jf ,- 7 , ra'fP ,", ? 7"V 'W.' . tW-1"'5l' . . SOU SV i rv- - v &. - l --'J' 5,- V tt - ' Tm& rzz. o ft fc: Igl-jf. FLOOD NEWS. The Dispatch will continue to publish All the details of the Johnstown Disaster, which is furnished by a large staff of com petent correspondents located'at the scene. PORTY-POHRTH YEAR i , A DAM OF CLAY That Many Had Said, 1 Again and Again, f Would Surely LET LOOSE SOME DAY. Some Sensational Testimony Brought Out at the Inquests. TOASTHE FOURTH BREAK 4 The Survivors Seeking Forget- fulness by Taking an Interest IN REBUILDING THE CITY. The Fear General That the , list of Victims of the Disaster ' "WILL BE AT LEAST 15,000. Waste Places the Principal Feature of the Landscape Many Bodies Found in Ex cellent Preservation An Immense List of the Dead Yet to Be Revealed Some Wore Pitiful Sights Dozen of Infants That Were Seen Floating Down the Hirer In Cradles Railroad Facilities Dally Improving Much Bard Wort Ahead for Tbonsands of Men Three Hnndred Bodies Focnd Yesterday air. Fllnn's Plan for Thoroughly Cleanintr Up the Debris In the Shortest Possible , Time. rraoM a staff coeeesfoxdext.1 JohnstoWit, June fi. Fires light up the 'waste places round about Johnstown, and 'waste places are the most prominent feat- tires is of the landscape. Some of the streets ta ItSAH tinAifAMJI YTfl O lorwfl TIOH! ftf ,ymain street has been cleared. .Much, how- evSr, remains to be done on it, "and in the parts remaining uncovered by debris it is expected many bodies will be recovered. Many of the bodies recovered to-day were in very bad condition and had to be buried st once. Others, on the contrary, are in a remarkable state of good preservation. Three taken out of the debris at the Cam bria "Worts were as firm as marble. They were Mrs. Downs and her widowed and un married daughters. : One ofthe Pitiful Sights was the discovery of a woman in a pile of drift on the banks of the Conemaugh, not iiar from General Hastings' headquarters, clasping her three, children in her arms, (which had to be broken to take them from -Jher for preparation for interment. Another mother with three children in her arms was &1eo found. These illustrations recall a story that is told of a mother who sat on a roof on Saturday morning after the flood, with her nine chil dren gathered around about her. The father had been swept away before their eyes. De voted as only a mother can be, she refused to leave her place until every one of the children was in safety. The sorro w of their .bereavements now begins to weaken strong Jxnen who have been Trying to Forget Their Griefs in their efforts to restore the town. Cyrus Elder with difficulty restrained his sobs as he to-day pointed out to The Dispatch correspondent the yonng man, Mr. Ludlam, of If ew York, who had saved to him the two remaining members of his family, and nobly struggled to save the others. Yet in the same breath he told that the lower Cam bria works would be started much sooner than' had been anticipated, and that the upper works would be rebuilt There was a ring of pride in his voice as Le said: ''The Cambria Company does not intend to go out of business." t The 12 children that were found to-day in Jthe debris of the Opera house, the BO that v jfseTe found near the Presbyterian Church, e the 20 that were found in the mount- tun of drift in front of the general offices of the Cambria works, and the 300 that were V-found in all to-day, give promise '.-. Of an Immense List of the Dead xithatwill only be revealed in its entirety. when the list of the survivors is made up. - "There," said one man to-day, as he stood at the base of a little mountain of debris, "is the window I climbed in at and pulled my family out after me. Two of my children I lost. They were killed before my eyes by 4 falling beams, but I saved their bodies." He pointed to a second-story window, on s which marks of muddy feet could yet be seen. . ' Look yonder," said J. K. Potts, formerly aTmi 4sJExc amember of the Pittsburg and Oil City Oil .Exchanges. "There where that second stream flows is where our garden was." He (Cam J fC pa itrtav vnamTian er nio fattttl 1m 4 been dashed about in the current and had finally Ancaorea ior ine nun and the greater part of the next day. One sister-was lost During the rough voyage their roof fell in on thfem, but it was carried down and away during) the surging and toss ing. "1 saw," said a lscy who lives on the kill opposite the Cwiria works, "defeat As- i j v.- of poor little children floating down in their cradles. One poor woman managed to get on the roof of the open-hearth mill, and walked back ana forward until, getting near the upper end, she was caught in the sud den rush of buildings that carried away the end of the mill, and disappeared. It was an awful sight to see buildings leaping over the bridge with human beings, and to hear the cries of the poor people in the fire." These stories grow more pathetic day by day. The railroads are daily improving their facilities. The Baltimore and Ohio is taking all the business offered, "but," said Vice President King to-day, "we give pref erence to the relief trains." The Pennsyl vania Eailroad is now able to reach its freight depot, but there is much hard work yet ahead of everyone. Simpson. FEAR OFTHE DAM. Many People Foand Who Always Thought the Reservoir Was Unsafe Ira- portant Testimony Before the Coroner. rrKOH A STAFF COBBLSFOKDE2IT.1 Johnstown, June B. The Westmore land county jury, under Coroner Hammer, of Greensburg, visited the South Fork dam and took testimony." The jury passed through here to-night, on the way bacK to Nineveh. On the jury were: E. E. Wible, H. M. Guy, A. Ii. Bethune, W. H. Work, ,B. B. Boyes