) 4 U H id erf e: II : : "8 it; o r k n e i' At ti A'e- .ley L:. ely o 1 y.a IV! fay r '. a L e ve? Li: uri: iin, n jroul I ? mocl :ti :.ftt ive . A that n i .'tv ewi-t r t live a a iol I J pr I I ever J rt the A av lie - e-f I fre i i. f. -nsr the t'oii.nioiiwealtli th ii allvJ l(- itnef to retire. Leis lieener. Live in FairCelJ t!u.oreiitnl Co. I i. , 9 inii north of Lip) M.. u. D ; ma work- ..r i.r. list i"' for J jf 1-atou : went uome mat nay ; t ft after uinner ; was working at null at caa .Ankeny's ; went home hy road pv ral'.c-l the I'ie J from Jen-rti.-a n lo Vpuiet biiJ laitrohe; work I gVut - tit if "s from the pike; S-raek t:.e pike at Mains' Church ; turned juthwest in church ; met a man below ie ben J of tbc roaJ at burnt house; can t at ray bow far it is from ilaina bartb ; llini it is five or tix miie ; did . i . 1. a x u a - I. a m-cnt cmw :,e like an J went into the bushes; ratably about two-hundred jarda more r ieifrooi the;burnt bouse ; probably .Swct a hundred and fifty yards from :,! met a man w ith a sis mule team ; is n;i;e was Joe Stykel ; met tome one a hundred and fifty to two-hundred in!? farther ; it waa lave Xioely ; he U iiie .vurt. Iiecojrniied by the wit- tie a-- walking ; coming emit ; did jt : I aon the pike within five r sis fvt of hhn ; it was l-etween three :1 f .iir i.Vl.n k ; he had oivan overcoat ; nu uf grayish color; witness wae iin own-oat but could not identify it .:tivi-iy : said it looked :ke the one ru 1-y l'ave Nicely ; aui acquainted l'ave N ieely ; knew hita when he ad bis brother kept bar in Westmore- .nJ (, alut four years ago ; aaw bim Jud on at LiiTonier since that time; as accomiianied, by another man at .e lime I met Nicely ; his name wae 1 M.-t,'r.ii-ken. I'r w- iaiiiincd. Can not say how of- n 1 l.ae M -n lave Nicely itt Ligonier; .iki-d to biui in the bar-room at National ;,.wl; left Jonas Aukeny'e in Sjuiereet jj:.;y between twelve and one o'clock ,.jjl.l siiy I pit to the tchool-house or .an i. about two or a few minute after ; ,ii c. . l say how fr it is from there to .e bet.d : know ('barley MiOaeken ; 1 ti .; pass liiiu on the road that day ; Dent i. jioeanJ met Kill M. 11 vane and -a! it lrn.-tt ; we went to tins I'refcby riaa church ; we had a carriage ; it is -ul'ii.'y aKmt nine mile fmic Burnett's . the church ; we got U the church vat ! minutes o'clock ; we left a'. Iturm-tts 1 minutes before; I did j: kjk at my watch but McCracken J : !.en l'ave Nicely as'd liid not ii M A'ra ken that I did not know who t'nu-; he had on rubber boots; did l mv unytbing to McCracken nliout the in ; u was a foit.-y, misty day ; there is little wools ail along the pike ; spoke meeting Nicely tirst to uiy family ; Ii it to John O. IUuch after the hear tin heard of the I'mberger murder r. ijy inuniin? ; Nicely had on a brown -riy hat ; would not call him a red v.i ii.au : he was walking at a moder e rjte. Jn-t K'fore a.lj (urnment, in reiionse a question frjtn Jude Itaer, Mr. -ma sal i that the Commonwealth ex xtiil to have all their testimony in by n iay evening. (.'art hue adjourned until Monday : .'Hi rij at 8 o'cloi k. ri klic ji:eii.u. Tin-rc will lc a meeting of tlie ;it' i;s i f Soiiicrot in the Court 'u.-p this ivcning. at 8 o'clock, m.ikc arran'UKMits to rather )'''' to hi sent to the tuffer- !'V tV' tloo.l at Joliu-ttowTJ. A RARE OFFER. Take Advantage of It. Hrrr bro lit you out with an 0en ut. Stmi Wliul. Mlrerine aife and a (feo- Anieriran Movement fr only jJl.i0, in i iic a f.ir.t v chain. Making in all a -uVte uut;';!. and worth fully $ We 'e a'-i a mntplete line of Fine Jewelry rhaii, and Silverware, wbk-b w will i "-rv(iii,liii):ly luw rates: the eame 9,i:';f Iji"e Pine. Eirinj:, ltrarelcts, ' and Cllar Buttons, Thimbles, Finder P ''"i.i Pen? and Pencils. Watch Chain inu. kc-ts, Ac. Ac Roger's Triple -'-I K.i:v, ami Kurks. at $j ou per et ol if ii -tra of each; P.. vers Tea and Table ""pk,n n.f(rs, 4e. Ansonia Nic- 1 k- l'::ner anj Alarms to be had H-V ais.l J'at HruE I'-it. . ' '' f-'f the wason as well a the trim are tie .re rfj h-h tlian t.r some j re - ti 'r a-v biUt;ful and nemrly imi iu:are a t.. alnes-t deceive the eye. We u. inin.ei: t.iek. Come and weit and M M. Taci ell Co. Eand Wagon. !"t land aL,n aith asetin!rc8.ci 'f 1 (t "ale. Ai.y land needm a wapon make a Uf Uarvj-.n by calling on or nd- i: W. K.vTsrn, Simersct, 'a Five Brothers. lm. Iu-n. I'.i.'