ittiim -"r ,-"T" :- --1 ' "Si 5" eraio i. SOMERSET, PA., TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1880. ltWl-C J. tn-venm Somerset 4 Li L of 1 V If. LI.- ill YV: A its r LI riSSTOWH WIPED OUT OP EXISTENCE. E HALFNOT TOLD ;n. 1000 TO 10,000 !, Women and Children Find Watery Graves. KVKS KOR THE DEAD. Perpetrators'Summorily Pun ishcd by the Citizens. 0 HUNGARIANS SHOT Two More Hanged for Tilfer iii or fron the Dead. r C ity a Vst C iariel It ou V Three atiiDitrett Iltxlleti In One Hchool llonxe. BliitHltt-d. SapMfMf1 to N I ml-r the t-n-s tf Ilri Fean of an F.pldemi' rrr'y I (imMHl, a llmtle Are Ile- vll (miiilirunn the Itiver (Irtlered to fcskr from the lr All Bodle of rron and Animals. Tiii i;u. June 3. "Die news from -t'.un is heartrending in the ex--, and instead of tho dis'tatchet nawraiiM. 11 is tne very optx It is a difficult matter at this writ-.pin- the total numlx-r drowned, t i,- safe to say that the mimlx? will into tl' thousands instead of tli( nil, as at first predicted, and it !!.ilc many (lavs Ix-fore the w'kiU t can lie made public. A I' day jv iiiiil to-day the people of thit w going to and fro to leara thi ' i-arti'-ulars, many f them having res cither visiting at Johnstown 01 uitiuly located there. When th fiist reached here that thieves wort !y plying their avocation the storm iignution lin ike out, and in a short the plice force, sent out on Satur- - followed on Sunday by several u,it-.of soldiers, who were sulwe ly culled tijn, left for tlie scene at i. Adjutant (ieneral Hastings it netowu and ordered the Pittsburg r to reirt for duty, scripliuiis for the sufferers were re 1 at all the licwspnjx-r ofticcs and il.f" Al.-out fllSMWO in cash. clothing and eatables, have lien 'il. A storm of indignation wa Sunday afternoon when it was J that tlie Ijiw and Order society l tu allow the manager of Harris' elusive a jierforiiianco in aid of .fferer. "My Partner" company d their ttcrvic.es. itions were taken up in all the s yesterday in aid of the suf Tln tot il amount raised is not .Imt a handsome sum was realized. DOWN TO HARD WORK. r Maiiiln AMtUt In the lleovvry ol udim and llenil.rlns Other A III. T own, June 3. The srvnj be- ks -riiti.i. Thousands of tdht- 'lid anxious friends are Rathered i!ie wns ksl city, and hundreil9 rkiT. are husy taking out Unliisi, me ilehris and c;iring for the wants !rlors. Hi:tit loti men work. si like lieav-tlu- railro ad track, and at 8 o'clock v morning the first train iascl nl froai Sans Hollow to Johns It was n-ceiwd all along the line li'i r.-. and slmuU of joy from the Is i if Mitferers, who were waiting liai k eait.T to ol .tain the suv Mitaai.-.! in (In- relief trains, thret ' h lay in Nan,; Hollow all nieht .'tc.et lliroiii;h. Tlie first train "ir the dm instructed track was nt out hy the fitintiK of I'itts nd iuanne, hy the Americus club a;tam A. J. Ijoein was in ai'ly as i-t. 1 l.v Little Ja. k. chief iiiiimussioii department, AJ. Kd-C.sil.-s 1, eely, Harry English. 'I'-r oi-l,l. W'll H.tsl and fliers, m hroivM glad news and much ' nhef to hundreds of starving aii'l iliildreii. The"(i(Ml thank t- i-iioii-h t,i touch the heart of I ti.si cynic. lUiljliing Hi.. 11,4. Himarian element .is attracting iiK-ilil irt of the attention here. ' -nty four hours or more they have -."l.l;n- Inh carnival anion? the '"'I committing d. predatioin of '-t horrible nature. The houses "Rtlie floodi-d district w.-re ran an I dcva-tatisl. ( onues were clo:hin?, i,f jewelry and "'III Cast- Women'-, llt-rnn ?T to Ms-lire tli.-tiN,K ...i.:..i. In - ut . "xm.hiI. One iiiis.ralilt- wreU U - cau.-ht in the a. t of mutilating ' a- chas. ,1 l,y u crowd of riti ' 1 wle n -apturI was promptly "I'toatileph A ,'01; ...liecrs re-ued huu l r..re he id. ii:u li to the disgust of manv ! IHiMiie. wli.w- (...ti,,,.. l. 'l been o:ra-eJ by the desecration of their dtx-e.uHj r.