rfS r "J. " V.-vS J-fc-5- A sc " iffe. FLOOD NEWS. The Dispatch trill continue to publish nil the details of the Johnstown Disaster, which is furnished by a large staff of com. -potent correspondents located at the scene. t'V W$.', ORTY-rOUETH XEAE. HUH COFFINS 'J Needed at Once at the Ruins of Johnstown, in Addition to TWO THOUSAND USED As the WatersBecede From What Was the Iron City of the Mountains, THE EXTENT OF THE WOE Becomes More Apparent, and the First Reports Dwindle Into Insignificance, TEN THOUSAND MISSING. Thieies and Ghouls Follow Flood and Flames, and Make Necessary A CALL FOR ARMED GUARDS. Four of These Worse Than Devils Driven Into Ihc Hirer nnd.Two Others Strung Up by an Angry Mob Tho Armed Guard Doubled nod a Beginning Made to Evolve Order Ont of Chaos President Sloxfaam Takes .the Reins of Government and Committees on AH Necessary 'Points Are Appointed The Work of Clearing Away the Debris and Preventing the Spread of Fire Some of the Sad Scenes Graphically Described. rrBOH A ETAFF COEEESrOJTDENT.l JOHJTSTOW2T, June 2. Some wise provision in nature has so made it that man's feeling and sympathy and comprehension of cer tain events goes just so far, and beyond that line lies madness. ij For this reason the fall extent of the ybhnstownl-olocaust will never "be realized v .V this life. The calamity was so great, the event so frightful, and the result so un paralleled, that a cold feeling of numbness results from a mere contemplation of such a scene, ere a thousandth part of its full magnitude is realized. Human Weakness at Such Times. My hand is as weak as a baby's, and my pen as impotent as an infant's hand in stay ing an ocean's madness, at the thought of describing or trying to conTey to the reader's mind ona iota of the horror, one atom of the destruction, or one particle of he fear and woe and anguish suffered byt the thousands living and felt by the thou sands dead. ' It is sot the tale that is told, that is so eloquent then, but rather that which is leit unsaid. It is not th'e exposed that is the greatest and deepest, but the hidden that no ' man's eye can see, and no human tongue can tell. Swept Away in an Hour. Johnstown is no more. That peaceful city of 35,000 happy, prosperous people has been swept away in an hour, and leaving, what? The wildest flight of the imagination, the boldest utterance, could not approach the truth, or even attempt to depict the scene that followed. Just imagine, nestling snugly between the hills and hugging two rivers in fancied peace and security in one moment and the very next overwhelmed in a roar of waters, with an advancing breast full 40 feet high that hurled hnge blocks and houses about as if they were toys, and ground an entire city into a mere mass of lumber and iron and stone and brick. Then the people; alas, the poor people. Anxiety to Hear Even tho Worst. "Every train that hurried out of this city - And toward the east carried hundreds of tearful relatives who were anxious to hear the worst, though as yet not one of them realized what was coming. At Nineveh a stop was made, and. the anxious question, Why? ran around. The conductor hoarsely announced that a hundred dead bodies awaited identification, and that "perhaps perhaps some of you know them."' Silently we gazed at the first frightful evidence of this epoch of accidents, this apex of horrors; and it was pitiful how they lay, side by side, tiny children first, then the youngers and then'the elders, all with faces of such deadly eloquence, that a portent, a dim idea of what was to follow, hurried the blanched crowd to the train, and on toward the fountain head of mined, dismantled Johnstown. The Scene at Sang Hollow. At Sang Hollow, four miles from the city and a place already historical, the rails had been torn and twisted like threads in the awful avalanche. Then the rushing, swollen river to the" left bore on its sullen bosom, and on either bank, some traces of the fearful night's work, some idea of what as yet to come. Clothing, torn to shreds, swung from trees, broken bits of houses and of iurniture swept unnoticed, or caught and swirled in treacherous eddies, but all .unnoticed. Ont Onf .A thrill of horror jpmJ through all for a. rxsffl-' Eli . moment, then the crowd parted and passed on, leaving behind an enormous bearded man lying stark upon the bank, mudded and bruised, just as he had been drawn from the water, with HI Powerful Arms Half Raised over his head, as if to ward off, even in death, the blow that had reddened his fore iead and taken from his strong limbs their cunning to do and to save. The hundreds tiassed another bov almost indifferently by. His was not the face nor his the form they looked for and feared to see. They wished first to greet the living, and then to weep for the dead. A general hospital, it seemed, had been made of Morrellville, and it was there many survivors waited for their friends. Weeping women met strong men who told, with averted eyes, of some dear one lost or miss ing, or a thousand fearful glances cast to ward the deadhouses or down the long line of road in anticipation of another, and still another train car of dead. Side by side they lay, in silent, dreadful horror, and all covered about the face and head, for always was seen there The Crnel Red Scar while the unbound silken tresses of the women, drenched witn water ana wmtenea with sand, swept