKXACOJT CAM1IR1A .SV: o Ac Mnte. that the passengers who remained ia the cars through the flood and until the fir, were saved, while their companions who attempted to flee were overwhelmed and drowned, and that through it all one locomotive stood, and Atill stands, comparatively uninjured in the center of the wrckaje. Thi disaster and the story of one of the most marvelous freaks of the flood is barely outlined. That locomotive stands there on its track now with its fires burning, smoke curling from the stack and strata from its safety-valve, all readv to go ahead a soon as a track is built down to It It Is So. I,, a fifty-four-ton eight-drir-ir class of Pennsylvania railroad locomotive. Geonee- Hudson was its engineer, and Conductor Sheehy had charge of the train. They, with all the rest of the crew, escaped by flight when they saw the flood coming. The limits of the idaygrouud where a giant force played with masse? of iron as a child might play with pebble, begins with a bridge or piece of a bridge about thirty feet high that stands high and dry upon ordinary abutments at Woodvale. The part of the bridge that remains spanned the Pennsylvania tracks. The tracks are gone, the bridge is gone on either side, the river Is gone to a new channel, the very earth for a hundred yards aronnd has been scraped off and swept away, bnt this little sjkiii remains lurched there twenty feet abov everything. In the icldt of a desert of ruim. the only piece of a bridge that is standing from the railroad bridge to South Fork. It is a light. Iron structure, and the abutments are not nnusmlly heavy. That it should be keit there when ever;.' thing else wa-( twisted and torn to pieces is one of the queer freaks of this flood. Xear by are the wrecks of two freight trains that are standing side by Me whre the flo.! caught them. The lower ends of both trains are torn to pieces, tha cars; tossed around in every direction, and many of them carried a war. The whole of the train oa the track nearest the river was demolished. Its locomotive I cne entirely. Perhaps becine the other train acted a escort or buffer for the second oue,,the latter his twenty-five r thirty cars that are uninjured. Apparently, they could move off as soon as that wonderful engine, No. l,.T.i. that stands with steam np at their bead, gets ready to jmiII out A second look, nowever, shows that th track is in rainy places literally washed from biaeath the cars. Some of the tracks also are t anted half way round, and are stindinr with wheels across the track. Hat the force that dW this left the ll;ht wooden bx " aba a x t a a n ,ts car tnemseives nnuarmeit They were l t,..j.i -i,u .i..,..t t.. .-.! 1 ru . i.-. 1.. . i i ' t- t- t nnw7 f7r iMirviru iu tJltfT ifl5 I hungry In Johnstown. nlVved m one of ttTmou finV.sii; .Xi, . iS. ? 4!1U"tle 'V. In front of engine No. 1,J9 the water planks and every Iescrlptio; of wrecki lM.atu.,1 lot in fr.il rtt fl to the heioi-liicht ami is parked in so j lightly that twenty men with rop. and axet worked all day withowt clearing all away. The track is absolutely gone from the front of tlw engine clear up to beyond Couemangh. Pattsof it lie ab-mt everywhere, twisted, turned upside down, stacked cross-wise, one piece above anilher and in oli pl'tce a scctkn of the left trak has been lifted clear over the right track, run along there for a hort distance, then twists into its protcr place agaiuu Kvcn stronger than the tracks, the water has played with the rails, wbre they have been torn loose from the ties. The ri! are of steel and of the iWavieU weight used. They were twiwtvd like willow boughs in a spring freshet la a country brook. One rail Ik In the sand m the shape o! a letter "S." More are broken sqnarely in two. Many are broken within a few fest cf a h-

