VOL. LXII. FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR er——— a —— > — New Postmaster, Our neighbor, D. P. Brishin, is the Incky one, and has been appointed post master, Rain! Rain I! Rain set in Thursday afternoon, 80 and kept up moderately all night; next day, Friday, it poured down in torrents nearly all day and continued all night until Saturday morning. The ground of course is full of water, Last fall having been wet all throngh with rains during the winter and this spring, led weather prophets to predict we would have a dry sommer. But no one is weather wise two days ahead. Will the 18th of June be “wet Wisely Spoken. The standard of a country community can usually be gauged, both in an intel. lectnal and business sense, by its local newspaper. The merchant if a pros gressive town who advertises by means of a sixteenth-sheet “dodger” tacked to a telegraph pole is usually the man who has drifted to the outskirts of the busi~ ness centre and who has a constantly in- creasing stock of shop-worn goods to dis- pose of at slightly reduced rates. The man who patronizes the local newspa- pers with a column advertisement on the front page, next to reading matter, ie the merchant in the big building on the main street, with a row of electric lights in his show windows and a squad of busy clerks behind his counters. The most successful business men, both in the country and city, are the ones who ap. preciate the benefits of newspaper ads vertising. — Philadelphia Press. Ifthe 18th of June goes “wet” the li- quor men may petition to have it made a legal holiday, which would be about as sensible as some of the other legal holi- day nonesense that is occasionally pro- posed, There won't be any tariff literatare putin the dinner buckets of the work- ingmen at Riddlesburg and Saxton this year. And, alas! there won't be any dinner in the buckets, either,— Bedford Gazette, By the next apportionment for mem- bers of Congress, says the Chicago Inter Ocean, Massachusetts is likely to lose ove member, New York four, Pennsyl- vania three, Ohio ore; whereas Illinois and Indiana may eseape without the loss of a man, The Maouofactares Record publishes extracts from an article by J.T. Smith, the president of the British Ircn Trade Association of England, discnssing the iron ore requirments of the world and the conditions of their supply, as affects ing the British iron industry, in which he cails the attention of English iron makers to the great developments now in progress in the south, and says that he learns on the authority of his friend, Mr Abram 8. Hewitt, who has recently been there, that iron can be produced in Ala bama for about 30s ($7 50) per ton, ES ———A———————— The supreme court of the United States has just rendered a very important de cison, says the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette, reaffirming the doctrine that “combinations among those engaged in business impressed with a public or quasi- public character, which are manifestly prejudicial to the pnblic interest, cannot be upheld.” The case originated in a suit brought by a man named Gibbs against the Consolidated Gas company of Baltimore, to recover $100,000 for “ser- vices in negotiating and consumating an arrangement and settlement of differens ces” between the Consolidated and Equit able Gas companies of Baltimore. The ‘arrangement” for whieh this enormons fee was charged was simply a combine by which the two companies agreed to ran the price of gas up to a dollar and seven- ty five centsa thousand. The differens ces were seitled by agreeing to swindle the consumers of gas by stifling compe- tition. The expert who did the work sent inabill for services to each com- pany for $50,000, which the consolidated concern refused to pay because it had made no agreement to pay. The supreme court held that the enitcould not be maintained for the reason that the com. bine was illegal, Chief Justice Fuller, who delivered the opioion, says: “The law cannot recognize as valid any under taking to do what fundamental doctrine or legal rule directly forbids. Nor can it give effect to any agreement the making whereof was an act violating law.” Again: “Itis also too well settled to admit of doubt that a corporation cannot disable iteelf by contract from perform - Jog yuaiie duties which it has undertaken agreement compel itself to make convenience vd JOHNSTOWN SWEPT# From Ten to Fifieen Thousand Lives Lost, THE VIADUCT BURSTS, AND SWEEPS EVERYTHING IN I'TS PATH. 825 000 £00 DAMAGE DONE, On Saturday morning the city reser. voir at Johnstown burst, and the wave came liko a wall from 50 to 80 feet in bh ight, When it reached the city it picked up buildings and crushed them into a thousand fragments. At times they were th! own into the air and then submerged. Men, women and children were picked up as they rushed for their lives and were thrown about in the foaming waters, The advance waves