The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-06-11
THE DREADFUL RECORD
Of the Death and Des0latiOn
at YOUNGSTOWN Still
Goes OH.
Hundreds of Bodies Found aud
Yet Still Other Hundreds
Lost Beyond Recall.
Hundreds Washed Away Whose
Relatives Will Never
Find Their Re-
mains.

have elapsed since the Angel oil Death
swept through the valley of the Cone.
maugh. For thirty-six hours with Jut in
termission, the fire engines have played
upon the smoking ruins above the bridge,
but the flames that break out afresh at fire.
ouent intervals in this floating field of
ruins seem to defy the subduing force of
water. Nearly 1000 men are employed in
different parts of the valley, clearing Hp
the ruins and prosecuting diligent search
for the undiscovered dead. Their irvesti-
cations are not without fruitful results,
for the bodies of the dead and charred VIC
TINS Of flood and fire are discovered with
undiminished frequency. 1t becomes
hourly more and more apparent that not a
single vestige will ever be recognized Of
hundreds that were roasted In the flames
above the bridge. Since the last sentence
was penued, party of searchers unearthed
charred and unsightly mass from
the smouldering debris within thirty yards
in front of the Associated Press headquar-
tiers. Unused to such frightful discoveries
the leader OF the gang pronounced the re-
mains to be biackened log, and it requir-
ed the authoritative of physician to de-
monstrate that the CHASTITY discovery was
the chared remains of a human being.
ted beg ond all resemblance to flesh. Five
minutes search revealed the fragments of
skull that at once disintregrated of its own
weight when exposed to the air. no single
piece being larger than half dollar, and
the whole resembling the remnants of
scattered charcoal. Withiu an hour a
half a dozen discoveries In ne way less
holrifying than this CHASTITY find were
made by searchers as they raked with stick
and hook among the smoking ruins. So
difficult was it at times to determine wheth
er the remains are those of human beings,
that it is apparent that many have burn
ed to ashes. Thus the number that have
found last resting place benerih these
ruins can at best never be more aprximate.
VAST CHARNEL HOUSE.
Every moment the body of some poor
victim is taken from the debris and the |
town or,what is left to write with accuracy |
is one vast charnel house. The scenes at |
the extemporized morgue are beyond the |
power OF description In their ghastliness, |
while the means and groans of the snffer-
ing survivors, tossing In agony with bruised |
and mangled bodies or screaming in a de-
lirium OF fever, as they issue from the nu-
merous temporary hospitals, make even the |
stoutest hearted quail with terror. Nearly
1000 bodies have already been recovered,
and as the work of examining the wreckage
proceeds the conviction grows that the
magnitude of the calamity has not vet
been appropriated. Conservative esti-
mates this morning put the number of lost
at 1000, and many men of calm Judgment
and who are not wont 10 eXaggerate, who
have been upon the ground from the out
set, place the number at 10000. The de-
bris wedged against the big Pennsylvania
Railroad stone bridge is still burning,
and the efforts of the fremen to queuch
Or stay the progress OF the flames are as
futile as were those of Gulliver's Lilli-
putian foenen. The mass, which unques.
tionably forms funeral pyre for thous-
ands of victims, who lie buried beneath ii.
is burning and is likely to burn for weeks :
to come. The flames are active, but burn /!
away in sullen, determined fashion, as
though bent for once upon proving how flu :
Tile are mans efforts when the fire god is 4
around, and perhaps, after all, the hand of I
Providence is in it, for the suggestion made
1y the physicians yesterday that the bodies
be allowed to crem ate, In the interest of I
public health, and which aroused such a
storm of indignation among the surviving s.
,opulace, is viewed with more caImness to- s.
lay, and there is a growing sentiment that q
is, after all, the best solution of the prob .
EN-. Weeks, months will be required to II
emove the stupendous mass by artificial y,
means, and meantime the rotting, putrefy-
ng remains of poor. humanity buried there 81
n would be dealing pollution and death G
0 all the surrounding country. a.
The awful desolation of the scene has been .o
described often enough already to render %
epetition of the attempt here unnecessary. al
'hese descriptions have been as truthful ~ Z
nd graphic as it is possible for man to al
lake them, but none have been adequate. W
one could be Where once stood solid, OF
nbroken business blocks for square after eV
Iuare, with Easements and subcellars, 10
lere is now level plain, as free from OBJ 81
ruction or excavation as the fair fields of %
rcada after they had been swept away by pa
he British flames. The major and pref sW
er portion Of the beautiful city has liter I %
ly been blotted from the face of the earth. !"
rowds of strangers anxiously watched The on on
reck this morning from the railroad Nv
'idge and as far up the river on both 9n
des as the eye can reach. AT Johnstown DO
'oper the rescuers continue to bring in as'
)dies by the hundred. an
LOST on THE TRAIN. -
1t is now definitely settled that al least no
pm twenty to forty people were lost on he
e two sections of the day express that he
It Pittsburg at S m. Friday and the
hnstown accommodation that was about
leave Johnstown that afternoon. There
We been numerous conflicting reports ma
out how many trains were caught in the Ey
cd, but from most reliable sources il has mn
en- ascertained that three trains were mo
ught by the water. Mr.. Edward n. for
cCullough, Of the Westmoreland Coal be
mpany, was among the passengers on ing
day express east on Friday morning. bur
: stated positively that there were two to {