or were pitifully thrown across their poor beaten faces to hide the scars even more securely from the idle or the curious. Then the meeting of survivors and friends. Each had a tale to tell, so sad, so eloquent, that a stranger could but turn away and stop his ears to the broken excla mations, "John, poor John, don't ask," "res, father and mother both gone," "Bob is saved, but," "Drowned before my eyes," "My God, don't," and so from bad to worse and worse and worse, and it seemed as if more were lost than found, and even death could not give that woman her look as sue moaned, "I don't know yet, I don't kno"? yet" In the Terrible Valley of Death. The nearer we approached that horrible valley of death the higher and higher rose the figures of destruction, until it seemed as if not the dead but the living should be counted. A hundred"here. Three hundred there. Two thousand swept from that one street alone. When one speaks of the dead in bundles like that, when one ignores a score and speaks of bulk, mere bulk, in human life, is it not a blessing that stupe faction should ensue? Miles away from the scene it seemed as if 600 deaths were surely enough, 4mt as body after body is drawn from the foul river bed, it is not enough and figures gflLPP and up. A quav ering workman points to a submerged field and says it is literally strewn with dead. We turn the bend and Cambria City is not there. We go on farther and a white faced woman points to a blaze that springs in sight and says hundreds are burning there. The Doomed City In Sight. But a few step3 more, and the doomed city is In sight. oVejtaxcd-Bjrves weaken and hearts are broken at the very glance. Five, ten, fifteen thousand people drowned, if one; for the wonder is not that so many were drowned, but that so many were saved. Thousands of poor men,, women and children swept away in a moment, to die, if luckily they could, by injury; or worse, to fight and fight the fierce current, to struggle and pray and weep, to have their tender hands torn and limbs bruised by hurling timbers, to sink and rise, and sink again in A Mad Whirl of Angry Waters, to battle bravely, despairingly, for a life precious to the last, and then the bitter end, where exhausted nature can do no more, and the poor, tired arms are thrown up plaintively to a high heaven that answers not, to a God that gives no sign, and then down down. Just one name now that brings with it a peculiar sadness, though perhaps because it was so well known, and so dear to many Nannie Elder. Young and strangely beau tiful, and the most womanly woman of them alL She was well known here and in Phila delphia, but with a thousand friends at that" awinl moment there was not one to save. Her sister Jennie Bays she disappeared, with her mother, from their sight, as quietly as if in a dream. She made no sign, and gave no cry, and reluctant indeed must have been the torrent that dragged out her sweet young life, sorrowing indeed the angel that bore her pure soul to heaven. She was too beautiful to perish thus. Onlr One Case of Thousands. Still, this is but one out of ten thousand, alas, perhaps more, and of what use is it to speak of one when so many, many have gone. Let us speak of Johnstown, and a scene that cannot be forgotten. Just as we reach the place the distressing groups to the right or left, huddled together in misery un utterable, are found to be the poorer fami lies who have lost all, and are camped under a cold sky. And worse still, they are not all there. Some one is missing, and per haDS two or three, and. more. There are no tears here,""and no repining. They are far beyond that They sat silent and stolid, not thinking, for their faculties were be numbed; not speaking, for they had no thoughts to utter. Most certainly hundreds of survivors will die of the shock and ex posure, and I need only to speak of line woman in these groups, for they seemed to be the most deeply stricken, and to speak of one describes all. Naught Left to Live For. Each of us had carried a loaf of dry bread (all we had) from the train and the men had eagerly taken them and divided them among their famishing companions. A loaf was offered this poor-woman, sitting silent and apart, but she never saw the friendly hand, never noticed the round wheateu loaf. , "Come, come, rouse up." "Why," said she calmly. "Why, I have no one. I have nothing left. I lost seven, with my husband." "But, my God woman, yon must " "God," said she stonily. "Where is God?" and we turned away heartbroken. True, true, where was He when this awful thing happened. Now to this submerged city of the dead, over which hangs like a pall, the blaefc smoke from the funeral pyije of the bitting tomb of many dead, crashed and iamtaed together in acres of debris up against the stone bridge. People stood with eh w immn turned to the blazing ruin, but the naked eye was enough; too much; for it showed One Toll Blackened Farm sitting bolt upright just near the bridge, and no one knows how many more were tan gled in the enormous mass, and no one ever will, for the fire could not be extinguished, nor the bodies saved, though frequent cries led to the release of a whole family, before they were reached by the uglv flames. At the southwestern edge of what was Johnstown, I climbed a high hill, rising ab ruptly from the river, and there also were distressed searchers, looking and looking