New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-06
GROWING ROLL or TIE DEAD.
THE SEARCH FOR BODIES UNCEASING AND
APPARENTLY ENDLESS.
MANY PERSONS KILLED INSTANTLY by THE
MASSES OF DRIFT SWEET ALONG
BY THE WAVE.


BY THE WAVE.
JohnstOwn Penn. juno S.-The long sheets Of paper
on the walls Of the morgue tell a melancholy tale
To day Tho lists Of the dead grow longer hourly
and stnl there Is cessation in the discovery Of
bodies crushed burned and OF those who
drowned 1t had been hoped that today might
veal a bcttcr condition OF affairs, but before the
hundreds Of men digging In the ruins and scalUhinS
the banks OF the river had been al work many hours
II became evident that hundreds and perhaps thou
sands OF dead would yct be found. many cOCpses
have been found that has become necessary piaco
many OF them In collins after they have been cmJamtd
that they may be taken from the where they
received. To tell Of tho In these gloomy
PLACES would be endless tale Of woe. Men come
here and find their whole family dead and no one
knows how many Of those who are never Identified
como from one home. This forenoon woman went
10 the school house In the Fourth Ward, which is
used receive bodies and recognized there fourteen
Of her family, her father mother. husband, brothers
aud children. one Of the family Is stIl missing
The bodies Of young business man and his wife,
Mr.. and Mrs Walter b. lIaincS, were brought thcre
elias ped In each others They had been married
only few weeks. The mother Of Christian FItzharrlS
identified among the dead another morgue her
husband, john her son, his wife and five Of their
children Christian Fitzharris was the proprietor OF
the Charles Hotel In FranklIu.st. and all the bodies
were found only few feet distant from the spot
where the hotel once stood. They were buried deep
beneath a towering OF wrecked buildings
OF this family only the grandmother and one small
child, Ella, escaped. Cases OF whole families being
blutcd out arc and every In the town IS
beginning To think that the highest estimates Of the
loss Of lho have not been excessive The coipses
which are taken nom under houses and heaps Of
wrcckage arc horribly mutIlated. A physician said
to-day that many Of them probably never knew they
were doomed. Tho mighty wavo hurting mountains
Of irOn stone and heavy tm6erS, came upon
thcm with rush, crushing their houses Ike egg shells
and killing the people In them instantly. The heaps
OF bodies being unearthcd have again filed the
morgues in use, and II has become necessary 10 TO
ccve cOrpses in all kinds Of places. In The hospitals
the work Of caring for the sick and injured is going
ahead with dispatch. broken limbs rapidly set,
bruises and Commissions properly LOOKED after and every
possible attention bestowed upon tho sufferers. The
physicians and surgeons find no time TO sleep. Such
Is the demand for their services that they called
miles 10 attend those who cannot be carried into
no0r wretch has reason thank Ihem for his f,. \
special train started for Pitsburg yesterday and
other to-day, taking away those who are well enough
10 10 moved that the strain on the physicians
mi ght DO lessened and moro be given to those
who were most IN uoOd Of Il. More people arc youn-
teeriug their services, and things In better
condition than might he cXpectel, when one con-
slders the panic and confusion following the wave OF
destruction on Friday.