and Justice McCarthy. The Coroner and his men gleaned the following facts: The length of the dam is 85 feet, 95 feet high and 17 feet wide at the top. The dam is made up of clay and stone, lined on the inside by two feet of loose stone, except at the bottom. There is buttressed stone work lining from the bottom, ten feet high and the full length of the dam. The Coroner stated that he only found one man in South Fork or along the road who spoke in favor of the dam. Some of the men said that it did not take them long to dis cover that The Man Was Interested, He furnished the people at the reservoir with provisions, and they supposed he did not want to say anything to injure his business. The jury was anxious to see Colonel TJh ger, but the latter was gone. The Huns working there said the Colonel had left soon after the accident occurred. He is the President of the South Fork Club. The Huns had not been paid, and they were looking for the Colonel. The jury wouldn't express any opinions, as they should not, but they were perfectly willing to give all the information possible. Dr. Hammer, who is a very bright young man, said he was very much displeased when he saw in one of the Pittsburg papers that the jury had rendered a decision, and assessed the damages, giving the amount of money. No decision has been rendered, and none probably will be for a few days, so the Coroner said. They have held in inquests over 212 bodies at Nineveh, and the doctor stated they were still finding corpses at that place. Some o'f the Testimony. Among the men sworn was JTrank M. Buchanan, of Johnstown. His testimony is as follows: "The dam broke once, before. The people in Johnstown and through the Conemaugh Valley have always been afraid. The damwas repaired, but was pronounced unsafe byngineers. The reservoir burst1 Sheriff Steinman pronounced the dam un safe, and called a consultation of the Cam bria Iron Company. He heard by telephone the dam had burst" C. B. Moore, who lives at Johnstown, was called and testified: "The flood came at I o'clock. The water came from the direction of the reservoir. The bursting of the dam was the cause of the flood. The Pennsylva nia Eailroad did not tell me to refuse to testify against them. The people have always been afraid. Posters were put out warning persons of the approaching dis aster." David Home testified: "The dam has been condemned from six to eight years. The breast was raised five years ago. Stone were dumped in loose." Had Broken Three Times Before. Henry Moore lives at South Fork. His testimony was this: "I have known of the dam for 30 years. It has broken three times already. They used hay and straw to stop the leaks. People were always afraid when the gate was raised. The country was notified three times of the unsafe condition of the dam. I do not know what engineers examined it from time to time." L. D. Stull said: "From the foundation stones to the eaves of the roof over the flood gate was 90 feet The water came to within 10 feet of the roof, making it 80 feet deep, and afterward the dam was made higher." Frank Lawn testified: "Colonel Unger told me to repair the dam whenever the dam overflowed on the top. He told me to make a ditch five feet wide and three feet deep. The dam broke at 2 o'clock in the afternoon on Friday, The width of the top of the dam was 20 feet by 152 feet long. I have been here for two months. Worked on Friday abont four hours and had 20 men. Colonel Unger sent Mr. Park to South Fork, to telegraph to Johnstown and notify all the town that The Dam Was In Danger of Banting. It rained hard on'Thursday. It was heavy and steady, but there was no cloud-burst: Unger came here whenever it rained heavy. The coroner and bis men said that the peo ple at South Fork always were afraid of the dam. It was rumored here that an iron bar that held the gate had rusted off, but this was not true. Dr. Hammer stated that the water broke through the clay sides and tore down the mountain side. Isbael. A GE0UP OF 600 SDFFEEEES. People at Woodvale Threatened With a Fever, and Needing Tents. tFSOX A STAFF COEBESPOKDENT.J Johnstown, June 5. Burgess Evans,of Woodvale, is afraid a fever will break: out among the COO people at that place. They have been living on bread and pork since Friday, and unless this fare is changed very soon an epidemic is certain to break out The people are also bound together in close quarters. The Burgess has ordered the houses to be scrubbed from top to bot tom. What the people need is tents. There are a number in the city;. but they have not yet reached this place. The borough has been cut off from the city until to-day. It is to be hoped kind friends will relieve these poor people at-once. They are suffering un told miseries. Dr. Hummed with a party of 17 physi cians, arrived from Philadelphia this morn ing, with a full supply of hospital supplies, stretchers, surgical instruments, etc. He states that 17 cars of provisions and cloth ing are following iheas, and will soon be here. Israel. w m MUCH T0JE DONE. Work lor 10.O88 Men for at Least 30 Days Contractor William Flinn and Other Experts See tfao Great DIBculty Ahead. rFSOK A STAFF COBBXSrOVDXKT.l Johnstown, June 5. "There is steady, haid work here for 10,000 men for 30 days," was the verdict of William Flinn to-day, and Mr. Flinn is considered a man of con siderable judgment, and one who knows a great deal about the amount of time and labor required to do a given work. He was standing, at the time, near the village of tents in which his men and those oi Captain Jones are en camped, within sight of gangs of men who were hard at work digging deposits of sand and