for those who will never be found, and for whom even hope was long since abandoned, though they continued the dazed, search, mechanically, with but one result, nothing, absolutely nothing. Half way around the hill, with Johnstown at my feet, for the first time the terrible silence of the city made its way to my almost benumbed senses. It was virtually a city deserted by the living and given up to the dead, and not one-half so horrible for what was seen, as for what was unseen beneath the turbid waters, still steal ing in and out of the windows of the first floors, as if in sneaking search of perhaps some prey escaped. A melancholy Sonnd. Even while standing there almost breath less before the awful stillness of that great city, a melancholy peal comes from a ruined church tower, a few subdued bells toll, and then there comes stealing over the water a solemn sound. It is only the clock in the tower striking 13, but the moment, the occasion, and above all, the dreadiul scene was too much for the sufferers and friends huddled about, and a thousand bowed beads and a thousand clasped hands showed the sound wa? in truth a funeral knell, over many ruined houses and broken hearts, and over many a friend -and brother and sweetheart,- not found, and never will be. Can this -scene be conceived? Can one straggling idea of it even be imagined? It , "hi.n. .71" ,.TVi ' r 3$tS9? ill i 'I -.--I'l."-"-' " - " fV ' Hill Mill IIHHlllliHIUM I I HI I J This map, furnished by George B. Williams, civil engineer, gives an accurate presentation of Johnstown and the adjacent country that has suffered most by the greatjflood. The rush of water coming down the Conemaugh creek would submerge the woolen mill, Gautier Steel Works and the district lying close to the creek, and then pass over to 'Johnstown proper, as there ia a steep cliff on the opposite side. cannot be described, for words, as Tally rand says, were given to conceal, not to ex press thoughts, and something must be left to the reader let that something be his human heart and his human sympathy. The full pathos and horror of the scene can not be appreciated, for the human breast, thank God, is only capable of receiving emotions up to a certain degree, and when that tension has become too strong kind nature says a numbness must ensue or mad ness must result, and if there, is any one word, op thought, or feeling wanting here it is not in the heart, but in the capacity. For these reasons those present knew the scene was not one in a lifetime, bnt in a century. One of the Engines of Death. Awayacros3 the town is seen ,the fatal black sluice through which this stream of death was poured upon tne city. .Its flat surface was packed with houses and people, but to-day, not one brick is seen upon the other, and all that is left is a gaunt, black mill, a fitting tomb to the 6,000 people said to have existed there. Then how that flood of death and destruction has torn through this city. It cut swaths to the right and left, through business blocks and through residences, through squares and squares of houses upon houses, leaving nothing in its track but one silent messenger death. How useless is it to describe, how sense less to depict, for both alike' are impossible. There is only one book, only one page, that can truthfully tell the story of the destruc tion of Johnstown, and that book, that page, is the unwritten annals of the human heart Let us not open it, reader; let us not turn the page with careless or curious hand, for there are some events, some thoughts, and some feelings, that are sacred to some alone. Gaixheb.. THEWIRSTISTRDE. Three Thousand Coffins Needed at Once In Addition to tho Thousands Already Used Systematic Attempts lo Evolve Order Ont of Chaos Necessity For Armed Guards. . IFBOM OUB STAFF COBBESrONDENT8. Johnstown, June 2. There is a famine 1 among the dead. The 15,000 survivors of the flood who are suffering for food and clothing .find their troubles have a ghastly counterpart There are no coffins here to bury the dead. I saw the last coffin used this afternoon. Three thousand more, at least will be needed. Therefore, to the publio appeal for assistance may be added the words: "Send us coffins by thetrainload, for we need them as bad as we do bread." Slorgnes la Many Buildings. Charnel houses have been established in all sections of Johnstown. The principal one is in the public school building on Adams street Over 200 bodies have been taken there for identification since the flood occurred. Lower down in the ruins 40 more bodies lie awaiting claimants. Over on the Southside a public hall is filled with 60 or 70 corpses. In the Morrellville district there are still 85 more corpses grduped in one apartment Only o Part.of the Dead. 1the,dead,pqbpl5. PITTSBURG, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1889. the water and debris in Johnstown and suburbs alone. Add to them the additional 200 or 300 corpses which floated from Johns town down stream and are now lying at Nineveh, Florence, Sang Hollow and Boli var, and you can get something tangible to base a guess at the total death Jist upon. After this is wired perhaps later dispatches will probably chronicle the recovery of scores more corpses. How All Hopo Has Fled. And so hope has fled. Instead of search ing ymong the rescued for their missing relatives, people have consented to believe them dead. That