-latioaa. Shortly afWr mid night an attempt wai made to rob the f irst National Umk, all of whii h. with the exception of the vaults, had been destroyed. The Numlier of lefl. It is still iniHsible to ivo : ny accu rate idea of the nuinUr of the dead. NoUxty places tne estimate lower than 4,000, however, and reliable information tends to show that it will ryrn-h twice that. The relief cuniinitk-es are well settled and iloing bi,; work. Tiie press relief committee and tiiat of the Ma sonic order, which were Uk- first on the ground, reached Pang Il'illoar at 1 o'clock md pushed oil over almost ilu- pa.sal,le roudi to KeariLsviile, where a receiving depot was established at tli house of Ah-xand T Kennedy, president of the Johnstown council. I'Klhetic Inclileiit. ' Pathetic incident! are growing in nuinU r daiiv. A slurdv r.-.uer went to one of the partially kuIuiit hI build ins to rescue a woman. He h i I a fair'y pood boat and was a kih1 oarsm ui, Imt the current w.n t v-tnin-; fur him and iiewasswepi d iwn stre am. He manned to cct t'i worn in Ian l".l on a ro if , luit he was thrown into tliestream mid swept down under the bridge. He caii,'h:, a rock and hi 1 1 on for dear hie lor almost Ihrn' li'-iirs, wli -n lie w.u rescued with ropes. t'ol. Norman M. Stnith of I'itttbiir attempt si to irossi-n the 1ok- bridge tliat ha-I l'.n improvised to carry Js pie over the channel, when he slipjied and full into tie river at th-j Bwi.t -st xint. He had heavy clothin ; and ru'u ber boots on, but he was a sturdy swim m r. and finally readied shore without assist ince. lyu lhill'.never and liari j 1-aiifferof 1'itLiburg start-d on horse back from the Meich uiti' hol.d oti Fri day nfU-rniMm just aft"-r the wuU-r Mm menced to rise. They have not ln heard from since and are supposed t have Usen lost. Working Wltliout Hrmnnenitlou. Alxmt nisn yesterday a man standing on the e Vst side of the river called ovei to a friend on the ot!i--r side: "Hello, Jack: lost any friends?" Jack did mil reply in wor.ls: he merely held up tin five finders of his riht hand. He hae. lost a wife and four little ones, yet In was working incessantl y to relieve tht sutlerinj; of others. This ii tin npirit which i-rvles ihe survivors, one ami all. 1'ersonal pief is lo t sit;lit of in tht p-neral feeling of koj nn.l necessity. There isn't tune for anything but work. Kven the wotneo seem to realize, am; there is surprisini;ly little public expree sion of pri I, although hearts are so sad ih-ned and weighed down that they r nlneiHt iiumlxsj. EverylxNly seems U feel that it is not only a duty, but a priv ilege, to work for others. The bontmar worked incessantly rescuing -i -pie am carryin(r them from one side of the rivel to the other siiiveiy refn sl lciiiuiiera tion from any of tlie residenLs of tht town. Visitors could pay, but othert could not. In one case a wealthy gentleman in sisted on hia taking - for resuini himself, wile mil tlaiighter from tin flood. Tlie Ixmtman re.'used it josi tively, and at the end of the Ion - day. when almost dead from sUi-rlmm.ui ef forts, he was only IH wt-althier thai w hen be startd. To llreak Ihe Ciorge. AtSoVlock Sunday afternoon acotiph of huiulrvil nouiids of dynamite arrivtsi at the bridge and was carefully stowei away. It is to be used in breaking tht gorge of bouses, etc., ulmve. the bridgt and getting the debris started Minn tin river, lietween 1.. "(00 ami a.icw Usliei are n:iliubtexlly burietl in the debris. From the river side it ia said huu lreih of legs and arms can lie vn among tin logs, but the fire prevents their l-ciin, reached, and the only thing that re mains to do is to blast the mass am: start it down stream. To-day will Is the most horrible day yet. as people an commencing to realize their irrerabli losses, and many are breaking down 1 here is still a vast amount of work t. I- ilt me. and worker are needed. Then are already far too many uight-sccrs ant loafers. rr-.miL.ent t'ltlrent Urovnnl. Perha the day lias revenlisl no mm startling fact than that sewralof tin wealthiest and ino-t eminent t itiw nsol Johnston n wen- drowned, with their en-tin- families. The first is James Jlc Millcn. one of the vice presidents of tin gnat Cumbria iron works. He waf about fill years of age, and has long l"r a resident of the city. His residence w.e the handsomest and mot richly fiiniishtsl in Johnstown. It was utterly demolished. 