Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-03

city did they anticipate danger All fie
 from the first to the second floor. Then 8
 the water rose they went to the attic and Dr
 Schubert hastily prepared raft upon whicl
 all embarked. Just as the raft reached tn
 bridge heavy piece of timber rose from tn
 water and swept the editor beneath the sur
 face. The raft then glided through and al
 the rest were rescued. Mir. Schubert's re
 mains were found this afternoon beneath
 pile of broken timbers in Cambria. Thi I and children at the house of friend in Nor. rellyille. A squad of Battery B under com 1 rnand of Lieutenant Brown, the forerunners 1 of the whole battery, arrived at the impris' oned telegraph office at 6:30 o'clock. He l went at once to Adiutant General Hastings l d1spensary, under Drs. Wakefield of the Cambria Medical society, Steward of the Al leghany society and Milligan of the West. moreland society, is doing good work. Dr. l Milligan states that they treated three hun l dred patients to-day. They are at Ma 1 poleon street dispensary. No surgeons instru- ments could be procured until two o'clock this afternoon. Among their three hundred l patients the doctors have many with frac- tured ekulls and nearly all have broken bones. One man had a heavy iron bar driven through his leg beneath the knee separating the two bones. A woman has her knee and the lower part of her leg crushed out of all form; amputation was necessary. Dr. Milligsn reported at 6 o'clock that seventy-six bodies had been taken out at Kearnsvil1e and eighty-6ve above the Silk Works. Chief Evans, of the Pittsburg fire department arrived this eve ming with engines and several hose carts with full complement of men. A large number of Pittsburg physicians came on the same train. Every hour reveals new story of suffering and outrage and every succeed ing hour brings news of swift and merited punishment meted out to the fiends who had dared to desecrate the stiff and mangled corpses in the city of the dead and torture the already half erazed victims of the cruelest of modern catastrophes. Last evening 8 party of thirteen Hungarians were out for plunder and soon came upon the dead and mangled body of woman upeH whose person there were number of trinkets or jeWelry and two diamond rings. In their eagerness to secure the plumber the Hunga- rians got into squabble, during which one of the number severed the finger upon which were the rings and started to run with his fearful prize The revolting nature of the deed so wrought upon the pursuing farmers, who by this time were close at hand, that they gave chase. Some of the Hungarians showed fight, but being outnumbered were compelled to flee for their lives. Nine of the brutes escaped, but four were literally driven into the surging river and to their death The inhuman monster, whose atro- cious act had been described, was among the number of the involuntary suicides.
 LYNcHING PARTY.
 At S:30 this morning an old railroader, who had walked from Sang Hollow, stepped up to number of men who were congreeated on the platform station at Curranville and said: "Gentlemen, had I 8 shotgun with me half an hour ago, I would now be murder CT, yet with no fear of ever having to suffer for my crime. Two miles below here I watched three men going along the banks stealing the jewels from the bodies of the dead wives and daughters of men who have been robbed of all they held dear on earth" He had no sooner finished the last sentence than five burly men were on their way to the scene of plunder, one with coil of rope over his shoulder and another with revolver in his hand. In twenty minutes, 80 it is stated, they had overtaken two of their victims, who were then in the act Of cutting pieces from the ears and fingers and from the hands of the dead bodies of two women. With revolvers levelled at the scoundrels the leader of the posse shouted: "Throw up your hands or I'll blow your heads off," With blanched faces and trembling forms they obeyed the order and their pockets were emptied of their ghastly finds the indignation of the crowd intensified, and when the bloody fn- ger of an infant encircled two tiny gold rings was found among the plunder in the leaders pocket, @ cry went up Lynch thems Lynch them" Without 8 moments delay ropes were around their neeks and they were dangling to the limbs of tree in the branch es of which an hour before were entangled the bodies of dead father and son. After the expiration of half an hour the ropes were cut and the bodies lowered and carried to 8 pile of rocks in the forest on the hill above. It is hintsd that an AlleghanY county official was one of the most prominent actors in this iustiGable homicide.
 THE WARNINGS UNHEEDED.
 Mir. Grouse, proprietor of the South Fork Fishing Club hotel, came to Johnstown this afternoon. He says that when the dam of Conemaugh lake broke the water seemed to leap, scarcely touching the ground. It bounded down the valley crashing and roar ing, carrying everything before it. For a mile it's front seemed like solid wall twenty feet high. The warning given the stricken city was sent from South Fork village by freight agent Deckert. When the great wall that held the body of water began to crum- ble at the top he sent message begging the people of Johnstown for Gods sake to take to the hills. He reports no serious accidents at South Fork. Richard Davis ran to Prospect hill when the water rose. As to Dr. Deckerts message, he says just such have been sent down at each flood since the lake was made. The warnings so
 
 paid to it this time. 'I cannot describe the mad rush." he said; lat first it looked like dust. That must have been the spray I could see houses going down before it like a childs playhouse. As it came nearer could see' e'hoHses totter for moment, then rise. and the next moment be crushed like eggshells against each other.
 At Woodvale there was a row of brick ten ement houses, 120 long and three stories high. It stood brosdside to the current. A few fled, but many went to their attics to watch the flood. To-day scarcely the foun- dation of the row of brick houses can be found.
 The town of Woodvale and Conemaugh borough above Johnstown are swept as clear ly of the face of the earth as if they had never had an existence. Of Woodva1e's pop ulation of 1,500 souls barely half a dozen have been accounted for.
 THE WORK OF ExHUMING THE DEAD.
 The work of exhuming the dead at John- town has only begun. Eleven carloads of finished cofHns and thirty undertakers arriv- ed during the day and the work of interment which began this afternoon will rapidly pro- gress under the direction of a specially or ganiZed force of men. Most of the bodies recovered at this place were those of Catho- lies The attire and features of a majority showed them to be of the lowly, yet there were many bearing evidence of culture, re-
 
 the river in Indiana county there are 315 bodies reported lying on the open fields un- attended. The officials of Indiana county have sent word that they would attend to the recovery of those bodies during the day. The probabilities are that large majority of the victims will never be identified and will fill nameless graves During the day several persons succeeded in making tour of what is left of Johnstown. Here and there bodies can be seen sticking in the ruins. Near the edge of the ruins at the stone bridge the decaying body of stout colored woman is lying like the uncared for remains of 8 dog. Six blackened skulls from which the flesh has been turned can be seen protruding from the wreckage just above the east end of the bridge. They are close together.
 Adiutant General Hastings and Major Sanger have assumed charge of Johnstown. Nothing is legal unless it bears his signature. His headquarters are at the Pennsylvania depot. A supply depot is established at this point and many needy persons are being re- lieved. Bodies that are dug out of the flats lie in the station until cofins can be ob- tained. They are buried unidentified on Prospect hill. Joseph McMillan vice presi-