has but one result It forces all to admit that there must have been no less than 3,000 drowned, and that of the 10,000, which many people declare are still missing, very few will turn up alive. In view of these stubborn and appalling figures, which few outside people have refused to believe, no attempt has, or will be made io keep a tabulated mortuary list. Better work was accomplished to-day than ever before in the removal of debris from portions of some streets, and the consequent discovery of bodies. The reason of this was- The Entire Withdrawal of Water from the heart of the city. That obstacle gone, men can go to work, but' the worst part of it is that no human being- with any degree of feeling about him can stick -at such labor longer than a few hours. Almost every foot of progress a laborer makes in the debris he comes across a dead man, woman or child. This occurs again. and again. It soon becomes sickening. Now, if the reader will imagine fifth av enue, between Liberty and Grant streets, jammed full of debris up to the third-story windows; all of Wood street in the same condition, and the whole lenpth of Market street equally as bad, with "Wylie avenue and all its side streets complete wrecks: imagine all this and then try and think that Corpses Lie So Close Together under all that vast area of timber and drift- ' IX. iwiiTIii iin -i iiiiVTMTlTii wood as to form a cushion upon which it may rest If you can conceive of such a state of things, then you have before you a true picture of what the site of Johnstown is like, this evening. How long do you suppose it will take the disheartened, men of the .place to clear up such a stupendous wreck? Each man lias lost some dear relative, and there is little incentive for him to wok. Perhaps they may get through with their half-hearted toil in three", nay four months. "Well, then every day for three or four months addi tional bodies will be recovered. It will be an entire summer of horrors for Cambria county". The Area Covered With Wreckage. The only part of the town where bodies do not lie hidden is that stretch of open country shown in the center of The Dispatch to day. An area of ground equal to that in Pittsburg bounded by Smithfield and Wood streets one way and Water street and Fifth avenue the other way has been so completely cleaned out that not a wall, not even a fencepost is visible. The ground is carpeted smooth with a single layer of bricks. Looking either east or west a person has an unobstructed vieir through this wide part of the town. Two days ago you could not see a yard's distance in either direction, because all this gronud was built up solidly with brick and frame houses. There were some 400 of them. Not a vestige of even one of them is left. The Terrific Tidal Wave from the mountain reservoir which took all this down the river carried with it all the bodies from that part of the city, dis tributing them all along the Conemaugh valley. The local constabulary has been increased to 200., A detachment armed with rifles and bayonets accompanies each body, as it is found, to one of the morgues. In this way a path is opened up through the crowds for the passage of the death guards. The scenes in three morgues are beyond the power of buman skill to describe. As the catastrophe overshadows any other dis aster in the history of the United States, so do the scenes of woe and grief surpass all efforts to write an account of it Words seem to belittle it. No corps of journalists can do justice to what has happened, but here in the Adams street schoolhouse, where 200 bodies have been laid out, the pen dries in perfect helplessness. A Corpse Laid on Each Desk. As each corpse is brought in by the armed constables it is laid upon the top of one of the school desks. In one of the school rooms which J. visited to-day there were 43 corpses laid in this style, across the desks. Nearly all of the faces were covered. The clothes were rank withjilth and the faces and flesh were splotched with mud. The corpses were those of men, women and children. The coverlids over the faces were con stantly remov.ed to allow weepnj; visitors to examine and see if they identified there any missing Child or other relatr ve. When the identification was successful a shriek or a moan was the sequel. Often, it was a serie i iS:.: " -.zssmemsMmmmtiLrrcT'".: rrJ "j -"it.r:"'T.r-ns"' v-r r rsruzsr -r-iiiMr !.(. iiml ni nr -r.ii tiks . ' .xj- . -"-.j --w . i fk-rT. i-rxi m i-si h. Tii-H-Bda n tr nnp. - srn manv nwui uinniujr.i-i t ba ibiuup nr wmc -- .hhiiuuku tm. it tj ri rw its- . i j- s. sru- "iwrBMnrn t HrirrrriTMMiBiy"1"1-! -a- -i-fflfiiiiffhi ii.-fur.mn-- .. ..:. - - .Pr-fetf-- ..zvg&gm;t,&- .;:. . . .