1 le was a w idower and hat living with him a widowed d.iuglitci find lier children. All went down tht Hood with the bouse and have not bes-c heard of since. His fortune was esti mated at over a million. John Fulton, general manager of tht Cambria iron works, was the second ol this group. He is said to ! positively drowned, with wife and children. Nt more popular man lived in Cambria countv than he. Howard J. Roberts, cashier of the First National bank, and John Hiix-rt. a lianker, were also drowned. All of th family of women and broken-hearteti men. trudging across the mountain in the Impp'of reaching Florence or Boli var, to find tlieir missing ones, dead or alive. A Srvne of OetuiUtlon. It was high noon when, descending tlie eastern slojie. Morrelville was set n in the distance. That is one of the subur ban wants of Johnstown. It was not 6, pretty view. Ordinarily it would havt i lieen an arena of hiXU, wavy in theii i nltem.iting lines of pine, fir and hemlock iM.ughs, that wreathed the white, trim bouses of Morrelville around alut, but j the clouds dropis-d their inUt of luelan-1 iio!y upon the landscape. There was something aliout it all that , even a mile away impressed one with 8: si-nse of indiscriliable sadness. Drawing nearer the. reixirter hailed a stalwart fel low who was listlcsily carrying a bundle of clf-Tliea onrter hts arm. lie kindly gave the tie ircd Information nnd then tho rotiortor askesl him if lie knew ol any canialtira. The same Eense of sad ness that tho clouds overhead inspired ii'imi - iiihii s answer: mi ;nt ten yt.u ol my own, he re plied. "Jlv name is Gabriel Fleck. My boy. f.ged l'i years, my wife's mother anil my tliree si.sUrs-in-la w were nil dmwned tiefort my eves. lint tltere is still a merciful Cod in heaven, for He has. spared me mv wile." A vs leie Fuuiilv tVIH-d Out. Jti!ii ll. Jones, a former xliceman, spurted a horse in theojijxjsite tlut-ction. Something inspired me to X-ak to him, too. Mv inquiry brought luu k this pit eous cry : "1 and a little son are ail who an- alive of a family of I I. I saw most of tli.-in go down." It was slid a iiar?T of a mile to Mor relville. lint here was the next testi mony, heard from n garden gate: "A friend of mine, V. S. Weaver, a prom inent t onleetioiier, was saved by us: but Iwi-ntv of his nearest relatives are nil lst." Pi Morrelville at la-.t. "Yn;i want new;, do you.'" remarked a :ile-faced yon: g woman. "IJo th'-re to YoungV live: v stal-le and bx-k ujistairs." 1 did so. There, in a long turn of a h ill. wen groepe.l t-onc- eighty xs;iie men. women and children. Tiiev were wound el fi'oni liaules wi.h the liebris, or sick fromex:xe. Fnn were lying twn, otii -rs sat up, while a few lini-xsl nlxiui. A singl.' country siirgotm !a!retl among them. It was an improvise 1 ho;iital to ma'ce a city tbv-tor nwp. Over in-Johl Mown proper it wat found that aiiofher h i-pital Icul uet-n forme. I in ti.e Parks oera house. Thirty-three homeless persons were liousk'd there, tine of th '-se, rilward Fisher, a young nun, tried U commit suicide three time during the previous night. Ix-cause ol grief over ths drowning of his parent ami si.steri THE WORST 15 TRUE. Three Tlmnuuil rotllnx ieesletl at Ons In AtlttUUin to tlie Thousands Al ready K'setl. Johns tows, June 3. There is a fam ine among the dead. Tho 1-Vr.K) surviv ors of tho fitxxl who- are suffering foi fixxl ;ind clothing fin.l their trouble! have a ghiLstly counterpart. There are no co.'lins hero to bury th tie n 1. Tlie last colliii wxs tise-l ye.terdav afternoon. Time-.' tlionand more at least will tx needed. Therefore, to the public appeal for assistance may be added the words: '.Send us cotlins by the trainload. for wt need them as bad as we do brcail." The AVater Subsiding. J( ihn-stOwn, J uue 9. Tlie water is mi Is siding, giving a chance to see tin: condi tion. The damage is even greater that estimate I. There is not a score of house in Johnstown projier standing on theii foundation, and not one of them of any value. Nearly a hundred Iioum are standing scattered where the water left them. The debris is piled twenty feet high. Tlu Concmaugh cut a swath through the business portion of the town forty nxls wide, leaving no ventage of t building or stric t in its lath. The busi ne.ss strts-ts cannot lie found, nnd tht biwii loot -Us like a mud-cov.