HHBHWBI5?pSflK'wHHMBwHHHER5BHlHHHBIw!R'wf, "'? -- fw B3 -tt : H fDe $$ A TRIPLE NUMBER. j JFOfiTY-yOUHTH YEAR f WIPED OUT BY WATER. ijpnstown. the Pretty Mountain City, Swept From 'IT : . the Surface of the Earth. '3,000 TO lftOOO PEOPLE ARE MISSING. The first Terrible News Far More Than Verified - by the Latest Keports. FIRE FINISHES ALL Hundreds of Bodies Recovered, and the Seceding Waters 1 Disclose Many More. CThe Whole Horror an Awful EealityNot a flideons Dream An Awful Stench From ' the Talley of the Conemaugh Aid for the Sufferers as Far as BecelvedMany f- Prominent and Wealthy Hen Among the Drowned John Fulton, the Father of the "Attempt at Prohibition, One of tie Tns Fire Breaks Out and Adds a Climai f to the Work of the Flood A Hotel Filled With Guests, of Whom hut Seven Were Bared The Police Force Increased to Keep Off Thietes, Who Are Growing Bolder Some of the Scenes Beyond the Power of Imagination. rraosi ora stait cokbespojtdssts.i HOOTEBS- TILL&P.. Sjar, June L-A stench arises throughout the hole valley of the Conemaugh. It is more awful, more fetid, a s the hours go by. "With each re ceding ripple of the sullen river, a score of additional corpses are revealed, with ghastly faces upturned to an un friendly sty of clouds. V cDeath stares you in the eyes at every turn. 3n cannot escape it, nor can you stay away fifcn thedark, haunting- waters. Some fcjRige lascination attracts you back, and there you see -what -was not there before, an other fresh body. Not a Hideous Dream. It is no hideous dream. Almighty God, in the majesty of His swiftness, thrust His arm across the mountain tops and trans formed the rugged scenery of the Chestnut Hidges, "Pactsaddle" and the sylvan glo ries of Laurel Hill into a monstrous valley of the shadow of death. Push your Tray i HKUK Midi's 1 I 11 1 g:f'--:KVB U 1 ScvVb" A. COBNKB OP THE CAMBRIA IEON COMPANY'S MTIiT, NEXT TO THE BEIDOE. cautiously up the tortuous gorge and you suddenly come to a halt in a living hell. This hell is Johnstown. I reached Johnstown at 1220 this after noon, by horse, across the mountain from New Florence, a distance of 12 miles. Just at the borders of the ruined city I met your other staff corresponden t, who droTe over land from Somerset. The Pioneer of the Kcwssratberers. Thus The Dispatch was the first news paper in the United States to penetrate this hole in the Allegheny Mountains which was more completely shut off from the world than Charleston was when an earthquake shook her silent. The nation wants the news. "Well, here it is. Fifteen thousand people within a radius of two miles of the pnblic square in Johnstown are absolutely suffering for food and clothing. Many are starving. Couriers have been sent in every direction on horse back to beg farmers to send in stores of pro--visions. The Governor of the State has beenrtelegrapbed to for aid. Bntcberinc Blooded Stock Free. A. J. Moiham, President of the Johnston Company, has generously telegraphed a New York firm for a train load of provi sions. The Cambria Iron Company has sent a corps of butchers to its farms, two miles back in the country, to slaughter all its blooded cattle for the supply of everyone frA A formal appeal was sent out to city of the Union, asking for food and g quickly. lumber of cussing people can only LEFT BY THE FLOOD. be conjectured. It is variously estimated by some as "away up in. the hundreds" and bv others From S.000 to 10,000. It begins to look as though the first esti mate of 1,600 Trill not fall far short of the mark. The most discouraging feature is that no Johnstown people are found -who can bring themselves to hope that the total casualties Trill be under 500. Nobody puts it less than that. The majority of the peo ple say from 3,000 to 10,000, bnt in this, as in all other great catastrophes, intense ex citement is liable to interfere with accuracy. As to the actual number of bodies being taken from the water and debris. The Dis patch telegrams from points below Johns town will supply figures, ranging all the way from the reported finding of over 100 bodies at Nmevah down to the sad discov ery of one little girl's remains at Bolirar. Fire Adds Another'Awis! Horror. v We also found large fires raging in Johns town, and the unaccessibillty of the in terior oT the city prevented thorough in vestigation of a report that many persons have been burned to death. A detailed ao count of these fires follow below. It is true, as rumored, that nothing is left of Johnstown proper. Large churches, big hotels, substantial brick business houses, and' even the beautiful public liarary bnilding have been torn more com- pletely asunder than though