mnd from streets, chopping huge trees into such lengths that they might readily be hauled away from the burning debris and horses. "There are 3,000 men on the par roll here, and as many volunteers," said Mr. Flinn. "The volunteers will ere long get tired. Perhaps some of them will go to morrow. Some have already gone, b others have taken their place. This wort' keep up long It does not take a great while for a pick and shovel and manual labor to cool enthusiasm. Mr. Fllnn's Flan for the Fatnre. "My plan is for each of the manufactur ing institutions of Pittsburg and vicinity to send 50 to 100 or 150 men here for a week or so, in rotation, in order to keep the num ber at work up to 5,000 men. They should have with them their own foremen and time keepers. They can afterward adjust this matter with the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce. That is the only way this work can be done. It must be done by men on pay. Ton can't keep volunteers at work, and you may make this just as strong as you like. The men sent here should have tents and a complete camp eqnipment We need more tents now, as we have only accommodations here for 3,500 men. We have 200 horses at work, but when the debris is well cleared away we can usetaore. There iff no use trying to hire more men on the streets of Pittsburg. You could not find 1,000 men there out of work. I have 1,000 men-here and have left my work bare in Pittsburg. There is Plenty of Work to be Done, and volunteers can't be kept track of. Ton can make all this just as strong as you please. I want the people at home to under stand it They don't comprehend the situa tion here. No one can without seeing it" A gentleman standing by, said: "There should be entirely new material here. These men who had their homes here can't dig in the ruins. The Cambria works have done nobly in letting so many of their men remain at work on the debris. They had to put them on their own works if they desired to prevent damage to them. It is true that vou can't make volunteers work like paid men. They take their own time." "Dictator" Scott said to-day: "We are organizing a Labor Bureau, and will ap point a general superintendent to control -I the work and the distribution of the men. We propose to pay the men in money each Saturday for work done up to the preceding Wednesday. Snarsos. YICHlTSItfTHBBOBOZJGHS. - Those Who Perished and the Bodies That Have Been Identified. rrSOU A STAFF COSBESPONDZST. Johnstown, June 5. Seventeen people are missing from Franklin borough, opposite Conemaugh and nine in East Conemaugh, This makes 26 bodies lost from this neigh borhood. Mineral Point -contributed 19 corpses as its quota. The people of South Fork were nearly all saved. They were ac quainted with the treacherous condition of the reservoir and sought places of safety. When the water started from the lake a boy on horseback was on the spot He rushed back to the town in six minutes, a distance ofnearlyamile and a half, and two min utes afterward the first wave swept the town. Mineral Point is practically annihilated, only three houses remaining out of 50 in the little mountain town. The Councils in Conemaugh met last night and agreed to push the work of clear ing away the debris, whether the State pays for it or not The dead of Conemaugh and Franklin boroughs, up to date, are: MR. ATKINSON, an old man. MRS. GUS. McHUGH and three children. MRS. COY and two children. MRS. JOHN BURK. DR WILSON and wife. DAUGHTER of Tueo. Devlin. AT.ttV CANARD'S baby. ABSALOM BOYER. MRS LEACH and daughter. PETER ROBERTS. The passengers rescued from the trains were taken to Ebensburg. Fortunately, at Woodvale, after the flood was over, a train of flour and pork was left there. The hungry people broke into the cars and captured the plunder. A carload of whisky was found, and in about 40 seconds the Austrians were delirious with joy and wild with intoxica tion, but Burgess Evans ended their happi ness by smashing in the barrels and spilling the stuff on the ground. , Mrs. Kate Sample and Mrs. Pollie Mc Kean are still missing from Conemaugh. Forty houses were washed away from this town, and the freight and passenger depots were the first to be carried off and smashed to pieces. On the Indiana side, about three miles below Johnstown, the body of a young woman is lying. Her age is about 22, and she wore a ring marked : "W. H. T. to A. M. L., January 1, 1881." At Conemaugh it was learned later that Maggie Roberts, Mrs. John Keeper and child, and Mrs. Stephen Roblin and child were drowned. The bodies have been recovered and identi fied. Mrs. HcGhough and Mr. John Burk hart and wife, who were supposed to be lost, are all right The two latter were taken out of the water below the Gautier works. Iseaei.. 0NLI 17,000 ACC0DNTBD FOE. Tiro Hundred Bodies Recovered During the Fifth Day's Work. frEOlk A STAFF COBlUrSPOXDINT. Johnstown, June a The registers show that 17,000 people have been accounted for. Three bodies were nneartbed at the corner of Main and Clinton streets to-day, and it is esti mated that 200 bodies were recovered daring the day, and the sand is full of them. Forty additional bodies wero pnt in the Fourth ward school to-night. Their .names were: CHRIS FITZHARRIS. JOHN FTTZHARRTi MARGARET FITZHARRIS. ELIZABETH REES. SALL1E FITZHARRIS. ELIZA JONES. JAMES BARRETT. FRANK O'lJONNELL. KATE FITZHARRIS. KATEMcGUIRE. MISS LIZZIE BROWN. TWO UNKNOWN. AXJTTLEG1RL. Cmtinued on 8Mh Ifye..