Daily Republican., 1889-06-07
THE RUINED VALLEY.
ANOTHER DAY AMID THE
DEAD.

Order Coming Out of Chaos-An Army
of Men Struggling to Remove
tho Debris That Chokes
the Town.
PITTsBURG, Pa, June 6.-As the work
OF removing the ruins OF Johnstown and
vicinity progress, new pictures al distress
continue to be unfolded aud scenes of the
, saddest character arc to be Observed on
all sides. Under the new system OF ope-
ratiOns the submerged streets are gradu-
ally being exposed to view, and where
the work men are attacking great piles of
wreckaYe, new discoveries OF human
bodies still 20 on. The removal Of these
has now become matter of such com
mon occurrence that the silent march of
the working men pail bearers, with their
rudely improvised stretchyrs, to the
nearest morgue, occasions little or no
comment. In the vicinity of the dead
houses, however. walls continue TO 20 up
from men aud women who at last dis
cover In the mud beerimed and swollen
faces or bodies of the dead traces OF miss
| Ing friends or relatives.
| Now, that the greatest excitement is
over, all those who have lost property or
| fir lends seem to have been brought to a
realizing sense of their misfOrtunes.
Some hasten to the spot where their
home once was, expecting perhaps to
flud some vestige OF missing property,
while others staud on sand heaps over
their cellars bemOaning the loss OF all
they had ln the world, like men and
women with all hope departed. On all
sides are piled up household utensils and
unbreakable property, much of which
will never he claimed by the owners now
| silent Ia death.
Without doubt there must be money
and valuable personal property under
ground ia all parts of the city where
dwelling or business houses stood or were
washed by the flood. 1t is no uncom
mon thing to find an iron sale heaIed up
on top OF rubbish twenty feet above the
ground, or In some cellar iill;d up with
sand and stones.
THE WORK or REGISTRATION CoNTIa UED
At the headquarters OF the Voluntary
| Registration Bureau TO day, 1t was
learned that about $500 peop had regis
tered since the despatch fixing the total
number of persons accounted Tor rs liv
Ing at IL, 900. This brings the total up
to over Is, 900, which is more than one
half OF the estimated total population Of
Johustown borough aud the immediate
vicinity.
| SAVED FROM THE WRECK.
| JoHNsTowN, Pa, June BE. ID. Ent-
wistle, general manager of the Johnson
Steel Rail Company, was one of four
men who worked row boats all day Sat
urday, and rescued men, women and
children from the great mass of debris
collected before the stone bridge OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad. lie lives with
his family in Moxham.
On Saturday morning he got four
boats, the only ones the Hood had spared,
and brought them down TO Johnstowr.
lie took one aud William McOlaiD, Cor
responding Secretary OF the johnson
Company, John Collin, Civil Engineer for
the Cambria Iron Company, and the
Moxham Methodist miuister, took the
others. They worked IRON daylight TO
nightiall, and MIR. Entwisile estimates
that they saved over 1000 lives, he
himself having taken of over 800. lie
says that there were probably 2O00 peo-
pie On the upper end OF the debris, and
most OF tLese were saved. He could moi
tell how many were on the end towards
the bridge.
NEARLY 200 PEOPLE IN SCHOOL
HOUSE.
Itb TelhtCu UlAuN
OF heroism. DANIEL Morrell Siackhouse,
son OF Powell Stackhouse, Vice Presi-
dent of the Cambria Company, we'll
known In Philadelphia, was swept into
the Union Street School House, the only
building lett standing below Conemaugh
creek. AS soon AS he found himself in
comparative safety he stood by the win
dow and dragged people oil the wreck
age floating by. Almost 2U0 people
found safety In the school house, and, be-
ing forced to stay there over IL hours
without drinking water, much Suffering
was experienced.
RED CROSS WORK.
The Red Cross began this morning n
work that cannot fail to to Of great bene.
fit to sufferers and OF great assistance to
the various relief distributing commit.
tees. They began house to house visi.
tation throughout the flooded district,
aud will attend to both alleylation OF the
condition OF The sick and the needy. The
society is given great praise by those
having general supervision for the
valuable work 1t has already accom-
plishcd.
ROMANTIC INCIDENT.
A touching incident, illustrative Of
womanly fidelity, was brought to tn,
attention OF Dr. Kobert w harton, VINO
Is on here with the Philadelphia Red
Cross Society to-day. Harry swank, the
20-year old sou of Jacob Swank, pro
prietor of the largest hardware store IL
JohnstoHn, was to be married in the fal
to Dollis Hartzcll, an attractive young
maid,n living in the hills above New
field. In the great flood Jacob Swank',
store was swept away, being directly in
the path OF the current, and he and biz
wife and two small children were
drowned. Harry Swank, although In,
jured, was able to reach place OF safety
His fancee, whose home was out of th,
reach Of the waters, at once came to him
and, having some means, the Immediate
performance of the ceremony was sug
gested. Consequently the young couple
went to Somerset yesterday and wer,
made man and wife. They will resld,
temporarily at the BRIDES home.
$50 BODIES AT NINEvEH.
The Westmorelsnd County Corone
telegraphed from Nineveh to-day to th
Acting Chief of Police here, saying
"seud every one here on first train tina
| ia hooking for friends, as every body no