- .,- . ssmsmzir -inwnr Offin one corner of the room lay three children on adjoining desks. "Smith" was the name pinned to each of the little waists. They were brothers, and the oldest was not more than 7 years old. All their faces were uncovered. Their skin was beautifully transparent, and on the countenances of each was Depicted the Sweetest Smile. It was a strange circumstance. In that chamber of horrors, whenever a corpse is identified, it is immediately removed to the lavatrfrr, laid upon a table, the muddy clothing all cut off 'and the body washed. The men and women who have sacrificed themselves for this revolting labor are among the' noblest of Johnstown's heroes. As proof positive that hundreds of corpses are still beneath the ruins, the owner of the John Thomas building, on Main street, assured me that 53 persons lie under the wreck of his property. Mr. Stonebreaker, who is in charge of the. schoolhouse morgue, says he has investi gated, and finds that John Fritz and his family of seven are still buried in his house on Bailroad street This is true of hundreds of houses in which the occupants perished. The Dead In the Debris. A score of bodies will remain in the smol dering ruins of debris of the fire at the rail road bridge. Seven skeletons were taken from it this afternoon, and one woman was rescued alive, right near the last skeleton. Through the windows of 'Squire Fishcher's soap factory are seen the bodies of himself, his wife and five children. Efforts will he made to-morrow to recover 41 bodies known to be deposited under the remifantsof the Hurlburt house. In the cellar of the Coogan building a dozen hu man forms can be seen in the water. All last night Superintendent J. V. Pat ton, of the Baltimore and Ohio at Pitts burg, sat at a temporary telegraph instru ment two miles south of Johnstown. After arriving there on his special locomotive he 4S-S cut the telegraph wires and rigged up a ticker on a dry goods box in a rough shanty. That was the first communication estab lished between the ruined city and the out side world. Difficulties of Sending News. ( All the matter written in Johnstown yesterday by your staff correspondents had to be carried by means of a locomotive to Hooversville, a small settlement 18 miles south of Johnstown, before a telegraph office could be found, and this dispatch is being sent from Somerset After The Dispatch news had been sent over the wires Saturday night from Hooversville, Superintendent Patton, from his temporary headquarters in the shanty, sent out these words of warning to all opera tors: Clear this single wire for my use. Then he begad business in earnest He had sent for the officers of the Citizens' Committee, and at rheit request he operated the key himself for hours, ordering provi sions and food from Pittsburg and Balti more merchants, and then personally ap pealing to wealthy people at various towns along the Baltimore and Ohio to stand in readiness to contribute stores of food and clothing to a relief train which would start from Pittsburg Sabbath morning and stop at all stations between there and Bock wood, where the Johnstown branch com mences. Practical Relief for the Suflerers. Captain William Jones was among those sotappealed to. News came that a relief train from Baltimore may be expected in the suburbs of Johnstown. Belief cannot come very well by the Pennsylvania rail road route. It would require difficult teaming to get provisions from Pennsylvania railroad trains on either side of the bridge. There is no certainty here either when the awful destruction of the Pennsylvania rail road, for ten miles on both sides of Johns town, will be repaired. In the meantime, farmers are slaughtering their cows, the grist mills at every cross-roads are dealing out flour gratis to all who ,ask, and the generous granger is sending wagonloads of eggs, apples, butter arid salt meat to town hourly. 'President Moxham, of the Johnson Switch Company, took the reins of govern ment in his hands to-day, and is at the head of everything. He is a young man, not more than 35 years of ageslightly under medium height, of a strong, compact figure, though somewhat thin, with a dark, firm countenance. He is , Business All the Way Through. No words are wasted, and order is being slowly evolved out of chaos. In addition to the Finance Committee a committee on dangerous buildings nas been appointed, and a committee on outside search, to go down the river and look for the living and the dead. A similar committee has been appointed for the city, and as late as this afternoon persons were- extricated from places in which they had been impris oned since Friday afternoon. Bev. P. L. Chapburn and Bev. Br. Beale have been appointed a committee on bury ing the dead. The need of this committee mMtm who must he buried ere long, and the dead who are in the debris must be recovered as soon as possible or a tearful state of things will result A general foreman has been placed ia charge of moving the debris, and there are a large number of foremen at work through the town, with gangs of men. All the 9Ien Will be Paid President Moxham will open the Savings Bank to-morrow, and the- National Bank later, and the financial work will be done at these places, all money being received and paid out at them. A committee on general information is to be appointed. A. N. Hart is in command of the police on guard. Deputy Sheriff Young is at work under President Moxham, and ad ministers the oath to them. The guards were stationed at various points to-day and were being doubled to ward night It is feared that some one may inadvertently set fire to the debris, and a man who goes out thereon with a lighted pipe or cigar in his mouth is made to put it I out right away. A man who snould light a maica near wnere tne wreckage is pneu is in danger of being instantly shot by some guard, many of whom e very much wrought up on that -Tho Precautions Against Fire. The fire department gathered itself to gether late this afternoon, and reorganized. Some of the fire plnga have been examined and