The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-04
Some Who Lost Their Lives liz
the Great Flood.
GOING FR0M MORGUE TO MORGUE.
1t Win Never be Known How Many Persisted
TIE Victims of Fire and Water
They Are NUmberiess.

All estimates JuaJ nave DCen mace up TO
this tine ere conservative, aud when all is
known it win doubtless be found to have
been too small over one thousand bodies
have boon found since sunrise to-day, and
the most skepttcal conccde that the re
mains OF thousands more rest beneath the
debris above J0hnstown bridge The popu-
lation Of Johnstown and the surrounding
towns and the portion Of the valley affected
by the hood IS, or was, from $1,000 to
5000.
An Associated Press representative to
day interviewed number of the leading
citizens Of JohnstoWn who survived the
Rood and its consequences. The opinion
was that fully 80 per cent. Of the residents
of JOhnstoWn and Cambria had been
victims of the continued disasters Of fire
and water If this be true, the total loss
of life in the entire valley cannot be less
than 1,00G or 5000, and possibly much
greater OF thousands who were devOured
by the flames and whose ashes rest beneath
the smoking debris about Johnston bridge,
no definite information can ever be OBJ
tanned As little win ever be learned of
the hundreds who sank beneath the cur
rent and were borne swiftly down the Con
nemaugh only to be deposited on the banks
and drift wood of the raging Ohio. Prob
ably ons-third Of the dead will never be re
covered, and il will take list of the
missing FOR weeks hence to enable even a
close estimate to be made Of the number OF
lives that were snuffed out in that brief
hour. That this estimate can never be
accurate is un ierStOCd when ii is remem-
bered that in many instances whole families
and their relatives were swept away anu
found a common grave teleath the wild
waste of waters. The total extinction of the
city leaves no data 10 ever demonstrate
Thlfg h.ar ,f,st
found place on the pages of eternal his
tory.
All indications point TO the fact that the
death list will reach over five thousand,
and in my opinion the missing will reach
5000 in number. II was declared by Cen
eral Hastings tonight that at present there
are said 10 be 200 recovered bodies
Great difficulties are experienced in getting
a correct list. There is no central bureau
of information, and to communicate with
the different dead houses is the work of
hours A journey from the Pennsylvania
Railroad mOrgue to the one in the Fourth
Ward school-hOuse in Johustowu occupies
at least an hour. This renders il impossi- |
bic 10 reach al OF them in one DAY. parUcu-
larly as some of the mOrgucs are situated |
at points inaccessible from Johnstown. AT |
6 o'clock this evening the SIX hUnOred and |
thirtieth body had been received at the |
Cambria city depository for Corpses. Al |
Millvile was the bolL o. q fifteen year-Old |
girl, making the forty sixth corp ! eceived |
there. An angry mark on the wrist looked |
as if bracelet had been tern from the arm. |
Seventy bodies have been recovered at tue |
Pennsylvania railroad station.
Those identified are: Mrs. ID. j. Wildham, |
Fannie Prosser, Mrs. i. II. Parsons, ,Iouu |
Myers. James Jones, Thomas ThOburn,
Mrs. Leach, (motaer OF County Superin-
tendent of Schools Leach, Mrs. Lu
7
E'raAk, Mrs. Molly Benkhart, Mrs Molly |
James, Frank Davis, Miss Alice kenna,
Christy, formerly of Butler; Mrs. Maggie
Stopel. Mrs. Maria Lucas, 49,. William 8,
DIR. H. p. Wilson, Catherine Myers, family
of Patrick Pagan, husband. wife and Two
grown daughters John Murphy Charles
Beam, Mary Callahan, Samuel lIite. sam
uel Blough, Cbarlei Muir, John s. Blu
chanap superintendent of the Cambria
Iron works warehouse; Mrs. John W.