- t ' s PITTSBURG, THDRSDAT, JUNE 6, 1889. A DEATH RAFT It Drifts Down From Johnstown Toward Pittsburg, PAST MANY BODIESs Crazed Women Dig in Remnant of Their Late Home 'the AND JUDGE POTTS TALKS tFEOJI A STAFF CORKZSFOXnXXT.l I v Conemaugh Eivee, On Boabd the Baft "Dispatch, June 6. Fifteen miles by raft and on foot alorig the banks of the raging Conemaugh, and in the refugee trains between Johnstown and Pittsburg! Such was the trip, fraught with great danger but prolific of results, which the writer has just completed. All along the line events of thrilling interest, mingled with those of heartrending sadness, tran spired, demonstrating more than ever the magnitude of the horrible holocaust of last Black Friday. Just as the day was dawning I left the desolate city of Johnstown and, wending my way along the shore of the winding Cone maugh to Sheridan, I succeeded in per suading a number of brave and stout-hearted men, who had constructed a craft , and were about to start on an extended search for the lost who are known to be strewn all along this fated stream, to take me with them. The river is still very high, and while the current is not remarkably swift, the still floating debris made the expedition one of hazardous peril. How the Bodies Were Found. Between the starting point and Nineveh several bodies were recoyered. They were mostly found imbedded in the sand close to the shore, which had to be hugged for safety all the way. Indeed the greater part of the trip was made on foot, the raft being towed along from the water's edge by the tireless rescuers. Just above Sang Hollow the party stopped to assist a little knot of men who were en gaged in searching amid the ruins of a hut which lay wedged between a mass of trees on the higher ground. A man's 'fcflt find janliaflwi Ti iIt4 -Smf but there was no trace of the human being to whom they once belonged. Perhaps he is alive; perhaps his remains are among the hundreds of unidentified dead, and perhaps he sleeps beneath the waters between here and the gulf! "Who can tell? Literal Death Id the Harness. A little farther down we came across two horses and a wagon lying in the middle of the river. The dumb animals had lit erally died in the harness. Of their driver nothing is known. At this point an old wooden rocker was fished out of the water and taken on shore. Here three women were working in the ruins of what had once been their happy home. When one of them spied the chair it brought back to her a wealth of memory and for the first time probably since the flood occurred she gave way to a flood of tears; tears as wel come as the sunshine from heaven, for they opened up her whole soul and pent-up grief within to flow freely out and away. "Where in the name of God," she sobbed, "didyoa get that chair? It was mine no, I don't want it-;keep it and find for me, if you can, my album; in it are the faces of my dead husband and little girli" It Was Affecting. When the rough men who have worked" days in this valley of death turned away from this scene there was not a dry eye in the crowd. One touch of nature and the thought of little ones at home welded them in heart and sympathy to this Niobe of modern times. At Sang Hollow we came up with-a train load of refugees en route to Pittsburg. As I entered the car I was struck by two things. The first was an old man, whose silvered locks betokened his fourscore years, and the second was a little clump of children, three in number, who play on a seat in the upper end of the coach. The white-haired patri arch was Judge James Potts, aged 80, one of the oldest and best known residents of Johnstown, who escaped the flood's ravages in a most remarkable manner. Beside him was his daughter, while opposite' sat his son. There was one missing to complete the family party Jennie the youngest daughter, who went down with the tide and whose remains have not yet been found. The thrilling yet pathetic story of the Escape of the Old Judge is best told in his own language. Said he: "You ask me how I was saved? I answer. God alone knows. With my little family I lived on Walnut street, next door to the residence of President McMillian, of the Cambria Iron Company. When the waters surrounded us, we made our way to tho third floor and huddled together in one room, determined if die we must to perish together. Higher and higher rose the flood, while our house even an anon was almost knocked from its foundation by the ever increasing mountain of debris floating along. At last the bridge at Woodvale which had given away a short time before struck the house and split it asunder, as a knife might have split a piece of paper. The force of the shock carried us out upon the debris and we floated around upon it lor hours, finally landing near the bridge. When we looked about for Jennie (here the old man. gave way and sobbed bitterly) she was nowhere to be seen. She had obeyed the Master's summons." , Judge Potts -and his family have gone to friends at Delmont, upper Westmoreland connty. What a Costrast! TheAfe 'little glrk .in ffn ii n n (a oaasca RfUNS 19 HV9TV 4- were the children of Austin Loanti, plas terer, living back of Water street They were as happy as happy, could be and cut up in childish fashion all the way down. Their good spirits were easily accounted for when it was learned that 'father, mother, children and all had a miraculous escape, when it looked as if all would be lost The entire family floated about for hours on the roof of a house, finally Janding high upon the hillside. Elmer G. Speck, traveling salesman for H. E. Childs & Co., of Pittsburg, was at the Merchants Hotel when the flood oc curred, having left the Hurlburt House but a few hours before. He said: "With a number of others I got from the hotel to the hill in a wagon. The sightrom our emi nence was" one that I shall never forget that I can never fully describe. The whole