. i- V re.i k, now on ; 'he t.. 0f 1. B Corm.-H. illw. yoj ran fi i 1 '1 J.iit ai;,J in st,v r-jlorn of ready lusmity you want. up m try tin in; ; sIm. all kind a f" ":n. tut e- lors tint bni.l.M dTi ,b"-hti:-gbru... at J. B. lIoklr- ' Hn!wa. Store. S..nret Pa. Tils "Horror llrowf. r IUU UUlIUi UiUHU .; Can km k Told, I ONE OF THE MOST POPULOUS AM. rnosPERous island citif. ok TOE STATE ALMOST ENTIIiELV DEPOPULATED. FROM 3,000 TO 7,000 LIVES LOST. SCENES OF SUFFERING AND ANGUISH. AX APPEAL FOR AID. The civilized world w ill stand appalled as the details of the ten i- j ble di.a.-ter which befell Johnstown . Yeagly, a'.onr side of whom the writer are flawed over the wires. The 1 ba'1 livid for ei8!,t -vean'' ha sliJ lier . . .... 'family and that of lr. IJ. F. Yeanlev are most vtved ima-tuatioti can warcelj, ,Uve, tle A(xtor lvilllf ia , iiUIe conceive the horrors, the distress, i the agonr of suspense endured hj i. . c .1 - t -i the survivors of t'ae calauntw A thousand wives, fathers, mothers, lil'Otliers or i-isters out of entire families are left toU-ar tlioir deso-j latioa alone. Happy in compari- son. is the total extinction of fami- .niUii f!; all three of my loved chil lies where none are left to sulfer I cren and dar wife!" lie was at his and endure. Davs mu.-t elaps-r in j tro,her Vlr !'s 1,oUse- 1,6 atl,,e . , . . t.iue of the dimstcr, and though the hundred of insUncvs, l.rforc the j l)ouse mm carrit(J ,waVf ,hpy .ap(.,, in torture of uncertainty w ill le ended j a way he could hardly remember. Thus by the re-union, or the misery of! ,!ie fllirful vi-s'iti"w w,'re heard from " hundreds cf litw. Sometimes the loss httiK-'less despair, l ie anrv wa-l ,,, ., , , ., 1 1 - ; would 1 a mother, then a father, then tei j insist first yield Up their dead children, (fci-atior.ally an inquiry would before lingering' Iiope is exterputed j I niade ub.ut the houe. but in every froin thousands (if ii-Tntiiod lic:irti. , . . . I-esolation sits at every remaining hearth-stone whose survivors, like Racl.ael lnournino; for her first born, refuse to be comforted. At tliis writing seaixh is still progress- j ,raii?h, Mir., rsville, Cambria City, Mor ilYX f'T livinir and the dead, and it'rellviile aud Coopenolale, no details is utterly impossible to arrive at an estimate of the probable number of:,,,,, Mlnersv;!!e w,re' partially swept lives lost. Words of sympathy arc j away ; while Woodvule, Conemaugh btit inoi'kery in the presence of a calamity like this. The Iulinite alone can give consolation and tiaie bring healing on its w ings. Ours is a duty of benevolence of mercy and help. Let aid be extended in every form and shape that the heart of humanity can suggest and let it be done speedily and tingnidgiwly. Yc apoal to all. to every one. In tlie name of humanity and of a common brotherhood, cine tip to the rescue. The dead are to be buried, tlie living fed and cared for. Thousands are homeless and desti tute. Here is an opportunity, nay. an urgent demand for liboralitv. fur ffenerositv, lor true manhood, to j show itself. Do not wait to be so licited; what you do. do quickly. Men and brethren come up to the rescue of tliis ufllietcd jieople. The writer left Somerset at 1 1 o'clock SaturUy a. m. in a buggy with Mr. Paul Scbell, and arrived within sight of the doomed town at 3 o'clock p. ui thinking to drive through Kernville over to the Hulbert House; but alas! on reach: ug Grubtow n, one and one-half miles above Johnstown on the Honycreek, saw that most of the houses in the little village were either swept away or lying wrecked in the street On inquiry fount! ingress to Kernville entirely impossible. Hitch ing his horse to a fence he wendelhis way to the