New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-06-12
DEATH'S HARVEST !,
Thousands of Collins for Groups of
Nameless, Mutilated Dead at
JOhnstOWn.

JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 3. The develop.
ments of every hour make it more and more
apparent that the exact number Of lives lost
in the .Johnstown horror will never be
known. aAll indications point to the fact
that the death list will reach over 5000
names, and IN my opinion the missing will
reach {, 900 in number. /" declared Gen. D. n.
Hastings tonight At present there are said
TO be 1900 recovered bodies. The great
difficulty experienced in getting a correct
list is the great number of morgues There
is no central bureau of information, and to
communicate with the different dead houses
evening the 63Oth body had been received
at the Cambria City depository for corpses.
,KERNyILLE's DEsoLATIoN
KERNv1IIE, Pa, June 3.-Kernville is in a
deplorable condition. The living are unable
to take care of the dead. The majority of
the inhabitants Of the town were drowned.
A lean-to of boards has been erected on the
only streetsremaining in the town. This is
the headquarte for the committee which
controls the dead. AS quickly as the dead
are brought to this point they are placed in
boxes, and then taken to the cemetery and
buried. A supply store has opened in the
town. The body of the sHun" who was
lynched in an orchard last night was re-
moved by his friends during the night There
is but one street left in the town; about one
hundred and ffty-6ye houses, where once
there stood thousand None of the large
buildings in what was once a thriving little
borough have escaped. One thousand
people is low estimate OF the
number of lives lost from this
town. But few of the bodies have
been recovered. It is directly above the
ruins, and the bodies have f1oated down into
them, where they burned. A walk through
the town revealed a desolaue sight. Only
about twenty-five able-bodie men have sur
vived and are able to render any assistance
Men and women cal be seen with black eyes,
bruised faces and cat heads The appear
ance of some of the ladies is heartrendlng.
They were injured in the flood, and since
then have not slept. Their faces have turned
sickly yellow and dark rings surround
their eyes. Many have succumbed to nerv-
ousf prostration. For two days but little as
sistance could be rendered. No medical at
tention reached them. The wounded re-
NAMED uncared fer in some houses cut off
by the water and died from their injuries
alone. Some were alive on Sunday, and
their shouts could be heard by the people on
the shore. Services in the chapel from
which the bodies were buried consisted
merely of prayer by one of the survivors.
No minister was present Each coffin had
descriptive card on it, and on the graves
similar card was placed SO that bodies can
be removed later by friends.
THE HOSPITALS FULL.
JoHNsrowN, June "a committee from
the citizens Of Altoona and Mountain Lodge
No. 1872, F. and A. NJ, nave arrived in Johns
town and driven over the mountains. They
brought physicians and medicine, and both
were badly needed. The hospital in the up
per part of Johnstown is full TO overlooking.
Many have been carried to the surrounding
houses. One of Their patients died on their
hands, and several are very low. Hospitals
have been established at Conemaugh and
Mineral Point, but little could be learned of
how many patients they contained and how
they were faring. The Cambria hospital has
now 800 patients. DR.. Buck, with an eff
Gent corps of aides, is in charge. Two of
the patients died yesterday-Miss Hughes, a
young lady aged twenty, and Mrs Teaters, a
lady aged eighty three. She was suf-
the arm. The remainder of the pa
tients are doing we'll Several injured
people have had operations performed upon
them. Bishop Phelan, who reached here on
Sunday evening, has returned to Pittsburg.
He has organized the Catholic forces in this
neighborhood and all are devoting them
selves to hard work assiduously. What the
hospitals would have done without the Sis
&arc jro c,,1o
Charity, seven Franciscan and seven Bene-
dictine sisters. There was much comment
over the finding of the body of nun cut in
two 1t was at first Thoughts that she was
resident of Johnstown community, but as
none of them have been reported missing
the supposition is that she was travelling at
the time of the accident on the day expr ess.
A broken hearted couple are Thomas Ley
den and his wife, hard working people Of the
little town of Minersvlle. All day they have
been trudglng over the slippery ooze in
Johnstown. asking every person for news OF
their daughter Mary. Mary was dishwasher
in the Hurlbut house and the porter states
that he saw her pinned beneath failing tim
bers. Mr.. Leyden wants the remains sent to
his house, No Isl Company.
THE DEADLY ALARM.
JoHNsTowN, Pa. June 3.--Aoout II p. M,
Thursday, May 80, the storm burst upon the
city of Johnstown and continued until 11:3O
a. NJ Friday. At a. m. the torrent began
to pour into the city from the creeks and
rivers. AT 10 a. m. there was no outlet for
the people. The first message from the lake
at South Fork was received at 10 a. m. Fri
day that the dam was weakening. But the
people. or the few who heard the report,
laughed to scorn this message, saying they
had heard such news before. The second
came at 80 a M. It was that the dam
was likely to burst at any moment.
At 2:3O the final message was re-
ceived, advising the people to flee to
the mountains for their lives, as the dam must
surely burst within the hour There was no
such warning to the people as should have
been given. The messages were held by a
few officials about the railroad, who
neglected to sound the alarm until 1t was too
late. At that time the water had reached
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