an earth quake had occurred. In the old city of Johnstown only one-third of the buildings are left standing. Several suburban bor oughs, really composing parts of Johnstown, are utterly annihilated. Dlany Wealthy. Well-Known Hen Gone. Perhaps the day has revealed no more startling fact than that several of the wealthiest and most eminent citizens of Johnstown were drowned, with their entire families. The first is James McMi'llen,Jne of the Yice Presidents of the great Cambria Iron "Works. He was about 60 years of age, and has long been a resident oi the city. His residence was the handsomest and most richly furnished in Johnstown. It was ut terly demolished. He was a widower and had living with him a widowed daughter and her children. All went down the flood with the bouse, and have not been heard o since. His fortune was estimated at over a million. Prohibition's Father a Victim. John Pulton, general manager of the Cambria Iron "Works, was the second of this group. He is said to be positively drowned, with wife and children. No more popular man lived in Cambria county than he. He had become widely'known all over the State as president of the Pennsylvania Con stitutional Amendment Association, and had been one oi the people instrumental in bringing the present prohibition question to a popnlar vote. Howard J. Boberts, Cashier of the First National Bank, and John Dibert, a hanker, were also drowned. All of the family of Mr. Boberts were saved except his son, who perished with him. Hon. Cyrus Elder, one of the greatest au thorities on tariff in the "United States, and solicitor for the Cambria Tron Company, had just returnedJrom Chicago. He tried to reach his home In a skiff, but failed, and went to the home of his brother, Virgil, just before the deluge came down from South Fork. The house fell, bnt the family managed to escape to the hills. To-day Mr. Elder learned that his daugh ter Genevieve and his little son had been saved, but his 'wife and daughter Minnie were lost The Saddest Scenes Brer Witnessed. Now to go from the rich to the poorer yic tims and sufferers. Yon find them everywhere. The road I traveled over the mountains this morning is at best only a trail through dense forests. I met no less than a score of crazed - . v " '"''. aiSwIllKy-'.jf nil aprsl VIEW OP FLOOD IN women and broken-hearted men, trudging across that mountain in the hope of reach ing Florence or Bolivar, to find their miss ing ones, dead or alive. Their questions about bodies and rescued people were agon izing, bnt they prepared me for worse to come. Sunshine never once dispersed the clouds in the mountain country, to-day. It was high noon when, descending the eastern slope, Morrelville was seen in the distance. That is one of the suburban wards of Johnstown. It was Net a Pretty View. Ordinarily it would have been an arena of hills, wavy in their alternating lines of pine, fir and hemlock boughs, that wreathed the white, trim honses of Morrelville around about, but the clouds dropped their mist of melancholy upon the landscape. There was something about it all tha even a mile away impressed one with a sense of indescribable sadness. Drawing nearer I hailed a stalwart fellow who was listlessly carrying a bundle of clothes under his arm. He kindly gave me the desired information and then I asked him if he knew of any casualties. The same sense of sadness that the clouds overhead inspired hovered about the man's answer: Some of the Sorrowful Stories. "I might tell you of my own," be replied. "My name is Gabriel Fleck. My boy, aged 12 years, my wife's mother, and my three sisters-in-law were all drowned before my eyes. But there is still a merciful God in heaven, for He has spared me my wife." 1 went a little farther. John D. Jones, a former policeman, spurred a horse in the opposite direction. Something inspired me to speak to him, too. My inquiry brought back this piteous reply: "I and a little son are all who are alive of a family of 14. I saw most of them go down." It waB still a quarter of a mile to Morrel ville. But here was the next testimony, heard from a garden gate: "A friend of mine, "W. S, "Weaver, a prominent confec tioner, was saved by us; bnt 20 of his near est relatives are all lost." Arrived nt last on the Scene. In Morrelville at last. 