Bloomington Telephone, Volume 14, Number 4, Bloomington, Monroe County, 14 June 1889 — Page 2

Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA. WALTEB a BRADFUTE, - - Pububbb

THE NEWS RECORD.

-SUMMARY Or THE EVKNTFUI. HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK.

Political, Commercial, mnd. Industrial Xew. from All Over the Land Fires, Accidents, nd Crimes The GUt of the Hows la a Few Lines.

SEATTLE BURNED. The Metropolis of Washington Territory ia Ashes. Ti'E business portion of Seattle, the largest city in Washington Territory, is in ashes. Every bank, hotel, place of amusement, all the leading business houses, all the newspaper offices, the railroad depots, miles of steamboat wharves, the coal bunkers, the freight warehouses, and the telegraph offices ure bnrned. The fire began near the corner of Front and Pearl streets in the Seattle candy factory building, and consumed the whole of the business section of the city northward to Stetson amiPostmill along Front and Second to the water front, involving a loss of over $5,000,000. The city is literally wiped out except the residence portion on high ground. A stiff breeze was blowing from the northwest when the nre began, and it soon got the best of the hre department. The water supply gave out within two hours after the nre began and then the flames had a clean sweep. 'J he ocean steamers Mexico, for San Francisco, and Ancou, for Alaska, escaped destruction by pulling out into the harbor. A great deal of property was saved, only to be burned up again, bo quickly did the flames spread.

FILLING THE OFFICES.

A Batch of Appointees to Govereental Positions. The following appointments have been made: Charles G. Williams, of Watertown, Dak., to be Register of the Land Office at Watertown, Dak. ; M. M. Hunt, of Salem, Ore., to be Commissioner in and for the District of Alaska, in place of Robert Sanderson, who declines the appointment ; Dana C. laiub, of Wisconsin, to be a Special Agent to make allotment of lands in severalty to Indiana, etc.; John D. Miles, of Laurence, Kan., to be a Commissioner to negotiate with the Cherokee and other Indians for the cession to the United States of certain lands, as provided by act of Congress af proved March 2, 1889, in the place of John H. Baker, who declines the appointment. Charles Dodge, of the District of Columbia, to be collector of customs at Georgetown, D. C. Collectors of Internal RevenueAlbert B. White, for the district of West Virginia; John B. Eaves, fifth district of North Carolina ; William A. Allen, second district of Tennessee; David A. Nunn, fifth district of Tennas&ee, and John Peters, district of Nebraska. BASE-BALL BATTERS. Standing of the Clubs That Are Contending for First Place. Thx relative position of the various clubs that are competing for the pennant is shown by the annexed table: National. W. L. fc; American. W. I ? c Boston 24 7 .774 St. Lorn a.... 31 12 .720 Fhilada 21 13 .617) Athletic 23 15 .605 Cleveland. . .21 14 .600 Brooklyn... i3 17 .575 New York... 18 15 45 Baltimore... i 19 .513

Chicago 15 20 .43H K'ns's City. .21 20 .512

Pittsburgh.. 13 19 ,40t

Indiana 10 22 ,31i Wath'gVn... 8 SO

Western. W. I ci St. Paul.... 25 5 .833; Omaha 21 11 JGS Sioux City.. 19 13 .593

Minneapolis 14 17 .451 Denver.,,... 14 17 .451 Xtes Moines. 13 17 .43a 8t Joseph... 10 20 .339 Milwaukee.. 7 23 .233

Cincinnati... 22 22 ,500

Columbus... 15 25 .375 Louisville... 8 33 405

tnter-St, W. L. c Quiucy 19 13 .93

Springfield.. 16 13 .551 Peoria IB 14 .533 Davenport . . 17 16 .513 Evansville ..15 20 .429 Burlington.. 14 21 .400