have been found all right, and a quantity of hose has been recovered. One hundred firemen, or more, were stationed through the town as a guard. The local mililia company is doing guard duty, 'and othermilitia are expected. Governor Beaver has been urged to order companies here, and parts of the Sixteenth and Fourteenth Begi ments would be very acceptable. General Hastings arrived here this morn ing and established headquarters at the Hennessy Thania Depot He took an ac tive part in the direction of affairs and says that to-morrow every man in Johnstown must go to work on tho debris and that every man who enters the town will he put to work. What is left of the town is now virtually under martial law, and the rules will be come stricter rather than more lax. Presi dent Moxham has been acting as dictator. His headquarters are in a small room on first floor of the Fourth "Ward Hotel and there is A Throng Continually Coming and Going. His stenographer and typewriter is at his side, and messages are being continually dictated to him. The general staff are lo cated in an addition to the same building, in which the general public is received. A long line of people is continually filing in and out No one is allowed to go by the guards without a pass, and everybody must go to the headquarters for these. Across tbe street is the place where pro visions are given out. The arrivals from Pittsburg to-day were most welcome. The remaining grocery stores are bare of food, and many have been going hungry to-day. When wagonloads of provisions reached the uncompleted building from which they were given out it was at once Surrounded by a Largo Crowd. The news spread rapidly, and this after noon the street in front of it was almost im passable. Women with baskets on their arms formed the bulk of the gathering There were some children, and very few men. Everybody looked happy at the pros pect of being supplied with something to eat. L. E. Stofieii. Bobt. SlMPSOIT. FIENDS IN HUMAN FORM. Wretches Caught Plundering and Mutilat ing the Dead Four of Them Are Driven Into the Rlvernnd Drown Two Are Lynched. FBOM A STATT COKBESPOJTDENT. 1 Johnstown, June 2. The way of the transgressor in the desolated valley of the Conemaugh is hard, indeed. Each hour re veals some new and horrible story of suffer ing and outrage, and every succeeding hour brings news of swift And merited, punish ment meted out to the fiends who have dared to desecrate the stiff and mangled corpses in the city of the dead, and torture the already half-crazed victims of the crnelest of modern catastrophes. As the roads to the lands round about are opened tales of almost in describable horror come to light, and deeds of the vilest nature perpetrated in the dark ness of the night are reported. Just as the shadows began to fall upon the earth last evening a party of 13 Hungarians was noticed, stealthily picking their way along the banks of the Conemaugh toward Sang Hollow. Suspicious of their purpose, several farmers armed themselves and start ed in pursuit. Plundering the Dead. Soon their most horrible fears were real ized. The Hungarians were out for plun der. Lying upon the shore they came upon the dead and mangled body of a woman, upon whose person there were a number of trinkets of jewelry and two diamond rings. Iu their efforts to secure the plunder, the Hungarians got into a squabble, dnring which one of their number severed the fin ger upon which were the rings and started on a run with his fearful prize. The revolting nature of the deed so wrought -upon the pursuing farmers, who by this time were close at hand, that they gave immediate chase. Some of the Hun garians showed fight, but, being outnum bered, were compelled to flee for their lives. Nine of the brutes escaped but four were literally driven into the surging river and to their death. The inhuman monster whose atrocious act has been described was among the number of involuntary suicides. Another Incident of even greater moment has just been brought to my notice. At 8:30 o'clock this morning an old railroader, who had walked from Sang Hollow, stepped up to a number of men who were congre gated on the platform of tbe station at Cnr ranville and said: Vengeance Is Swift. "Gentlemen, had I a shot gun with me a balf an hour ago, I would now be a mur derer, yet with no fear of ever having to suffer for my crime. Two miles below here I watched three men going along the hanks stealing jewels from the dead wives and daughters of men who have been robbed of all they hold dear on earth." He had no sooner finished the lastsentence than five burly men j with looks ot. terrible, determination written on their faces, were on their way to the scene of plunder, one with a coil of rope over his shoulder and an other with a revolver in his hand. In 20 minutes, so it is related, they had overtaken two of their victims, who trere then in the act of cutting pieces from the ears, and fin gers from the hands of the bodies oNtwo dead women. 