The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-05
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wrinkle was observable in its outlines.
The marks of the wall showed that the surface
OF the water had risen to hight of fifteen
feet while the statue which is three feet high,
had been saved from ali contact with the liquid.
Every one that has seen the statue and its sur
roundings is firmly convinced that the incident
was a miraculous one and even 10 the most
skeptical the affair savors of the supernatural.
There are about thirty catholic priests and
nuns here. The sisters are devoting themselves
to the care of the sick and injured in the hos
pitfalls, while the priests are doing anything and
everything and making themselves generally
useful. Bishop Pheian, who reached here on
Sunday evening, returned to Pittsburg on the
8 o'clock train yesterday afternoon. He has
organized the catholic forces in this neighbOr.
hood ana all are devoting themselves to hard
work assiduously.
What the hospitals would have done without
the sisters is difficult question. There are
nine Charity, seven Franciscan and seven Ben
edctine sisters. Among the priests are the
Rev. Fathers Guido, Goebel, COsgrave, Gala
CHER, Troutwein, ROsenstein, DOren. Cochran,
Boyle, Smith. O'Connell and Landing. Father
Derlin, who lives in lakewood, Pittsburg hur-
ried to the scene last Saturday, fearful that his
brother and parents were drowned. He was
happily mistaken in this suppositiOn, for
none of his relatives had been
injured. Mr.. berlin, who needed the warning
as to the danger of the dam, had hurried his
wife and two children to the hills, but returned
himself TO save something from his house.
While in the building the flood struck il and
swept il away, jamming il among lot OF other
houses, and hurting them all around with a
regular churning motion. Mr. berlin was IN q
FIX, but went to his top story, clambered to the
roof, and escaped from there TO solid structures,
and thence TO the ground. His property was
entirely ruined. but he thinks himself fortu-
nate in saving his family.
JJ Murphy, the catholic bookseller of Pitts
burg, haunted the Pennsylvania railroad morgue
all day with a white, sad face. His brother
James and his entire family have been lost, and
Mr.. Murphy is seeking for the remains. Every
fresh arrival of CHASTITY burdens set him 70
anxious inquiry, but as yet he has not discov-
cred his relatives.
David Creed, brother of Thomas Creed Of
PENNSYLVANIA, has been lost with his entire
family. The remains of John Ryan, ex-sheriH
of Cambria county, were found to-day.
There was much comment over the finding OF
the body of a nun cut in two. It was at hrst
thought that she was resident of JOhnstown
community, but as none OF them have been re-
ported missing the superstition is that she was
travelling at the time of the accident on the
day express.
A broken.hearted couple are Thomas Ley.
don and his wife, hard working people of the
little town Of Minersville. All day they have
been trudging over the slippery ooze in Johns
town, asking every person for news of their
the Hurlbut house and the porter states that
he saw her pinned beneath a falling timber
The Rev. w. II. Bates pastor of st. Johns
reformed church, has saved his family, but his
church and residence are total wrecks.
+. s. Frazer, the Pittsburg lawyer, was tramp
ing among the ruins to-day. Mr.. Frazer has a
sister here whose family of four children was
almost drowned, but managed to escape after
an exciting experience. When the flood came
down upon them they were driven from the
first to the second story. and soon after 10 the
third. They were kept there six hours, from
o'clock in the evening to Il o'clock at mid.
night before they were helped through the
roof and from there made their escape to the
hills over the house tops in the neighbOrhood.
Where WOOdvale once stood there is now a
sea OF mud, broken, but rarely by pile OF
wreckage. Your correspondent waded through
mud and water up to the valley to-day over the
site of the former village. As has been often
stated, nothing is standing but the old wooden
mill.
rope ferry is now being operated in the
lower part of JohnstOwn. An effort is being
made to construct bridge across the Cone
maugh at the point where the old county bridge
stood