, 1889-06-04

night says there are 1900 recovered bod
les. Great difficulty is experienced in
getting a correct list. There is no central
bureau of information and to communicate
with different dead houses is the work of
hours. A Journey from the Pennsyl-
vania railroad morgue to one in the
Fourth ward school house in Johnstown
occupies at least an hour. This renders it
impossible to reach all of them in one
day.
Seventy bodies nave been recovered at
the Pennsylvania railroad station.
Yesterday 200 more bodies were inferred
and TO day as many more received atten-
ton.
A milkman who was ~overcharging for
milk this morning narrowly escaped lynch
ing. lnfuriated men appropriated all his
milk and distributed it among the poor
and then drove him out of town.
The body of the Hungarian who was
lynched in the orchard last night, has
been recovered by his friends. The in
human monster was noticed as he cut of
Jour fingers of a woman's hand. He
dropped the fingers into his pocket, where
they were found when he was captured.
The act maddened the spectators and they
took him to an orchard on the hillside and
hung him up.
Cambria hospital has now 300 patients.
DIR. Buckwith and a corps of aids is In
charge. Two of the patients are doing
well. The hospital in the upper part OF
Johnstown is full to overlooking. Many
have been carried to surrounding houses
Hospitals have established at Canemaugh
and Mineral Point, but little could be
learned of how many patients it contained
and how they were faring.
There is but one street left in the town.
About l55 houses are standing where
once there stood a thousand. One thou
sand is the lowest estimate OF the number
of lives los. from this town; but few
bodies have been recovered. 1t is directly
above the ruins and the bodies have
foated down into them where they
burned. A walk through the town re-
vealed a d~esulate sight. Only about IF
teen able bodied men have survived and
are able to render assistance.
Every hour as one goes through the
streets he hears neighbors greeting each
fother and then inquire without any show
OF feeling how many each had lost in his
family. To-day l heard a gray-haired
man hail another across the street with
this question: Il lost FIVE" IAN are gone
but Mary and l." was the reply. I'm
worse off than that" said the first old
gentleman, Il have only my grandson
left, seven of u gone" and SO they pass
ed on without apparent excitemcu.
A man who was caught stealing a gold
watch is now in the Jail of what is left of
the town. a shot was fred at him, but
he was not wounded. The only thing
that saved him from lynching was the
smallness of the crowd.
The services in the chapel from which
the bodies were buried consisted merely OF
a prayer by one of the survivors. No
minister was present and each coffin had
a descriptive card on it; on the graves .
similar card was placed, so that the bodies
can be removed later by friends.
Kemville is in a ~deplorable condition.
The living are unable to take care of the
dead. A majority of the inhabitants of
the town were drowned. A lean to OF
boards has been erected on the only street
remaining in the town. This is head
quarters for the committee that control
the dead. As quickly as the dead are
brought in they are placed in boxes and
then taken to the cemetery and buried.