were filled with buildings, debris and people, When it reached the round house where over a hundred locomo- tives were stored the immense structure was crushed as though it were but an egg shell. Locomotives were picked up and hurled in the air; the iron monsters were seen to roll slong crashing one another reeling and toppling and were mere toys in the arms of the de structive element. The flood traveled at the rate of a mile a minute and before the people could realize the situation were hurled into eternity. The two sec tions of the “Day Express” which stood on au embankment about thirty feet in height had an opportunity to see the ad- vancing waters, which in another instant was upon them. Of all the people in the two long trains but sixty were able to escape. The water swept the coaches and engines from the track and they went, with several hundred lives not one of which reached the shore alive, As they went over and over hn- man forms could beseen banging from the windows, clinging to the rails and steps, engines, human bodies and then a detached coach would rise and over and sink in the waters, GHOULS AT WORK. One of the worst features in relation to the disaster at Johnstown is the robbing of the bodies of the dead. On Buanday two Hungarians were hung for robbing the dead, and were still suspended by the wire noose on Monday morning. On the body of one was found thirteen fin- gers with rings on, the fiogers having been chopped off with a hatchet, Four more were shot. Oa their persons were found fingers with rings, pieces of ears with earrings, also, collar buttons, wateh- es and cafl buttons, A Chinaman who was shot bad in his possession fingers that bad been cut off; also earrings. A colored man was shot while attempting to amputate a finger that wore a ring. The finger was only partly severed. A large force of men were working among the debris when word was brought to them that men were robbing the dead bodies. They captured three and found fingers with jewels of different kinds This 0 enraged the men that they act- ually drownded the three mea, throwing them in the water and piling stose and brush on them. A couple of negroes were driven off while breaking open trunks and scatiering goods around. The Johnstown military company and many citizens are sworn in and are doing do- ty. To pretend to picture the situation is an undertaking far bevond the power of man or pen. Picture in your mind Johnstown and surrvoading towns aa they were. Compare them with a sandy desert and it will give you a faint ides of the scene. The thriving little town of Conemaugh is swept away, with the ex- ception of the honses on the hill side. Fifteen engines, some weighing 80 tons, that were here are now lying below Johnstown, two miles from Conamangh. A number of the cars wrecked near Scuth Fork near Johnstown, were load- ed with flour, syrup, and other merchan- dise. The railroad officials gave the citi: zens in the vicinity permission to help themselves to the provisions, Of course, many of the needy got a good share, but a goodly number living a distance away, who had lost nothing, helped themselves one man alone getting away with one hundred and t= enty four sacks of flonr, An eyewitness on a train at Jobhovs. town, says when the great reservoir broke, the wave came down the gap like 8 mountain, and persons eanght by it were hurled 20 foot in the air. Many passengers on the train seeing the wave coming jumped off, the others with the train were swept away. At the Logan Iron works near Lewis. town, the boilers were neglected in the excitement and they went np with a ter. rible explosion destroying the baildisg and resulting in the death of several peo- vle. Mann's Axe Factory above Lewis. town was badly damaged, one of the buildings was entirely swept away and the others were badly damaged. Over 1000 persons were burned to death in the Johnstown . Bome bodies were found with bullet holes in over down topple ves to end their agony. The people who have survived are pot io need. The hand of charity, or rather of brotherly aid, Las been widely open- ed, and contributions of everything they need have been profusely given, The Pennsylvania Railroad has freely carried supplies from Pittsburg, Ebensbu rg and other places, snd everyone who goes takes somethicg slong. Here have been seven or eight more summary executions of persons who have been found in the ghoulish work of robbing the dead bodies, The city is uuder martial law. Those who commit the crime of robbery are principally the ignorant and vicious foreign residentg—— the Huogarians und Italians—of whom there are many in Jobnstown. Four morehave been hanged and two or three shot. To more perfectly maintain order and prevent crime everyone is compelled to retire from the scene by eight o'clock at night, and all foand out after that hour who cannot account for themselves of their business are arrested. The scene