'You want news, do you?" remarked a pale-faced young woman. "Go there to Young's livery stable and look upstairs." I did so. There, in a long barn of a hall, were grouped some 80 people men, women and children. They were wonnded from battles with the debris, or sick from exposure. Some were lying down, others sat up, while a very few limped about. A singleconntry surgeon labored among them. It was an im provised hospital to make a city doctor weep. Over in Johnstown proper "it was found that another hospital had been formed in the Parks Opera House. Thirty-three homeless persons were housed there. One of these, Edward Fisher, a young man, tried to commit suicide three times during the previous night, because of grief over the drowning of his parents and sisters. A Hotelfnll, of People Drowned. "When the Hurlburt House fell in, it is said that S3 guests wire within its walls. All were drowned except seven. The pro prietor, Frank Bentford, was taved. Mr. John Lowman, one of the promi nent doctors here, was drowned. He was one of the earliest surgeons to advocate the system of immediate amputation, and his loss Is a blow to science, he having been practicing both surgery and medicine in this county for over 60 years. Chief Harris, of the police department, saved himself and smallest child by .climb ing ont on the roof of a neighbor's house. His wife and eight children in attempting to follow were all lost. To-night twelve special policemen are hiring all the assistants they can find to stop Wholesale Robberies that are Going On. Thieves have grown so bold that they are now carrying chisels with them to break open safes' and ehettt. The Cambria and PITTSBUKQ-, STJlTDAf JOKE 2, 1889. Johnstown Companies have offered to pay for all police protection for three days. It is simply impossible to attempt to count up the number of the dead. People have gotten accustomed to estimating the missing by the amount oi population in the districts where loss of life was heaviest. This is the way the number reaches a thousand or more. Still, many of the missing are known to have been rescued alive below. Fighting the Flames and Flood. Fire was added to the terror of the flood last night, and many, perhaps hundreds, of persons, swept down from points above, per ished within sight of the shore at the big stone bridge of the Pennsylvania Bailroad. Their cries -and groans could be heard from the shore all last night by crowds who were attempting to aid them. From East Conemaugh hundreds of houses were JOHNSTOWN THE OPEN SPACE WAS KNOWN washed awayand lodged against the bridge. Perhaps fire in a stove in one of the houses started the flames. As the houses dashed against the immense stone structure and were crushed like egg shells, the flames spread, and Johnstown last night was illuminated by them so that a person a mile away could see to read a newspaper. The victims of the flood were wedged in among shatteredboards and tim bers, and so became Victims of the Flames. Persons who were on the Pennsylvania Bailroad side of the Conemaugh this after noon say the cries of the ill-fated people could be heard issuing from the ruins as tne flames spread toward them. The bridge it self was intact, hut the approaches to it on the east side were washed away by the mighty wash of water, and a boiling, roar ing torrent Eeethedhetween, either end of & and the shore. This afternoon men succeeded in reaching the ruins, but were powerless to aid. No appliances were at hand to do proper work, and the people who are wedged in among the ruins of their honses against the im mense stone bridge, facing death by flood, DEIPTWOOD ABOVE THE by fire, by hunger and by exposure, are in all human probability beyond hope. How many of them are in this awful plight may never be fully known. The only operator here completely played out Btofikl and Simpson. THE MOBQTJE AT NINEVEH. Over 123 Dead Bodies Collected There Slessrs. LlntoD, McMillan nnd Diebert Carried Away nnd Drowned. ITSOX A STAFT COBBESP ONDEJTT. J Nineveh June 1. Midnight. The scene in Theodore Nunsmaker's planing mill at Nineveh, where 73 bodies are lying stretched out cold in death, is simply appalling. One can get no idea of the feariul work of the waters until he has seen these poor, , mangled, bespattered bodiesr On the Indiana side of the river at this place about 75 more bodies are laid out. In the low Nineveh flats a number of other bodies can be seen, bnt so far they have not been recovered. Arms are protruding above the water and sand, bnt the bodies are in snch dangerous places that they can't be secured without great peril. The water has subsided somewhat, but the cur rent in the stream is still strong and vio lent. The wrecking train this afternoon col lected 15 bodies between Derry and Nineveh. They were taken to the planing mill and placed in rows about the establishment. No one can have any idea what the bodies looked like until he has seen them. Borne of them had their skulls knocked fnas If some brute had hit them with a