world appeared to be topsey turvey and at the mercy of an angry and destroying demon of the elements. People were float ing abont on house tops, in wagons, and hundreds were clinging to tree trunks, logs and furniture of every imaginable descrip tion. Drifting and Resetted. "My sister, Miss Nina, together with my step-brother and his wife, whom she was visiting, drifted with the tide, on the roof of a house, a distance of two blocks, where they were rescued. "With a number of others, I built a raft, and in a short time had pulled eleven per sons from the very jaws of death." Continuing, Mr. Speck related how Mr. Bosensteel and family, Curtis Williams, hisWife and children; Louis Williams and familyand a number of other folks from Woodvale had all come doivn upon their housetops. Mr. Curtis Williams and his family picked their way from (house to house, finally being pulled in the 'Catholic Church window by ropes. William Hench man, with his wife and two children, reached the stone bridge in safety. Here one of the babies was swept away. Through the arches the others were swept with the current When they came out on the other side the remaining child was missing, while below Mrs. Henchman disappeared, leaving her husband the sole survivor of a family of four. Seven Oat of Sixteen. "Did your folks all escape alive?" I asked of George W. Hamilton, late Assistant Su perintendent of the Cambria Iron Company, whom.I met on the road near New Flor ence. "Oh, no," was his reply. "Out of a fam ily of sixteen seven are lost My brother, his wife, two children, my sister, her hus band and one child, all are gone. That tells the tale. I escaped with my wife by jump ing from a second story window onto the moving debris. We landed back of the Morrell Institute safe and sound." William Gafihey, of Broad street, Johns town, told me in a few broken words that he lost his wife, two children, his mother and sister, and that Bose Keenan, his wife's sis ter, is the only survivor of a family of 16. These are but a few of the hundreds of in cidents that may.be picked up all the way from South Fork to Pittsburg. Connelly. PLENTY OF THIEVES, xh9 Koscala .Have Now TmeiTbelrAt. I 1 .il- 2 tz Li, -D -tt 1 tenuonto Stealing Pro visions r-A Numherof Arrests Made Rollo Hunters Are Numerous. IrnOM A STAFF C0BBXSF0XD2NT.1 Johnstown, June 5. To what extent the robberies are still going on in Johns town can't be comprehended by people who have not been here and gone through the daily experiences which come under the ob servation of the people here. It's not al ways the Huns, the Italians, or even the poor man who has lost everything he ever owned, and who seeks to enrich himself again by stealing from the ruins and the debris. This afternoon Aid-de-Camp A. B. Gamp bell, of General Hastings' staff, was notified that three men in Parkstown,on a hill above the Pennsylvania Railroad depot,bad lots of provisions in their cellars which they had stolen from the freight cars coming in from Pittsburg. Campbell immediately called out a posse of police and went up to Parfis town. He was armed with a search war rant from General Hastings, and the first house he entered was 'occupied by Fred Niesbaugh. Laying in a Supply. Here the searchers found 30 sacks of flour, 2 barrels of flour and 14 hams. The next house was that of John Williams', where' 10 hams and 1 barrel of flour were found. In the third honse, in which C. Rockhill lives, 51 sacks of flour, 5 barrels of flour and 17 hams were hauled from the cellar. Adjutant Campbel ordered his men to take possession of everything and take it to the committee of the Woodville Relief Corps. Campbell did not arrest the three men, but when he returned to General Hastings the commander gave him at once orders to go back on the hill, arrest the men and lock them up in a baggage car. The information had been made by Israel Eisenbeis, who made the following statement about the arrest: "I am a friend of these men and X lost everything I had in the world. I have a family consisting of my wife and ten chil dren, and we are all destitute. These men told me to help them emptying the cars of the flour sacks and I did so because the men promised to share everything with me. They are well-to-do and have not lost any thing, because the water never reached up to the hilL Well, when we had the stuff safe away, they told me to go to the Relief Committee, where I might get all I wanted to eat I did not consider such treatment 'quite fair, and that's why I made the infor mation against them.'' A Number of Hen Under Arrest. Sheriff Stineman stated this evening that he has 2hnen under arrest now whom he will keep locked up till an opportunity presents itself to have them conveniently sent to Ebensburg. "The trifling matters which come to my notice about people picking up some small article from the ruins I do not take any no tice of, because-1 am sure that Johnstown people don't commit any robberies. The men or women who were caught in the act of taking such things do it simply to pre serve a relic of this calamitous event, that's all. But there have Deen more serious rob beries committed, and I am going to hold all foreigners who have been caught steal ing." Lieutenant Leggett and one of his guards arrested 12 Huns on the hill above Kern ville this afternoon who had been seen among the debris. The Lieutenant made the fellows empty their pockets, and he found several gold watches and other jewel ry in their possession. They were given to understand that they had better get out of the olty, with'ia'half an boar or they would be. KEUNSMH6. 