James, Bessie Prose-, -. Blankmanfeld
Mrs. Mary Downey, Paul Geddes, William
H Overlook, O. X. E owls. Mary Ann
Owens, Anne Jores, Richard Jones, ex-
burgess); GotlieD :ochu,~c.ucIck, george
Geddes, H. G. Rose, district attorney;
George HelZel. II
At the Fourth ward schoolhouse a great
number of victims are being prepared for
Yesterday 2U0 more were dis
posed Of and TO day as many more received
attention. K
Those identified are: Charles A. Mar
shall, Mrs. S. T. De Francis, son OF Dr.
Pollard, daughter of Pollard. Mrs Katzen-
stein. son of Mrs. Katzenstein, Mrs. Long,
A. Lintcher' Moses Strause, Frank Wheat
Sadie Gageby, Mrs. Ella Layton, Miss !
Mary Leyden, Hurlbut house porter (col-
1red), supposed to be William Henry, ia
cob Wilde, Mrs Jacob Wilde, Mrs. w. w
Jones, Powell Powell's two sons, George
! auto
nell, Mr. Mackay, John o. Richards, Pat L
lick McNally, Charles +. Butler, assistant Z
c. l. company Miss S. NJ. Jones, '
Jessie. Hamilton, p. w. McAlley, Miss I
4arrigan, James Mnrtha, VIM. L. Drvis.
samuel Z. Eldridge, Miss Laura Z. Hamil- q
on, Mrs e. NolT, whose body was robbed !
If valuables, Elmer Brinkley, Mr.. A Lit I
lie, of Pittsburg; Charles H. Wilson, I
elnale resembling Ella Layton, Nellie I
John Burns. brakeman c. l.
company, Miss Jennie Nells John An y
rews, Frank II. Harris, Arthur Smith, Il
yarrie S. Barbour, George Randolph. =
Grand Diamond, Fnnie Fallon, a lady &
imposed TO be Mrs. Gels, James @. Cox, |
Jrs James l. FrOwheiser, William Penrod. U
ames J. Murphy, Bessie Murphy. NJ. L. ?
Davis, John Steum, Mary Davis, Peter u
Brown, Minnie Linton, Charles t'itzharrif, =
,harles Rhonke, Thomas Matthews, Ber- N
Ia Hoffman, Mrs. B. +. Hoffman, Florence "
Ioffman, Fred A. Hoffman, Marion Hotf- y
ian, DIR. w. c. Biam, A. Lyle, Laura /
hamilton Mrs. John d. HOrnick, Conrad u
Veise, August Denis. Il
The dead at Kernville are: Three chill u
ren of n Shanks, Mrs. Walter Dales, "
Irs John HOwl1er, Mrs. Ream, Mrs W. Is
Wesley Stuff, Mrs. jacob Spank, Luther
owman's child, Jessie Hamilton, Mrs. L.
T. Delaney. Otto Cooper, Annie Reese,
yindsor Ruse Ella White, Maggie White, 81,
harles Auscei'. Mrs. Edward Brennan, 20
lughter of Bunlrd Cunz, Mrs. Knoll u
v, Sallie Levy, Mrs. kennry, mother aE
Joseph henney, child of "a
Jim Murl, Mrs. Robert Nixon, -
.rs. Dyer James Howard, Mrs. J. Craig, dt
J. Craig. Mrs. Rachael Forks. David e.
isher Margaret Fisher. George Fisher,
jim H Fisher, hi, servant girl, Mrs. pL
inney. There are i've unknown bodies. -
ernvrlle is in a CcpiOrable condition; the "
wing are unable 10 take care Of the Cead. "a
he majority Of the Inhabitants in the al
IN were drowned. 4 lean TO Of boards VI
Is been erected on the only street remain
z in the town This is headquarters for
e committee that control the dead. As j
ickly as the dead are brought in they nit
e placed in boxes and then taken to the Pr
metery and bulied. sal
milI1man, who vas oycrchaTginS for biI
TX this morning, narrowly escaped lynch to
p The infatuated men appropriated all ami
!; milk and distributed it among the poor, wo
d then drove i'm OFT OF town. to
The bodv Of a Hungarian who W S lea
1ched in an orchard last night, has been
soye~ed ly his friends. The inhpmaD
,uster was motto I'd as he cut of four fin l
rs from Won ms body. He dropped tho
! fingers into his get where they were