bludgeon. Fine looking women Had TJslr Gashes. - on their cheeks, and ,the delicate hands were scratched and tonkas if they had been dragged through, a briar' patch Their faces were smaller and distorted; mouths were drawn out ot shape and the eyeballs were in some instances filled with mud as were also the ears. Their slender garments were bedraggled with leaves, weeds and grass, mixed with mud. Thelit tie children arranged in rows looked for all the world like large Chinese dolls with their round bloated faces and bloody skins. Many of the bodies were covered with blood, and bruised horribly. They were tossed about buffeted by the currents and dashed against rocks and debris until they were scarcely recognizable by friends. ( "When the waters subsided somewhat the AS IEON STEEET. bodies were left lying in the mud and grass along.the shores where they are being picked up as fast as they can be found. Bodies Under the Grass. Close observers going along in the trains can see lots of bodies partially covered with grass and driftwood. In some places the debris is piled up as high as a house, and it is supposed bodies are lying under these masses. Everywhere on the shores the stream the bushes and tress have caught various articles ot clothing. At one point a lady's chip hat ornamented the top of a young 1 luiuii, uuu ciowes eaougu, raggea ana torn, can be picked up to complete anv gentle man's or lady's wardrobe. Among the bodies lying at Nineveh was that of a woman with a young, babe in her arms. Her limbs had stiffened about the child, and in that position she was stretched out on the floor. Most of the victims at Nineveh are women. A big, brawny mill hand with hob-nailed shoes on his feet and his hair .propped close to the head, was placed beside 'the dead body of a handsome looking man with a mustache and side whiskers. How They Compared. He appeared to have been a pro fessional man, judging from his exterior. Innocent little fellows with their discolored faces upturned and wearing a calm expression, brought tears to many an eye. Some of the bodies lacked shoes, and til " "nW PV ) BEIDOE, SHOWING VIEWS OF THE CAMBRIA IEON COMPAHT. it has beet learned since that these people worked at night and slept during the day. A cripple was noticed among the ladies, the one limb having been shorter than the other, Tfad the thick sole and high, narrow French heel were prominent. But it was the horrible mangling of the bodies that made the picture in the sawmill so fright ful and disagreeable. About 5 o'clock in the afternoon Under takers Sampson and Devore arrived from Pittsburg with a boxcar 'load of ronch cas kets, and as Soon as the bodies could be pre pared they were placed in the boxes. The citizens kindly furnished sheets and gar ments to cover the nude persons. Late last night people abont Derry were willing to wager that the loss of life would not be Less Than 10,000 but undoubtedly these figures are too high by a half. Certain it is that the actual loss of life will never be known. The bodies in the fire can be seen burning up, and some will be carried into the Ohio and never recovered. At Johnstown last night the survivors of the flood were suffering for the necessaries of life. It is almost impossible to get pro visions into the town. Bread and other eatables aro taken to Sang Hollow, and car ried in baskets four miles across the country. Nine people were in the tower at Johns town when the flood came. Chief Lineman H. A Jackson, of Denny, happened to be one of the number. Only one of the nine escaped. Mr. Jackson, Mrs. Ogle, the ope rator, and her daughter were carried away and drowned yesterday morning. The bod ies were recoyed and identified last evening. Two sleepers of the day express lying at Conemaugh were burned some time during yesterday. One of the coaches of the de layed train, full of people, Was Carried 08", and it is reported that only nine of the pas sengers were saved. The track of the Pennsylvania road la 10 badlytornupthat Assistant Superintend ent Trump, who has been over the ground, says that it will take two months to put the road bed in shape for laying the rails. This means that travel on the great Trunk line will be interrupted for that period. At Bolivar yesterday the river was full of floating canned fruit, vegetables, etc. A large crowd of men and women were en- aged catching the cans, and filling big" askets. The valley of the Conemaugh was flooded with a lake of water a mile wide. The sub sidence of the muddy flood leaves the m: on tne trees in tne meadows. Wife and Child Drowned. Just opposite Lacolle a man. his wife child clung to a tree all night long. In the