VOL. LXIl. THE CENTRE FRED KURTZ, ~ - All the newspa more, were flood ed. pers fi TON EET Ry the wickedest lady must and the most Ben Zine. mischievous young the lawyers and business town, and the men were drowned wave that took away zen, Cambria the h nmble wealthy by the game A I A ——————— had struck f the Ifthe Johnstown flood city at midnight instead after- noon, how ma tell the awful horrible to tl curred when all were in 0 } Yeof ink that it might have tale their with no one to sound the alarm ! TL BEA TOI Almost every section of tl has a representative ed at Johnstc at Johnstown” flood at TohRROWS and the dolefnl haodreds of 10 among the drown- WI. "le was drowned or’ swept off) words # from the mile horrar. ——————————————— Ney vor ad cast such ida disaster, ] £ by een oom * ver the that on the C as the appalling calamity wn and tl le Trade Johnst oh ali. 16 peop m was paralyzed in our commercial centres all over States; business was suspended smaller towns, and in the rural there was a lnlljin all Al cecupations hought, all talk, was J horribleifate, ohnstown, ong for a week the ill ley in had its stunni everytihi at least, had fated ones of Cx memangh their minds. equal in this g effect npon the people United States is withont a parallel. he calamity country and i Fol! the fl owing the recent floods of come yod the land to sootl vivors, 8 of eh eth i arity from all over 1e sorrows of Everywhere 1 a lap of plenty, cloth the naked, and money forward what was There in the b man breast, though chilled amid t of business, and in the race sympathy of to fee nurse the in wit! 1 iO flows in store destroyed and destitute, is love left fl. the di bat in the hour of appalling is warmed by i «18 1188 doei ire where misery, rts to aid sorrow and d laid their pitiless and aih unsparing hands Thank God it is 80, and that mankind is endowed with noble traits, I — Entomologista have about that ing a every 17 years, appears in some part the United States every year. settled i the cicada, or locust, instead of It is said sylvania, New Jersey, Long Island and Staten Island, and is expected to put in its appearance between this and the first of July, as it last appeared in that tion in 1872, The sparrows are the foC- great enemies of locust, destroying not useful this season. generally insect, except when it lays its eggs. ply puoctores foliage, and even when it trees are not injured, although often killed the most difficult route. time, hours by taking it namely: river at Sunbury up to Lewisburg, ¢ Dumfounded YMonopolists The long list of protected industries which have either suspended operations or reduced the wages of workingmen strikes terror into the hearts of the apolo- | gists for the monopoly tariff, not deny the fact, nor can they most the foree of this plain and practical argument yolitica! economy they organ, dumfoun- presented by the against the false j The monopoly ded by the “condition” protected industries, can find Bottiogte shield its party from the crushing force of the indisputable fact and is tain to be teach, ¥ al content with making mouths, as usual, at according to rh tarifl LOW II | free trade England, where, 2 ith ¢ American Manu fac r, a hi ure journal, the iron industry is ore prosperous than ever, Wi try if protection oreigners come to this conn. better for the rade 7? as mopoly tariff 1y do fi is not rmen than free iB of is flat, 8 workin a dazed defender a m and it be answered The question tale unprofits able, bat let once more, Foreigners come to this country now-a- ts oft import them, from free them, are chit who days, chiefly because the capitali protected industries Nor trade indeed, do these foreigners come Very are Englishmen. Hun starvation and few of They gAarians countries. fly Ital been and have ven 10 ians nakedness by iff taxes of their native coun- Perhaps the monopoly editor will kindly explain why thousands and thou- sands of people emigrate the highly protes Hod asopnually from Atlans regi states of the yoard to the of the West where a help but tic geal ns agricnile ral protection cannot be to be a hin- is acknowle« ge i drance, Countries and localities in the thelr yn other less dense pataral coarse of things discharge surplus Pp pulsation uj itly populated countries and | . Just as protected thousands of emigrants every Ww est 80 t f Of Pennsylvania sends its year tot iarkets rotected European states send their emigrants to the United States, in these he overcrowded labor protected and ung 1} + 1a rortainle 5 BETTY - LAO6E 18 CEriainiyY no argument { free trade acts against a - Judge Furst on the Liquor Question. At the last court, ders against session ur h {the the followi the request o Furst gave jury concermng by dmggi the grand li 2 of igunor nggist admixture of it, the o the where it enters int composition of a where the medicine, or medicine is compounded of one of which is each two or more ingredients, alcohol, he may sell preparation for medical, mec and purposes without a prescription of scientific a reg- alarly registered physician, He cannot sell it on a prescription where he knows itistobe used aaa Where an a prescription for whiskey and the circnmstances show the druggist