-ixHl tiehL The Ints or Life isestimabHl by conservative police ofli cers well acijnatiUsl with th facts at not less than 7.0(H) to H.noO. Johntowr x-ope seiMn to lie annihilatetl. and you would not sts- .V'HI inhabitants in towr all day. The people s em paralyxe.l. Hundreds of ptsiple from other town are helping tti get Uxlies out. Tlie scent at the bridge is horrible beyond disscrip tion. The Ix-d of the river for a third ol a mile is a solid mass of debris, two thirds burned over. The people in it were heard calling for help up to t o't lock Sunday morning. Two Pittsburg lire engines a-e now playing on the fire. Many bumed Ixxiie-s are U lie seen in th." lire. Tht' scene is terrible. The portion of tht tow n that contained the aristocratic resi difes 13 entirely wi)icd out. Not I vestag.' of tlieir residences remain. Hut a very few of their Ixjtlies have Itecr found, till iiu; " Finisj. Tlie rob! d ries wt re simply frightful. Last night llurigarians pitrole.l the rail road, holding up many who passed. All day yesterday they" were nibiiiiig Ixxlics cut linger.' off to get rings nnd taking everything of value from thelxxlies. Fx Mayor iic!i is teiorttsl to havt shot two Hungarians while at the work two more were b.ingisl by the iufuriattvj Jxsiple. The city is a Vast Charnel Ilnnse, and Ixxlies nre Ix'ing found all the time The school bouse has het-ii turned into a niorgu . Th nt' hundred bodii-s are Jying side liy side in thn school house, ant hundreds more at other places. Thousands are supixistsl to be tindci the acres of debris and great fears of an I epidemic are cutertaiucil. I indie are already leginiiing to dtcomxisc and twt ! tlavs of hot sun will make the comlilior i .;. - t..r:-i!.l.. Tie, luir.l if ' health, by ollicial orders, h is dins tesj sherilTs of all ctitintie on the river U take from the water all lodieof persons and animal s. Steel Work. Annihilated. The steel works nlxive Johnstown art annihilated, not a brick nor piece of ma chinery remaining. Nearly every build ing of the Cambria iron works has walli crashed in, machinery intact, but cov ens! with a foot of mini and many feet of debris. The loss of the company it e.stimat.-d at from rive to six millions. All the prominent men cnanected with the works nre dead. Will the town be rebuilt '! No one knows, but in all pnils ability it will not. It looks impossible. The railroads have a large force of men working on the tra-ks, but cant get trains through for days. The liapidlty of the Water. An eve-wilness said tl water we j three feet deep in the streets. Hundnsii ; had come to see Uie tloxxl.when sutldenlv j the rush came, and soon the water was a 1 seething mass of bioken houses and nnejcinip rjeonie. i da nimnt .-.ma faster than a horse could run and escape was Impofwible. Everything was carried wiore ii. in eigni minutes the destruc tion was completed and the water thirty feet deep. Everything that could float had living freight IMearl' every nerson had a child, and in a luuf hour not 8 child was to be seen. Long train loads of supplies arc Merc and sullicient for immediate necessities. AOO Tent rrom Ohio have arrived. Help will he needed fot weeks, as thousands are without ftxxl nnd no way to secure it. The railroad conipiny is carryui-j all supplies and uooa f suiferers free, The lreldent ArraiHsInK for Kt-llef. Washington, June 3. Tlie president did not attend church yestenlay, but waf busy all day arranging with (ioveinot JJeavcr by t degraph for the relief of the stricken districts in Pennsylvania. Miss Clara ll.irton has cone to Harris- burg to silx-i vise the work of the Hed Cross stx iety in relieving the dL.tress ut Jolnist n, i'a. Kicht I.Ives lst at ltiirM-r's Kerrr. ItAl.TlMoitK, Jdne Eight lives are reixirteil lost at Harix-r's Ferry. Main bridges in that valley are gone, port Viat is tlixt lisl. The Chi-sapc.