presented in the town is de- scribed as a wild desert waste. All the buildings are carried away, even where were a few days ago the crowded thors onghfares are obliterated and cannot be found. The volume of water that came down upon the people can be faintly imagined when we tell them that the viaduoct which broke was two miles wide, three long and fifty feet deep. Johnstown is composed of half dozen boros, independent of each other. but built together like a compact city. These boros neyer would unite under one mn picipality, on account of Jocal jealousies, Each maintained its own separate bero organization, The aggregate population is abont 30.000. The loss at Johnstown and vicinity is estimated at over 25 million dollars. The scenes of horror and havoe are inde- scribable. Helief in being sent from all paris and from England, Among the 10,000 lives lost at Johns- town are all the lawyers, business men and officers of the iron company. The flood from the reservoir, 9 miles away, struck Johnstown at 4 on Friday afternoon snd mot op Saturday: There was then already 2 feet of water on the stréets, Two men started from the re- servoir on borseback to give the alarm, but the people of the town baving often before heard such reports. did not be. lieys it; only few fled and the thousands who remained in their houses were overwhelmed by the mountain high wave in an instant: gp» Flood Notes, The Pennsylvania yard at Tyrone isin a terrible condition. Cars are standing in the shape of the letter V over the washout, The yard is a wreck. The Bald Eagle Valley has suffered much. From Port Matilda eastward the farm land is flooded and washed away. It is ail the same as far 22 Julian, Inthe Narrows near Lewistown the enormous axe works owned for many years by Mr, Mann and which are the largest in the United States, are partial- Iv destroyed. Great damage reported at Alexandris, Huntiogdon county, and over 100 lives #aid to be lost. Renovo is reported washed away. The water came up so swiftly in Lock Havenas to carry raw logs crashing through the winlows of stores and hou ses, Millions of dollars worth of damage done at Williamsport its bridges and the Milton bridge took off the Lewisburg bridge, The lower part of Lewistown is des stroyed by water, Williamsport is reported flooded and 20 lives lost. Lewistown, Bunbury and other river towns, everywhere, along the rivers have had terrible visitations, All important railroad and other brid~ ges over the state, are swept away. There never was such a horror in this slate, Trains will now be able to get through from Bellefonte to Tyrone, thence to Altoona. At Salona as far as it was possible to learn the following is the death record: Alexander Whiting and wife were drown- ed, their four children being miraculous ly saved. William Emhizer and wife were also drowned. The remains of this couple were afterwards found at Mill Hall. The list ends with the .name of Henry Soyder, In Clearfield 6 foet of water covered the first floors of the houses. We have authentic from Lock Havens All houees were flooded, but no lives lost, people moved to 2nd stories, The news from every part of the state is abont the same-~awful destruction of property and loss of lives, barg, now at Johnstown : fearfully Losses, ESTIMATE OF LOSS ALONG ELE CREEK AND AT COBURN, Joseph Moyer, Centre Mills, Narrows sawmill plant, Narrows pike, Campbel's mill and dam, D. Musser est, foundry, dam, ete, b0 stables, lost and damaged, Six small dwellings lost, Damage to 20 houses, Damage farniture, in 80 houses, Provisions in 50 cellars, Coburn pike and 8 bridges, £0 gardens and fences, Ten horses, 25 cows, pigs, Bridge and pike in Mil heim, 100 acres good farm land rived, Farm fences, Evart's barn, stock, ete. Henry Swartz. barn, stock, ete., Benj, Keretotter, sawmill, Other individual losses, $2,000 4,000 2,000 1,200 4.000 12,000 3,000 2,000 2,500 2,000 8 Of 3,000 2,100 2.500 B,000) 2,000 1.500 2,000 1,000 2,700 Total, 864,500 Damage along Pine creek and east end of Miles tp., Damage in the mountains south of Coburn, $10,000 A total of $79,500, which we take to be a liberal estimate, based mainly upon our own observation. The damages to the railroad and bridges are not included in our estimate. BELOW MILLHEIM. Michael Ulrich, wagons and imple ments and barn, $1200, also bateher shop $300, Lambert Noll's fields and meadow washed out. Henry Swartz, large barn, stock and implements, $4000, Wm. Smith's meadow and fields de stroyed, Reed Alexander, pig pen, with 8 pigs, 6000 shingles, and meadow damaged, Has 20 Brushvalley pigs in place of his own, Acres of drift opposite Emanuel slelters, $5,000 Ker. ON PINE CREEX J.C, Motz, dam broken, residence of miller carried away with all household goods, two cows, and other live stock. Dennis Lose, pig pen with hogs, six head of eattle, colt. All outbuildings of Jacob Btover car ried off, Cyrus and Philip Moyer, dam broken, ontbuildings