morning the people on the other side called to them to hang on and they would .rescue them. "When the water had fallen a little the man dropped down from his position. In assisting his wife and child they stepped on the same debris, which gave way beneath them, and they were rushed out to the cen ter of the stream, where they sank before the distracted husband's eyes. Poor Steve Glucis, who 'lost his wife and five children, traveled around with the wreckers. "With tears in his eyes and heart broken, he carefully scrutinized the bloody and mangled faces of the women. Once he thought he had found his wife, but when he saw the bodies at Nineveh he got confused and couldn't tell which one, if any, belonged to him. Damage In the Monntnlns. One of the trainmen came down the moun tain yesterday from South Fork. He reports that this place and Mineral Point have been washed away. "With the exception of a few houses on the high grounds there isn't a dwelling between Conemaugh and South Fork. The trainman says that the moun tain has been cut into deep gullies by the flood. At Lacolle a few bodies were discovered under a pile of driftwood, and some persons spent the afternoon trying to get them out. In Conemaugh the round honses and en gines were moved and carried away. A flour mill and half of a cotton mill are all that is left of the town of "Woodvale, and Cambria City is entirely gone. A nnmber of people were forced to remain in the mar ket nouse ana steel worts all night. Prominent People Lost. It is reported that B. J. Linton, a promi nent attorney of Johnstown, and his family; John Diebert, the banker, and his familv, and M. C. McMillen, of the Cambria Iron Company, were drowned. The last seen of Mr. Linton, his wife and children, they were on the roof of his big brick house. Anothe7! house struck it, when the walls separa' 1 and the party fell between and were tbst. Even the large brick Morreil mansion is said to be.out of plumb. Ex-Mayor Chalmer Dick, in speaking of the flood said: '! was playing in the yard with my little daughter, and a neignbor's child was on the swing. All at once with out any warning the water rnshed down upon me. I grabbed my little girl, and was reaching out to take hold of the other child, when quick as a wink, she was car ried off. I managed to get ont alive with my daughter, but how it happened I do not know. Went Down Like Flies. "The water must have come down 30 feet deep. I saw people drown like flies all around me." At 11 o'clock last night the wrecked houses were still burning. The fire was not violent, bnt steady and intensely hot. A number of bodies were seen burning up, bnt the people have been dead for some time. It loots as it the fire will continne to burn for a couple of days. At New Florence last evening the bodies of 11 women and 3 children had been recovered. One body was identified as Mrs. Boorshee. T. "W. Kirlend, a jeweler, whose place of business was opposite the Cambria Library, was seen at Sang Hollow. He says he was rescued from tUe flood, but his wife and three children were drowned. His store was carried off, and he has lost everything be has in the world. Mr. Kirlend was very much dejected, and His Heart Saddened. More than once he wished he had gone down with his family. He recovered the bodies of two of his children. w. w Mrs. Bovle, the woman saved at Sock port, who lost nine children, is said to be raving mad. She continually calls for her dead children and cannot be comforted. Mr. Kerlind claims that the people were not notified that a break in the dam was ex pected. His little baby was strangled in his arms, and his boy was drowned, while he was powerless to 'save either, and only escaped himself by a miracle. John Diebert's fine brick house is said to have collapsed with the fam ily in it, and it is supposed they are all lost. All the houses on "Walnut street were washed away, and a person can see from the corner of "Walnut to the stone Methodist chnrch. There isn't a honsi, either, on Maple avenue. Two Girls MlssinK. Miss Beam, a sister of the new Alle gheny pitcher, and Miss Goldie, both of Latrobe, were visiting in Johnstown. They are missing, and their parents and friends are afraid they have been drowned. A body floated past Sang Hollow about 6 o'clock last evening. It was reported tbat so far 60 bodies have been found in Morrellville. A gentleman from Johnstown who saw the flood said that the water flowed diagonal ly across the streets from the Cone maugh to the Stony creek, and that when the honses blocked the water under the railroad bridge it was this reaction ot the violent flood that produced the damage. He claims that all the