Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-06-22

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thelr property destroyed. While in Pitts
purgh they will also consult attorneys as t
pest manner Of procedure in case they de
eide 20 take legal stops
JouNsTowN, Pa, June 13-General Hast
lngs yesterday distributed the work to b,
performed among number of contractor
VINO are already prepared with men, team
ana appliances to push the work with viSor
Colonel II, I. Douglass, chief of the Ralti
more q Ohio railroad engineering corps, ha
been placed in charge of all the engineerin!
features connected with the task the Stat,
has undertaken.
10 facilitate matters the valley has beer
divided into districts. Division / include,
Cambria City and all points below the rail
road bridge down to Morrelsville. Five
hundred men in charge of Contractor Ridge
OF Pittsburgh, will work on this division
The gorge at the viaduct will be known a9j
Division No. 2, and will DO cleared ub by
James Mcknight, Of Pittsburgh. Mr.
Mcknight will use twenty hosting engines
| twenty teams and 1eD men to begin with
| Nearly all the city Of Johustown is included
IN Division No. 3. and will be talion care of
by Coburn & Mitchell, Of Altoona, with F.
| Lailand as engineer, Division includes
Conemaugh, and will be taken care of by
LcLain e. Johnson, of Pittsburgh, Kern
villc is the fifth district, and James
Mcknight has undertaken to clear it up.
Each district will bcunder supervision of a
civil engineer Colonel Douglas, in charge
of the work, says the cost of clearing the
valley won't be more than a half a million
dollars. lie could not estimate Just how
long 1t would take,
The bureau of registration has comnlatod
its work and handed the following report ia
Director Scott: Remaining survivors II
G7S. Idcntihed-Fourth ward school house,
1Gl; Millvale borough, As; Morrclyile s.;
Presbyterian church, "a. Prospect, AZ, Penn.
sIiVania railroad station So; Saint Colum.
bia church, Cambria City, l30; Kcrnville
flith and sixth wards, 43; Grandyicw
chapel, .. Total identified, G3S. Unidentified
Fourth ward school house, 81; Millvalo
borough, G2, MOrrclvillc, 2; PRESBYTERIAN
church, %; Prospect, IS; Pennsylvania rail
road station, 13; Saint Columbia church,
Cambria City, 43; kcrnvjlc, Fifth and
sixth wards, 3, Grandyiow chapel, D.
Total unidentified, 3!5 Nineyoh, 15o bodies
recovered; also 80 recovered in Indiana
County, opposite Nineyeh, making the total
number recovered l,1g2. Could not get an
account from New Florence on account of
its being in possession of the coroner, who
is at Grccnsburg The last census of Johns
town reported q, 600 inhabitants Thcaboye
report shows that there are yet T., 130 unac-
counted for.
The 500 special policemen employed by
the county sheriff were discharged ycster
day and the soldiers of the Fourtccth Rcgi-
ment put in their places. Owingto the con.
hict Of orders heretofore existing between
the sheriff and General Hastings the change
is very gratifying,
JouSsTowv. June 14.-Captain Sears OF
the United STATES army engineer corps
accompanied General Hastings on a general
round ofinspection yesterday morning. He
says that the mass of wreckage embedded
in the river at the raft, covering several
acres, can not be burned and dynamite will
not do the work. The only way it can be |
done is to pat l,@) men on the mass, pail it |
apart cart IL away and bury the bodies as |
soon as they are found. Itcm be done i'll |
no other way. Five bodies wcro recovered |
Yesterday morning Two were ldentliled' |
NlrS' AHce Jones ana mrs, LAY ION IEoS |
Ntt' lo'nu III Ilc RUINS "t 'uo N"'HoI III iron
Company "o'N9 anu "cic III an "pI I"i't'"
S'"yo Oh uecoHlPoSi''"h anu "cic oui'cu III
mcdajely.
At l03O o'clock yesterday gang OF
about 100 men were put at work on the |
near tn' general once Oh Tue
cambria IRON Company y larEe company
ol l'ol'eIa lro.h "roeusou,E 'tI"'I" 10 10
10 WORN lo' HL'V P;r u'3' '''''l'nE 'n'' 'ncH
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'uu "uo'' Itoln u''a2 'us ''os'' - o''oll,'s
crtiVIc' Two H"'HIt a,olrS N'Io UiVuV"
''S'iu'n anu "''o '''o"s'" WIN Gus
onl'rS an o'H'
Inc tlti/'hS OF cambria hul'u"h Pas'eu
'esoidiohS IdH' uIHhl ASKING "en'tal liasI
ngSfo furnish them lumber ana nalIS 10
haolc mem TO put up temporary houses,
mere helng only ~" houses 10 shcIter LOW
'eoplo now honoIcNS'
regular morg"e corps OF SIX men Ioi'
owed the workers IN cach district yester
ay' ana as last as ho'les were uncovered
ei'oNt" 'uenl To tne nearest "'au nous''
lhpTp thew were pUiCklV prgO0rpd for