Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-04
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE HORROR GROWING. Two Thousand TWo-Hun- dred Bodies Recovered. GETTING RID OF THE IDLERS. The Living Unable To Take
 Care Of The Dead. AN APPEAL FOR AID. Yesterdays Races At Je-
 rome Park.
A STORY OF HORROR CONFINED.

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 | A STORY OF HORROR CONTINUED The Exact Number of Dead Will PrObss bly Never be Known-There are Said te be 2,2OO Recovered Bodles-The Death List Will Probably Reach 5000 Names-A Dearth of CofHns-A MiraeIe-The Awful Force of the Wave-Bo1sterous and Noisy Drunk ards Desecrate she Sad Scenes Around JOhns1OWn.
 JoHNsTowN, Penn, June 3.-The devel. opments of every hour make it more apparent that the exact number of lives lost in the horror will never be known. All estimates that have been made will prove to have been too small. Owe 1000 bodies have been found since morning, and the most skeptical concede that the remains of thousands more rest beneath the debris above Johnstown
 bridge. The population of Johnstown, the
 surrounding towns and portion of the val. ley affected is or was 50,000 or 55 ,000. As
 sociated Press representatives interviewed
 numerous leading citizens of Johnstown who survived the flood, and the consensus oi opinion was that fully thirty per cent of the residents of Johnstown and Cambria had been victims of the continued disasters oi fire and water. If this be true the total losi of life in the entire valley cannot be less than 5000, and possibly greater. Of the thousands who were devoured by the flames, and whose ashes rest beneath the smoking debris above Johnstown bridge, no definite information can ever be obtained. As little will be learned of the hundreds that sank beneath the current and were borne swiftly down the Conemaugh only to be deposited hundres of miles below on the banks and in She driftwood of the raging Ohio. Probably one-third of the dead will never be recov- cred, and it will form 8 list of the missing weeks hence to enable even 8 closer estimate to be made in the number ot lives that were
 seen in the river in the brief hour. That
 this estimate can never be accurate is under
 stood, when it is remembered that in many
 instances whole families and their relatives were swept away and found common grave
 beneath the wild waste of waters.
 "All indications point to the fact that the
 death list will reach over five thousand
 names and in my opinion it will reach eight
 thousand in number" declared General Has
 tings tonight.
 At present there are said to be 2, 200 recov-
 cred bodies. At o'clock in the evening the
 630th body had been recovered at the Cam
 bria depository for corpses.
 A FIENDIsH BUTcHRRY.
 A horrible butchery took place last night
 between Woodvale and Conemaugh. It is
 reported that two Hungsrians found the
 body of lady who had a valuable necklace
 on. The devils dragged her out of the water
 and severed the head from the body to get
 the necklace. At Il o'clock to-day the
 woods near Conemaugh were being secured
 for the men who are supposed to be guilty of
 the crime.
 UNABLE TO TAKE CARE OF THE DEAD.
 Kernville is in deplorable condition. The
 living are unable to take care of the dead
 The majority of the inhabitants of the town
 were drowned. Quick as the dead are brought
 to headquarters they are boxed and taken tc
 the cemetery and buried. A supply store
 was overcharging for milk this morning narrowly escaped lynohing. The infuriated men appropriated all his milk and distribu- ted it among the poor and then drove him out of the town.
 There is but one street left in the town. About 155 houses are standing where once stood @ thousand. None of the large buildings in what was once thriv- ing borough have escaped. One thousand people is low estimate of the number ot lives from Kernville. But few of the bodies have been recovered. A walk through the town revealed desolate sight. Only twen- ty five Rble-bodied men have survived and are unable to render any assistance. The appearance of some women is heart-rending. They were injured in the flood and have not slept since. Their faces have turned yellow and dark rings surround the eyes. Many have succumbed to nervous prostration. Fol two days but little assistance could be ren- 1Sko 1A1l AI.,,,~ The wounded remained uncared for in some houses by the water and died. Some were alive on Sunday and their shouts could be heard by the people on shore. A man is now in a temporary jail, In what is left of the town. He was caught stealing a gold watch. A shot was fired at him, but he WAS not wounded. The only thing that saved of the crowd. His sentence will be the heaviest that can be given. Services in the chapel from which the bodies were buried consisted merely of 6 prayer by one of the survivors. No minister was present. Each coffin had 8 descriptive card on it and on the grave 8 similar one wal placed so that bodies can be removed later by friends.
 The Cambria hospital has now three hun dred patients. Dr. Buck with an efficient corps of aids is in charge. Two of the pa tients died yesterday, Miss Hughes, aged 20 and Mrs. Teeter, aged 83, who were suffering from a compound fracture of the arm. The remainder of the patients are doing we'll Several injured people have had operations performed upon them. The hospital in tht upper part of Johnstown is filled to overflow ing. Many have been carried to surrounding houses. One has died and several gre yer, low.
 MIRACLE.
 Hospitals have been established as Cone maugh and Mineral Point The miracle ss il is called that happened at the church of the Immaculate Conception has caused tremen dous sensation. A large number of persons vouch as to the nature of the event and to pu it mildly the circumstances are really re. markable. Devotions were ln progress or Friday night when the water descended or Cambria City, but when the noise ot the floods was heard the congregation hastened far as escaping from the interior IS concerned and in a few minutes the church was par tially submerged, the water reaching fifteen feet up the sides and swirling around tht corners furiously. The building was badly ! wrecked the entire structure, both in | side and outside, was fairly dlsman | tied. Yesterday morning when an entrance was forced through the blocked doorway thu ! ruin appeared to be complete. One oblec | alone had escaped the waters wrath. Th' | statue of the Blessed Virgin that had beer decorated and adorned because ot the May devotions was as unsullied as the day 1t wal I made. Every one that has seen the statu' and it's surroundings is firmly convinced th' | incident was a miraculous one, and even t' ! the most sceptical the affair savors of th' ! supernatural.
 THE AWFUL FORGE OF THE WAVE. JoHNsrowN, Penn, June 3.-To some ide'
 of the destructive power with which the vol l ume of water from the lake struck East Con
 emaugh, it is only necessary to state that i
 took the round house with 27 engines in it
 200 freight cars and about 20 passengers, in- 1 eluding Pullman cars. One train of pas | senger cars on the track was full of passen
 gers. The conductor and engineer ran along
 the train warning the passengers .i to flee fo b | mained and went down. How many perishe'
 is not known. The track depot, freigh
 house and coal sheds are entirely washe'
 away. The mail matter on the east