AN, Watch mag na Llemocrat. VOL IL BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1889. NO. 23 The ©outee Denoenat, EDITOR arbi CHAS. R. KURTZ, ———————— CONTINU ED FROM LOCALTVAGE, might be taken away, a raft was soon constructed by Mr. Ard, John Rishel, Agent Kreamer and Mr, from the second s. ory, from there they from the second story and las John Bowersox s family. Along the creek below Coburn stood . | FROM TEN Eisenhuth Lot Condo’s family were taken out first | then John Stonebreaker’s were rescued | that went to Perry Stovers and helped them | work have not JOHNSTOWN DESTROYED. TO FIFTEEN THOUSAND LIVES LOST. | A Large Lake Nine Miles Above the Clty Breaks and a Wall 0 Water Over 60 Feet Obliterates » Clty most appalling calnmities visited Friday and the reports of its deadly At ever befell in community the city of Johustown on last evening, been exaggerated, a small frame house occupied by Mus, | this writing Tuesday morning it is esti Simon Pfaust and three children. Early that morning a man by the name of John Rider approached the house and wanted the woman to leave as their building was in danger. She said she thought there was no danger and as her I shand was away would not leave, It is sald that a second attempt was made to rescue the family but nothing could bz done, as the stream had submerged the greater portion of the building and n> ong could reach thew. A short time after the building was raised from the foundations and dashed to pieces by the violence of the water and the moth. er and her three little children met | death in the cruel and heartless stream | Saturday afternoon was spent by many citizens in searching for the bvod- ies of the unfortunate family, but with no Success, received at Coburn that the mother hal been found and later the baby was found also. A crew at once started on a hand eax and found the body of the woman about two miles below Coburn in a pile of drift wood. Mr A. L. helped remove the corps, says it was lying face up wedged in between sever. | and difficu! the tun. tak- driftwood removed considerable ity. It carried up to nel on a board and then by hand.cai en to Coburn at about 10 a. m., Sunda morning, and taken to Mr. Kreamer’ house. About twenty minutes later th body of the baby arrived and was taken and with was was al logs to the same J. F x 1 1a ipanneled place. Justice ury composed A. J. Campbell Md. Ul Harter, W. A. Rearick, and W. IH. Kreamer and an inquest held. The bodies taken gharge by the town, . Garthoft, of the aj by . were then women of the face was badly ma Bruce, but the features reta The mother's bruised and h swolle face of the slightly also, smile and one would not b that it had met death in such a horrible was baby, was bruised ave manner, The other children are Charley | mated that the loss of life will exceed twel.e thousand gnd that may be too small. The particulars that reached this place came on Sunday morning and will give as related. The story from an elevated point is from a flag-man who along the road had the opportunity to witness the sad spectacle. He arrived at Tyrone and Superintendent Blair, of that place gave the account here on Sunday morning as related to him, The flagman of the passenger train had gone ahead about a quarter of a Sunday morning word was | Katherman who | . | ville his train on duty. that mile bevond | av ening. About situated nine miles above Johnstown wis an old canal reservoir | { which of late years had been enlarged and was ouned by Pittsburg capitalists and was used as a summer resort, F the ( rom | thi 3 place ‘onemangh river { through a gap to Johnstown, {this stream adioining John : Were the and We ot HN RY Loney Conemang! |r {and a half w i Darrow filled with | le. When it re thought | {and peop i house where over a hundred about 5 yedffrs of age and Ellen 8 years. | tives The father, Simon Pfanst, is working in | the woods above Sinnemahoning and if be can be reached, the funeral will | “8 shell. be had the latter pagt of this or the be ginning of next week, at Spring Mills, A DREAM, stored the immense struct but were ire wis crushed as though it were an Locomotives were picked up | and hurled in the air: the ron monsters were seen to roll along crashing over one another reeling and toppling and of the The flood A man by the name of F. Parker says | he had a dream on Saturday night that | he? saw the body of a women at a cer. tain place along Penns creek. were mere tovs in the anos de. structive element. traveled ! f | at the rate of uw mile 8 minute and be. He went | there in