Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-07-12
FATALITY AMONG PROMINENT CITI
ZENS.

After all is summed up and balances
struck, it will be found that all loses in
other directions are mere atoms in COM
parison with the destruction of human
life. The town as it now is contrasts sadly
enough with what it once was in every
respect; but in no other particular is the
contrast so sad, so mournful, so over
whelmingly touching as it is in reference
to men, women and children.
Strangers coming here see on every
hand ocular demonstrations of material
losses, in the destruction of property. In
viewing our waste places, our barren
streets, and acres covered with wrecked
matter they need no one to tell them OF
the losses of buildings-of the millions
thus represented that have been swept
away. And impressed with what they
see, but little, if any, thought is given to
the thousands that were buried in the ruins
or swept down in the angry water, of the
vast number whose lives went out with
the flood. And even those who survive, do
not yet realize the irreparable loss the town
has sustained by the drowning of some OF
its noblest citizens. The fact is the ex-
citement, the worry, the anxiety, the work
of living, of keeping alive after such peril
Gus adventures in and escapes out, of the
food, have left but little time or opportu-
nifty for thinking about the dead.
Many of them who were carried or
hauled in a wagon to the cemetery, and ac-
companied by only two or three friends
hastily deposited IN the grave, would
have had large funerals had they died un-
der ordinary circumstances. The finding
of each mutilated body and its burial,
were dismissed from the public mind
with simple remark, well, that makes
many to-day"
This is by far the most sorrowful fea-
ture of the awful things connected with,
aud consequent upon, the towns de-
struction.
The list of prominent men, useful men
highly respected men that have been
numbered among the victims of the flood
is long and sad one. AS time rolls on.
we will slowly awake to the fact that the
community has suffered far beyond what
we even now think, in the death of so
many of our best men.
In business quarters, the list is de
plorably long one, as follows: John
Dibert, of the banking house of John Di-
bert & Co.; Howard J. Roberts, cashier
of the First National Bank, ]. p. Nc
Conaghey, John Brady, John Ryan, John
Fem, NJ. S. Maloy John II. Fisher, Sam
uel Lenhart, Christ Kimple, John Streum,
Jacob Swank, Geo. Unversaght, A. Ma
than, S. Goldenberg, Samuel Eldridge,
Alvar Akers Abram Eldridge, Augustus
Young, w. w. Pike, David Creed, W. d.
Kirby, Capt. O'Connell, George Raab,
John Schiffhauer, Alex. Kilgore, Charles
MUIR, John Coad Got. Hoffman, Lou
Benford, L. S. Clark, Alex Recke, Louis
Luckhardt, Emil Young, S. T. Blough,
J. G. Alexander, II. G. Ludwig, John
Frank, Henry Pritchard.
In the legal profession three are gone
viz: II. G.. Rose, John w. Weakland,
Theodore F. Zimmerman.
The medical profession has been called
upon to mourn the loss of six of its num-
number, namely: L. 7. Beam, j. X.
Lee, ]. P. Wilson, H. w. Marbourg. w.
G. Beam, G. c. Brinkey.
In the long list many hag families, out
of which comparatively few were saved,
and in some instances nearly all were
lost.
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