ny ater Democrat, oh P Bt Af—— IN DEETHS VALLEY, The Cru ome Work Alons the PB " the Conema a CF AN EPIDEMIC DENIED. DANG Sorrows the Meinneholy Are Diligontty Out of the Ch®s of Yohnstown's ulus way Bill Continues in but Practical Porces Work Evolving Order Vale, nt Guapowdor god Fire Employed in Re Park's the mavivg the Debris—Engineer draphic Heeltal of the Scenes nt realking of dnl of Ruin, a., June 11. » pastern side red. This m bodies must b The fire is burning slowly Feority is given for the meas: fsdinges didn't care to talk of The Situstion, HRSTOWN, Pa... June 11.—The on OL Jounstown is just tid und dead about 10.000 es are living in tants houses of frien on L vis is piled high all over Johns wewm proper, with the exception of a wide swach along the Coneman wept cemn of hou but which is { ror Hive feet deep with sand. The delris holds de aying } r } titer, and th brid. rong i lecay. Kernville and wel total wrecka or disease, th and dex ey 3 AE OF al bris the Joyo ws, the raft L30 w li y burned, dd 1 Lien. § LF it, exact There W ple, and ) the etables res of alas 1 forth st all GrerpoOw the ol « ville, whi |: « breeding | are full oi mud them sick: The sanitar are almost 1 youd descripti wid with the mer just by it will be indeed if con does not r ¢ Of i 3 LJ mon g Teasing. on Waorkl JOuxeT raft 1s in less, m vard, ma night are the shaite t the wreckag I mends of walls marking stivets had been, Though have already been uncovered BOW are coming to light in « AU Its 1 mbers stick e torn, rag : i 1 dead prising naminbers—if any prised, and thor them that |: The Sie i je just arriving that the stench i< s fainting the ai where, while here throughout noticed it only places, showin numbed. AR the Wats dead and the sk waiting for the berman standi who is called bearer, raised | bow never fell tim twain t) ram the point nth day. It conan Emma R ttf bow her broke § i wir bter, hnstowsn say $ name, hu Emssmedinte 1 N Sees The day is past the « ean be k for i hifu t the ¢ viel 1 v of this hy, that 1 : Fri - hon ie 0 I paral ty There are over s 0b the mori ap to noor : wk from the tin elved, 1,402 poo wm who were discov wintry. This} ing to do with w valley, or the dead of Ninevah. New Vlorence and elsow hore were also buried who were not taken to heme mor ues, TBE BOND. new face 8 revo . whith w ries I show re od right in this Ol bi : Terwrs of the Agrecwent to Indemnity the Governor for Expense, Potaosrrinia, June 1L«The follow. ng sm copy of the bond of in lemmnity 4 gn by Governor Beaver and Mayo yesterday afternoon: Whereas, y af uaranteo then the'llability of ssch signer uns : the same be proportionately reduced, ! Third, The Hability of cach to be for a pro | rata shisre of whatever amount may be ex i pended by the sald James A, Hoeaver for the | purposes aforesaid, not exceeding the penalty | of the bond, in case the legislature should fail to make an i appropristion for the work undertaken to be carried out by the governor through the state board of health, under the police powers of | the state, i Witness our hands and seals this 10th day of June, A, D, 1588, The Governor's Opinion, In conversation Governor Beavor said: | 1 don’t think we will have any trouble | {in getting 200 citizens to gO on that | guarantee," ins that | under the police powers of the state, de- i district re buried from | diphtheria in Johnstown ¢ i ibn t v A great many | think like quinzy, | dead “I have that many Philadelphians al- ready,” interrupted the mayor, ‘and expect to have 500 before it stops,” “That's good,” rejoined the governor, { “Almost everybody I met in Pittsburg | who had any money were willing to go | {onthe bond. I think myself that the amount necessary for the work is greatly exaggerated, but so much is to be done f the Dam—Willinmsport's | that it will cost anywhere from $100,000 — pot v to £1,500 004) to complete it. The bond { 18 simply one of indemnity, and I regard this thing only in the light of a sanit Ary | precaution. In other words, 1 operate clare the Conemaugh river a nuisance, | {| and direct that the nuisance shall abated as quickly as possible. 1t is my { opinion that the amount of money which {| would be required for an extra’ session | of the legislature will pay for all the | work that is to be done: but 1 think that | the legislature will make an appropria- tion at the next session to pay for all that is necessary.” be GOVERNOR BEAVER'S PLAN. He Visits Johnstown and FPerfosts a Sehieme of Action. i. PR. h inquire 10. —L3overnor I for during the Ane sterday, looked with w eeping eyes, confer rand a half with William B. William Hasting and others the burden of the work of relief and pledged a million dollars from the state treasury upon con- ditions which were satisfied at once. June Beaver, so mud last weel nt the wre red for ar Flynn, James Cree ry, have borne rescue and here ve SCott, Le Ai Cron who A State Commission. » will be no extra sess the antrol with will take « rk on Wednesday $ proposed that the