It fc O. railroad bridge, the only means of reaching Johnstown or the place w here it stood, and then fol lowed the most arduous task of his life ia climbing over wrecked buildings, J large tawlogs piled one upon another, until arriving opposite the cemetery, , and thence finding further progress in that direction impotib!e, turned np tne j hill to get on the Bedford pike. Arriving at this point a glimpse of the nnparal leled disaster was caugut which no pen could describe. House, furniture, cloth ing, beds, dead horses were strewn all along the lotg street beloT. Tuching Lis way through crowds of people who had lost houses, furniture, husbamhs, w ives and children, he turned from the head of Bedford street into Adams, the last street running along the steep declivities of Green hill, and finally landed at the Fourth Ward School House, the temporary morgue; around, in and about which were many hun- ! dreds of men and women, either bewail ing the fate of recognized friends, or ar.x iottely !..a ;nj f.r and inouirill- about 1 loved ones. - vn i l evje'rrnn!! mind. Otbe hundreds of intimate ac e ac quaintances of the writer who grasped his hand, not one could restrain the fast flowing teere. God paie him from another such try ing ordeal ! The first to (five details was Mr. Frank Benford.proprietororthe Hulbert Il ia-, who, ,fi-r a&iuriug the writer that Lis eon, Will, who was reported to be lost, wag safe, said, " my mother and sisters, with forty guesta and servants, are all (tone myself and two brothers, Lou and Wall, only escaped." John D. Roberta, cashier of the banking firm of Dibert 4 Co., said Mr. John Dibert and one daughter, if not more of hia family, "are dead ; Harry G. Eoae, Pros. Att'y, was droaned, also Judga Potts and family; Mr. McCor.f c.by and family.and all fami lies on Wa.s)iington afreet, including the Kobba. Creeds. Shialmans, ex-Sheriff Ryan, and neatly all families along Franklin fclreet from the B. 4: O. railroad Jcjiot out to Main street, and some on Main strict from Franklin down; also on Lincoln and Vine streets, and as to 'T, "K , b' Utl tn ipli tt.A tpmli e tii.trv The next party s-en was Mrs. Ir. frame building ito which she pointed; frolu the effects of an injary received in escaping. " Our houses and the one vou ,. ,. . , , , lived in, she added, are all ruined. Cvrns j.;ider, Es. was seen among otlter?, who with streaming tears, said "ife aml two el"idrrn ere e". b"1 who, on meeting nun at an hour later exclaimed. " Mr Go.!, worse and worse: instance me reply woulu come, l'on t Inuntion pr; .rtv; th ui nothing left j bu, the frW ckjth" now. on that is notll. j ing nothing in comparison with our ! be reeve met.t." As to 1..SH of lives in Kernville, Cone iniHiuli r..rotiirh. AVooilvale. Kart Cone- could be had. It mn.-t be enormous. however, as Concraan-h, Morrellville iiorininh anil Cumbria City tre complete ly deetroved. In walking over ruined houses ami de bris from Fourth Ward School House dow n to Clinton strei t nothing could be seen along upper part of locust street, Bedford (drift or Clinton street to indi vate locations of the houses that had been carried away. . Clinton street is a Ixarren warfe, and scarcely a stone or brick marks the place where the Hul bert House s'chmI, as it demolition was so complete. 0! the 5.1 guests and ser vant, ) wire carred away. The wrecks of Luther's buildings, the Mer chant's Hotel, and the brick houses ou the other tide of Main street, down to Franklin, stand as the sad memorials of the disaster ; while ail on down to Wal nut i a :reat waste excepting the banks, Alma Hall and Dr. Lowrnan's house. Kroiu there do a n the fine residences of Mr. John I'li-uert, v. n. nose, r-sq., .Mr. G. T. twank. of the Ti iimur, Pr. lee, Mr. Jacob Friend, Col. Farazer, are all gone. Mr. Frank Hav's beautiful home stands with a partial destruction of one wall. The submerged homes by back water from Walnut street down to Stonycreek, judging from the steps seen above the water, wiil remain. From Ciintoa clear down to Walnut street the only