that he only mants it fora beverage, the prescription of the physi- cian will not bs a protection. Where the circumstances of the case ought to teach or lead him to suspect that it is to be used for other purposes than a medi~ cine, the prescription will not protect the droggisis. And if physicians are in the habit of giving prescriptions to men of intemperate habits they are just as guilty as any other persons who violate the lis cense act, There is a false opinion and has been among certain men owiag to the bungling construction of the act, That if a man can obtain a prescription from a physician, he can get the liquor and drink it in the presence of the drug. gist. That is not the law and never was the intent of the law. The intent of the law was that no liquor should be fars nished by a druggist for medical, me chanical or scientific purposes except on the prescription of a physician. Ifitis necessary for a patient to have liquor, he can only get it on the prescription of a physician; aad if a stout hearty man comes farnished with a preseription re- peatediy. the droggist ought to know that it was not intended to be used as a medicine, beverage, healthy man comes with Two more of the pet measures of the recent session of the Legislature have gone to their death by the veto route Gov. Beaver, has vetoed the Judges’ Salary Bill and the measure appropria- ting $70,000 for more georgeous uniforms for the Peansylvania Natwnal Guard, The Judges of the Commonwealth are not starving, and if the militia boys got new uniforms they might depend too mach upon them to win pablic applause, instead of relying as now npon efficiency of drill, perfection of discipline snd fine soldierly bearing } SA IAW 55 0 Lock Haven, Williamsport, and Res nova are calling for more help, Renova itis said bas been nlmost entirely overs looked in the mutter of aid. HALL. PA. | Thrilling Inc dente NN. At Boliver . i | Junction people were fish | ing out dead bodies all banks at Boliver considerable and all manger of stafl along the The damage Junction was | n bad been and hanging there—clothing and farniture and everything—and showed how high stock and ve- or had people Were the water had been. Live oating past landed The fishing out dead bodies at intervals all alon river hicles wers {i on the banks, the g ¥ b banks, Many bodies had been thrown ashore by the waters, From there we procesded There WOR Workls we Cal Nineveh. { that the peos | ple had | night taking Ii living, fino; out the bodies and rescuing lhe living. wey had taken out eighteen @ or less, among whom was i lady, with a lit wad rescuoed ef Le \iter she hi Bpeax 5 . ; drown. They verted an i i Ola i were HALIDE Di HNIO 8 NOrgue and wey fast hundred or with hanling them in as as three en Wor they could, There four hn teams of were ndred m king, some two horses, Old bark sleds were converted i 1e8 ing the dead and the for CRIT) wir loaded ere 1080 with ' i could In this Carry were seventy relher, and they were sg teams all bis el more they 8 MI BOQChO antly better are taking re MATES as teams, “ AWAY. No the bodies, looked all « frie ie LW in pi nal _— ¥ Puen ver them, but no The i i a bru Pe had One Were pos wi Ie # and Chile f pon poe all naked, been torn from tl water, At road we apg Ho i the tracks of the rai re and the roads all washed away i was covered with debs Kin VOT along the r 4 wunbria +38 $ ROG on i there 16 wes! gide of the sto bridge and there we found childre: The debr hundre: f men, women and 4 3 v i} 3 ¥ standing loo the creek. is that | down and ie alone avulmenis ailont aid to have caught from natural gas (lis be 4 ; bodies of al sre cond varning nto with no possibility of rescuing them was being 43 Wie attempt made, and was lic up. The writer was talking to a young man who had | mother, two sisters and a king them the other day st his father, brotier. young man told all about how tives had The relas and seemed he made the statement that he guessed he had lost more immediate friends than any other man in Johns town. Another young who was standing by dispo said that he had lost more relatives than the other man. This led to a wordy row, and had it not been for the interfer. ance of bysian ers the young men would have come (o biows One concerns the drowning of Mm James Fronheiser, wife of the saperin< tendant of the Cambria Iron Works, The entire family, including three ehils dren , were engulfed in the flood end en- meshed in debris when the water struck their dwelling, Io the struggles to es. cape it was found two of the children, a girl and boy, were fast in some limbers. Mr. Fronheiser alone had the use of himeelf. When he took hold of his daughter he was unabel to get her out. fhe felt her limb under the water, and found that, in addition to being fast, it was broken. She told this to her father, and added, “Cat my leg off, papa, but don’t let me drown.” The boy, too, said, when his father attempted to disengage him from the debris, “Pull my arma out, papa, but dont let me drown.” Both children were finally saved, buat their mother was lost. She was swept away by the water, with a baby tem mouths old in her arms. Her last cry was, “Save the baby,” When her body had