NO IDLERS WANTED. Johnstown Excludes Every One but Workers - from Entering;. A wall has been thrown around Johnstown, and nobody can enter unless it is shown he has business in the city. There is only one bridge across the Conemaugh, said a pass from. Adjt. Gen. Hastings or J. B. Scott is necessary before it can be crossed. Johnstown and adjoining tillages are now under thorough military and police regulations. Each place has been provided with men enough to keep out intruders, and none save those who are actually employed will be allowed to remain. The officers are arresting men every hour, some of them on the slightest provocation. In all cases where the offense is trivial the victims are pressed into work with the relief gangs. MAL1ETOA WILL BE KING. The Labor; of the Saraoan Conference Are 4 one laded. The official text of the terms agreed upon by the Samoan conference have been announced. The chief points are lhat the island is to have an independent government; that Malietoa is to be recognized as king, subject to an election by the people, and that the United States is ceded the right to establish a port at Pago-Pago. Kaiser William has congratulated the members of the commission upon the satisfactory and successful accomplishment of their worfc. Nurserymen of the Unite 1 States. The National Convention of Nurserymen has been held in Chicago. The following officers were selected; President, George A. Sweet, Dansville, N. Y.; First Vice President. G. J. Carpenter, Fairbury, Neb.; Secretary, Charles A. Green, Rochester, N. Y.; Treasurer, A. P. Whitney, Franklin Grove, III, Executive Committee Leo Weltz, Wilmington, Ohio; 8. 1). Wiilard, Geneva, N, Y.; and 8. M. Emery, Lake City, Minn. The annual report of the Treasurer showed about $450 on hand. The next meeting will be held in New York City. Mrs. tfaybriek Found Guilty. In the case of Mrs. Maybrick, charged -with murdering her husband at Jiverpool, a coroner's jury returned a verdict of guilty. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. The Bev. Dr. William F. Gage, of Hartford, Conn., committed suicide at Philadelphia by jumping from the fourthstory window of the Crthopoedic Hospital. He broke both ankles and sustained internal injuries, which resulted in death. At Camden, N. JM Walt Whitman, the

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IBUOU9 ok me xncatu uu me Bwcuuchu anniversary of his birth. Letters and telegrams of good wishes poured in all day. Although the poet's health hag been

exceedingly poor, he mustered up strength enough to ride to Morgan Hall to attend the banquet in bis honor. He was not rble to remain long, but did more than the 200 friends present expected in being there at all. For nearly a year the old gentleman has been confined to his bed.

The damage by flood in Elmira, N. Y., will exceed half a million. A dispatch from Corning says: "The flood in this district is the greatest ever known. Most of the counfry from Corning to Hornellsville was ilooded, and the loss in Steuben County alone will exceed a million. The Fall Brook Coal Company lose nearly a million. Fifty miles of track on the Pine Creek Division, between Ansonia and Jersey Shore, has been washed away and it will be weeks before it can be rebuilt. The Pittsburg Press has published a revised and carefully corrected list containing ovor 2,000 names of persons known to have been killed in the Johnstown disaster. Yet this is not believed to be moro than one-fourth of those lost. The work of identification grows more difficult daily, so that it seems quite probable that not one-half of the whole number will ever be known. To inuke out a correct list is impossible. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Robert York, second mate of the