'IMA '. MMnM I I sflfsLtt JLsl JLaL aF MsJaJL JLsl. hbw INjA&g 4 fHB Guided by True, Tende Hearts Busily En gaged in ATTENDING THE SICK. Doctors and Nurses laboring Conscientiously and With out Pay, WORK OF THE RED CROSS fFSOlC A STAFF COBKESPONDIKT. Johnstown, June 5. Your correspond ent was a patient at the Bedford Street Hos pital to-day. On account of the gymnastical practice obtained by riding on the hand rails of passenger coaches on the Pennsyl vania Bailroadand holding on to the roofs of the cars by his toe and finger nails, which was absolutely necessary because of the crowded condition of the cars, he received a cinder in one of his eyes. Last night he lay down on the front parlor floor of the Hotel Bnck Kiln, and took cold in the afflicted organ. The latter became very swollen, and it was with difficulty that he couldsee. 'For the purpose of ascertaining how the patients in the improvised hospitals were being treated, the correspondent made his way to the general institution This is the hospital where the trained corps cf nurses belonging to the Bed Cross Belief Society, of Altoona, have done such great work. A Band of Willing Workers. These young men came here voluntarily to do nurse duty, but found they could be of better advantage in carrying the wounded to the hospital and from the latter to the trains, when they are shipped lo Pittsburg. The corps have 'scoured the country for t miles around, and brought in the wounded to the hospital, where they could be treated properly. They have traveled all over the mountains where it was thought any in jured persons were lying. In a number of cases they carried wounded men eight, nine and ten miles, on a stretcher, when the roads were impassable by teams. Soon as the in jured sick are attended to in the hospital they are taken to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station and sent to either the Mercy or the Homeopathic Hospitals in Pittsburg. What the Hospital Is Like. The hospital is in an old rink on the Bed ford pike, which has been transformed into an inviting retreat Upon entering the door the visitor finds himself in asmall ante jToomttJ onesfde of which is attached th e gen eral consulting room. On the Other aide, opposite the hall, is the apothecary's de partment, where the prescriptions are filled as carefully as they would be at a first-class druggist's. In the rear of the medicine department and the general consultation room are the wards. There are two of them, one for males and the other for females. A long, high, heavy curtain divides the wards, an ' insures as much privacy as the most modest person would wish. Along the walls in both wards are ranged the regulation hos pital beds, with plenty of clean and com fortable bed clothing. Constantly Coming nod Going. At noon to-day there were 16 patients in the hospital. Fourteen of them were shipped to Pittsburg in the afternoon, and 15 were shipped the day" previous. New patients are being brought in each day by the mem bers of the Bed Cross Society, almost as soon as others are shipped to the city hos pitals. Young Dr. McCann, of Pittsburg, is in charge of the hospital. He was as sisted to-day by the following corps of emi nent physicians: Drs. Grimes, Stewart, Patterson, Markel, Carrie, W. D. Green, Black, Burlingame, Watt, Foster, Statler, Sheridan, A. J. Smith, Shober, Noble, Miller, Forbes, Packard, Hewson and Arn holt - The names of the heroes who scour the country looking for the injured and sick are: Chief, F. V. Bobbins; Frederick Schurer, Charles Milton, C. W. Billin, W. S. Sherer, Joseph A. Given, W. N. Graven, Henry Anderson, James Major, Ed Taylor, T. K. Downing, Thomas L. Hopkins, G. M. Ellsworth.Harry Schwartz, Harry Ickes, H. M. Brockem, H. A. Mauer, Grant Fink, Vincent Hudson and W. C. -Westfall. As Well Treated as If Paid for It. The correspondent thought he would be subjected to rough usage, as the physicians in attendance were doing the work volun tarily and had no vision of big bills for treating patienU gently. Dr. Noble looked at the injured eye, handled the patient as gently as he would a week's old babe, and after turning the eyelid inside out, ex tracted the cinder without causing the least pain. Patients in the hospital said they couldn't be better treated if they were paying the physicians for their attendance. The trained nurses of the Bed Cross Society carefully looked after the wants of the sick and injured, and saw that they got every thing that they wished. People who have an abhorrence of going into these hospitals need have no fear that they will not be well treated. McSwioan. W0ESE THAN BATTLE FIELDS. Exceptionally Affecting Scenes That Knock an Old Soldier Out. tTROM A STAFF COBBXSFONDXJ-iT.l Johnstown, June 5. Yesterday morn ing, while Superintendent Miller's men were raising a car at Woodvale, the body of a little baby was found under it. There were two shawls lying near by, and Mr. Miller thinks the mother is not far away. Her body has not been recovered. A young girl oi about 11 was found under the car also. Her leg was smashed and twisted around her neck. "The people are dazed," said Superintend ent Miller to me. "It makes me feel sad to hear them talking' abont their friends, without apparently showing any emotion." "I imvc been on many a bloody battle field,' remarked one man, "and laughed at every one of them; but I can't smile here. This scene i-coo ghastlyl The sight of dead mea, wo-aea and ehUdrea teaehea the stout est hearts.'' , Issasl. - A-i 4w A WASTE0F SAND. The Pretty Conemaugh Taller Trans formed Into a Desert of Dirt tfisBiw7rii!5-4,Drl" 1BO "amago r "v w0 IJYi r "r'T' iv- rjimfefMiii- -yj JOt7-vsl pxtfcrz&T iINT.l - ' yvt Conemaugh ValleyK-ibtrtus wide waste of sand and debris. Noth-ulie