'With revolver leveled at the Tire a. SPLENDID MEDIUM. -t "' "Throw up your hands or I'l heads off." Two Villains Lynched, With blanched faces and forms they obeyed the order and mercy. They were searched, their pockets were emptied of their plui the indignation of the crowd intensil and when the bloody finger of an inlanl encircled with two tiny gold rings, was t oundV in the leader's pockets, a cry went up to lynch them. Without a moment's delay ropes were View o Driftwood on Track at Bang Holtow "The Reason Why the Tram Didn't Go Any Farther." thrown around their necks and they were dangling to the limbs of a tree, in the branches of which, an hour before, was entangled the bodies of a dead father and son. After an expiration of half an hour the ropes were cut and the bodies lowered and carried to a pile of rocks in the forest on the hill above. It is hinted that an Allegheny county official was one of the most prominent actors in this tragedy of justifiable homicide. Fkakk. SOLDIERS T0JHE SCENE. Froeress of tho Baltimore and Ohio Belief Train With tho Waihlnston Infantry on Board Anxious Inquiries Alone tho Rome Supervisor Foley's Story. mSOM A STAFF COBKZSPOHDENT.1 McKeespobt, June 2.--The Baltimore and Ohio is doing grandly for the sufferers. Superintendent Patton was early on the ground and soon had the washed out por tions of the road repaired. The road into the city has been opened since Saturday afternoon. All the towns along the roads are contributing provisions and engines are taking the loads to the afflicted city. A car of eatables was put on the stecial train at McKeesport and West Newtonl Loads of pro visions have been sent from Cumberland, Meyersdaie and other towns. Another special with eatables lef tPittsburg to-night. There is a great demand for 0U. The people are in darkness, and lika the afflicted virgins are crying for oil. Th e Standard OH Company has already shipped a carload andtnnyare sending more. Snpervlsor Foley, of the Som erset and Cambriabranch, was the first man to enter Johnstown after the flood. Ha walked over 18 miles to get there. He found heavy freight trains on the B. fc O. carried off the tracks and lodged in the cemetery a mile away. In the flats at Conemangb 21 engines have been counted burled under the sand and driftwpod, lir. Foley estimates the loss of life at &00O. Brnddock Adds Her Mite. Braddock seat a car of coffin3 and two car loads of provisions and contributed S5.000. Baltsburg raised 5200 In money and shipped a car of eatables. All the extra coaches of tha Baltimore and Ohio are on the Somerset and Cambria branch. Many of tha people living Alnnfrthft mart in thia SMHmi h.m -fianrfc ln T. 7. r- - " -" . ....cuiu At, mo city ana tney are rrantlc to get there to. look for and Identify tbem. Superintendent Patton has put these extra cars and engines; as men disposal, ana iney are carried oacK and, forward free ot charge. A Dispatch man went ont on the Baltimore and Ohio special train this afternoon. The Washington Infantry deserve much credit. They volunteered to go to Johnstown and did not wait for orders. All along tbe road people grcetthe boys in blue with graceful courtesies. Everybody is anxious for additional informa tion. People in remote towns are just beajn ning to learn of the fearful desolation. Even now there are some people skeptical enough to believe that the disaster is not balf so bad as it is reported, but every newspaper man who has seen the wreck feels that be is not adequate to describe it. Tbe fact is that all tho truth has not been told. Nothing at all haayet been re ceived from tho country between Conemaugh and South Fork. Israel. Progress of the Train. AtConnkllsville The excitement In the little towns along the road Is great. The peo ple know in advance that a special train is en rontefrom Pittsburg, "and whenever the train stops large crowds are collected. At West Newton the citizens had been working all morning gathering money and food. About 1,500 and a car of provisions have been col lected so far. The little town is full of fanners' wagons and the people are highly excited. Instead of go ing to church in the county the grangers turned in and loaded down their wagons with flour, vegetables and other food products. Just as the train was leaving a farmer arrived with a wagon load, bnt It will be put on the next one following. The sight of the soldiers catches the people. "It reminds me of the old war times," said a lady at West Newton. "It seems as if those disastrous days are being repeated." The in quiries of anxious people for friends. In Johns town, are numerous, and aU the information possible is given. Foster Walter1, an engineer on the Cambria and Somerset branch, had a unique as well as tough experience. He was In the American House when the flood came. He succeeded in getting on to the roof of the hotel, where be stayed ail night. A mule came floating down and lodged on the roof of the bouse. The animal stayed with him ail night until they were rescued. Tho clerk of the American House was saved and is now at Con nellsville. Israel. Nobody l'et Lynched, lint Will Be. Ax Ohio Ptle At Connellsrille Sheriff McCandless was seen returning frjom the scene of the wreck. The sheriff said It was not true that a man had beenhanged for robbing bodies. Tho crowd rushed aronnd the fellow, who was a Hungarian, and attacked him, bnt tbe better class prevented any such procedure. Sheriff McCandless said: "The man was not hanged but somebody will be before this affair is over if the robbing of bodies is continued. The place is fnll of toughs and thieves and the worst;class of men,stealing whatever they can lay their hands on. The wreck is horrible. What is needed at once is the militia1 and police protection. Contractors should