be. come wholly submerged her bands were still above the surface of the water hold ing up the infant. When she released her hold a lot of debris swept under the child and kept it afloat until it drifted within reach of some persons who were able to save it, Charles Luther ia the name of the boy who stood on an adjacent elevation and saw the whole flood, Le said he heard his met their death, proud when man d the assertion and # grinding noise far up the valley, line He saw it was like the off his air would be tossed moving hous-| hand of High in tl which] the v | slowly toward him On they came, al giant clearing able. log or beam, Down littl minutes nothing and th i ' ale ai back with a crash, and across the ten ONBeE Was geen, ved 8 1mnmouns; but the Thi is tain city. F moving or en water came with a roar and a rash. $ sx d for two hours, and then it began to flow more steadily. ray mists had scarcely risen from | The g his mornipg unstil a thousand | 8 were coursing their green sides Lhere were few emnity as foru no hearses, mourners Th rougn : 1 and as Jittie sol of The hearses IRiy. ori were f WB inetea the coflins were yal drawn d ofs'x! fiin, there were gen: gtrong oxen teams, and 11 bearers {0 one «¢ silly six coffins to one team. lentiy ie end giler ui in the lap © ster of God was sing 3 LIOOSsR ION 1 iaved {i6sy : no ’ nioaded their burden » ther earth. No min t bless as the| ex opt a few ad followed some mangled) f their grave has been here to pronounce a ude rattled down, faith al priests who he present: lives « act that that heretofore overs i in the awful strain is the soiled | lition Fally one] bird of those have been so | mangled, bruised or charred that identi] fication was impossible, In an ordinary! { } p flood this w of the corpses, recovered been the case the fill-| of houses, yiald not have bat here human bodies were bu moantain like i i tracks, tr yt wens ingola mass ains and other debri crunching and crash ing} How any of life's] Ee rivh FO turough Lhe clay retained valiey. former i The on a high hill West| one epitaph} word “Uns wand 0 rend of the doomed Qly, when must do fi now: that the are hun and ra There dreds of these! graves already an the proporiion. fifi ay will increase | ity of iden~ v hour. Fires tangled graves of cremation of} Others are k in their contact with vbiris or through putrifaction, that a much to the persons in life asthey ke of the pick in some in the dis- and althougt i The possibil ninishes ation dis ever Are ing over the 1 the inevi rag tial artial | AGT ak dreds « BD way bodies is table bee ming so ia g la eton would show as wi every str ns of the city resulted ery of relieved the t they Wherever nersl orning morgues of their crush, before ni! were as fal one bh fin 18 met, AR gver, rns, the melancholy view of a cof] Every train into Johnstown | them, the betler ones being generally accompanied by frier of the dead. Men could ! oP ing ruins with any caskets on their ied and fell man pits. The h dead went bounding over the stones like drums in a funeral march. The famine appears to be alleviated, - A Strict Election Law. NISH BRIBERY ELECTIONS was laden wilh 1s " en tiag ver the Kh ining taal shoulders. into the abounding houses the og. Several stumb ollow of coffin AN ACT 7 AT CERTAIN File of the Senate, No. 01, Approved May 9, 1859, meron 1. Be itenacted by the Sen- ate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen eral Assembly met, and it is hereby en acted by the anthority ofthe same: That any person who shall give, or promise or offer to give toan elector any money, reward or other valuable consideration for his vote at any election held for the purposes of voting on an amendment to the Coastitution or any other public pur. pose, ar for withholding the same, or shall give, or promise to give, soch con- sideration to any person or party for such elector’s vote, or for the withhold- ing thereof; and any elector who shall receive, or agres 10 re wive for himsell, or for anviher any money, reward or other valusble consideration for his vote at such election, or for withholding the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars; ~ and undergo imprisonment not exceed: ing one year. It will thug be seen that the offering to buy or sell a vote for any valuable con- sideration whatever is a misdemeanor, punishable as above provided. A flask or a drink of whisky is a “valuable con- sideration” within the meaning of the law. Twenty five dollars reward will be paid for the first conviction for a violas tion of the above law at the coming elec. tion; $20 for the second conviction; $15 for the third, and $10 for each subsaquent conviction, D.8. Keller, Chairman Amendment Co. Com, D. F, Fortney, Member Siate Oommities, C. M., Bower, : ok aris Oo . Wiibar F. Reeder, J. W. Gephart, Ex, Com, Beliefonte, Pa., June 6, 1880. - June 4, — Gov ued an app al to the ple of the 1 d State reciting the appalling fact the flood in says that while the most for food has HARRISBURG nor [HO nite in which after in regard to the Conemaugh valley, pressing how and been upplied, and } OTH is urgently r | dead, caring for the he required fi the dar mele adds Mrying geronu debris clearing and