Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13

sentence Win be the heaviest that can be given
him. niihinan who vas ovorcharging Tor
milk this morning narrowly escaped lynching
The infuriated men appropriated all his milk
and distributed IL among tho poor and then
drove him out OF the town
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 upon it and
on the grave similar card was placed 40 that
bodies can be removed later by friends.
Where Woodvnle once stood there is now a sea
OF mud broken but rarely by pile OF wreckage.
Nothing is standing but the old woolen- mills.
Tho place is swept bare OF all other
buildings but the ruins OF the Gautier
wire-mill. The boilers of this great works We're
carried 100 yards from their foundnsion. Pieces
OF engines, rolls, and other machinery were
swept far away from where they once stood
The wreck of a hose carriage Is sticking up out
of the mud. 1t belonged to the crack company
OF Johnstown. The engine house is swept away
and the cellar is filled with mud, so that the
site Is obliterated
when the waters came. He ran for the hillside
and succeeded in escaping. He tells graphic
story of the appearance OF the water rs IL
swept down the valley. He declares that the
first wave was as high as the third story OF a
house.
The place is deserted. Nooffort is being made
TO clean off the streets. The mire has formed
the grave for many poor victim. Arms and
legs are protruding from the mud and it makes
the most sickening of pictures.
The Cambria Hospital has now 800 patients.
Several injured people have had operations per-
formed on them.
The hospital in the upper part OF Johnstown
is full to overhowing. Many have been carried
to the surrounding houses.
Hospitals have been established at Cone
maugh and Mineral Point.
A rope ferry is now being operated in the
lower part of the town. An effort is being
made 60 construct bridge across the Cone
maugh at the point where the old county bridge
stood.
Order Is slowly arising out OF chaos The
survivors are slowly realizing what is the best
course to pursue The great cry Is for men
men who WIN work and not stand idly by aud
do nothing but gaze at the ruins.
man named Dougherty tells a thrilling
story OF a ride down the river on a log. When
the waters struck the roof of the house ON which
he had taken shelter he jumped astride u
telegraph pole, riding distance of some
twenty-three miles from Johnstown TO Bolivar
before he was rescued.
naIneless Paul Revere lies somewhere
among the dead. Who he is may never be
known, but his ride viii be famous in local
history. Mounted on a large bay horse, he came
riding, like an angel of wrath down the pike
which passed through Conemaugh to Johns
town, shouting as he came: Run for your lives
to the hills Run TO the hillsl" The
people crowded out OF their houses along
the thckly settled streets. Nobody knew
the man, and some thought that he Was
cry. IN rev nhoments JIfere came Il -c1Ouu -ot
ruin down the broad streets, down the narrow
alleys grinding twisting, hurting, overturning,
crashing, aunihilating the weak and strong. 1t
was the charge of the flood. On race1 the rider
aud on rushed the wave. Dozens OF people
needed the warning and ran for the hills. Just
rs the lone rider crossed tho railroad bridge the
mighty wave fell upon him, and horse, man,
| and bridge went down into chaos together.