-ike and Ohio canal is so badly damaged that it will never ht iistsl again. Fleven lives are known t have Ixt-n lost Maryland. Mine ITa.llv 1'I.mmIiI. Xf-W I'.nui-, 1. 1 . 'S -T- . .'xi. x a(,..o-.o. i .i.,du!ii-,i. j en mines, employing U.IHH) men, will In indctimte-K- wloif .i.oe.i .,1 ..r tl I . this valley, (he puiuiis Ix'ing under u. ...... M...i .1 .i.. n.. .ii - .in i anu iiir: una llllst.v IJiM.iea. 1 X eiiftilis; Sympathy. London, June 3. Ail the newsiwuxM contain leaders deploring the disaster at Johnstown, and sympathizing with America. ?-Mther ImlirMtlonii. Shower... slightly warm -r, southerly HltlS. PIEND3 IN HUMAN FORM. Wrrtehea Caught rinmlerlng ami Mutilat Ing Ihr Ieatl Four of Tliem Are Ilriveu Into the Iliver ai d Drown. - Johnstown, June 31 Tlie way of the trau-grcsMir in the desolated valley of the totu'inaugli is hard, mdeeil. Each hour reveals some new and horrible rtory of guttering and outrage, and every succeeding hour brings news of swift and merited punishment meted out to the lietiils who have dared to desecrate the stilf and mangled corses in the city of the dead, and torture the already half- crazed victims of the crudest of modem catastn phies. As the roads to the lands round alxmt are opened biles of almost indescribable horror come to light, and deeds of the vilest nature x;rpetrated in the darkness of the night are reixirted. Just as the shadows began to fall upon the earth Saturday evening a party of thirteen Hungarians was notied stealthily picking their way along the banks of the Concmaugh toward Sang Hollow. Suspicious of their purpose, several fanners armed themselves and started in pursuit. - i'lnuilerin; the leail. Soon taeir innj horrible fears were realized. The Hungarians were out foi plunder. Lying ujxnt the shore they came Uxm the dead and mangl.sl lxjdy of a woman, upon whoso person there were a number of trinkets of jewelry and two diamond rings. In tlieir etfort to secure the plunder the Hungarians got into a Kiiabble, during which one of their uuinbt-r severed tlie finger upon which were the rings nnd started on a run with his fearful prize. The revolting nature of the deed sc wrought upon the pursuing farmers, who by this time were close at Iv nd, that they gave immediate chase. Some of the Hungarians showed light, but, being outnumbered were compelled tc flee for their lives. Nine of the brutef escaped, but four were literally driven into the surging river and to their death. The iuhtinian monstt'r whose atrocious act has lxsn described was among the numlx-r of involuntary suicides. Another incident of even greater mo ment has just been brought tti notice. At H:30 o'clock an old railroader, who had walked from Sang Hollow, stepxsl tip to a numlx-r of men who were con gregated on the platform of the station at Curranville and said: ete-citnce in swift, "Centlemcn. had I a shot gun with mt a half an hour ago, I would now lx- a murderer, yet with no fear of ever hav ing to stilfer for my crime. Two miles below here I watclietl tbTeo men going along the banks stilling jewels from the dead wives ami daughters of men who liave Ix-cn robbed of all they hold dear on earth." He had no sooner finished the last sentence than live burly men, with looks of terrible tlet 'rni:n ition written on their faces, were on their way to the scene of plunder, one with a coil of rope over hit shoulder and another with a revolver in his h ind. In twenty minutes, so it is re lated, they had overt;, ken two of tlieir victims, who were then in the act of cutting pieces from the ears, and finger? fix mi the hands of ths Ixxlies of two dead women. With revolver leveled at tli scotindn-lj the leader of the poKse shouted: "Tlintw up vour hands or I'll blow your heads olf. Two Villain I.ynehed. With blanched faces and trembling forms they olxyed the order nnd begged for mercy. They were- sean hed. ami as their rxlckets were emptied