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tho ragoeU are still ualtod hy tho po. Xataral law would soom to show that tho lirt plaeo whore thoy ahoaUi have hsroktM was at tho joints. Thoro is little to iadioato the late pres tmee of a railrMMl from here to the npper port k tne uo.omaugN. me utile plain into which the gap widened here, and ia which stood tho hoik of tho town, is wioed out There is not the slightest isdicstiuR that the center ot the plain was any thing hut a flood-washed gulch iu sontemonatain regioa. At the ntuer end stands a fantastic col lection of rained railroad oHHiuments. Three trains stood there when the flood swept down the valley. The outside one was a local uaenger, with three cars and a locomotive. It stands there yet the cars tilted by the washing of the Irack, hut comparatively Hitintard. Hotuehow a eonple more locomotives have been run into the sand-bank in front freight train stood upon the track whereon a large collection of smashed cars has its place now. It was broken all to piece. In-ide of all was the d'ty express with its baggage and express cars aud at the end three vestibule oars. It wa from thU train that a nnmber of )-ax-seugers fifteen certainty, and no one knows how many more were lost. When th-' alarm came, most of the pas senger fled for the high ground. Many reached it. fathers beeitated oa the way; tried to run oack, and were lost. Others stayed on the cars, and after the first rush of the Hoh1 were rescue! alive. Some of the freight cars were loaded with lime, and these leaped over the ves tibule car ami set them on lire, am! quickly had the cars biasing. Three of the vestibule cars were burned down to the trucks. Thee and the peculiar shaped iron frames of the vestibule are all that how where the car stood. The reason the flood did not wipe out these three trains entirely is supposed to he that just iu front of them and between them and the flood, was tho round-hoose filled with engines. It was a larirs buildm:.. and probably forty feet bizh to the tons of tlie ventilators in the roof. The wave of wrath, eye-witnesses say, was an high that these ventilators were beneath it. The roand-bouse was swept away to its very foundation, and the u-hhI plaved jack-straws with the locomotives. But it split the torrent and part of it went down each side of the trains, saving them from the worst of its force. Thirty-three locomotives were in aud around the roanit-nonse antt repair snops near, or at. . these tweaty-six have been found, or at.. leat trace!, part of them being fonnd scattered down into Johnstown, and one tender was found" ia Stonr Creek. The other seven locomotives are conenot a trace of them has been found np to thU time. It is apposed that some of them are in the sixty acres of debris at Johnstown above the bridge. AH, the locomotives that remain anywhere Within sight of the round-house, all except tlnMe ; attached to th trains, are thrown about s. t t l , Jra, uru.u mi u-eless except for old iron. The tenders are all gone. Being lighter than the lo t- - . comotives. they floated more easily, and were more quickly carried awar. The en gines were apparently rolled over and over, in wldchever direction ran the current which had hold of them, and occasionally were picked up bodily and -.lammed down acaia. wheels up or whichever way chanced to be most convenient to the flood. Most of them lie ia five feet ef mod and gravel, withonly a port showing above tha surface. Some are ont in the bed of the rie Iu the town of Conemingh thre are only thirty-eight persons po4ittvely known to have perished. THE DIREFUL DAM. It Wa i MrHrlwrr that Ottght In Invoke MntrittiAH lt Constructor anil Thn.r who .MulHlnlnr.l It. New Yrtnk', June 3. The Sun's Johnstown -.pecial says that a reporter w-nt to the dam at Lake Couemangh yesterdav and examined the masonry and found that it consisted merely of dirt, with a tight rubble facing, instead of solid masonry, ami the waste-gates, by which its bttildVrs designed that its surplus in time of high water should be run off, are said t hove been permanently closed to savo the Ssb. As to the dam itself, there was no massive masonry nor any tremendous exhibition of engineering skill in designing the stractnre or putting it up. There was no masonry at all, in fact, nor any engineering worthy of the name. The dam was simply a gigantic heap of earth dumped across the course of a mountain stream between two low hills. It was faced on each side with a layer of heavy, rough stone, loosely thrown together and unecmented. This pile of earth was, as has been