fore-and-aft schooner Thomas Houston, has arrived in Racine, Wis., and relates a thrilling tale of the sinking of that vessel about six miles off Milwaukee. The Houston cleared from Ashland for South Chicago with ore. At about 10 o'clock at night, when six miles above Milwaukee, she broke in two, and York and a sailor named Joseph Bouts saved themselves by locking arms over a mainsail spar. After being in the water thirtytwo hours they came ashore eight miles above Milwaukee. The captain, his wife and two children, and thirteen of the crew all peiished. York is stopping with relatives. He has b?en severely cross-examined, but he stubbornly adheres to his story. The chief detective of the Santa Fe Railway has in custody John W. Hiilman, for whom detectives and policemen throughout the Southwest have been searching for the last ten years. It is alleged that Hillman murdered Fred Walters in Barbour County, Kansas, ten years ago, and that the man murdered bore so strong a resemblance to the murderer that the latter's wife went into mourning and sought to secure a large sum of life insurance. The insurance companies offered $10,000 for Hillman, who has been in the Southwest ever since., He was arrested at Tombstone, Ari., and has been fully identified by four persons. Db. Hakrx Clover, a young dentist at Terre Haute, Ind., was found dead on the sidewalk near his house the other day. Ho had left his home a few hours before, intending to take a train to Chicago, where he expected to open an office. The nsw United States Court for Indian Territory has begun its first term in Muskogee, in the Creek Nation, with Judge James Ml Shackleford on the bench. Nearly all the jurors are Indians. There are 140 cases on the docket, most of them suits of St Louis and Kansas City merchants against creditors, and there is much speculation among the lawyers whether the court has jurisdiction in cases involving debts made years ago. To PitEVENT riots and burglaries, which have become prevalent, and to preserve order, the city of Guthrie, in Oklahoma, has been placed tinder martial law. The first election by ballot has been held. The candidates were D. B, Dyer and A. Y. Alexander. The election was warmly contested, the total vote being about 2,350. Dyer carried the day by about 400 majority. Judge Bbeweb of the United States Circuit Court is seriously ill at Leavenworth, Kan., with an attack of typhoid fever brought on by overwork. All visitors and friends are denied admission to his residence and his condition is said to be dangerous in the extreme. At the Coroner's inquest on the body of Dr. Cronin, murdered at Chicago, Byron L. Smith, receiver of the defunct Traders' Bank of Chicago, was present to explain Alexander Sullivan's bank accounts in 1882. He came into the courtroom with three ponderous ledgers and a package of checks. He read several checks which had been drawn by Alexander Sullivan, as agent, and cashed by the bank in l82; the total amount of these checks signed by Alexander Sullivan as agent, and payable to T. J. Lester & Co., the brokers, was $1)0,000. It was made evident from these proofs that this large amount had been invested by Mr. Sullivan on 'Change. Mr. Smith then proceede d to show that J ohn M onroe & Co., bankers, New York city, had turned over to "Windes & Co.," which in this instance means Alexander Sullivan, Clau-na-Gael funds to the amount of $100,000. In one of the ledgers extracts were read from Mr. Sullivan's personal account, showing thnt from this he had drawn a check for $10,000, dated Sept. 6, 1882, in favor of T. J. Lester & Co., making the outgo on account of Board of Trade speculations an even 100,000. The State's Attorney says he will prove that at least this amount of Clan-na-Gael funds was misappropriated by Sullivan.

SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. Neii.Ii S. Brown, Jr., Reading Clerk of the lower house ol! Congress, was killed at Nashville, Tenn., by being run over by a train. The West Virginia legislative committee has finished the examination of depositions from Ohio County in the Golf - Fleming contest. Three Democratic and three Republican votes were thrown oat. Fleming is still one ahead. Ten or fifteen white men armed with shotguns, went to the house of a negro, Dock Connelly; who lived five miles from Osyka in Tangipahoa parish, in Louisiana. Haey, a negro who was at Connelly's house, was shot to death while trying to escape. Connelly, who remained in the house, was dragged out and shot an least thirty times, his body being torn into shreds. . It is said that a week or so ago Huey insulted a young white girl. The business portion of Biloxi, Miss., was burned by an incendiary fire. A vigilance committee is searching for the incendiary. Loss, $100,000, THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Justice Gray, of the United States Supreme Court, and Miss Jeannette Matthews, daughter of the late Justice Matthews, were married at the residence of the bride in Washington, the Rev, Dr-

Total $ 2,062,411 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender uotes . 340,77,458 Certificates of deposit. .7:.TrrrrrTr... 16,150,000 Gold certificates 129,044,662 Silver certificates 255,337,810 Fractional currency less $8,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed). . G, 916,630 Principal.,... $ 754,386,620 TOTAL DEBT.

f Principal ,$1,653,663,248

Interest 9,248,245 Total $1,662,911,493 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt $411 889,269 Lobs reserve held for redemption of Uuited States notes 100,000,000 $ 511.8S9.269 Total debt less available cash items $1,151,022,223 Net cash in the Treasury 68,119,672 Debt less cash in Treasury Juno 1. 1889 1,092,902,551 X3ebt 16B8 cash in Treasury May 1, 1889 $1,101,605,428 Decrease of debt during th month $ 8,702,877 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1888. 72,682,105 CASH IN TBKASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION 07 THE PUBLIC DEBT. C-old held for gold certificates actually outstanding $ 129,014,662 Silver held for silver certificates act ually outstanding 255,537,810 U. S. notes held for certiflca.tes ol! deposit 16,150,000 Cash held for matured debt e.ud in terest unpaid 11,156,170 fractional currency 626 Total available for reduction of the debt $ 411,889,269 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of V. S. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 188:!.$ 100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of thd debt : Fractional silver coin....;...., 23,125,295 Minor coin 210, 42 J Total $ 25.335.717 Certificates held as cash 1 33,825,2; Net cash balance on hand 58,119,672 Total cash in the Treasury, an shown by Treasurer's general account $629,169,888