build in j;" lift on Washington street are the B. O. station and the Company's store. The amount of property losses, includ ing wire mills will run np into many millions. To what extent the large works of the Cambria Iron Company are injured cannot le cor jectured as they sre gt Dn.ler water. In addition to losses of life mentioned repoits said that Jacob Swank's. Mr. benhart's, Mr. Luikhart's, Dr. Stoutz n.an's familiis, T. J. Swank's wife and sisters, Dr. I.ec and family, Dr. L. T. Bean and family, Mrs. Ole and daugh ter, Mr. Hurst, Esn. Brady, John Il Fisher, q., and family, Mr. P. T. Fish er anj family, and a long, long lht of 0iers are misting. The names of those 10 perihid in Kernville could not be le8rct.d. It should be said that among other re ported loss's of Somerset county people ti e two Shaffers, but think Russell Chi and Ferg Paiktr are safe. Probably the most touching scene wit nessed, was the s'ow and measured tread of men cam ing the dead from w recks of houses to the morgne at the Fourth waid school house. In a walk of twenty min utes, net less than twenty-five corjf were nut Men and women in fall dress, but dripping with watT and rnud were being !orn along for recognition and interment lv,wn at the Pennsylvania railroad stone bridge was a sisl.t that appalled eicry beholder. Jt was estimated that from one to three hundred bodies, amid debris, had lodged against it, and were hwing slowly consumed by a fire caused by etores. There was no poesible way of recovering them. Among other questions on the lips of everybody, but which cannot be answer ed w ith any degree of clear approxima tion, is, bow many lives were lost? The writer can only say that one party at Johnstown put it as high as ten thous and, Mr. John D. Roberts said it would probably reach five thousand, and Mr. John Fulton, sitperintenJant of the Cam bria Iron works, thought and hoped it would not exceed two thousand. The writer' opinion from what he saw and heard that it would run from three to four thousand. WASHED Vt ST THE FLOOD. A little before 8 o'clock Saturday even ing there floated into the Herald two weary, worn and foot-sore victims of the flood. They were printers, who had been employed on the Johnstown Tribune, and were at their cases when the flood swept down on the town. Editor Swank and his full force of men, eighteen in number, were all busily engaged getting out the paper for the evening. Their attention was attracted by the roaring of the wa ters, and one of the men went to the win dow to look out, and reported that the reserroir had broken. We then," says one of the boys, " ran down stairs, without a thought of danger, anxious to see the waters rise. Scarcely had we reached the door when, on look ing np the street wtsaw firsts roof, then a house, rushing down the street We all ran back to the second story of the build ing, and went to the front windows, where we could get a view up and down the street The water, after tlie first wild ntsh, rose rapidly at the rate of about a foot a minute, for fifteen or twenty min utes. It came op the stairs about at the rate a man would walk up them ; as the water was forced up the Main street a current was formed in the alley above Benshootfs book store; that in its mad rush knocked in tlie w hole front end of the Tribune oilice ; there was a startled cry, and each man' grasped his neighbor, expecting the next moment to be his lust ; but the rear part of the oilice stood firm, and in a few minutes a ladder was pro cured and thrown across to the second story of the Moses buildingand the whole force crossed over in safety. After some time Epent here we all got back to the Mof of the Tribune building, and from here we crossed over into the third floor of the Moses building, w here we spent the night There were 32 or 33 people saved in Moses' building. It was an awful night Every little w hile we would hear the crash of a falling wail as some brick building collapsed. In the intense dark ness we could not tell if it was ten feet or a hundred yards away. Kwcry