The governor that indicate great loss of lif the west branch hanna, and in localities definite acts a ang itl nation inforn aliing will add new | ge of al large Pres ure be wi Governor WW leaver HINGTON, Jun ning nr Governor Pens The Pres {HK have “ debris frog 23 fre ym Ei the rom all ZI atly enco unicate w if a unusual o Adequate Warning iit the sound the alarm At that time the ond story of som WET part f the 1 away rian he k & of water then pouring wer to hav warnings which time tor all sneered at and worthy At © of credence. S30 the whistles Rg that the dam then it was 00 warning could re all upon has lnt« ‘ sound and befor a> the danger the them in 6 mass Carrying it Had they taken warning from the ti Lal he i watlir wi everving saved Be Used. BOYES q the Pennsvyis nema ich wil jay. The idea 18 U and start it dow slies and inter the: le, Dynamite to The twenty-five ulated by ver the Cy the ord Frank Hatton Safe. Ex-Postmaster General | Ha st Ebensburg Willia 1 general manager of f thi gave they were the 3 sev t § ped together on East Conemangh's Fatalities Fxaggerated The destruction of life at East Cone. maugh is than reported, not more than twenty-five having perished. The property, however, for three squares up from the river was totally destroyed About 4:2 Friday afternoon word was telegraphed from South Fork that the dam was breaking. Almost imme- diately the whi lew peveral locomo tives were blown #0 Jong and loud that realizing hed from water Jess Wi 5 on of was and the that sot hing their COMmang. the pe ple WIONnE rus seeing the mountains To give some idea of the destructive weer with which the volume of water pow the lake struck East Conemaugh it is only necessary to state that it took the round house with twenty-seven en gines in it, 200 freight cars and abo twenty passenger cars, including four Pullman cars. 2.300 Nodies Recovered. The total number of bodies is now estimated by Adjt. Gen. Hastings and the undertakers at 2.800, but tw reneral has wired Governor Beaver that Be believes the loss will amount to from 5,000 to 8.000, and that time would pro- duce ample proof of thia, ‘i. In order to facilitate the ascertaining of the number of the dead all surviving pesidents of Johnstown and Cambria City have been requested to register at vanous designated places. While the estimates of the under- takers are that the nusnber of bodies are 2.800, the records of the different im- provised morgoes in this vicinity does not show it, but the reason is first before order was established many corpses were buried immediately upon identifi- cation without registering. The under takers, however, had matters system atized to a wondersul extent by Sunday evening and their services were most valuable, A Cornfield Pull of Corpses. A corn patch of about an acre in ex- tent at Ninevah was dug over by a vol unteer force and 188 corpses were uncov- ered. The manner in which the ghastl ty find was made was purely accident A man walking over field eed a clump of garland, overturned it, uncov. od 3 woman's face. This indicated a rich find and the around were called in to assist results above stated. This increased the list of dead inN ar to 330, The new dead were found under four feet of allviual de posit, wnsdurinmi lento Mrs. John G Ueda ing struck the to if ih Tix overed tall ig Mr fout our hou Viends Worse Tha The Town Under O00 Bodies i Ohi Barn, Me Donald ( rash Bay when he fect high forty fect { certainly thin ki go over the bridg came down To k the I» once took fire, and as fast as came down they were consume lieve 1 am safe in saving 1 saw bodies burn. It reminded me of a } flies on fly pape: r strug g to get aw with no and no chano them.” Johustown's Population Was 29,400. Just one month ago the work of taking a census of the city for a new was ootmpietl and showed exactly 400 people claiming residence in town. The book ig now in thu hands at Altoona. An efi made to secure a copy of the make a new canvass of the city, this manner ascertain tw a degree of certainty the number death in this terrib le disaster > and & gradually AAW The first h ho pe directory i 1 that — We devote much of our space this week to the Johnstown disaster in order that the readers of the Reporier may have a full report of it. All the incidents can not be given by any one paper, snd some will never be in print, and what we have suflices to tell of the greatness of the destruction. If ia a horror that will become historic. Some compare the slaughter with that at the baltie of Gettysburg. Bat Gettysburg's slain was the work of three day's carnage, Johns. town's slaughter was completed in less than two hours, On our inside pages we give the beginning of the story, and in other pages will be found the subse quent details, a] Annou — PROTHONOTARY, We are authorized to announce that M, 1. Gard. ner, of Howard Boro, will be a candidate for Srdiiouviry' Subghch ho Desnocra tionssges, for CT eb will & candidate for Prothonotary, sulject W Pamusiie wg, on Lowins to fake the lo Mrs. Fisher, mother of Maj. J. B. Fi- . | ser, (widow of Adam Fisher, of he of Hall, we regret to learn, died on worging. Funeral on
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