Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-06-03


that the sending down Of the soldiers was like
the waving a red flag and would only tend to
create trouble. He said everything was quiet
here, and 1t was an insult to the citizens of
Johnstown to send soldiers here at present.
The Washington infantry came in over the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad. and when Captain
Shannon reported to Adjutant-General Has
tings that gentleman said that there was no
need for soldiers aid. If any were needed he
would order out the state guard. He said he
had nothing to do with the independent organ
izations, consequently he would not advise
them further than to say there was no need Of
any soldiers.
TRAIN LOAD OF PROVISIONS.
A train OF five cars came in from Cumber-
land, Md, this morning, loaded with pro-
visions and thirty men to help clean up the
debris. The general undertaking rooms are at
work, and about sixty coffins containing bodies
OF unknown people are piled up on the station
and platform. Quite pathetic sight was seen
this morning on the bridge. Up till to-day
Gen. Hastings had his headquarters on the
east side Of the river, but this morning he
came over to the burning debris, followed by
about l25 men, carrying cofins. He started to
work immediately and has ordered men from
to do laboring work. The stealing by Hun
garians at Cambria City and points along the
railroad has almost ceased. The report of
several lynchings, and the drowning Of two
ltalians while being pursued by citizens yes
terday, put damper on soulless pilfering for a
time.
PROMINENT CITIZENS DEAD.
Some Of the most prominent citizens of this
city and of the state are among those who have
perished. John Fulton, president of the Con-
stltutional Amendment association and general
manager OF the Cambria ironworks is drowned,
with his wife and children. H. j. Roberts,
cashier Of the First National bank, and John
Dlbert, banker, were also drowned, the
formers son perishing with him. The wife and
aaugnter Minnie OF Cyrus Elder, one of the
greatest authorities On the tariff in the country
are dead II. A. Shoemaker, prothonotary
OF Cambria county; II. ]. Rose, district at
torney; DR.. John Lowman, the wife and eight
children OF Chief of Police Harris, and the wife
and three children of L. w. Kirkland. a we'll
known jeweler, are dead. C. T. Schubert,
editor OF the Freie Presse, is also believed to be
drowned.
ANOTHER HEROINE.
Mrs. Ogle, the manageress Of the Western
Union, who died at her post, will 90 down in
history as heroine of the highest order. Not
withstanding the repeated notifications which
she received to get out Of the reach of the ap-
preaching danger, she stood by the instrument
with unfinching loyalty and undaunted cour-
age, sending words of warning to those in dam
ger in the valley below. When every station
IN the path of the coming torrent had been
warned she wired her companion at South Fork,
This Is my last message" and as such it shall
always be remembered as her last words on
earth, for at that very moment the torrent en-
quilted her and bore her from her post on earth
to her post OF honor in the great beyond.
THE MOST AWFUL DESTRUCTION
in single house occurred at the Hurlbut hotel.
There were 81 people in the house when the
torrent came down. and of these only 10 are
living. Four travellers, who were STAYING at
the Hurlbut, went to the fourth floor when the
flood came, and after wishing each other good
bye" surrendered themselves to fate Fate
was death to three of them. Those three were
John Little, Of Sewickly; W. J. Cox, of Phila-
delphia, and R. S. Metz. The one survivor is
John Dorsey, Of Philadelphia. The register of
the wrecked hotel cannot be found, so it is i'm
possible to give the names Of all those who
persisted in the Hurlbut house. Those who are
known to have perished are Elmer Brinker and
DR.. Brinker, two brothers, two Mrs. Richards
man named Butler, Mrs, Miss and Lewis
Benford. mother, sister and brother OF the
proprietor. Mrs. Smith and her two children
ascended to the fourth floor with the four
travellers when the food came The woman
was drowned and the man escaped.
CITY OF THE DEAD.
7:SO a.m.-Nineveh is literally city Of the
dead. The entire place is filed with corpses
At the depot eighty-seven coffins were piled up
and boxed. On the streets coffin boxes covered
the sidewalks. In the improvised undertaking
shops Sampson Devoreh have embalmed and
placed i'll their shrouds 1913 persons. At every
place there were dead strewn around as thick
as flowers in a conservatory. Most of the
bodies embalmed last night had been taken out
OF the river in the morning by the people at
Nineveh, who worked necessarily night and
day searching the river. The bodies. when
found, were placed in a four-horse wagon fire.
quently twelve at time, and driven up to
olao,xa ,lnx
Morehead. OF the bodies taken out near Nine
veh fully three-fourths are women and the rest
children. But few men are found there. In
one row at the planning mill to-day were eighteen
children's bodies awaiting embalming. Next to
them was a woman whose head had been
crushed in SO as to destroy her features. On
her hand were three diamond rings.
THE DEATH LIST MOUNTING Up APPALL1NGLY.
The cry is now for more coffins, as the death
list is mounting up appallingly. Members of
the state board of health arrived in Nineveh
this morning and determined to proceed at
once to dredge the river to clean it OF the dead
and prevent the spreading of disease To this
end they have wired the state department to
furnish them with the proper appliances. Thev
will take charge Of the town to-day.
The following are names of the bodies identi-
fed:
Johnstown-John Diphert. Lewis Weaver.
his daughter and child; the wife of Walter
.. weaver, JOHN DlDertS daughter, Miss
Blanche; Mrs. James Bridges and daughter,
Mrs. Kate Young and her grandson, John Far
rell, druggist: Louis Stehr.
Conemaugh-August Mickey, Nicholas Elms.
Cambria City-Daisy Hasch
Washington, Pa.-Fidel Schnel, Louis A.
Warner and six children, Mrs. Mary Frank.
Miss Lizzie Howe, Mrs. Thomas Cash.
Jas. Lightner and wife, boy named Bridges.
Howard Q, Roberts, cashier First National
bank; II. G. Rose, district attorney: q. S.
Merchant, Ex-Sheriff Ryan and wife and
four children; David c. Reed wife and three
children; W. D. Kilby, wife and sister-in- law; ;
Jas. H. Howard, Capt. Patrick J. Connell and
sister, Jno. Kinney, Jno. Schieffhayer Chas, F.
Keiss and wife, Jno Brady, Mrs. Cyrus Elder,
daughter and son; Thos. Gore and wife, Abram
Eldridge, August Young, Harry B. Eashoff,
Cyrus II. Little and sister, Jas. Hooper, Secre-
tary Johnston, Jas. Q. Murphy and wife, Jno.
Fehn, Christ Kempt and wife, Alva
Akers, Mrs. b. NJ. Ogle and daughter
Minnie, the children Of Rob't Sagerson,
Mrs. ]. II. Smith and three children,
Mrs. Morris Wolf. Mrs. Kathenstein and son,
B. F. Huffman, a son of Jas. Gardner, the
children Of DR.. Poland, Locomotive Engineer
Pinder. John s. McCamon and wife, Mrs Har-
ris and five children, Tom Davis, his father,
mother, and four children; Mrs. Mary Brindie;
Jas. Mertza lost his wife, three children and
sister-in-law; Name Greenwood, nineteen yearq,
lost father, mother, and two sisters; Johp
Friend and six children; three-years-old =. os.
G. G. Noburn, Mrs. Eva May Parsons, Mrs.
Leech; mother of county superintendent of
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