Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-06-21

rough putrifaction that grinning skel-
ln would show as much resemblance 60
persons i'll life as they. Almost every
roke of the pick in some portions of the
~ to day resulted in the discovery of
otaer victim, and although che funerals
the morning relieved the morgue of
cir crush before night they were as full
ever
Wherever one turns the melancholy
CIV OF a coffin is met. Every train into
nnstown was laden with them, the bet
ones being generally accompanied by
lends Of the dead. Men could be seen
Rggering over the ruins with shining
ahogany caskets on their shoulders.
veral stumbled and fell into the abound
pits. The hollow houses of the dead
ent bouncing over the stones like drums
funeral march. The colin famine
ems to be alleviated.
The enormity Of the devastation wrought
the flood is becoming more and more
parent with every effort of the laborers
Resolve order out of chaos Over 100
en- have been all day engaged in an
ofl TO clear narrow passage from the
ath-bridge upward through the sea of
tfls that blocks the Conemaugh for
afiy half mile. Every ingenuity known
men has been restored to by the crew.
le giant power of dynamite was brought
TO requisition, and at frequent intervals
e roar of explosions reverberated
fough the valley, and sticks, stones, and
IS would fly high in the air. Gradually
fw Of the heaviest tinbers were demol-
ned and the fragments permitted to hoat
u fhr,nt,
tsn'tall, however, the clear space above
Pc bridge did not exceed an area Of sixty
est i'll length, by forty feet in width.
hen one reflects that fully twenty five
Ees are to be cleared in this way the task
nead seems an interminable one. But
ere is no royal road, and if the hundreds
thousands of bodies beneath these black
lea runs are to be recovered for Christian
urial the labors of to-day must be contin-
~ u with Increased vigor.
mere are many conservative minds that
ecommend the use of the torch in this
(ork OF clearing the river, but they are
W among the sufferers, and when such
kuulsels are heard by those whose wives,
klllaren, sisters, or brothers rest beneath
us sea OF totsam! and jetsan, this sug-
(e''loh OF cremation meets wild furore
objection. 1t is only in difference to
IT, unrea ,oning mandate of grief that the
tuteuiear labor of clearing the river by
eans OF the dynamite and the derrick is
Isr'lsted in. There Is no hope in the
la'iner minds that this task can be pursued
+ the end.
me progress to-day is hardly discerni-
Es' ana ere two days more have elapsed
[nere Is little doubt that the emanations OF
I'tlo bodies will have become so fright
Us 10 drive the hardest workmen from
( u scene. Until that time arrives. how
('0l' There is no hope that the grief .strick.
f. poaulace will abandon the cherished
or wy OF again gazing upon the forms OF
NY ones whose lives went out in the fire
NY" "u MOOD of the Conemaugh. The plead
c Vs. OF sanitarians and the logic of engl-
n ,v'sS a Ike fail to find an echo in the
1 fa, OF the grievlng and afflicted, but III
(x; IN" more days the sterner logic of nature
Eil' assert itself, and in the face of impos
r.ty the task OF cremation will become
" W. ristisn duty.
kto,a 1efe Johnstown's principal stores
Eont " last Friday are now pitched l,OoI
E ums' and before night this number viii
10 oaolS be doubled. Under this shelter
hrvi" a.eommodated the workmen who are
'As 70 clea: the streets. Over 5.OO'