is to be seen anywhere, except a few wrecks now and then that break the awful monotony of-the scene. The trees and bushes are leveled down and pointing down the stream, whither the flood pursued its tragic course. There is scarcely any water now in the treacherous lake. Men are there scooping the pretty game fish out by cartloads. A lake trout was found yesterday 22 inches long a re markable length for this variety offish. I have listened to a number of descrip tions of the flood, but I think I got the best one yesterday from Foreman Kelly, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who saw the rush of waters from the hillside. The first wave looked like a great mountain tearing down the valley. The center of the stream was fully 15 feet higher than the outer edges. The waters were lull of debris, and occa sionally the stuff would catch, and the boil ing, seething mass, suddenly checked, would throw up spray as black as night, 40 feet high. Dam After Dam Was Formed. Just below Conemaugh, at the bend, the water received its first check. An immense dam was formed in a few minutes, and the water spread out and rushed back, covering -the whole valley and boiling up as if the very fires of hades were beneath it Sud denly the pressure of houses and water be hind become so terrific that the obstruction was torn away, and with added impetus a wild rush was made for Johnstown. -Another such dam was formed at the bridge, sending the water with a roar up Stony creek as far out as the cemetery. Then the bank of the railroad bridge broke, and the water, bearing on its agitated surface its heavy load of human freight, dashed through the fissure and started down through Morrell ville. Where Johnson & Co.'s big mill stood, in which 600 men were employed, there is nothing but a plain of sand. The machinery even can't be seen. The company will com- L mence to rebuild at once. A number of machinists were at work to-day, locating the works, and examining what is left of the property. There is a pile of debris 30 feet high where the Gautier steel mill used to be. This plant was'flcated away entirely. The rubbish is ground a&d twisted into all kinds of shapes. These.millJyalso will be rebuilt Superintendent Bohn, ofthe Cambria blast furnace, expects to have the furnaces in operation in ten days, they bing little damaged. The floor of the Cambria Iron Company's immense plant is V Covered With Rubbish and Driftwood But this can be easily removed. The end ofthe works is almost annihilated, and thett estimate their loss at $100,000 or more. It'. is the intention of the com-pany to resume operations as soon as possible. The sand in the Conemaugh Valley is full of wheels, engines and wrecked cars. The impression is strong this sand is full of bod ies and the only way they can be recovered is to systematically begin at one end of the' valley-aad-work-through it. The woods are full of photographers tak- Ling pictures and distributing their cards. This may be business and a show of enter prise, but with so many people suffering it looks decidedly out of place. The Johnstown Chemical Works are still standing. This is the only building on that side of the river for a few miles. It is re markable how the trees carried down from the mountain side are cnt and scored. You can't find a speck of bark on any of them. There is a woods a few miles from the lake, and the water uprooted the trees and pushed them down the declivity as if they were pieces of tinder. The grinding mass rubbing against the stones reduced the size of many trunks from the friction alone. Heavy roots were torn off and broken like splinters. The surface of the cinder piles in the Cone maugh Talley stood the test, bat wherever a break occurred the interior was under mined and washed out. The valley is full of treacherous places,liable to cave in under the lightest pressure. Isbael. THE GREATMYSTERY. People Wonder How So Many Managed tef Escape A Run For XJfe Aa Um brella Failed to Serve as a Buoy. 1FB0M A STAFF COBSESFONDKNT.! Johnstown, June 5. William Davis, the assistant agent at Conemaugh, had to run for his life when the flood came. He says the water was full of slabs and boards, and these were being ground together and bobbing up and down in the water. From the time the water struck the roundhouse until the town was swept away and the val ley filled with a sea of water only five min utes elapsed. Three passenger trains were in the yard, and the latest estimate is that 60 people from the trains were lost The water picked up one car out of the center of the train and carried it away. The two men got on the roof, and as the car rolled over and over they kept moving with it When the car reached the bend below the town it struck with a crash, and the two men were knocked into the water and drowned. An Umbrella for a Boor. Another man was seen by Foreman Kelly jumping from house to house with an um brella over his head. He was probably us ing this to buoy himself up, but he didn't go far. The umbrella was soon Been down on the crest of the waves, and the poor fel low was lost. Mr. Kelly also states that the force of the wind ahead of the water was terrific. It was strong enough to move heuses, and more than one was blown from its foundation before the water struck it and demolished it with a single mighty blow. Mr. Smith, of Woodvale, had a sad ex perience, and he is almost distracted. In trying to get out of his house with his babe in his arms, a joist fell and smashed the child's skull. A few minutes later his wife was washed away. The Greatest Mystery. The mystery to everybody who sees the destruction wrought by the waters is how. did so