The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-06-07

ria. INIT until the waters have abatsd and
The work Of removing the dead from this
tremendous mass is complete It will b
impossible to tell how man lives were
lost. L
Init v houses could be seSn In that town.
It is also said that only three houses ~.
main at Cambria City.
The scenes In J0hnstown.
The associated press correspondent was
the first to cross Johnstown proper by
means of a basket suspended from . cable
as passengers are removed from wrecked
shins. Here the scenes we're magniaedt In
their horror. Here were the residences OF
the little city's most wealthy and intelli-
gent people. Here were found the bodies
Of some of the most prominent citizens
With nil the members of their families.
Cinder, Market, Main, Locust and
Washington streets have been swept clean
and bare of I'LL buildings OF whatever char
acter. and their inhabitants seem to have
fled into the streets at the first warning OF
danger, and rushed to their deaths, Tor
those who remained in their houses mad
an opportunity to flee to the upper stories.
When the houses were frame they were
foatei from their foundations and many
were saved. The Hotel Hubert, q brick
structure, had sixty-five guests and sixty
three of these were killed by the falling In
of the floors aud walls. The Morfel ID.
brary, Schott house, Alma hall, genetal
stores and offices of the iron company and
one other brick building are all OF the
probably 1000 buildings that have not
been foated from their foundations or
caved in.
RescuIng the Remains.
AT Morrel fourteen bodies remain to be
identified. Eight of them are children.
one that of q child which the physician
said had been born while the mother wal
fighting for her life in the raging flood.
At Ninevah, nine miles down stream,
LOG bodies, mostly ONE and childrenS
were soon laid ont in a saw mill, and adj
ditions were being made by wagcnioads at
q time which were being picked up on the
meadows, over which the great tide had
surged with the fury Of a demon. Many
We're found with their hands clinging to.
%naciously .e branches of trees and shrubs.
III one case n young couple were found
locked i'll each others arms. In another
case a mother was found with n child
clasped in each arm aud held closely to
her bosom.
There lis no possibility of telling just
who have been lost, as thousands are
missing. The survivors tell of the most
thrilling escapes f ON collections of de-
1>,sc 1,p,,va rnnfS .foONo os,d rAv1c
The Work of Relief.
OF course the flood receded almost as
rapidly as it rose after the contents Of the
reservoir were exhausted. The work Of
removing the dead from the debris will be
long. tedious and horrible. At Pittsburg,
the nearest prominent city, relief expedi-
lions were promptly organized. and from
ali points voluntary contributions and
promises of aid were promptly forwarded.
Incidents of tile Horror.
1t will be weeks, months or even years,
before oil the tales of suffering and horror
will have been told concerning this great
est calamity by food which has ever over
taken an American locality. A few of the
earlier and more striking incidents only
can be given in this account.
In st. Columbis church, anew structure
at Johns,own, which had been flooded to a
depth Of six feet in the auditorium, the
water had receded and the door was COW
cred with q Shiny ooze to the depth of
seven or eight inches. On boards stsatch-
ed along the top of the pews were thirty
bodies which had been snatched from the
stream by Father Thomas Darling and
som of his parishioners whom he had
cnce of the dead, and amid the solemn
surroundings of desolation, Joseph Smith,
q man of extraordinary size and strength,
entered. He said not u word, but went
from corps to corpse, lifting the stained
and muddy covering of the dend. At last
he came to the corpse Of a child al
years old-his daughter. He looked at
the swollen and blood stained features q
moment. and then, with n voice of most
unutterable agony, cried, "My Maggie, my
little Maggie" at the same time pressing
the inanimate form to his bosom and Civ
ing expression to alternate carressinSs and
CALCULATIONS of grief. The man took his
child and went with it to what had once
been his home. He placed it there beside
those of his wife and two other children.
eAA VI ~ 4tNA OOCA SlOM x4Cus
A beautiful girl came down on the roof
of a building which swung in near the
tower. She screamed to the operators to
save her, and one brave fellow walked as
fur into the river as he could and shouted
to her to guide herself in to shore with q
bit of plank. She was q plucky girl, and
stood upon her frail support in evident
ODE Hence to the command Of the operator.
She made two or three bold strokes and
actually stopped the course of the raft fol
an instant. Then it swerved and went out
from under her. She triedt to swim ashore,
but in a few seconds she was lost in the
swirling water. Something hit her, fol
she lay quietly on her back, her face pallid
and expressionless.
Men and women in dozens, in pairs and
singly, children, boys big and little, and
wee babies were there in among the awful
confusion, drowning, gasping, struggling
and fighting desperately for life. Two
men on a tiny raft Shot into the swiftest
part o. the river. They crouched stolidiy,
looking ut the shores, while between them.
dressed in white and looking hcavenward,
was a girl 6 or z years old. When she
came opposite the tower she turned her
face toward the operator. She was 80
close they could see big tears nher cheeks
and her pallor was as death. The helpless
mon on shore shouted her to keep up her
courage and she resumed her devout atti-
tude and disappeared under the tree5 Of a
projecting point o short distcnce below.
I'VE could not see her come on, sxain.s
said the operator, and that was all Of it.n
The Loss Of Property.
No reliable estimate can at this time be
made of the property loss. It lie found
TINT the Cambria Iron commands nlonA o.-