be located there with gangs of 500 men each under them to systematicly clear away the debris and recover as many bodies as possi ble. I am told they now have 311 corpses on the Indiana side of tbe river at Nineveh. Bodies are being taken out at al points and at every, honr." 8. U. Trent. Esq., was also seen at Connells ville for a few minutes, returning from Som erset. "I was not at Johnstown," said he, "but Isaw enough people at Somerset who bad been in the flood. The disaster is too horrible to talk about" Jack CroSrotb,.tho postmaster at Somerset, had a remarkable escape. He was on the street in Johnstown when the rush .of waters occur red. In some manner, he does not know how, he was earned Into the Merchant Hotel, whero he remained until the water subsided, and he was rescued. BEAVER 0NHIS WAY. The Governor is Kept From Harrisbara; by the Condition of tho Railroads Ad jutant General Hastings Is at Johnstown No Military Yet Ordered Ont. SPECIAL -p-LSaBAM TO TUB DISPATCR.1 Haebisbubg, June 2. Governor Beaver arrived at York this evening on bis way to this city to contribute to the comfort of the distressed people of Johnstown. Not being able to obtain railroad transportation he v tmm oki -a. iVfr-tK wss.:&?v KaSL-tjIiSffiT'lgefc ahy9;i affi7. JKSel WANTS Of any Mnd can best b satisfied by advertising ra the columns of The Dispatch. THREE CENTS IT1SHMM fKUnger, President t ine uiuu, at aouin Fork, Says So. A FRIGHTFUL STORY Of Horrors Worse Than Yet Dreamed of, Told by Sheriff McCandless. A FATED TRAIN INDEED. P, R. R. People Admit One Car- Lofld Perished, but None Are at Ebensburg. CHURCHES RAISED $15,000, While the Eegular Eelief Committee's Fund Grows to Over $86,000. BABE 1MIDMTS AT HOME, The Military 00 for the Scene of Suffering; A Mighty Busy Day at the Chamber ot Commerce Old City Hall Also Full of Bustle and Business Worthy of a Sab bath Dny Chats and Scenes Such as Even War Times Did Not Duplicate ia Some Bespects. Mr. Charles J. Clarke returned yesterday from his trip to the Conemaugh valley with out obtaining any information of hismissins son. Mr. Clarke was seen by a Dispatch reporter at his home last night, and said: "I was unable to get any farther than Sang Hollow and returned home, and to day my older son, in company with a young friend, started for the scene of the disaster determined nottowp"Bnfil-tisy;knowfallN that can be knowB$p'i"-- .t ty" "1 received "definite word r to-day from Colonel E. J. linger, president of the fish,. ing club and now at South Fork, that the dam had actually gone, though we had aU supposed and hoped it couldn't be true, I "t-r r i ,. , , . . H""? several rumors came to ms to-oay tiat my boy was safe. One came in tha shape of a dispatch;' purporting to be iroiq my son at Ebensburg. This prove3 to be baseless." At 10 o'clock last night Mr.jClarke kneVti nothing definite of his son's"safety. A Marvelous Official Report. A carload of refugees from Johnstown came into the Baltimore and Ohio depot at) 9:30 last night. There were nearly 75 off them, men, women and children, and every ' one of them bore unmistakable marks o ' tha frightful ordeal they had passed, on.. their faces, and their tattered stained cloth, ing. Among them was a party of Pitts burgers who were returning from the horri ble scene; which they had visited in the in-t terest of humanity. The well-known facea of such men as Sheriff Alexander McCand less, Postmaster-to-be McKean, and Joe Brown were hard to recognize. Not only . were they covered with mud, and their cloth-, ing disordered, but tneir laces naa a iooe ot horror plainly stamped upon them. "No man can possibly grasp the horror of what we have seen," said Sheriff McCand less to a Dispatch reporter, "and not one half of the hideous enormity of the disaster has been told yet. Entirely Underestimated. "The newspapers have underestimated tha loss of life. Nearer 10,000 than 3,000 hava lost their lives. "We were burying bodies all this morning, and the supply of coffins ran out. Bough boxes made on the groun tl were used. Probably by this time the sup ply of coffins from Pittsburg will have reached Johnstown. But before If say another word there are two things that Pittsburg must understand at oncef First, three or four regimeuts. of militia ara needed at once. Without an hour's delay they ought o be sent. Adjutant General Hastings is in favor of calling the troops out, but he has his hands so full of other things the building of the pontoon brides for the Pennsylvania Bailroad and tha relief of the, living that he has not yet sent for the troops he needs. Governor Beaver must call out the troops at once. The Hun garians are maiming the dead in their shameful haste to profit by the misery around them; cutting off fingers for tha rings on them, and ears for the earrings. Ob, it is Too Horriblo to Talk Of. "The only thing is to have armed soldiers on the spot to guard the aeaa ana matce tna Hungarians and other villains - disgorge their plunder. The soldiers ffill lwtS search the houses. , jpgp "Secondly, at least four or five skiP contractors should be sent to Johns with 500 men apiece to clear away tt,v and get the bodies out that a there. Not only human v ing in masses nnder numberless horse' also. Nothinjr men under sk' disaster. T rierof fle water, i scrarcec supply, hangs wait peril ti
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