houses were floated up the stream. Main and "Washington slreeta are completely washed ont, and the water is now pouring through them like a big river. The Baltimore and Ohio depotisstandingon"Wa8hington street. The officials of the latter road think they will be in running shape by to-night. Will the Town be Kebnllt T People are alreadv beginning to speculate as to whether the town will be built up again or cdL Many are inclined to believe Continued on Seventh Page. v n AS THIS CITY SEES IT? Graphic Narratives of JdDrned, and the irKe: A CELLING TIE The Awful Impossibility of All Fere -Laid roTSt. SMi PITTSBURG READY WITH 100,000 RELIEF.. The Frightful Facts Beginning From This A Magnificent Movement of Belief Fa!rly Under Way--A Few Floaters Canght Here-In cidents of Thrilling Interest at Home-Odd Thing3J?onnd Afloat, and Some Thins Yalnable-Doctors Subscribe and Are Beady to 60 at Once-Questions as to P03 sible Besponsibility.. Here is just how it looks to one just re turned, after viewing 400 of the recovered bodies: A torrent which was almost as tumultuous as the "Whirlpool Bapids of the Niagara river; yellow as the Upper Missouri, and defiantly threatening as the cross-seas of Lake Michigan, surged and roared yester day through a large part of the Cambria Iron "Works at Johnstown. The Cone maugh river after sweeping before it nearly every house from the South Fork station of the Pennsylvania Bailroad to the great railroad bridge at Johnstown, carrying away almost one-half of Johnstown itself, and every village between the two points, had cut for itself a new channel. On Friday morning Johnstown had seven bridges. On Friday evening it had none. On Friday morning the Conemaugh river made an abrupt turn at the point where Stony creek emptied into it. The Transformation. On Friday evening there was no channel except that which the high hills made, for all between was one raging, angry, wrath ful lake of waters, which remorselessly en gulfed life and property. On Saturday the waters had much receded, and then it was found that the usually placid river had found a new channel. The railroad bridge no longer spanned the river, because the embankment on the north shore had been swept away, and tossing, fretting and surg ing the yellow tide flowed in its new found avenue. The six other bridges which had cost time and money need never again be erected on the bases of their former piers, because the piers may now become the base of other structures. Above the railroad bridge there rose the smoke and flame of a conflagration which meant the total extinction of vast amounts of property and the cremation of many human bodies Fortunately Already Dead. The swirl of the gigantic current had piled against and above the bridge across the debris, in which even entire houses were to be seenand in which human lives were sacrificed. This debris had taken fire and burned with a fury that was almost un accountable, abovo the waters in which it was imbedded. At Cambria City, in Johnstown itself, at Nineveh, New Florence, Bolivar and other places below there was already gathered yesterday an appalling number of corpses, and the number continued to increase as rapidly as the waters receded. "What the total number of lives lost may be It will take many days yet to determine. That it is enormous is already known. By last evening over 400 bodies had been recov ered, and the lowest estimate placed the loss of life at 1,200 to 1,600, while it may even reach 3,000 to 4,000. May Never be Knows. It is probable that an accurate count will never be made, as in many instances entire families and groups of families met death of whose memories their fellow beings know nothing. That such a disaster, unparalleled upon the American continent, could occur stag gers comprehension. Tet there is an ex plainable cause. .Extraordinarily heavy rains caused a pressure upon the Cone maugh dam, which it could not withstand, and a volume of water greater than was ever before gathered in o3e reservoir war hurled down a narrow" valley, bearing upon the crest of its gigantic wave Instant and awful death and widespread destruction. The money loss will be enormous, but no one stops now to count or think of that. Greed stands in awe at the spectacle of hundreds and thousands of lost lives. It will be days' before the material valley of the Conemaugh will recover from the shook; it will be years before the people of the nation will forget the disaster which has been so great as to benumb understanding, much less description. Dawson. MBS. HAiFOED'3 ESCAPE. The President's Secretary's Wife and Daughters Caoelit In the Flood. The wife and two daughters of E. "W. Halford, President Harrison's Secretary, were nearly victims of the flood. They were In a train which was canghf In the torrent, and one car, containing 13 persons, FIVE CENTS 4 Those Who Haie Re-; Scenes at Home. OF 400 BODIES.