Leonard, of St. John's, assisted by the Rev, Dr. Hamlin, of the Church of the

Covenant, officiating. After the marriage supper was 6erved iu the diningroom and late iu the evening the bridal couple left for a countryplace iu the neighborhood of Boston, where they will remain uttil July, when they will go to Europe. Upon their return in September they will occupy the stately residence of the Justice at the corner of Sixteenth and Q streets. The bride will be in mourning during the coming season. The bride is one of the most attractive and intellectual young ladies in Washington. She is well advanced in young womanhood, oi! tine presence, and will grace the court circle with her many social gifts. The President has ny pointed Charles L. Knapp, of New York, to be Consul General of the United States at Montreal, and Alexander Reed, of Wisconsin, to be Consul at Dublin. The damage from the flood at Washington will be about $500,000. The above does not include the damage done to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which will reach $250,000. The Long bridge was d.magedtothe extent of $50,000. The damage to machinery, guns, etc., at the navy-yard is about $5,000. Tho Potomac Flats Improvement Company has suffered to the extent of 100,000. The coffer-dam withstood the flood, and work which cost the Government 92,000,000 was saved. It is feared that the base work of the Washington monument is irredeemably injured. The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement for May: INTERKST-BEATlINa DEBT. Bonds at 4 per cent $ 142,403,530 Bonds at 4 per cent 670,221,800 Refunding certificates at 4 per 2ent.. 119.840 Navy pension fund at 3 er cent. . . . 14.000,900 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 par cent. 64,623,512 Principal $ 897,368,702 Interest U, 1KB, 755 Total $ 006,462,457 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CtASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal $ 1,907,025 Interest..... 154,489

POLITICAL PORRIDGE. In joint session of the New Hampshire Legislature a ballot was taken for Governor, there having been no choice by the people. David H. Goodeli, Repttblioan, was declared elected.

ACROSS THE OCEAN. Thk civil marriage of Prince William of Hohenzollern and Princess Marie of Bourbon has taken place at the villa of the Countess of Trapani, at Baden Baden. President Cabnot is greeted by enthusiastic cheers by the crowds at Paris. Gladstone's golden wedding, which will occur June 25, is to be celebrated in grand Etyle at Hawarden. The Czar's toasting the Prince of Montenegro, and styling him "the only friend of Russia, n has caused widespread comment in European circles. Andrew Carnegie will give a dinner to Gladstone June 18. The London Daily News says: "America, where everything is on a scale of va6t3iess which we can not experience, seems destined to suffer calami ties of civilization as it exhibits its triumphs, on the most colossal scale. The sympathies of the whole civilized world will be with the people of Pennsylvania in the saddest, most striking, and most overwhelming misfortune that ever befell a people of the English race." The other morning dailies refer to the disaster in a similar strain, Mrs. Gantz, a second cousin of William B. Tascott, while under the in-

Jiuence of liquor at San Francisco, stated j

to a reporter that &he had ailed Tascott in escaping, and that the fugitive was now in China. Buffalo Bill is beins feasted, wined and dined to his heart's content at Paris. AT o meeting of 400 Panama canal shareholders in Paris it was decided to send a commission to Panama immediately to inspect the canal works. The famous English Derby race, run at Epsom Downs, was won easily by the Duke of Portland's brown colt Donovan. Miguel was second, and El Dorado third. Thus far this season Donovan has won for His owner about $110,000. FRESH ANlT NEWSY. Instructions have been sent by the Dominion to Halifax to release the captured schooner Mattie Winship upon Consul Phelan giving security for her value, t The suggestion of an extra session of Congress for the relief of the Johnstown sufferers has been heard ia some quarters. The deep interest shown by President Harrison in the national calamity has c&used the subject to receive more