of their plunder, the indignation' of the crowd mtenstiisl. and when the blixijy finger of an infant, cncircledwith two tiny gold rings, was found" in the leader's pi-ckets aery went up to lynch them. Without ii moment's delay roxs were thrown around their necks, and they were dangling to the limits of a tree, in the branches of w hich, an hour lcfore, was dancled the bodies of a dead father ami son. After an expiration of helf an hour the ropes were cut and the Ixxlies lowered and carried to a pile of rocks in the forest on the lull above. It is hinted that an Allegheny county official was one of the most pmminent actors in this tragedy of justifiable homicide. THE NINEVEH MORGUE. Over a Hundred Dead B din Laid Out In the Planing HI ill. Nineveh. June 3. Tlie scene in Theo dore Nunnmaker's nlaninir mill at Nine veh, w lie re seventy-tliree Ixxlies are lying stretched out coltl in death, is simply appalling. One can get no idea of tlie fearful work of the waters until hi has seen these ptxir, mangled, lx-spat-tcred bodies. On the Indiana side of the river at tins place about seventy-five more btmies nre laid out In tho low Nineveh flats a number of other bodies can be seen, but so far they have not been recovered. Anns are nrotrudin above the water ami sand, but tin Ixxlies are in such uangemus places that they can t lx? secured without cn-at tieril The water has suicided somewhat, but tlie current in the stream i.-j still strong unu violent. The wrecking train collected fifteen Ixxlicj between ll-rry aiel Nineveh. They were taken to the planing imli am placed in rows aUmt the establishment No one can have any idea what tht ixviies lixiKttl ii lit until lie li. is seen them. Some of them bad tlieir skulls kiux-kcd in as if some brute had hit them uilha bludgeon. I ine looking women Hud I gty (.ashex. on their checks, and Ihe dcliMtc hand wen scratched and torn as if they hail ix-ett uraggeti iiinxigli a tinar natch. Their face were swollen and distorted: mouths were drawn out of sh;ix. and the evclialls were in somein- tauces tilli-d with mud. as were also the curs. Their slender garments were Ixxiraggled with leaves, weeds and grass, mixed with mutt, the little children arranged in rows looked for nil the world like lanre Chinese dolls with their nxintl bloated facei and bltxxly skins. Many of the bodies were covered with Ll.sxl, and bruised horribly. They were tossed alxmt, bulb-ted by the currents and dashed ngainst rocks and debris untd they were scarcely recognizable by trie mis. When the waters subsided somewhat Hit Ixxlies were left lying in the mud and grass along the shores where they are l-eing picked up us fast as they can ue lounu. Close olesei".is going along in the trains can see lots of Ixxlies partially cov ered witn grass ami arittwixxj. in .some I'Lices the debris is piled up as high as a house, and it is supposed bodies are ly- uig uiitier inese musses. Every whereon theshoresof the stream the bushes anil trees have caught vari ous nrticle8 of clothinsr. At one rmint. a lady's chip hat ornamented the to;) of a young birch, and clothes enough, ragged and torn, can be picked up to complete any gentleman s or lady a wantropo. THE FLOOD AT ELMIRA. Murh Ilainaffe to lCailroatU and Other lI-o;erty Thirteen Uvea ICeported Loftt at Coralug. ELM1KA. Y., June 3. The watr here was from a ftxit to foot and a half higher than ever before known. Sun day afternoon two Ixxlies tloattxi down the river. A rtxf iiixm which three ixr- sons were clinging is said to have passed lv Uie city last niglit. liie ixxty or a female liiiby was washed ashore in the kiwer ixirtion of the city. . . . .. . . tne fcrie railway iimige was anciioreti m its place by two trains of loaded freight cars. The water rose to the cars, which, with the bridge, acted as a dam and forced tho water hack through the city on the north side of the Chemug river, where the principal business htm -es are located. The water covered the streets to a depth of three feet, and the basementa of the stores were ui' kly flooded, causing thousands of