state RETR mmission furnish Gen. Beaver for immediate caring up and restoring Johns n order to make the state whole | of Pittsburg, Philadelphia portions of it will become in- responsible until the legisla and makes appropriations relieve them. This plan was sly agreed to, also arranged that on morning Gen. Hastings, Governor Beaver, should | if the work of policing the ! clearing it up, including Johnstown and the surrounding bor. oughs,. Governor Beaver loft o'clock last night for Philadelphia, Governor Beaver Interviewed. that w unanimon It was Wednesday | acting for ! take charge valley and at 5 In an interview Governor Beaver said | that he had been over the entire flooded | and found the supply depota well filled, but they must soon be re plenished, | ‘1 found the streams filled with deoris | and accumulated drift in which there is | & possibility of human bodies being im | bedded, with a probability, if allowed to remain, will endanger public health, leaving it impressed in my mind that the ! public powers of the state must be ex. j ercised to restore things to their normal | condition “The funds which have come into my hands in such large amounts snd from | ffuarters outside of the state 1d which have been imposed me as sacred trust, will be « xpended wholly and absolutely for the benefit of individual suff ‘No part of it will i exper led in work whic h is legiti- mately the domain of the state un This 1 wish to ernpha- ontnbutors to the fund v ol assured that their money will judiciously and economically « x pended for the benefit of suffering hu | not to the work which ah uld lertaken by the state or | SO any upon a rers ler its Board of Health Balletin of tat health tletin WY thot egion has be nt di any will n di tricts and each mpetent sanitarian ] alth is pre pared to | g ¥ arise he ne and the drinking water | Hy pure ates] district will £0 on aa they | y¥ done during the past week to clear up the wreckage ertainly be main If the good pv ople of | resence of Diphtheria Denied. Joseph N. Dickson. in charge of bedford Street hospital Sand I. T. Allegheny, deny « mphati- there | Hi case of ww oany of its suburbs. They say there is a good deal follicular x but that is rarely fatal and is not « ontagious. It is some but a milder disease, Religious services were Li I nt several different vlaces throughout the « ity yes terday and were largely attended, The Waters Glve Up Their Dead. The waters began to give up their Yesterday, the ninth since the flood. Fifty odd bodies were recovered here, most of them floating in the water, Seven of them were dragged out of the raft above the bridge. On the bdy of Christopher Kempt, an un. dertaker, was found $3,100, INE we throat, if Hit: sl Fourth, This guarantee to be binding only | | they are | hospital corps for the benefit of daily. | cellent work, | intact, | An Tmmense BOO O00 to pay for the Flannspuna, June 10.The governor's fund for the relief of the survivors of the flood in the Conemaugh valley and other portions of the state is assuming large proportions and the disposition to cone tribute appears to ba on the increase, | Yesterday letters and telegrams were ro JOHNSTOWN BEFORE THE FLOOD, ceived requesting the governor to draw $68,000 additional, swelling the REITe gate sum at his disposal to about £3,000, | O00, DISEASE '¥ THE AIR Workmen to Posts, Fear of Pestilence judaces Abandon Their JOHNSTOWN, Pa... June 8.—1It is feared at the Red Cross corps headquarters that the flood has left a arting curse hovering over the Conemaugh valley in the form of the dread disea diphtheria. The attentions ] | ple are of the mu HOCH directed to Kernville, where the a prevail I : i ” peo now Red Cross makes no se ret of ing epidemic, Miss Clara A. Barton and Dr O'Neill, of the Red Cross, decided to establish “ hospital at Kernville, and, after much with the local auth rities, and ted their Bernas, Philads Iphia trouble cured a with Dr Fire Kile Ere of tents in Workmen Giving 1 ™ of Flynn's mu They complain the dead Kens n of bodies It and drives A guard i are quitting the stench is 80 strong them from wn around Johnstown and no ) FL of the Flynn or the fused to Flynn debris 5000 men in ten thy is pw rinitted as Ir outs mn The Stench Unbearable, from the debris is unbearable in the bridge and work men are finding serious difficulty in r 1g at their work for more thangs ew hours at a time, Disinfectants have not been put on the pile vet, although ib freely distributed through The stench arising becoming he almost of neighborhood nan the town, Curiosity and relic seekers have been warned to keep away from the debris as disease lurks in the air about it They pay very little attention to it. however their desire for plunder evidently being | greater than their fear of pestilence, a the injured This society has been doing ex- The Red Cross society have formed workmen, many of whom are Hurlburt House Vietime The register and safe of the Hurlburt House have been taken out of the raing The following