Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-06-08
The Great Disaster.

lHe t'ftat Disaster.
! JuHNsr0WN. June &.-T1lnstoWn an,
the adjoinin. villages are now undo
military and police rp1pliatons. k,arl
place has been provided with enough mpr
to keep out intruders and offenders, an,
none save those who are actually en-
| ployed Will De allowed to remain. Oilirer,
are arresting men every hour, some o.
them on the slightest prQvocation In all
| cases where the offence is trivial the
victims are pressed into work with the
relief gang. Notices have been posted in
all the morgnes that hereafter bodies
would be held OnI y twenty-four hours for
identification, il at the expiration of that
time they are not recognized they are
photographed, the photograph bearing
the same number as the morgue number
OF the corpse. Recognition is difficult
matter rs the bodies are most terribly
bruised and discolored.
There Is strong movement on foot for
applying the torch to the wrecked build
lngs in JohnstoWn, and although the sug-
gestlon meets with strong opposition
there is little doubt the solution of exi f.
ing difficulties will be by this method.
An army OF men had been for two davs
employed in clearing up the wreck in the
city proper, and although hundreds of
bodies have been discovered, not one Gf-
tieth of the ground has yet been gone
over.
Are the horrors Of the flood to give
way to the terrors Of the plague ?" is the
question now agitating the yaIleyof Cone
maugh. Yesterday opened warm, almost
sultrv, and the stencil throughout Johns
town Is almost overpowering. Sickness,
IN spite OF the precautions of the sanitary
authorizes, IS on the increase, and fears OF
an epidemic grow with every hour. Fifty
cases OF maglignant diphtheria were found
yesterday. The health authorities anti
cipate much typhoid fever md kindred
diseases, especially as the weather is grow
ing warm. Scarcity OF vegetables adds to
the danger.
So lar as known only eighteen bodies had
been recovered in the Concmaugh valley
yesterday. One of them lay in the mid
die of the road and had been driven over
by wagons for two days and horribly
Two more cases of typhoid
fever are reported. Gov. Foraker offers
i'll behalf OF Ohio to send 1000 laborers.
a number OF people are missing from
Woodyille. 1t is almost incredible, but
from present indications it looks as if
only about fifty people in the borough
were saved
q The waits mission is doing noble work
here. Within an hour after arrival they
had established a bureau and were receiv-
ny children and babies that were or
phaned by the flood and flame. When
all are gathered it is believed they Nill
number several hundred.
y car OF supplies was unloaded on the
track in Johnstown yesterday by the re-
lls7t. list. gQmnG'tes, uirlipngur
At Conemaugh, Mineral Point and
Woodvale provisions and clothing are
still badly needed.
A. NJ. Wellington and i. +. Burt, OF
The engineer corps Of New York have
an examination of the dam
which caused the great disaster. Yelling
ton states that the dam was in every re-
spect very inferior in construction and OF
a kind wholly unwarranted by good engi-
neering practices OF thirty years ago
Both original and reconstructed dams
were Of earth only with no heart wall.