attention than would otherwise have been given it. Last year Congress appropriated $200,000 for the benefit of the yellow-fever sufferers in Florida, while a few years earlier it set aside $;00,000 for the homeless people (ilong the Ohio Kiver. Some members questioned the constitutionality of both proceedings, but they were a small minority. If Congress were in sesiion there would bo no question of its promptness, yet to call special session for the specific purposo of making an appropriation meets with some doubt as to its wisdom. No similar session has been called in a century of naional existence, but ther has been no such calamity as the Johnstown rlood in all the century. Heavy rains hove prevailed in the Cobnrg (Ont.) district, culminating in what appeared to be a large waterspout. In a few minutes creeks became rivers, and nil bridges and daias tetween where the burst occurred and Lake Ontario were carried awny and railway embankments destroyed. Many houses were inundated and people had to be rescued in boats. In Coburg all cellars in the Dimness portion were Hoode d, water in some instances rising above store floors. The farmers loso heavily m my of them their entire crop. The loss wi ll reach $500,0X0. Cold weatlier has greatly reduced the seasonal excess of temperature previously reported. The cool weather and excess of rain were generally unfavorable for growing crops in the States north of the Ohio River. In the Northwest the cool weather and frosts caused some injury to crops, but in Dakota, Minnesota, and Nebraska the general conditions were favorable for wheat anc. corn, excepting possibly the cool weather which has retarded the growth of corn. In Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas excessive rains and frosts are reported as having been injurious to the corn crop. In Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas, the crop conditions were doubtless improved by the rains, but cool weather was unfavorable and some slight damage occurred from, frosts on the low lands. Drought conditions continue in the southern portions of Mississippi and Louisiana, which the rainfall in the northern portions of these S tates was favorable, but the weather was too cool and sunshine insufficient for the growth of cotton plant. Reports from Alabama indicate that drought probably caused injury to all crops, but general rains occurred during the week, which are reported as favorable for early cotton. President John Fitzgerald, of the Irish National League, has issued an address to the members of the League announcing that the convention called to meet at Philadelphia July 9 and 10 is postponed until after tho present session of the British Parliament. The postponement is in compliance with a request Irom Mr. Parnell and other Irish leaders, and it is therefore expected they will be present when the convention finally assembles. . li. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: On the whole the crop prospect continuee unusually good and the markets are rapidly adjusting themaelvefi to the t.ssurance of ample supplies. Business at all points reporting continues large in volume and the clearings through banks show on increase of about 12 per cent, over last year. There is to apprehension of early disturbance in the money market, but the bank surplus, if materially weakened during the next six weeks by go' d exports, miy r.ot be strong enough to prevent serious pressure in the fall. Money at interior points is almost everywhere in ample supply, Cleveland being the only exception. Collections do not Improve at Kansas City or Milwaukee, but the complaints are on the whole not mincreas'd The speculative markets hive been comparatively tame. No change is seen in cotton, fl'he general average of prices las declined only a fifth of 1 per cent, tor the week. About 10 per cent, more than last year's prioes is asked for Michigan wool. Tho decision on the worsted querttion is regarded by zx.auy as insuring fib move active demand for wool. Pittsburg reports a dull market for pig iron, with lower prices for some brands, and a fair demand ;'or manufactured iron and sttiel at former prices. The impresbion prevails at Philadelphia that bottom prices have been reached ana steel-rail producers are encouraged by sales of HO.OOO tons or more during the week to believe itat the turning point has been reached. In other branches of businesH the outlook is encouraging. There are signu of an immense production of butter and cheese, with a f ull demand. The production of boots and shoes is increasing, and orders received are large. The business failures number '215, as compared wit h 229 the weak previous. For the corresponding week of laut year the figures were '205. THEHOSENFEW. President Harrison Makes Known His Choice for Various Offices. The President has made the following appointments: To be Receivers of Public; Moneys John T. Carlin, of Montana, at Bozemau, Mont. ; Jatr.es ,T. Polan. of New Mexico, a1; Las Cruces, X, M. To be Registers of Laud Offices Frank E. Baldwin, of Colorado, at Pueblo, Col. ; Eddy F. Ferris, of Montana, at Bozeman, Mont. Charles Price of North Carolina, to be United States Attorney for the "Western District of North Carolina; Henry C. Nlles of Mississippi, to be Uuited States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi; John Vigneauxcf Louisiana, to be United States Marshal for th3 Western District of Louisiana; J. C. B. Kiu-sell of Arkansas, special Iand Agent ; and W. G. Warwick of Iowa, and F. 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JOHNSTOWH, PA., A SCENE OT DESO I. AT! ON.

