Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-21
DAMAGED BY BLASTING
ZONES That WithstOOd the Flood Now
Being Shaken.
The President Makes Number of
Consular Appointments.
The Curran-Haseltine Murder Case
Causes Excitement.

with the citizens relief committee, shows
| that from June to II inclusive, 1892
| people were given free pOrtation
oat OF Johnstown. The bureau of infor-
nation answered 2S7 kilograms and 6S
letters, mostly inquiries from anxious
friends as to the safety of Johnstown.
| Eight bodies brought to
the morgue in the Presbyterian chutch
on Main street to day. Some were taken
out of the ground Immediately surround
ing the church. A party of men at work
| IN the debris came across the dead bodies
of Mrs. Myer and her daughter, locked in
each others arms. The total number of
bodies recovered to-day was 10, making
| the grand total of bodies recovered 1999
| The mass at the stone bridge was fired
this afternoon and to night is burning
| furiOusly. With this all hope of recover
ing the bodies that are certainly there en-
tombed, has been destroyed.
| PHILADELPHIA, June Is - Governor
| Beaver announces he has abandoned the
idea of using $1,000,000 out of the state
| treasury under the proposed indemnity
| bond scheme for the reason that such
action might establish bad PRECEDENT.
He has decided instead to adopt the sug-
| gestion that the money be loaned to the
l
governor stated he has been
offered million dol ars by the national
| banks of Phiiadeiphia without security.
| lad without interest, the loaners TO be
reimbursed by the legislature at its next
| session, and he has accepted the offer
| This money will be used TO clear streams
| and place the highways in order and to
perform other necessary state work.
| JoHNsTowN, Pa, jane -Johnstown
| is dripping tonight, and more dreary
place could scarcely be imagined. Eight
| bodies were recovered from the ruins to-
| day, three being Identified. They were
| Wm. b. Hess, a prominent merchant;
| Capt O'Connell an old resident, and
| Mary Holleman. his house
keeper. The bodies of and
elderly lady and a fair young girl
| were found clasped in each others arms
reclining on sofa. Five others were 50
charred as to be unrecog gnizable. The
| first train through to Altoona went
| through Johnstown at IL O'Clock this
morning. Several hundred more men
| arrived tonight and hoisting
engines are coming in on every train.
Tonight the electric light plant is being
removed to the stone bridge. The
wreokage will be lighted up and the work
pursued INCREASINGLY until the last rem
nant Is removed. HEAVY charges of
dynamite have been put in the wreckage
all day, and several wOrkmen were in
jured by the flying debris and one seri
ousy.
NEW YORK, June 16-In one hour this
morning over $4,000 was added to the
fund at the mayors Office for the relief
of tina Conemaugh sufferers. In round
numbers 1924, 900 had passed through the
hands of the mayors clerk for the relief
of the food sufferers.
JoHNsTowN, June 16.-Major Phillips
dynamiters have had Johnstown in q
state of nervous terror all day and eve
ming. General Manager Fulton of the
Cambria Iron Company, dictated fore
IDLE protest to Gov. Beaver, stating that
the mills and offices of the company were
being ruined by the blasts; that Adjutant
General Hastings paid no attention to
the two requests for discontinuance apd
that the state would be held responsible
for any further damage done.
Before the message was sent
however, Adiutant General Hastings had
issued an order to Major Phillips to dis
continue blasting. Major Phillips has
been engaged since Wednesday blowing
out wreckage in the channel of the Cone
maugh above the Pennsylvania railroad
stone bridge. He Was anxious to have a
passage for water by this evening, and to
that end put in a five hundred pound blast
of dynamite at noon. The blast was
placed under two buildings, one of
which was lying upon the other
and both of them covered with logs.
The explosion was terrific. The next
| blast was not placed so deep and was
four hundred FOUNDER, This one did all
the damage. The report was awful, and
the strongest houses in the city trem5led
like leaves. All the glass was blown out
of the windows of the Odd Fellows hall.
In the same neighborhood the rear wall
of the half wrecked Catholic church fell
upon the B. d o. tracks, blocksd-
ing them. Chimneys ratified down all
| about the town and dishes were broken
in the houses in Kernville, half mile
away. When asked about the matter,
Major Phillips said: I'VE have used
only two Thousand pounds of dynamite
today. The charges will not be so heavy
hereafter. | had no idea that we <ere
doing any damage. So far as 1 know no
persons have been injured"
Adiutant General Hastings today re
ceived a letter from vice p resident Nor
ton, saying that on his return to his
country home he found that his little
girls, from eight TO fourteen years OF
age had been hard at work since the ter
rible disaster at Johnstown in making
| articles of clothing for the homeless
children who have survived the fioods;
that he forwards, today, 127 articles of
wearing apparel made by their own
hands, or purchased with their own
money, with some of their dresses, and
| that his children will feel greatly obliged
| if you will cause the clothing TO be dis
tributed among the little sufferers by the
recent calamity for whom they feel the
deepest sympathy.
JOHNSTON, Pa, June 16.-The opening
| of the wedge-like raft above the stone
| Bridge today, was an engineering feat.
| For ten days several hundred men have
| been at work upon the heterogeneous
mass, but only about sixty feet of the
| channel had been done, when OF We'd
| nesdey, Wm. Phillips, of Lewiston and a
| force of dynsmiters were put at work.
| Six acres Of solidly packed wrecksge
| wedged between the river banks by
| hydraulic force that cannot be
| estimated, have in the three
| days melted away. Large frame
houses, hundreds of logs and monster
/ ticcc ~cIc '-ktbHtE
| with wire and iron bars brought down IL
| the flood The scene this afternoon when
| the great mass moved down the river was
| a remarkable one. Crowds that liusd tie
| shores and now famous stone bridge raised
a shout tsat vassheard the length and
breadth of the valley. The west flank of
| Conemaugh Is again a furnace of fire to-
night, The vreckage torn up by dy-
Mantle today IVES piled up and the torch
applied and the whole valley is illumins-
| ted. The measles are very prevalent
| among children, and the Bedford street
hospital has tso cases of pneumonia. The
brodcbitis and diarrhR l. are very seuer-
al smopg workmen- There If no sick
ness of consequence among militia.
| From the most suthedtic reports
| the obtsinaole number of bodies re-
covered so far is 1883 Fourteen bodies
we're taken ont today. DR.. Free, of the
state board of health, inspected river
| towns as far as Sang Hollow today. The
worst discovery made was a large number
| of dead horses and COWS floating in the
river. Dynamite explosions have brought
| the carcasses to the surface
They are IL a bad state of decompo :
sioIs- Eight car loads of ium oe- arrived
today. Rough sheds are already being
erected in the heart of the city to be used
as stores