dollars' damage. The only possibly way of en tering the Kathburne House, the princi pal hotel of the city, was by boats, which were rowed directly into the hotel office. On the south side - of the river the waters were held in check for several hours by the ten-foot railroad embank ment, but hundreds of families were Iriven into the uiiixr stories of their houses. Late in the evening 2,l 1 feet of the embankment was forced aw.iv, and the water carried the railroad tracks and everything else before it. A lumliei yanl in the depths of tht rii-hiug water was swept away. Xunv horses were drowned, and thn-e couples on the flal were rescued by police and liroin.'n. 1 hns? MII.-m or Track tione. Tlie Erie passenger tram, which had Ix-cn her.1 since Saturday morning, went west to Ituiralo late Sunday afternoon over the Lnckawanna road. On tht: big flats, twelve miles west of here, three miles of tracks were washed away, and at Corning the I ritlge acns.s the riyer if gone. The Erie express that arrived here on Saturday altemixm was hell here by the tltxjd. Pint of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad bridge aenx-s the river at Waverly hat gone, and the nid uses the Erie tracks Irom here to Ilinghampton. Ou the northern central branch of th Pennsylvania system the westbound ex pnss train tliat -left here Friday night it stalled between Minnequa and Canton. There are gr.-at washouts each side of the track and railroad men say the road will not be open for a week. The damage to pnlerty in this city ami vicinity it estimated at $.I0,U0I). Tliecrojis through out the Chemung Valley are almost totally destroyed. The Cones-iue Valley is also retxrted to have suffered terribly. The Falilmxik railroad has lost two bridges nnd their track is badly washed out Ix-twctn Knoxville and Westfield. Thirteen lives are said to have been lost at Corning. 23 Line Loxt at llllnmxport. Scnbcrv. Pa June 3. The city in flootletb The water reached the top of the river embankments early Sunday morning, and at 7:l Stroke into tht Third and Fifth wards, compelling tire inhabitants to take to the upper stariec of their houses. The water readied a point within tight inches of tlie great flood of lMio. At noon the watcjr bt-inip to recede. AU railroad nnd wagon bridges between here and Williamsport are down. Tliree men who came down from Williamsport in a boat tvtxirt the loss of twenty-live liva at that place. Governor Hill Uum w Proclamation. AtBANT. N. Y. , June 3. Hovernoi nill issued a proclamation calling thf attention of the people of New York to the disaster which has Ixfallen the inhabitants of a large section of Penn sylvania, and invoking tlie efforts ol citizens and organizations toward reliev ing the coiueiiuent distress. Iailnher Yanlrt Swept Away. I-tNCASTER, Pa., Juno 3. Tlie lumber yanls at Marietta have all been swept away. The Sustpiehanna is still rising. Marietta's streets untl all tiie rolling and planing mills are partly submerged. Two men on a raft werecarrievl over the dam at Columbia yesterday and drowned. The Pennsylvania eiinal at Columbia is bad ly damaged. The Pennsylvania railroad bridge is still intact. A' great quantity of logs have passed the bridge, and are goigcd at Turkey Hill, below tho town. Itlext Flood in forty Years. Pnrrr.sm iiii, June 3. It is nearly forty yens -.ince Petersburg hd its last big llixxl. It tx-f urnxl on March !. ItCil, but it was nothing in comparison with what has Ixt-n experienced the last few days. '1 he liolftit rains sent thcAppo motix on I ixun. The earliest damage was frt-in the bursting of the receiving reservoir nt the water works. The whole lower nrt of the city is under water. Every bridge but one spanning the river, including the Atlantic coast line trestle, is swept away and all railroad communi cation north and south is siisxnded and will pmlKibly remain so for a day or two. No accurate estimate of the loss by the Hood can be made, but it is not exagger ated if placed at jllKUMX'. A Vast ( liarual Filled. PiTTSBt iio. June 4. J. J. Buchnnnan returntsd from Johnstown