is the entire list of dead and the survivors of the ill fated hotel The town f red dd Mra, Miss Maria Ben Lou Benford, Mrs. Smith and Mra. Dr. Defrance, Miss Lagra Ham Miss Ella Byroe, Jane Mal Minnje n Mars ] a Harrigan, ~ 2 3 - . LE ¢ is ¥ oe fetinile Na * E dead are f Mr = J Haw LF Charlies CLEARING WRECK Amount of Time and Labor Required for the Work. wx, Pa... Five on wey storday at work ole the | 4 Last Was L 8 1 to in fr Holliday anv half logon ot her worted for duty They rk at once, most of them June 7 thou. aring dehrt mn the (Sings « Nai ry Ipate h 'e pla o% and wer pus to wi without any break fest Mr. Flinn estimates that will take 10,000 men sixty days to cloar away the AL this rate it will require 81.. work his does expenses. Five million it wreek not include the dollars will town in shape for rebuilding The Efieacy of Vive. Dr. Graff has been given charge of the Dr. Graff talked | at length on the different plans of sani. | sanitary commission TRAIN RUSKING ON FLOODED TRACKS AY STRRLTON tation for the flooded district, and final] There is but one sure, safe —- said: plan burn everything. 1 think the order will be iesued to burn everything all over the district. This is the surest plan to pre. vent any con or epidemic; but un- derstand there is no immediate danger as the weather ong There bike the trunk of a uman body, i Plosion after explosion of dynamite i detonations coming not be enongh to put Johns. | (£8 looked It fell back into the water with a splash and irLzin ich | glided into the swift current under the bridge before it could be pulled in, Ex- fol owed the blast of gunpowder, LE] homie that they might almost be taken for the the | together | J08. HORNE & C0'S PENN AVE, continuous discharge of heavy guns, An | in some places fifty feet, was made dur- ing the afternoon. Endeavors fo Save the Dam. In conversation with a press sentative Resident Engineer Park was on the spot when the dam broke Friday, said; “On Thursday night I noticed that the dam was in good ord r, and the water was nearly seven feet from the top When the water is at thi height the lake is then nearly three miles in 1 nicth, It rained hard on Thursday night, and 1 rode up to the end of the lake on the swentful and saw that woods around there was teeming with a seeth- ing cauldron of water, Col. [Une r. the president of the fishing club that owns the put twenty-five It: work to fix the dam A farmer vicinity also lent a willing hand To sire ngthen the dam a run along th top of it irth was then thrown into the furrow On the west side a channel was dug and a sluien was constructed. We cut through about four feet of shale rox k whin we to solid which LT 5il cut without blasting. Once we channel Oper the water Je on day the Opry, hs to in the plow was and « ros ig wis ped and a sty feet wide and tires that end of the quantiles of water the pier at the other the face of this gr from the dam it kept 1 of ten inches an hour. Hope Abandoned. the bed rock on aan ii ly belies i miBoisihl 1 possi v horse AE THE RECEDING FLOOD LEFTY to a place of safety 1 was drowned that place to sve a 1 wa ing down JORXRTOWNR, Only solves one in and was ng tut hit that was flog iw t OMicial List of Passengers Lost Ju The official { the dead and tf m the east bound trains that burg last Frid BURG IN left now fh i New Orleans the first two trains The Talbott, nes two or thr Reading, P Stir po son Mra, with oe ¢ THF DEFECT.V of Mad DAM E Made the Safety Pt Closed, and Klulcewnyy Re D Sluolceways (Closed back of usd] ne a feoder the anal, the dam was in bet ter shap ) 4 \ there wore shui a vlily be opened #0 as to if the ure of walt y foo great Lewen kept closed by hen the reer Hr to Yor proses oi : These sluices } the South Fork Fishing club since they came ito possession of the place, m or der that the game fish might not scape to the river below, Experts have declared that had these terrible calamity in the Conemaugh val- ley could have been averted. The Dam Trproperly Planned. Not only do those who have visited the dam declare that its material was in- suffident, but they also assert that it was not lined out on an improved basis of enginecring. There was no attempt to give it extra strength curvature, Its 400 feet of straight 'BEEZER'SMEATMARKET extra sluices been kept in order and op | | erated there is no room to doubt that the |! | opening 400 feet long, which runs back | repres | who | DONE BY — The Artist reference, ton, Pa. J ALLEGHENY 8T, . BELLEFONTE , We keep none but the best quality of Beef, Pork, Mutton, &¢. All kinds of smoked meat, sliced ham, pork, sansage ete, If you want a nice Juicy steak go to Brrzen's Meat Marker, . 1043.1y, Bait TI Persons wishing to improve their memories or strengthen thelr power of attention should send to Prof, Loisette, 227 Fifth Avenue, N. Y., for his pros pectus post free, as advertised in anoth- er column, i { STORES. | 0 JUNE rn ES AA. Railroads, PESNSYLVANIA I. 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