An Entire City Swei t Away and Thousands of Its Inhabitants Overwhelmed In the Flood Heartrending Scene m tJIio Devastated I'lure. A Pittsburg dispatch says: Late details of the calamity in thf Conemaugh Tallcy multiply many tin es tho early estimates of the number oit lives lest and the probable value of the property destroyed. The first reports we e confined mainlj- to the destruction wi ought at Johnstown, but they have sinoe been extended to a dozon town and villages and to cover a vast extent of territory. The catastrophe wis caused by the bursting; of what was know n as the South Fork dam, 110 feet; high arid restraining a bt-dy of water twelve miles in area and 100 feet duep in places. For days previous to the break in ihe dam there had Leen contiguous rain? throughout the extensive watershed drained into the lake, and citizens of Johnswn were warned of clanger, jut apparently tae majoiityof them had implicit confidence in the masonry to resist all of the pressure possible to be brought against it. Evon those who were alaimed by the unusual rainfall and floods in the streams had no conception that so due a disaster could occur. Johnstown fttood on a point of land in a valley between the Conemaugh end Stony creeks,' which there form the Conemaugh river. The dam was on. high land some nine miles distant and about 300 feut above the city. When the flood came it rushed down, with great rapidity, a wall of water from thirty Co fifty feet higb. Johnstown was ari most completely destroyed in a few minutos. Larj;e factories, stores, public buil lings, palatial residences, and modest homes were swe pt away and their inmates crushed to death in the collapse of bull lings or drowned fitter heroic but vain efiorts to reuch places

mud, ornamented hare and there with heaps of driftwood, remained for their contemplation. It is perfe tly safe to say thai; every house in the city that was not located1 well up on the hillside was either swept completely away or wrecked so badly that rebuilding will be absolutely necessary. These losses, however, were as nothing compared to the frightful sacrifice of human lives to be seen oil every hand The loss of life is simply dreadful The most conservative people declare that then umber will reach 5,000. The streets arefull of men carrying bodies to various places, where they await identification, and the work has only just begun. Every hour or so the forces of men working on the various heaps of debris find numbers of bodies buried in the mud and wreckage. It is believed that when the flames are extinguished in the wreckage at the bridge and the same is removed hundreds and hundreds of victims will be discovered. In fact this Beems certain, as dozens of bodiea have already been found on the outskirts ot tht huge mass of broken timbers. The leports from outside points are also appalling Up to 9 o'clock 180 bodies had been embalmed at Rineveh, and there is a report that 200 moie have been discovered half-buried in the mud on an island between New Florence and the place named. At the Fourth ward schoolhouse over onehundred victims have been laid out for identification. In many cases they havebeen recognized, while in many more the tabs bear the simple word "unknown." Shocking sights have become so common that they have lost their tenors, and the rinding of a body he. e ami there attracts little or no attention from the great crowds that constantly line the river banks and crowd all other accessible places. The Pennsylvania railroad has succeeded In getting a track through to the city, and provisions enough to meet all immediate wants have arrived, Adjt.-Gen. Hastings is in charge of the police and the various relief corps, and he is doing elegant work for the sufferers. Those people who were not swept away or disabled are working earnestly for the revival of the stricken

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of satety. It is estimated that 12,000 citizens of Johnstown and its immediate vicinity perished. The towns of So ith Fork, Mineral Point. Conemaugh, Wood vale, Cambria City, a ad other places, having from onc to two thousand inhabitants, were completely devastated, and hundreds of their citizens carried down by the corrent to be tossed lifeless upon the bnnksi and partly buried in debris. Such fearful destruction as was occasioned within the thirty miles from the dam, to the town of New FJorence has never before been recorded. The stoue bridge of the Pennsylvania railroad company just below Johnstown withstood the tremendous f ood, and against its piers was thrown a mass of wreckage, to which purhaps a thousand human beings were clinging tenaciously for life. Portions of house after house were addod to this drift, which became an immense lam. Evei bridges, freight cars, and locomotives werd lodged there. Then to the horror of ths flood was added that of. fire, which was communicated to the debris from a stove, and many w ho had hoped for succor from the waters wore burned to death The magnitude of the catastrophe can nob now lx appro rcimately stated. The devastation in the entire region is so complete as to prevent access to tae desolate and heartbroken survivors and the property loss is; incalculable Warchers line the river banks recovering bodies. Villages below Johnstown have become char-