kite last even ing. To a reixirter he said: '"The paxrs fail to tell the awfulncss of the disaster. The whole Concmaugh valley is one vast charnel field. The air is polluted with festering Ixxlies. From Sang Hol low up the valley to Joungstown the telegraph poles and trees are lunging full of dangling luxipskirts. pieces of garmen's, hats, all bloody and horrible to lixifc iix.!i." Along bank of laid corpses lying with their arms and legs contorted and often doubled over trees,' "Six million dollars will not cover the losstotheCanil ria Iri ninipany, Jiillicns more fail to give r.n estimate of the total loss. Fully one-third of the population and more than that of its wealth of Johnstown is swept away. Tlie paxrs nre not high enough in tlieir estimates." "It is supjxised that the houses caught fire from a car of lime being tipped over on them as they piled up at the railroad biidge, and tho scene of their burning was enough to make one's hair turn grey." "The whole present population has timed themselves into undertakers. The bodies are being shoveled into rough Foxes ami tags put on them. Many of them are marked wrong in the hurry, but time is money and strength. 'The p- opleHre hungry. 1 have had nothing but coffi-e and bread since I left Pittsburg. The last ick of flour in the stores has Ixt n sold. The people are weak. Ttxj much provisions cannot be sent." An.iover, Itellxvllle, Ilorneflnvild and Bradford lunndated antl Mueh ll&ui age Itrported. Oanas.ei:a';a, N. Y.. Juno 3. Tlie freshet was the most destructive ever known here. A considerable portion of this village was inundated at 'J o'clock on Saturiiay morning. The Main street iron bridge was lifted and carried forty rods down stream.,. It is almost com pletely wrecked. An ordinary-sized river ran down Main street. Stock was rescued with difficulty. Everywhere the damage is very great. The water reached its highest xint at 4 p. ni. Several Bridae Swept Away. Hornf.li.svillf.. N. Y.. June 3. Ser eral bridges on the outskirts of the city are gotie. The high wafers are impas sable. The ruilroaiis will suffer, par ticularly the Erie whose property in the vicinity of the shojis is completely su't mergisj. work being totally abandoned. Many wasliouts are reported on the different sections of the Erie. Not a train has arrived or deimrted to-day. tine l.-n lrnwne,L Wf.I.I.ivti.IE. N. V.. June 3. The heavy rains of yesterday raised (Teck-i into livt rs ami rivers int- lakes all through this section. Never in he ex perience of the oitlest inhaUtar Is has Wcilsvilk lx-en visited witii such a destructive tlixxl. Psitti ends of the town have been submerged, water in many instances standing cl- ar to the nxifs of houses. Farms on tha flats along Dye creek antl the Genesee river for miles around nre under three to ten feet of water. Buildings, bridges, farm ing implements antl live stit:k have lx-en going down the river nil da v. Several Imd washouts "occurred on all the rail ways. No trains have arrived here since midnight. Etlward Fuetterer was drowned this morning. Railroad Trnrkx Washed Away. Andover, N. Y.. June 3. A terrible rainstorm visited this section early on Satunlay morning. All the streams were swollen faralxvehighwatermarks, . antl fields and roads were overflowed. No less than a dozen bridges in this town were carried away, and newly planted crops arc utterly mined. The water continued to rise rapidly until 4 o'clock. At that hour the two dams at the ponds above the village gave way and the water rushed madly down into the village. Nearly every street in the village was overflowed anil in many cases occupants of houses were driven to tlie upjx-r floors for safety. Owen s largo tannery was flooded and ruined. Almost every rod of railroad track was covered, ami much of it will have to be rebuilt. 1 be track at some points is covered fifteen feet with earth, and trains cannot run for two or three days. Much lumlx-r. many small huildinirs and other property has been carried away. ! i V r it . SW sse-T
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