the morning antl his dream was verified; there it was in a pile of drift. wood, the dream is true we do not know, ANOTHER DREAM. A Mr. Eisenhuth, baby, says that the night before he dreamed that he heard a child erviag down in the meadow, along the creek, who found the the next day Sundiy he went down and | found the body of Bruce, the baby. LOSS AT CORURN. The damage done at Coburn was most. ly on store goods, The heaviest loses are, J. Howell, merchant, 8200; G, W. Swengle, merchant, #1000; T, W, | Hosterman, P.M. 3100s BF. Vona. da, property, 8300; Monroe Kreatser, on personal property 8300; J. Lowersox, #200; Sam. Ulrich, 8300; M. J. Decker, grain house, 8500; W, H. Kreamer, 8300; R. U. Shaefler, 8300; Benj. Kerstetter, on saw mill and other’ property A200; Hotel, 8500; And Vomsda, planing mill 21500; A. J. Campbell, #700; A. Ricks ard, 3000; Whitmer & Son, lumber lost, #500; Penna. Rallrond 5000 ties, The temek on the mileoad from 0 | He found the body but whether | { fore the people could realize the situa | tion they were hurled into eternity. The of the wl on an embankment two sections “Pav Express” which sto about | thirty feet in height had an opportan:ty } to see Lhe whi advancing waters, in Of all 1 the two long trains but The engine { another instant was upon them, the peopl | Sixty were ale taescape. wales {swept the coaches amd the eral from tock and down they went, with sev. » + hundred lives not one of which renched the shore alive, As they went over and over human forms could be seen hanging from the windows ing to the rails spd steps: engines, man bodies and then a detached coach would rise and topple over and sink in the waters, Ou and on down the strear they were carried, turning over and standing on end, grioding and erushing, bomen bodies in | pieces; the volume of water Incronsed { Cutting amd tearing burn down is badly damaged and the | {and all in the space of & few moments tunnel was fled with saw logs and deifi wood, Doth ralleond bridges wre badly | damaged and will be sever] weeks be. fore trains can be run, On Sundicy afternoon 8 meeting wis | Beldrat Milileim in the town halk dol take action for the relief of who i | disappes red from view In the general The watein row until Johnstown wis soon fovere | to uw depth of over sixty feet. The brakeman of the train wasenught destruction, the destruction is complete, with most (of its inhabitants and famous iron in- | dustries. The water covered the great. Ler portion of the city and especially the { business portion. In the track of the stresun there Is scarcely a building stinding on its original foundation and what are left are entively ruined. The breaking of the reservoir above Johnstown occurred Friday at 4 o'clock instead of Saturday. all several feet the inthe afternoon At this time in Johnstown and Burs rounding towns there were of water on the streets and Ls ple were In the second storie of their hous. When the reservoir commenced to 0s, give way two men started on horseback down the stream to give the warning and several thousand managed to es, cape. As the report that the reservoir was breaking was frequently given in JES Yeurrs most people did not believe it and remained in the houses until too late to escape. A SAD SPECTACLE. After the water subsided a sad spec- What was ) tacle was presents d to view, once a busy town inhabited by an ene getic und thriveing class of people was mass of ruins and rubbish turned inton debris filled the streets to a of depth many feet In were streets and third the | IRN sis wilh been clu More Wer found fis with ear-rings watches an 1 butt A Cin is who was shot hud in Tis possession On ¥. = ers that had been ent off; also caraings A colored man was shot while attempt. that wore ing toamputate a finger a ring. The linger was ouls veered, A party s« large force of men were working among the debris when the word bro ght fo th \ was wl ein that men were i ng wd three of the the dead buxdies. They eaptur al found fugers with jewels differ ent Kinds, This 0 enraged wn that they actually drowned three men, throwing them in the water amd pil amd A couple of negroes were driven off while ing stones brush on them. breaking open trunks amd scattering goods round, The Johnstown military comnpeny aid many citizens are ston Hi ad are doing duty, To pretend to pletare the situation is an undertaking fur beyond the power of HAE OF pen, Pgtude in your mind Johnstowa snd surrounding towns as they were, Compare them with a sawly dosert and It will give you a faint idea of the seen, Fhe thriving