and wagon shed carried off] with farm implements, cattle, hogs, and crop of corn. Daniel Kister, tenant of Samuel Ard, 28 bogs, wagons, buggy, farm implements and outbuildings, loss, $1000, ABOVE MILLHEIM, Jacob and Philip Gephart. sawmill, house, dam , stable, cider press, !"ys and lamber, $4000, Campbell's mill wrecked, $1900 D. A. Musser estate, mill daw, mead ow destroyed, and foundry, $4000, Dennis Lose, tools and stoek iy foan- dry, $2500, MILLHEINM, Willis Bollinger, house and furniture, 81500, Jacob Alters, goods damaged, $450. Wm. Adams, goods damaged, $50, Eisenhuth, drug store, $600 Jos Moyer at Centre Mills estimates his loss at $2,000, AT COBURN. The damage done at Coburn was most~ ly on store goods. The heaviest losses are, J. J. Howell, merchant, $1200; G. W, Swengle, merchant, $1000; T. W. Hoster- man, p. m., $1000; R. G. Vonada, prop. erty, $300; Monroe Kreamer, on personal property, 8300; J. Bowersox, $200; Bam. Ulrieh, $300; M. J. Decker, grain house, $500; W. H. Kreamer, $300; R, U. Shafer, $800; Benj. Kerstetter, on saw mill and other property, $2000; Hotel, $500; Vona- da planing mill, 81800; A. J. Campbell, $700; A. Rickord, $600; Whitmer & Son, lumber lost, $600; Penn. Railroad 5000 ties, Dreams, A man by the name of F, Parker says he bad a dream on Saturday night that he found the body of a woman at a cer tain place along Penns Oreck. He went there in thé morning and his dream was . A —————— snr INCIDENTS, At Coburn a colt was caught up and carried along by the torrent and against the door of a dwelling house; the door gave way under the blow and the colt went in, and that was what saved it, Andy Campbell saved his horse by take ing It from the stable into his house, A sawlog floated against the back door of Recorder Harter, at Millheim, bursted the door in and passed out through the front door. Two pigs lodged upon the roof of a floating pea with only standing room, to which: they stuck for life; the pen was eauglit avd held by a rubbish pile, and the pigs for over a day held their posi. tion on the roof, with the waters raging about them. A new Conklin wagon under a shed near Coburn station was carried a short distance by the flood and shed and wag- on lodged on the banks of the creek shed remaining over the wagon, Michael Evert's fine, large new barn was lifted from its foundation, and Indg- ed square across the pike, all his stock was drowned. Beveral large piles of railroad ties were floated down Penns creek and settled on the road aside the bridge not in the least disturbed by the trip, In Texas Harvey Swartz has $100 damage on his lot and on the old Swetz lot adjoining, $200, Neut. Auman, grocer, thinks his dam- age is several hundred dollars. Will To- bias had his lots badly washed, Reuben Hartman, foundry, damage about $400. Bam: Weiser sustained several huns dred dollars damage on lot and build- ings. Adolph Miller had the back part of his buildings buildings badly da maged— the water rose above the coal stove on first floor, The lots on both sides of the Mingle property are destroyed by washoats, In fact about all the yards and gardens below Jacob Eisenbuth’s are destroyed. Three great washouts in the street and three large streams cross it. From down in the Paddy mountain section we learn that the house and othe er buildings occupied by David Raymon 1 was entirely swept away, Raymon los- ing all he had. The house occupied by Jacob Derr, close to Raymon’s, was also carried off, Smith & Wolf lose saw mill, dwelling, small buildings and 5 horses and some COWS, No. 2 mill at Poemills is gone, belong ing to a Shamokin Jumber co. All raile road bridges in the mountains are gone. At Bmith & Wolf's mill Archey Mal: len kept a boarding house. The flood washed a bed againet a lamp ona stand, upsetting the lamp, setting the bed on fire and the house was burned. $450 in cash were burned. All over the county bridges are swept away, and the county will heve a big bridge bill to pay. Bridges on railroad from Bellefonte to Bpring Mills were not damaged. First bridge below Spring Mills was moved and made unsafe, Beaver dam bridge had a section torn away. Bridges farther on in the mountaing were all damaged. No trains ranning we were left short of paper; and there having been no mails except local, we print only half sheet this week, hoping tr find the situ ation #0 much improved ina few days that the Rerozrzs will be on hand next week in its usual form. All the news is wel news. Partios had an idea they dare not esarch for drowned bodies at Coburn unless authorized by the squire, Trains pass here regularly between Bellefonte and Spring Mills, Hundreds were along Elk creek Bun. day to view the work of the flood, They have an aerial ferry to cross from Millheim to Aaronsburg. Among the wires down all over the county we find our wire clothes line. Two horses washed from their stables were rescued while floating down Elk creek