crash was a reminder that the walls of the building in which we had taken refuge were liable to give way, and drop us into the now sullen fl.J. As each succeed ing w all fell most of ns rushed to a com mon centre, as chickens gather around a mother hen when danger threatens. The editor, Mr. G. T. Swank, sat in the rear of tlie room pulling away at his cigar, as complacently as in his ow n office. Once, when he walked to a window, he point ed to a building that was being tossed to and fro further down the street, and said : "There goes my house," and resumed his chair a id cigar. One man, a mail carrier, in his bare feet and with his clothes all bedraggled, played the turtof A SECOSU NERO. Seating himself at the piano he drum med the " Irish Washerwoman." From an adjoining building came the cry, " Whose Toice is that ?" " Moses' !" went back the reply. " Where was Moses when the light went out?" rang back across the waters. One of the strangest sights was two children that were seen floating around on a roof. Time and time again, as some vast piece of wreckage floated near them, it was thoughi that their frail craft must be crushed, but each time it seemed as if some unseen band bad been stretched out to save them, and their place of ref uge was swept aside; finally they float ed out of our sight, and we do not know whether they were saved or not When morning c line we descended to the top of the piles of debris that filled the street ; the first thing our feet touch ed w as a B. & 0. freight car ; people were busy getting the dead from cellars and other deep;pools w here they had floated; the scene was one of sickening horror, hands and feet could be seen sticking out of the debris and water; we were glad to get away from the place and started at once for Somerset After a iuper and a good night's rest they were given sits on the D.ui.r Her ald and sro now sticking type as though they were used to being drowned out of a job. Two telegrams were received from Rev. Appleton Iiash, one by his wife announcing Ihe safely of his father and tamily and I lit other telling John II. I'lil that his son Kua tel was safe, and that 5t0 would hardly be the limit of tlia lives lust SWIFT VENCEASCI. Rumors apparently well founded reach here that thieves are rampant at Johns town, end that in many cases the dead are mutilated in order to dexpoil them of their jewelry. It is said that one man caught in the act of cutting a finger from the body of a dead woman, to secure a ring, was promptly shot by an infuriated citizen and hia body kicked into the river. John II. Huston vliue daughter went down in the wreck of the Hulbert House received word during the mom in that her body had been recovered. Mr. Hualon has gone to Johnstown and wiil bring the body to Somerset fur burial. Charles Ogle, son of Mrs. II. M. Ogle, went to his home about nine o'clock in the morning and nrged his mother and only aister, Minnie, to leave the house, as the first floor was covered with two feet of water at that time. He was standing at the corner of Main and Clinton streets when he saw the great volume of water sweeping down on him and he ran np Main street to the steep hill above. He was caught by the water and immersed to the neck before he reached a place of tafety. SOME Or THE LO.T. John Dibert, Mrs. Sue Weaver. B'anehe Weaver. ReT. Diller and family. Mrs. Jacob FrohnUer and two chil dren. Mrs. Carl Werner and family. Mr. Butler, assistant treasurer Cambria Iron Company. Mrs. Geo. Hager and two children. Walter Hoopes, and family. Mr. Hopes was Superintendent of works at Mox ham. Mrs. Ketchenstein. Mrs. Cieorge Stattler, and two grown daughters. Jacob Swank and family, except three boys. Dr. L. T. Beam. " Y. C. Beam. John II. Fisher, Justice of the Teace; wife and two children. Rut ledge. Mr. Kress, brewer. Mrs. H. M. Ogle. Miss Minnie t!e. Mrs. M. E. Hurst Nat C. Hurst. Emily O. Hurst Uii hard Jones, ex Burgess of Cone inaugh Borough. John Burks, and wife. Minnie Houston, daughter of John II Huston, of Somerset Mrs. II. B. Aarons