Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11
News by Telegraph l FROM ALL QUARTERS. PROGRESS AT TOMBSTONE. The State Will take Charge
 of Affairs. THE BIG RAFT SET ON FIRE. A Railroad Wreck on the
 Lehigh Valley Road. INSTANTLY KILLED BY LIGHTNING The War in Hayti is Near
 ing all End.
INSTANTLY KILLED BY LIGHTNING
FREJoHNsrowN HORROR.

THE JOHNSTOWN HORROR. Very Satisfactory Work Being Accom-
 plished-Dogs Attack the Graves O
 Victims Total Number of Rodiei
 Taken to the Several MOrEues Placed
 at 1.sSe-No Contagious Disease O
 Any Kind Prevails - Six Thous&nt
 Dollars Removed From the Pocket
 of Victims Dynamite Being Used
 With Good Eject The Great Raf
 Set on Fire.
 JoHNsrows, June 10.-The progress of tn, work at the stone bridge to-day has beer more satisfactory. More has been accom- plished in removing the debris than in any three other days. The stationary engine or the bridge has done more than fifty men Huge masses of broken and bent iron and immense timbers that the men have been trying to move for days were lifted from there places and moved with ease. This vii will make 24 doing excellent work. The large force of men heretofore employed al this point has been taken to other points, and a small force of men with the aid of the en. zine is doing more efficient work. A heavy charge of dynamite was put off to-day and did great good demonstrating that heavy charges must be used. Three bodies were found lying close together to-day near the stone bridge, and ten or twelve wore found in that vicinity. All the commissary staff are kept busy as usual. At Cambria vast amount of provisions and clothes have been Long lines of sufferers stood in the heat and rain waiting their turn. No one without an order receives anything, and the is under strict discipline. Most excellent work is being done.
 A vast amount of work has been done by the Pennsylvania railroad, and they now reach Mineral Point with their construction train. In this vicinity the company has al ready accomplished wonders. The wash-out between the stone bridge and the Pennsylva- mia station has been almost filled and trains are running over both tracks. The hurried burial of the dead in the cemetery at Pros pect Hill is causing the residents of that beautiful suburb of Johnstown great deal of anxiety. The bodies were placed in cheap cofins, none of which were secure, and the odor from the decomposed bodies rises to the surface and attracts @ number of dogs, who make night hideous by bowling and paving over the graves. The cofins were put only three feet underground, as there WAS moi time to dig the graves deeper. It was found necessary to place guards in the little ceme- tery containing two hundred graves to drive the dogs away.
 To-day Dr. Miller, of the Cambria hospital, instructed the Americus club members who are in camp near the cemetery, caring fol some of the refugees to secure disinfectants at once and place it on the graves thus kill ing the odors. The first funeral of flood victim that might truly be called such and in which the corpse was taken to the ceme tery in a conveyance was held to-day. The body was borne in e wagon, accompanied by the mourners in carriages; and burial services were held over the remains.
 There were 35 bodies recovered to-day-al of them at the stone bridge. Those takar out of the water were in much better con- dition than those found among the debris The latter were not only horribly bloated and in feature, but decomposition had set in. The bodies now are almost beyond recognition:
 Petty jealousies have made it unpleasant fol some to work with others, and besides, now that the State is to take charge and volun teer service is to be relieved they say the State can and must hire undertakers to bury the dead.
 The report of Dr. Sibbett to Grof may bs given in brief as follows:
 Fourth Ward. Schoolhouse Morgue, June S,-Bodies recovered 219, Pennsylvania rail road 1S2, Morrellyille morgue 12S, St. Co lumbia church morgue in Cambria City S35 Hawes' morgue 13, Millville 57, Grand View
 
 56, Ninevah proper 233. Tots ,SS9. The above Is official.
 fSigned) BENJAMIN LEE, N. D.,
 Secretary.
 The official bulletin of the board of health issued day is ss follows:
 Health Bulletin No. 2.
 Reports last evening from the Inspectors of thi. the first report continues.
 ThRr ar a No signs of any epidemic are manifest. The State board of health is fully prepared to meet all emer a hospital for contagious diseass has been estsh Isheo, and If there are any cases they will De some, the water The bodies still iu the wrecl covered with earth es not to be dangerous ts health. There is every precaution being taken tC prevent contamination of the water supply.
 There Is no ground whatsver for alarm In thi matter at present. The bodies in the river are GOV cred with mud and earth. The weather is cool ana favorable.
 fSigned) GEORGE GRoFF,
 Member in charge
 James B. Scott said the work will continue until Wednesday morning when everything will be handed over to the State. The worl of relief will be continued by the State on thu same plan as heretofore. Relief must b. given until the people can take hold fo themselves. When the Cambria Coal Work and the other mills resume the people will be able to earn money. The great aim at pres ent Is to give the survivors work. The Stat Is to open a commissary department where goods will be sold until the merchants ar' able to again get on their feet. We ar' building store houses along the B. and O road where the supplies will be kept unti necessary to use them. This evil will SCOT be remedied. Supplies are still in demand
 J. N. Nunden, who is in charge of the re moval of bodies from the ruins, says that uI to date he has found over $6, 900 in money Il the pockets of victims. The largest sum wal and dead bodies still continues, notwtthstsnd ing the guard which has been placed ovel ruins by the civil authorities.
 The Johnstown Switch Co.,, whose works were entirely swept away from Woodvale, ar preparing to rebuild their switch works plan on an extended scale at Moxham, three mile up the stream and entirely away from an! possible recurrence of the disaster which ha overtaken their works here. They emplo.
 The great raft Is an endless, measureles e-aveysrd. made in a night. Its tombstone are the shattered timbsrs sticking out of tn wreckses, The torn and ragged fragment of walls mark where the streets had been Though hundreds have already been uncov' cred, the dead to-day are coming to light II surprising numbers-if anyone here can b. SuEpIleeO. IoOpA0 JuSs
 town say that the stenoh IS slcSenlng ana fearful, tainting the air of the valley every where, while those who have worked her throughout the trying scenes have noticed I only at times and in certain places, showini that their senses are Rumbed. All tn waters are giving up their dead and tn qrappIers are in waiting for them. Tn red shirted IuMberman standing mid way on the raft, who is called th marker and color bearer, raised hi axe once to strike this forenoon, but tn blow never fell. If it had 1t would have GU in twain the first of the bodies taken iron the Point on the morning of the tenth day It was the remains of a woman, Emma Boot by name, identified by her broken.hearte husband an hour later. Dr. Brlnckiey. on of Johnstown's brightest and most promla ing physicians, was found in the raft nea where that of the woman lay. Although nc thirty years of age, his appearance when tn remains were rescued was that Of 6 man sey enty-five years old.
 Others unknown were taken from the ru fms at all hours of the day. Among them old man with his little boy clasped in hi arms. With every hour comes a salute fo the hundreds yet buried there. It IS th blast of dynamite. Five bodies were foun under one heap of the wreckage in the tow to. day. One of them wss Kate Weary, tn milliner. One of the saddest Identification was that of Miss Blanche Harnish of Daytor She was passenger on the day express, an her father had searched for the past thre days Some workmen found her body ly1n kv,ar pod at