stated, about seventy-five feet high and ninety-five feet thick, at the bae. At the summit it was leveled off so as to hn about twenty feet wide and a wagon -road crossed it. it was an tH-dinary dirt-road, sad there was no roek or masonry beneath it Tke width of the stream at the bottom of the dam ' wa about forty feet At the top the dam ' was abort 4W feet long. It was built i straight Heroes the gap an I neither faco I nor oack was curved. The slopes were about the same oa both f.tee and back. MARTIAL LAW. The Knln,l fttr ot .Tnh'xtnwH KnelrrUtt with a Wall f .Marital Protpctor. JOHxsTOWf, Pa., Jnno The ruined" city lies within a trnille of steel tho bsront of the Fourteenth Kegitnenr. The militia has captured Johnstown, and over the desolate plain where th dr V"' stol. throngh the toweriag wrecks and br the river passes. marches th patrol, crying "halt!" and challenging the vagnboads, vandals, and si. wn" cr' tha hhrhest offlcer ! i All wlL tU ' r u7Z I General ; tr' ' : in rank, and in cmmaad. survivor- fvf th ttfHl awoke this mTfi . .i . ,4. lt,...v.t ! at n-rie, brigade heataarter had establishe! on the slope f Prsteet Hill. over!oktng the hundreds of white ? tents of the regimnt down below under j the tower, bv the German Catholic Church, which was oa are wnen ins delude came. The Fourteenth Hegiment was reinforced yesterd ty, until It is now six hundred a troag. Kirly yestenlay morning the regiment wtt Into service. Company F was detailed to Cimlwi'i City, where tho element of rnfflinisMt, meeting that of desperation, foreshadowed a starm. During th day many tr-eofd of questionable character were escorted oat of the elty limits. The Kendfwg Rillril ITempmy a Heavy I,eser,( ItAi.TtxOKK, Md., June On of the heaviest losers by the recent floods in Maryland is tha Heading Rail road Com pany. They owned and eontrolcd tfcs feusquehanua fc Tidewater caaal, which is nearly obliterated. Tho company iWl &),m for th canal.

THE CRONIN MUftDCtf. TWe AllffMl sVufiwIm, h WoedrnsT 'm pUenthig Altssnilir mdHVon, liole4's t'totcmiH wtttl Two OMmm-w, KInk aa' FitJrlmrn.lH tke f)riMe-Cfl NeHwarlr' I'oreiMsterity Htmmwmi (or Trying U Milt CeschllH.

Cmktaoo, Jmhs 5. Startling evidenea was given before tho coroner's Jury in the Cronin ease. It was late when i!ie "burgomastor" was called. He testified that n the day that the grand jury took up the ease the prisoner Woodruff, alias King, sent for him and confessed that he droro the wagon with the trunk that contained Crontn'j body from the Kvanston avenue oottago to tho catch-basin. He opened the confesslou by saying that he was in a saloon on Division street, near Franklin, one day, with two men named King aud Fair horn, when a stranger entered and took King aside. He produced a big roll of money, and gave some to Kin and some to Fairburn. When he had gone Woodruff asked King who It was, and ho replied: "That Is the greaj lawyer, Alex Sullivan." Woodruff went on to say that he was hired by Detect I vo Coughlln for the sum of twetity.five doj. lar to go to the outta'-H and get thu trunk. The two men liefore referred to aecompanletl him. They n first drove through Lincoln Park, where the trunk was takon out, and Hj:iu returned to tha buggy. Then they drove to the catchbasin. Aftr the body had been placed therein and the trunk dropped by tha wayside, they drove to a barn, where they waehed ami fixed up. Couzhlht. he went , onto say, tout mm several days beforeItaadthat lie hnd a job for him. On the ; afteuooao( iay i he came to him aud j sala. "iVow's the night It'.s go, to bo . dsm. If you don't get out before thren o'ck6k it will bo no use." At niue o'clock he got the wagon. After fck-luaclc had concluded. "Major" Sampson, a man well known In the jkiIIco annals and at the Ilridewell, testified that ' Conghlin tried to hire him some time ago to slug Cronin, and promised to pay liborally for the job. A man named Hilly ' Lyon corroborated this, aud an adjourn ment was tsKeu. The evidence taken earlier iu the day was that of tho Lake View police officers who saw the mysterious vehicle on the fatal night and of the doctors who mode the post-niortuiu examination. Late last t iglit Chief of Police