still tied to their mangers, verified; there she was in a pile of drift. wood, He found the body but whether the dréam is true we do not know, ms A Mr. Eisenbuth, who found the baby, says that the night before he dreamed that be heard & child eryiog down in the meadow, along the creek, the next day Sunday, he went down and found the ¢hild, We mean the Johnstown flood: Tmas All soaked, Bizz choked. A large force is already at work re- pairing the northern pike at Millheim, Mail was sent from Bellefonte on Taesday to Lewistown, by way of Cen- tre Hall, by buggy, for the cast, railroad Kister, president; R. M, Bumiller, sec’y ; J. C, Bmith, treas; committee to collect Reifenyder, 8. A AHS RA, som NO. 23 The barn at Bwartz’s saw mill was gwepl away with all the live stock, Wm, Eisenhuth, at Coburn, was awak- ened from a sound slesp by the barking of his dog; he raised the window think- ing he would command the dog to be quiet, and found the animal floating in the water with only the top of his nose out, This was the first indication Eisen- huth bad of the flood, and he thinks if it had not been for his dog he would have drowned, People of Brush Valley who desire to get to Pennsvalley, mast for the pres sent, take the old road Aarons burg, the entre pike through the Millheim narrows being uiterly washed vat, Th t the pike from Millhelm to Coburnand ie several brid. ges some three or four in number io Bane aU i From Lewistown. TER: Over 1000 people were driven from their homes on Saturday by the flood at Lewistown, and about 700 of them mur: be cared for. Some of the houses were entirely covered with water, others were carried down the river, including two large bank barns, which reminded one of the description of Noal's ark, A great many houses and outbuildings are pow standing on a neighbor lot or in the street. Very little personal property was saved; the people having put most of their farniture in up stairs rooms, not expecting 80 much of a rise, but then hopes vanished when they were come slled to escape with their lives in boats, leaving their personal property to the mercy of the flood, The water rose to a depth of about feet, The most remarkable occurances of the day wae thal of a Holstein bull owned by J.B. Shannon, living n mile asd a balf above Lewistown, valued at $500, getting into a floating barn as it passed, and when the barn reached the railroad bridge, it was mashed instantly, and his majesty gracefully peared through the roof, landing on all fours on the drifts wood, where he remained a few hours, until the bridge gave way, which was loaded with coal cars, and sank out of sight, leaving the bul. standing in a safe place about 150 fest below the bridge. The water then gradually rose about his iegs, when he plunged head foremost out of sight, causing the thousands of spectators to sigh, but he made the best of the situgtion, soon appearing at the surface amipg the driftwood, and by keeping up courage landed safely on a cinder dump in the middie of the mile wide river, where he remained until res- cued on Monday morning at 11 o'clock. I made a photograph of him on the cians der dump when the water was at its highest, and also after his rescue. Another miracle was the floating of a house from Jacks creek, a mile below Lewistown, all the way to Mifflintown, with Mr. and Mrs. Rider perched upon the roof; they werelrescued at the ster piace, There are four or five railroad bridges destroyed, on the main line, between here and Huntingdon, and onthe M. & C. road. The iron bridge across the Jus niata is entirely gone, together with many other county and township bride- es, and no estimate can be made of the expense, pday, 430 p. m. a train arrived from Philadelphia, bringing about 300 employes, who have gore to work, No lives reported lost ia this vicinity. i . 35 How the Paint Swindle is Worked. A new swindle now being worked aps on the [arming community is a come pound used for painting roofs. The farmer is indoced to take 8 few gallons of the einff free of chars, if he will be come an agent for its sale, or purchase a cerlain atnount for himself, The eon~ tract order is printed on postal cards and looks straight er. ugh onlcorsory examis nation, A eri'ical analogies of ho instrov raent. hos ever show (iat the desler are at liberty tosend any amount that may suit them, or any contract or order, probably proportional $0 the victim's wealth, and that they can enforce pay ment by its provisions, or at least caose great trouble and expense to the dupe who signs it. TI MAIC Se Married. On the 28th ult, by Rev. J. Dotterer, Mr. LE. Wolf, of Medisonburg to Miss Alice Bmull, of Rebersbury. I Died. In Lewistown, May 10, Mrs Anne Banks, reliot of the late Ephraim Banks, aged 70 years, On the 30th ait, at Madisonburg, garet, wife of Benjamin Roush, years, 6 months and 10 days. se MY SI Get a Plceture, 60
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