Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-06-15

busiest and most useful on the ground
They took charge OF the leading hospi
; tails and ran them untii this morning
when they were relleeet hv the Phila
delphia branch Of the Red Cfoss society
under Clara Barton. They have alst
been in charge Of the wrecksge abov'
the bridge. A party of sixty men from
Altoona have done SO well that a biz
blast of twenty-five dynamite cartridge
at 10 o'clock loosened up the debris ant
made it possible to open the mouth Of
has located the day express, which was
swept away at Conemaugh. The ruins
Of the train lie about 100 feet from
the fourth buttress from the western
end of the stone bridge. Parts of the
parler cars have today been found, as
well as traces OF the passengers. About
8 o'clock the baggage OF Miss Annie
Chism, OF Nashville, Tenn, was found.
She was q missionary on her way 10
Brazil for the Women's Foreign Mission
airy society Of the Methodist church.
Among her effects was q Bible, and in it
was a message to be filed at Altoona and
addressed to the Methodist BOOK on
Germ at New York, announcing that she
was on the train. Her watch, some
money and a Greek testament were alse
found. Ii is evident that many more
lives were lost on this train than al first
supposed. The whole train affair is
still a MYSTERY. At least the passengers
have not so far been found and located.
There was a small sized riot at the
labor camp this morning on account Of
there not being food enough for the men
or utensils to cook it with. Two men
complained because they did not have
soup and meat. This enraged Finn,
and he ordered the guards to take the
men out Of town and not allow them to
enter again. This seemed to have the
desired effect, and there was no more
trouble.
This morning twenty timekeepers from
Pittsburg arrived, and they are now hard
at work getting the names Of the men
employed, and it was stated that 5000
men are al work. 1t is expected that by
tomorrow at least 10, 600 men will be
employed, but even this large force will
not be able TO move the debris in less
time than several weeks.
Last night about 500 OF the laborers
had no tents to sleep in, but word had
been received from Washington that
tents are on the way, and it is expected
they will arrive tonight.
ESTIMATES OF II LOSS.
The very best estimates Of the loss by
the floods in the towns of Mineral Point,
Franklinborough, East Conemaugh,
NnnIunt- Enrnu,ltn Ifynh-,n AT;Nnra
vile, Morrelsvi!le, Sheridan and Cooper
dale, which, with JOhnstown, constitute
the string OF communities in the direct
path Of the flood, as about 1000 and the
loss of property, exclusive of the Penn
sylvahia railway property, is about
st 5000, 900 Johnstown proper and Mill
vile will probably add 1000 TO the death
list and 81, coo, 900 to the financial loss.
The Pennsylvania railways loss will be
about $40, 000, 900, making the total loss, as
near as can now be figured, over 8, ZOO
lives and more than S34, 000, 900 in prop
erty. The loss of life al JOhstown
proper ls but little more than a guess. 1t
is too large a place for anybody TO know
everybody, and the survivors are so scat |
tered that the registration Of the living,
which has reached IL, 600 in the district,
indicates nothing. The loss in the smaller
towns is obtained from leading men in
each, who have, in a measure, got their
heads again, and are able TO think with
some GOODNESS. In detail the loss is as
follows:
Mineial Point-Lives lost, 10; prop
erty, $100, 900.
East Conemaugh and Franklin-Lives
lost, SO; property, $12, 600.
Woodvale-Lives lost &c; property,
$3.50, 900.
Johnstown and Milvsle-Lives lost.
1000; property, $1S, 600, 600.
Kernville-Lives lost, 600; property,
800, 600.
Cambria-Loss of lives, 1000; prop
erty, $3.50, 900.
Minersville-Lives lost, s; property,
$15, 900.
Morrelville-Lives lost, /; property,
$40, 600.
Sheridan and Coopersdale-Property,
S75, 900.
Pennsylvania Railway-Property, s1O,-
600, 600.
Total number Of lives lost, 9,083; prop.
erty, $34, 075, 600.
E. p. Chaplin, of Washington, who
built the Jantier Steel works ard until
January, 1888, was general superin-
tendent of the Cambria Iron works, at
Johnstown, said last evening that the
loss sustained in round numbers would
reach $50, 600, 900. Said be: Il doubt if
twenty years will enable the valley to re-
cover from the awful shock, which is al.
most too horrible to realize
Postmaster Bauman, of Johnstown,
who knew everybody in it and is a stock
holder in q large number of m~anufacto-
ries and mercantile concerns in the val
ley, said: Il think $40, 900, 900 will be
found a very low estimate Of Johns |
towns financial loss. | am q trustee for |
the largest estate in Johnstown and know |
what | am talking when l make this esti-
HISTORY OF THE STRICKEN TOWNS.
YOUNGSTOWN, the principal scene of the
disaster, was in the south.
west part OF Cambria county, at the
forks where Stony creek and Conemaugh
creek form the Conemaugh river. 1t
was on the Pennsylvania railroad, thirty
nine miles east of Pittsburg. The peo-
pie Of the town were the employees of |
the Cambria Iron and Steel company, |
their families and small storekeepers.
Johnston occupied the site Of an old
Indian town called Kickenpawling.
About the year 1871 an enterprising Ger
man, Joseph Jones Che spelled it Zshns)
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