Hubbard issued an order peremptorily removing Captain Hrhaack front tho command of .. r,.i.. " , V 1, riy:Vri?nil Hlls' based npoa hU unsatisfactory evidence I yesterdmy afternoon, aud uiMjn the opin- ' r rw ass(7 ruhaij4 r u? I mil iiiav no nau ouugiett me caseironi tue start. He admitted to the iurv that ha had not asked Woodruff to describe Alex. ! Sullivan, and in general demonstrated t that ho had tried to shield Cotit;liIiu to f the hindrance of the Investigation. The police hove an Imjiortaiit clew to the murderers. They have found the ex pressman who hauled the murderers' . ,rna .t,. ,.,, . Va. ,,-.,,, I " .r. , . " 1,7. " - ' - v -.-- . " ............ ..vwv. . to the oxpresstuan the fellows belong in Chicago, and he has ween both of them frequently since he hauled their goods. The last tiae he saw them was last Saturday. The expressman's description ot one of the men tallies closely with that of Simons, who bought the furniture from Bevell fc Co., nad of Williams, who rented the cottage from the Carlsons. The police believe the two men are sttll iu town, and they are relying on the expressman to ami them. THE FLOOD AT WILLIAMSPORT. TrH Million Dellsrs la Properly Rtroyrtt. anti the I'eeple ItstltHte el Ffiml. HARRiKmntn. Pa., June 4. Governor Beaver hai been sitting by a Western TJnlon operator thepat two hours directing movements at Johnstown, giving information to President Harrison as to the condition of affairs in the flooded distrlet, and getting news from various parts of the State on the subject. He received a long dispatch from the mayor and other citizens of WlllfamsH)rt, showing the wreclc accomplished by tha freshet and 1 destitution existing in that city. The dispatch reports that thousands of people are homeless; that actual want prevails, and that prompt support is urgently needed. The" loss of lumber alone is estimated at fo.OOO.OvO. Other damage done by the Hood will exceed that amount Ihviug to the unprecedented high water, the necessary supplies to feed the sufferer can not bo obtained at Wllliamsport. The Governor has telegraphed to Mayor Fitler of Philadelphia and Mayor Kennedy of Heading to dispatch food trains to Williamsport, and In roAponse to a request of the Governor, President Harrison has hail a similar trifin started from Washington, which is exected to pass through this city this afternoon. Ilehrla Ten Fret lllfcli at I.ewlttiin. Lrwiston Ju.vction, Pa June 5. The sltsatlon. iutho town of Lewlston, which j nas ueen cm ok troni (iieresioi tneworui ! since Friday last, is thus briefly de scribed. P.ifht river bridges were all swept away. Only one open railroad there. The highways of the town are covered with debris tea feet high. Many of the population aro being fed and sheltered in the court-house. The waters rose nine feet higher than In 1817. Xo lives were lost. The damage to property oan not yet bo estimated. r.t mt Mnd, MHt No DUtrea at I.neh Haven. PHtLAnKtrHlA, June. Suporintandent nt tll I,w-ylnlaiiillroau, si del in Retting to the edge of Li Haven yesterday'mornlug at l,alf-pf sueock past nine o'clock. All the houses had from six to ten feet of water in them, The receding water left considerable mud In streets, and dwellings. Only one person, ia known to have been drowuod at Lock Haven, but several lives are reiwirted lost at Mill Hull, four mile front Lock Haven, Some of the principal citizens, who were seen by Sup'rtutendjut IVttlt, say tltere is no suffering. m. fiidtlHR tlovru to Sj-stHiatlc Work. PiTTrtnVHtiH, Fa., J tine 4. This morning at the Chamber of Commerce order were given for the Immediate transporintlon of fifty cars of provisions and WJ men, of wIioih thirty are cnrinters. ; Cotftractor Fly-tin ha abftntlone! all his wors m inn vicmtty aua is transporting nil his horses, carts, hoisting nineliinei and engines ami all graving of that nature. All of tha tent of the Xatlonnl Guard will ha shipped at ose. ()m hundred and fifty 3ookstovei anl nece-ssstry ut'-mils Will also i sont All of Flynn's men are ncendemed te tho kind of work they will find at Johnstown. Mo v.llnnteers will ba avitptcd erery wan will receive imv,

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