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of dead left by the receding waters. Several trains on tJ.e Pennsylvania rail roexl were overtaken by tie rising waters and soma passengers, strangers to the locality, lost t ieir lives in the e xcitement which prevailed. In Johnston n and neighboring p aces whole families were swept a.way together. The scene of utter desolation the deeds of heroism, and the lamentation of those unable to lec.rn

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AN AWFUL WRECK. Johnstown 'the Worst Imaginable Picture of lolHttoii Johnstown, Pa., June 3. WhenSupsrfrvtendent Pttcairu telegraphed to Pittsburg on the night of the flood that Johnstown was annihilated he came very near to the facts of the case, although ie had not seen the ill-fated city. To say taat Johnstown is a wreck is bi t stating tfco facts of the case. Nothing like it was o er seen in this country. Where long rows of dwelling houses and business blocks stood forty-eight hours ago rain and desolation now rei;:n suprem. Probably fifteen hundred houses have been swept from the f aco of the earth as completely as if they had never been elected. Main stret from end to end U piled fifteen and twenty feet uijjh with debris, and ii some instances it is as high fits the roofs; of the houses. This great mass of w.ecliage tills the street from curb tx curb, and frequently has crushed in tho fronts of buildings and filled the space wish iemuKie;?of the teaible calamity. The e is ptobably not a man in tho place who can give any reliable estimate of the number of houses 'Dhat have been swept away. City Solicitor Kulin, who should be very gxd authority in this

matter, places the mu.ti:e ' at 1,3'KJ. From the wooden, mill above tha island to the bridge, a distant e of piobably two milas, a strip of territory nearly a hall! mile in width has hem swept clean, not a stick of timlier or out brick on top of another being left to tell thi stow. It is the most complete wreck that the imagination can portray. All day loag men, women and children were ploddi;ag about the desolate- weste tiying in vain to locaue the boundari js of thei v former homes, Nothing bun a wide expanse of

city, but it will take months of work to come anywhere near repairing the fearful damage, while it is about certain that the list of the lost will never be made complete. The supply of coffins sent ki from Pittaburg and other pouits is so great that the relief committee telegraphed last evening not to send any more until ordered. No funds have yet teen received from Phi 3a delphia, but the authorities are confident that when telegraphic communication isrestored they will get liberal communications from that city. Dozens of smallerplaces have already sent in generous sums of money, and the people are encouraged to believe that all of their more pressing; wants will be provided for. It will require several days yet to giv anything like a definite idea of the losa of life, but it will ceitainly reach up into thousands. Every hour brings fresh evidence of the fact that the disaster edipsev anything of the kind in the history of the country, and no one can say whatr. the final result will be. It is impossible to describe the appearance of Main street Whole houses havebeen swept down this one street and become lodged. The wreck is piled as highas the s?cond-story windows. The reporter could step from the wreck into the auditorium of the opera house, The rnin& consists of parts of houses, trees, saw logs,, and reels from the wire factory. Manyhouses have their side walls and roofs torn up and one can walk directly into what had lean second-story bed-rooms qr go i&

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raft Jpf logs lodged in the street and did gre&tsdamage. TheXjest description that can rte given of the general appearance of the wreck is to imagine W- number of children's block placed clowriy together and then draw your hand through them in almost every direction. AiK the commencement of the wreckage, whicr is at the opening of the Conemaugh, one lean look up the valley for miles and not see house. Nothing stands but an old woolen) null. Chas. Luthe r is the name of the boy who stood on adjacent We vation and saw the whole flood. He said he heard a grinding noise far up the valley, and looking up he could see a. dark lino moving slowly towards him. He sarw it was houses. Ou they came like the yiand of a giant clearing off his table, pigh in the air wouldbe tossed a log or l)eam which fell back with a crash. Do van the valley it moved sedately and across It he little mountain city For tervniivutes notihing but moving houses was see A and then tho waters came with a roar aud a r ish. 1 This lasted for two hours and thea it be? gan to flow more stead

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