many people escape. You talk to men who got out alive, and they can't tell how it was done. In some instances the water carried them to the hillside and they were landed. A passenger from the day ex press was carrying a cripple from the train to a place of shelter. The water overtook them, when he dropped the poor fellow and made fa? the hill. The cripple was carried away and drowned.. A lady grabbed the man's coat, but she lost her grip, and in an instant was hit by a log and killed. Foreaan Kelly thinks that set sore than five people were lost in the taking at Coae maagh'i.bat Jtfrs. Schick, of Beading, who was oa the train, says that ese ear was car ried off. with 12 passengers or mere iait teAXL. g.ine 9 THEOHLY GIRL tLOVERLOOK' Is the title of the First and Only American Novel written by Wilkie Collins, and pub lished COMPLETE in next Sunday's Dispatch. THREE CENTS Eighteen Sick and Wounded Survivors Reach the City. MORE ABE TO COME. TheWoman's Committee Con tinues the Work of Relieving Distress. JOHNSTOWN'S BUSINESS, A Complete List of the Per sons, Firms and Corpor-. ations There. HOW THE BIG DAM BURST. Interviews With Members of the Sonth Fork Fish- lfior Club. "0 SOME STHBH6 SCMES. The Contributions of Cash and Goods Cob . tlnne to Poor in to the Treasurer aadtho Belief Committees Somo Big Gifts Ke celved Yesterday IncIdentsattheCham ber of Commerce Booms and at Old City Hall The Descriptive Stories of theSar vivors Still Being Told to Willing Ears Rev. Father Tahney's Graphic Story An Incident la Which Thousands WW be) Deeply Interested. The chief interest in the city yesterday ofer the flood calamity was in reference to the Arrival of refugees from the devastated, district. It was thought a large number pf persons would arxivs as every preparation had been .made fo theiLiawDtion and care. ht-tlw mmmm Wl B9VWVsssssssfs iT3oEw tion was not fulfilled, -ffhepe stown,do not care to leavWn anygreatnum. ber?, even though they mayf be entirely des titute, save for the aid giveb bytherelie committees. ' - Injured Wero Expected. " v' There were several rumors that trains would come in bearing wounded and sick persons from Johnstown, but there wero so i many failures of the trains to J arrive, that it was finally concluded none would come. The ambulances of the WestPenn, Mercy and Homeopathic hos pitals waited at the Union and Baltimore and Ohio depots for hours, and at last wera ' taken back to-the stables. i t A train did finally get in, however, bear ing 18 persons' who were in need of atten tion in hospitals. 'They come in over the Baltimore and Ohio Eailroad, arriving; about 1 o'clock. The Train Arrives. Fully 200 persons waited at the depot from 9 o'clock, at which time the train was first scheduled to arrive, until it at last came. It bore 18 survivors altogether, 8 of whosa were children. Seven of the 18, all of thesa adults, were injured. The ambulances of the hospitals and of ,'jfo the Department of Public Safety which had gone back to the stables, had been ordered out again in time, and were waiting to go into service, with several physicians and attendants were in waiting, and thai sick and wounded were tenderly removed, from the cars to the ambulance and taken to the different hospitals at once. The names; ofthe injured are as follows; Mrs. O. B. Slick and Mrs. Wheeler, takes te Mercy Hospital. Mrs. Jatonay. Mercy Hospital. Mrs. Walker, taken to the West Penn Hos pital. Mr. W. B. Cooper, taken to the Homeopathic HcpitaL Mrs. Julia Brady, broken ribs, taken to Mercy Hospital. Mrs. Geo. Miller, taken to Mercy Hospital. The seven chifdren were removed to the Home for the Friendless in Allegheny. The Women's Work. The work commenced Tuesday by the Ladles Belief Committee, whose headquarters are in the Second Presbyterian Church, was resumed yesterday, with even better results than had been expected. Over 100 homeless, friendless needy snSerers have been taken in charge and have been fed, and furnished shelter. This la what has been needed most imperatively, ever since the flood of our last Black Friday wiped' out the pretty, industrious monntaln city. Tha work of. the Women's Committee has been most heroic; Within a lew hours they had formed themselves into a mammoth organization, and had all things completed for the reception of, the refugees. No one who is not thoroughly familiar with the business manner in which the ladles have gone to work can conceive theleasC Idea oi the magnitude of the undertaking. Tfc self Imposed tasks that these ladies have takes upon themselves, for "sweet charity's sake" ia i simply enormous. A Complete Record. A complete record of all who are cared for is noted down. A list is kept of all Inquiries for Johnstown residents, and as each batch oC refugees arrive, they are closely questioned as to their kn owledge of persons who are lost and saved. Io this way the anxiety of many peefila looking for friends or relatives has bees re lieved. In the lecture room about 2S ladies are hard at work sewing garments of alt kinds and fit ting tbem to suit the sufferers. A train loau ox suuerera was expecwa af rive during the afternoon and everything M . in readiness to piva them a hearty welessss, bat as the roads aro considerably blocks. i! the train did not arrive until late last ntafct. , Doubtless the hardest worked womasJsC tin entire bodf U Mrs. Dr. Easton, of the Bareaa of Infsnmtlea. ( She has become familiarly kaowa. Early la the afternoon Mrs. Eastoa takes her place at a table la the vestibule, over which Is ajtigst deisattB the place as the Bureau of Iftf ansa tkm, aau v drts katftiVc4a:itsW 4 J m
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