little town of Conemaug bawept away, with the epeeption of the hotses on the hill side, Fifteen engines, some weighing 80 tons, that were here mie now lying below dohnstown, two mths from Conenmingh. fated train ward is entirely wiped out of existence, | ni despairing bosoms, L&T But the ap- wan who escaped from the ill- says that exactly pearance of the sun did not stop the which continued to until the again began to lengthen { grew pale with fear lest the rise of the water, twenty | get higher minutes after the first waters reached | evemng shadows Johnstown the danger was over and the | and hearts | | end might submerged town re-appeared. In twen. | ty minutes almost fifteen thousand souls | | be the swee ping away of the whole were blotted out of existence, millions of city and particularly the lower portion of it dollars worth of property destroyed and {and the drowning of the whole popu- | : many are made to the loss of | lation, | the appalling | mourn But as Satarday night came on friends and relatives in apace the angry and threatening waters calamity, commenced to receded, i } rr ( BE 4 + gy A nunber of the cars wrecked near | SCENE IN THE OLD COURT HOUSE, South Fork, near Johnstown, wereload-| ,... J ' i i There were between two hundred and ed with flour, syrup and other merchan- { thirty and two hundred and fifty people | in the old Court Honse building, peo- dise. The railroad officials gave the cit- zens in the vicinity permission to help | : themselves to the provisions, Of course | ple of all sorts and conditions, mostly many of the needy got a good share, but | from Henderson street and below, who a goodly number living a distance away | : as they left their homes or what was who had lost nothing, helped themsely- | 4 ! . : | brought to them in boats, Cows were es, one man alone getting away with 124 sacks of flour. | milked up stairs in the building and the warm fluid fresh from the teats was Up to Monday Johnstown was unde: | wath Adjutant Hastings in commanfl of the 14th National In the martial law (reneral | , (some of the elders. regi- the . ng waler, Sheriff be had, and the . INCORYeniences b . Ie 3 K- ment Guard, being on mveniences was the want of drink round. a veruoud.. the of which there was none and the muddy stuff that was ‘ambria county took charge raven. Ti strict police supervision and visi. nitted running through the streets was quaffed nis were wil in 1 Low | by some in preference w doing without. Bread under was the of scene was one that an artist might have chief and almost the tors are not on any prety xt. : only article diet and at night the those ends were of in search of {1 dilin. R i envied, if he desired his pencil to LO 1 to Sang Hollow, 1 he maug Penna. . tracks from Cone. wretched The were nauseating and came from all tof filth, eale a and uncomfortabl miles, of the changed the over five SCene, buildings ’ stoells in the no trace The flood nver were swept away amd left, of the down tha ‘ Sorts road is animal and human. the CO flows heart vinductof P. R. R heap of and it now . et : ‘ compeleq Lo stay in puging unt ough what was once the Sunday evening of the city t the THE BREADTH OF THI minstown IS fan Immense of bodies | caught toa ruins asta Limited lantic d was ordered wed the engineer to ran arse of the stream. to or. Le isl and contrary tel off at” full sped and in less hdl minute later the track they vas many feet under a roaring | persons. all g {ate just what they were able to snatch | is no respector of persons, to | ! to Mans were BE WN ell efforts, he was carried down across Bali! Eagle street towuids the creek snd drowned, BAVING of Queens Run bridge to while the save that the sides are pretiy BRIDGY Hundreds truck the sinaskod buildings but Were atoms bridge was not heii well bat tered in. The Lock Haven bridge als stood the tests well and is slightly das aged, while piles of lnmber and roblmy | piled up on the Lock Haven end of te bridge, it was not moved. At Antis Forte the loss was terri as regards life as no less than irls, who were in one haw | are among the Jong list of victim | the great flood, LOSE OF LIVE AT MACKEYSYILLE Advice Mackeysville, seems to be well authenticated are tol» from whi’ effect that aside from the great loss » property there was appalling loss of ie | eagerly drank by the children and even by Down through that section came th One of the great | terrible | swell that, like In its conn deat’ it carried away almost everything pon able and many things that were supposes be stationary and utterly resistive the force