- Kecognizing Them When Out in Rows. to be Vaguely Eealized, Even Distance; was swept away. Mrs. Halford and daugh- ters were rescued by the trainmen and taken to Ebensburg, whence they will be) sent to "Washington. A DAT EVENTFUL HEBE. About 8100,000 In Cash or Cheeks Raised oa the Spar of the Moment Sympathy Unexnmpled Becinnlca- to Show Itself Most Worthily The Hirer Banks and Bulletins. Such a day as Pittsburg passed, from a sympathetic standpoint, she has seldom if ever known before. Think of snch milk of human kindness as carries in cream upon its surface, with scarcely time for the cream to form, $100,000 in cash and checks as tha result of one day's united effort for there-i lief of neighboring sufferers. k But Pittsburg only just began her noble work of relief yesterdayt It is fair, from such a splendid start, to presume that much'' more in the same line is to follow forthwith-,' and that not one of those in distress from the pangs of death at their heartstrings shall be left also to suffer of privation and physit cal pain for one moment longer tinis abso lutely necessary. . 't These manifestations of sorrowingc pathy will doubtless not wait uppnfb pas sage of a Sabbath day, for the Lord of tha Sabbath laid down a higher rule than that for all who would do good and relieve dis tress upon His day. "While there is sorrow and sympathy in Pittsburg on every hand, there is something -decidedly more dreadful in Johnstown. This city began nobly to show appreciation, of the fact yesterday; now let the good worst' goon. At Hirer Banks nnd Bulletins. All day long the crowds, upon whom a sort of stupor seemed to have fallen when they realized that even imagination failed to take in the reported horrors of the catas4 trophe, drifted to and from the river bants. The throngs of appalled and excited peopla who gathered on the sidewalks and block-, aded the way in front oi the bulletins oa The Dispatch and other Fifth avenue newspaper offices only melted away to bo replaced by other throngs as eager; and then these again joined in the general drift to. ward the fateful river. And this kept up from early morning till late at night. Never in these parts was 1st of Jnne so cool without rain. The chill which tha mountain deluge had put upon the air was felt in the bones. The treacherous waters gliding in ever-growing volume between the wharves glistened brightly without being warmed by the sun; and thousands all day hung over the bridge-rails, scanning with a fascination which held them ever in tent the flotsam and jetsam the clumps of wreckage that came thick and fast from tha scene of the disaster near 100 miles away. This was the spectacle along the river at 9 o'clock; it continued till mid-day; and aa the afternoon wore on the crowds tending thither from all parts of the city and gath ered on the bridges grew only more eager, more immense. & Comparisons Failed. Greater floods had been seen in the Alfer gheny, but never one with history so tragio with thonsands of lives destroyed for a swift record. The spring freshets of years past, which came with the melting of tha mountain snows and the breaking up of the great ice gorges had swept larger areas and inundated Pittsburg and the sister city tor blocks on every side as in '&; but this murderous flood, which now rolled in snake like swirls under its freight of broken houses, with once in a while the ghastly face of some human victim, or the body of a domestic animal telling the story of death, had a fatal and horrible record beyond previous thought or precedent. It was with apparent difficulty that many of the spec taiors urew away irom suem coaKuipuuua of the spectacle, filled as it was, every few, moments, by some new suggestion of tha horrible. Bnt the humane, urgent impulse to help the suffering, and to help them at once, waa the motive influence of the day everywhere through the city. Before the ink was yet dry upon the morning papers, telling of frightful disaster, active, earnest men wera afoot in every quarter organizing means oil relief. The arrangements for trains to carry ' ings; thoVsenerous and unstinted money con tributionsvtendered from all sides, told nobly, spontaneously, of the feeling which was uni versal. As the announcements of large con--: alii tin wmtafttrll aft n a4 f.T-mwTWrv .1 iiiUU IIUUJ nbM UMViUiVU VU -- fl St -t-JAOr-JsYl 1.
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