and child, of Bed ford county. Mrs. Robert Nixon and three childern. J. Z. Little of Pittsburgh, salesman for L. H. bmith & Co. Mrs. Cyrus Elder and three children. John Fenn and seven children ; his wife the only member of the family left. Miss Grace Girman, daughter of Dr. Garman, of Berlin. Claikson, salesman for Posey A Co., Philadelphia. Rose Foster, sister of Mr. Foster of Geis, Foster and Q-iinn. Mrs. Millie Hamilton and two chil dren. Samuel Eldridge, policeman. Mr. Humm, insurance agent Harry Rose, district attorney. James Slater, druggist Mrs. Strayer and family. Mrs. Morris Wolf, burned to death in the Cat'jolic church. John Bowman and family. Elmer Brinkley. Dr. Ga.spcr Brinkley. Emil Young. James Davis. Luckhart Miss Richards of Michigin. Miss Mary Hamilton. Miss Jessie Hamilton. Miss Laura Hamilton. John Brady, Ep John Shifeam and family. Ex-Sheriff Ryan and family. David Creed and family. John Robb ami family. Willian Lenhart and family. Judge Potts and family. Rev. James Lane. , Mi, McConeghey and family. Samuel Shaffer. MARTIAL LAW. Latest advices from Johnstown are to the effect that martial law has been de clared and that General D. H. Hastings has taken command. Troops have been ordered to the scene and were expected last night ; in the meantime Gen. Hast ings, agisted by Mr. Ferg G. Parker, is boy swearing in extra police and plac ing them on guard. Several car loads of nniformed troop passed through this place from Pittsburgh at 10 o'clock. The Herald has gratified its many friemla and set a very, rapid pu lit omteniporaries to imitate during the paH week. In its desire that the good op!e of the county should get all the news in their favorite par it commenced in the beginning of the week to publish a daily, (riving full de tails of the important rubbery, mnnlerand other cases on trial in our county courts. The amount of original matter published has simpty astounded oar contemporaries. On the receipt of tlie nnst rumor ol the floods at Johnstown tlie Huh no put a reporter in the saddle and Saturday night published a full pape extra filled with the detail) of the horrible disaster. Sat unlay afternoon additional reporters were dispatch ed to Johnstown and this morning we lay the accounta of tlie flood as given by per sons who passed throng h it bef jre our rea 1 era. Uulike the matter in tlie city dailies yesterday it is not mere fancies conjure. np by reprterjni:les foru tha scKie of accident but the testimony of eye witnesses. I have just received a tew lot of earpeU and ran now sell an all rovt two ply carpet fur SO cents per yard, that was worth 67. Call and get a bargaiu before they are all gone at J. B. SxrtwKS. GET THE BEST! -AT VOUGHT'S. PRICES DEFY COMPETITION I Special Preperatlon for Tills Week ! EEST OnOCEMES, BEST COXFECTIOKEBIES, BEST FBU1TS, BEST XUTS, BEST SOFT DBIS'KS, ' BEST SAKDWICHES, BEST PIES and CAKES, BEST TREATMENT, BEST OF EVERYTHING, AT THE BEST GROCER Y IS SOMERSET. Fresh Green Groeerle Every Morning;. VOUGHT'S. Zs "5 S3 THEY CAN'T BEAT US! Our name lias liccri a household word throughout Somerset count for three generations and it has al ways been the recosrnized head of the Irr Goods Trade. WE LEAD! And will continue to lead, where merit is rewarded and confidence is not inisi'laced. Our business has outrrowa it's quarters and we will have a THIRTY-FOOT ADDITION added to our already largo store room inside of sixtv davs. Wc are constantly making SPECIAL DRIYES in sonit particular line for the ben efit of our customers. Call and see ih din ing the week, we have A BARGAIN FOR YOU I Respectfully, Parker & Parker. rvTsi'Tv MOWERS! BINDERS! HAY RAKES! Iton't Kail To See ' WHITELY'S NEW 1MFR0VED Champion Mower and Binder, Oa th Street Itrj thj This Week I Alt The Champion Hay Rake. -UX UUAItANTEKD T1IK BEST ON EARTH I AND AGAINST ANY oTflElW UAt'E. Before yw Wave ttwn In inr &u J f j, i nmmi HARDWARE STORE, A a I ex mint hi 9tvk of HARDWARE, BUGGIEb, HARNESS, AC, Voa will On I It on MAIN CROSS. STREET, ON THC WAY TO THt COURT MOUSE,