of the flood. While damage t property in the wake of the flood in tie | region is great the loss of life overt of course. T.J. Smull = ples it all, kept a general store there, was eur Andy drowned: John Ha the whe. | away with his store; Ryan as family are reported also am per is missing a At the sone supposed to ba four persons we they were or wiv ame from not Known. AT AT ROCK. the vould | gennerally IS On be su all dangers that t be one © onh was the sok Be that as it mes remember the flood Homes sonal property swe ¢ stream that, whik all the visitation, more a tery. hed down the walies branches of the | side-hill trees, and the very drops of the flood iN ling appearing as tears, being sym arti- | bolic CRIN and today not a vestage of the i at that point is left, Contre County People There Ken- a latest report is that Henry forn of Boal er of Kennedy erly John ang Said HR urotd of Hal Ed burg. were sive, Centre 1 was drow: ell Kreamer and family, of Boals- a 2 of tears shied for the homes the re nt | flood had caused so much sorrow. The { lives lost were those of the two ohil pe | dren of Chas. Cole and the wifeof Ma Spible, and three children. Messrs absent from hows woods, m the many homes here sewhere in the vicinity and It was grand, tremendous, appalling sight we never saw before wWanl 0 see again, Cal Barnes | Cole and Barner were HE CONDITION OF THE CITY. | working up in the The filled with wud from The city isin a terrible state. . | ALMOST ENTIRE FAMILY DROWNED houses were all i two to six inches in depth. The streets | One of the instances, and they wen win commenced to speed all over the themselves were blocked with of | of ires of same Thus far nothing has been heard Dr. Ed Centre plies of mud and debris of all Miller and famils Hall, or of James Sh formerly and along | shoveled through the mud just the town wonkd hovel hrougl now. Chas, Cook and family have not been 8 ihc through Houses gardens and yar= are absolutely ward from. Ham Otto who has three ruined, everything swept away and their hey Millville Away hiothers there, fears that { perished, . Ais laces filled and UH wd wi rel Every hone in adjoining | Places led and littered th foreign sinfl from the Lend 250; knows where, Johnstown, was swept except a Business is almost entirely suspended, Mi factories and shops all caught schon] howe, mechanies, grocers, mills, it and all are in a condition of partial ruin, some - rehants, \T LIK HAVENS The following is taken from the Lock Haven Demoweral of Monday, a copy of | hopelessly vo. Mr, Wilber Harris who visited that place on SWEPT AWAY AND DROWNED, night eight people drowned at McElhatten Run, Kersher's which was Kindly fornished us by On Friday there were Sum! ty The beantitul eity of Lock Haven is [just below this city-—Jacoh in wins, The scene is one of terrible devastation, ont of Mg. K.'s arms by the current | aad the other knocked out of her arms Ly o Goating log. The bady hersell is still Living, having been found lodged in at apple tree. Willimn Counfer, his wife and four children, were drowned, Celty, carrylag desolation and rain in | the Ath esonped and bs living, yet quite (every howe. The while city wa soon lively, They were all found in the ander water nid on Saturday Ing wounds about half inti went of Rocks and Low itever will be re. pativedd, is more than anybedy can well | immgine, The food from above reached re on Feiday evening. aod before mid. night the river had overflowed its banks hugh Sorts the pavements paths sere as ohe two children, one of whom was swept | | were filled with the seething walor upon { only to plenty, where almost an entive | family was wiped from the face of the { earth by the flood was out on Fishing | Creek, near Mackeysville. The hom | of Lnther Sevier was almost depopuils- | ted the whole family exe pin Tr. NS being drowned. "e Robert Armstrong and sister wis lived al Washington Fumace, sss drowned having been in their hous shen it wus seashod amay. AT MILL HALL, Between the hours of one and tw o'clock on Saturday morning last Ue citizensof Mill Hall were avoused from { their slumbers by the ringing of the hell at Brady's Hall the people had bales time to hetake themselves to the upper part of their houses ere Lhe lower pooms thom. The water rose with grest mw. pidity, wel Fishing Creek was soon avnk full and chsing about the sechesef the stone bridge at the northern end of town, w « lmoked up and thrown out over the entive business portion of town, aml the soul Wits truly arith,
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