The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-05
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for tomorrow. There are 90 foremen here,
all level-headed fellows who keep their un-
wieldy and almost exhausted forces under
masterful control. Although they were
scattered all over the waste places to-day,
heavy work was done on the point district.
where couple Of hundred mansions lie In
solid heaps Of brick, stone aud timbers.
Here tho labors of the searchers we're
rewarded by the discovery of a corpse
ABOUT every five minutes. As "a general
thing the bodies were mangled and unrecog-
nlzaole, unless by marks on letters on their
person La every case decomposition has
set In, and the work of the searchers is be-
coming one that will test their stomachs as
well as their hearts.
PLUCKY PITTsBURGERs.
wherever one turns Pit tsburgers of
prominence are encountered. They are
busy, determined men, rendering valuable
service. Chief Evans Of the Pittsburg
ilre department was hustling around with q
force OF twenty-four men just brought up
10 relieve those who have been working so
hcroically since Saturday
Morris III. Mead, superintendent of
the bureau Of electricity, headed force of
sixteen sanitary inspectors from PittsburZ.
dead.
supt. Kirk, of the Pittsburg Dynamite
Company, set at rest the reports floating
about to-day that there were TO be some
terrific upheavals by dynamite. "We will
not attempt to loosen the wreckaee bv
dynamite" said he ''It is full of dead
bodies, and they would be terribly mangled
III dynamite were used. We will employ
small cartridges for shattering heavy TIM
oers occasionally, but that is all.n
PURIFIcATIoN OF THE RIVER.
Supt. Kirk has n scheme afioat that Is as
inomentous as 1t is cheering TO the thousands
below Johnstown who have been exposed tc
the danger of pestilence from drinking AL
iiegheny river water. Rocking menace to
life and health lies in the bed Of the Cone
naugh Tor 300 yards above the Pennsylva-
ma railroad bridge When the drift ac-
cumulated against this structure, hundreds
some say thousands--of bodies were
pinioned under the debris. IL extends
across the river 400 feet and twice that
distance up the stream. The awful story
OF how it caught fire and burned for three
days, roasting the pinioned victims and
nlllng the valley with the sickening odor of
burning flesh, has heen related. But the
names tired of their work too soon. They
had burned the top of the huge pile and left
the foul sediment to act as a sieve
FOR the Conemaugh. Hundreds of
halt burned corpses were taken Off
Others, where the strongest of machinery
would be required to reach and liberate
them. Blasters have been at work nearly
all the afternoon near the stone bridge.
Supt. Kirk has decided that the bodies will
rot before half of them can be reached in
this manner, and hence his new plan.
When the waters surged against the stone
bridge and were repelled they found vent
through an embankment which had been
washed away. Wreckage piled up against
the bridge. and the food was
turned into new channel it had
made, thusjleavin2 the other bed receptacle
for the drift. The water had been r1nnin,
through its new channel ever since. But
the plan now Is to build wall along the
old river course, turn the water into the
drift and thus flush it out. This is monster
scheme but Supt. Kirk thinks an earth wall
can be thrown up by tomorrow evening.
A large force Of men is to be put to work
on it at once.