Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-06-04

- Ntf' fNtlphls MHN ~ tpt GtunHNiNonih ON-
not when The Good came. lie said that when no
hrs, saw the food Il was thirty feet high and
srsauslly rose 70 81 least forty feet
WHEN TIE DAN BROKE.
There IL 20 doubt That tho South Fork dam
broke" said Mr. Mcdonald "Fifteen minutes
before the food came Nj. Decker, the Pennsyi-
wanna rauFC6, agent. road 20 telegram he had
jas. received, seying the south Fork had brokon.
~ 5000 a they hoard this the pccDio In the sta
ton, numbering coo maize rns' f3r he hill. /
&c ta'nly think I saw i.On bO1 es go over tho
hfiago. Tho first house that can jOgn sruck
tue bridge npH nt once took IRE. aud as
last "a The o hers ccnc down they werc
consumed. believe am safe in saving saw
a thousand bodies burn. IL reminded me
az q lot 81 nics on ny-pspcr struggling
20 get away, with no hope ana 20 chance 20 save
them. J have no IDEA that had the bridge been
naw0 up the loas of lie would have been any
less. Ihey wo4ld have n0ated = little further
with tho same certain death. Then. again. il was
IMPOSE plc Tor any ono % have reached the
hri1ce In ordor TO blow tup. for tho waten came
SO fast that uo one could have done H. saw
from fifteen 10 eighteen bodies 20 over the
bridge a. the same ame offered man s30to row
nae across tee river. but could got no one 10 %,
and finally had 20 bald n"at and get scroas
that way
From under a large brick ochool.house one
hundred aud tventy-four bodice were taScn last
might and to-day. and I'm every corner aud place
bodies are haiue found aad buricd as fast rs
possible. The necessity TOR speedy burial Is be-
tho bodies is sckening. number OF bo1ies
have boon found wish bullet-hoie. iu tboin, snow
Ing conciusivoly mat in their maldening idght
suicide vas rosort9d % by many.
BURST ~ THE CFNTGE.
The nrst man from he dam n south Fork has
just arrived. Tho dam burst open In the centre
Of the broad break.
OVER ONE THOUSAND BODIES FOUND
Over .O1l bodies werc iaken from the Debris II
the overflow near kernylllc tO-dsy. his is OIL
ciol.
APPEARANCE or TIE LAKE..
The lake is completely dried out The dam
broke NJ O'Clock Friday afternoon. and rs I
O'Clock 10 WAS any. That froai body Oh wSter
passed out ip one hour. Mesars Park & Van
6ureu who wore building nov draining eys
60 "a a. The lako. tried 10 avert no disaster ~
di cling a -luiro-Way on one side 10 eaee no pres
suro ON tao Jay fnoy had about forty mcn at
worry Nud ana an t4cy could Without avail The
water passed. over She dam slo1' loot above
Ns ilu. beginning 90 about hNt-pns What
ever happened 10 tho way ~ clOud-hnrst LOOK
place during Ihursjay night There had been
bat litle rain up 20 cafk. Whom the Worzmen
woke on Friday motniug no lfke was very lull
and using A. Tho ratio OF foOi an htar IL
kopt on rising until : O'Clock. when u nfst
hogan breaking over tho dam and under
mining g. Men wore seut three or four timos
during the day 10 wHrn mo people ooloU OF NOR
danger. Whom tho nnai nrehA oanle AZ . . CIo,k
ftere was sound Ike tremendous ana con-
timed rcsis Of thunder 'rees, Ks. aud EARN
were shot Up ID mi1-oir ln great Columns, hud
49,, ,.'.a,,.d .eiJ mar The, ystor did not come
-, No. F. vac but fur1ped on bis house and
boe' n IN Fragments in an iaa' ant. he was safe
ON the hillside. nut his rifo ami two children
we're kineJ 81 the present time the lake looks
me a c-oss between no crater Of a volcano ard
a huge mui-puddo, with s'ump3 OF troos
and rocks scattered over H. ihero Is
sn all stream OF muddy water running
through the c'nTc Oh W, His" Sito.
ffs n.a
wilo. 0n! Ia 'ro i hut smau pofnon OIL the
dam loft ca either SIDE. No damage was 1one
o. any Of Shes buildings belonging 70 thS hshihR
club There ere nut ono or t"o sin"4l s'IV'u'S
showing here ana theIe III il' mae
PICKING UP BODIES.
,,....,.,,. ,..,,i,,, ,,oc, nv. n, v,or,r ~, tho
- ny ~ 90 er.s. on tho river shoys
de st,pc hril,, ore Gplips bodies and frag-
,e,,- of l1i.. q f,o rat. of from ten 10 aftee "A
nose, - -. -, ~ no an roryei dis
,i ts ,,,.n, .oires are beius inI,en ON a care.
al s.i,,t ,, t,i. fi,.,, a. mo h, lies reroyered
'ul 7li'l.,V o.. 4, -. -. -a, q, en' mo totat
eNe!yWn'le pn.> ]. ~ u .'l '0. =" ooo ~ . Co1
49,, 49, ' a 80. t.t,.i az, a. ,,ccrcfs iireoro
~ , '. ~, , ,,., -,.'l,-t ,',s,,,
no p M small fricid ,old wave has
sfruck tne town and The pcopic are badly In need
O. clothing, Tho Nspaper-ineN aro among 'he
sufferers IL % almost an inpo7"l"liIN 10 Eet
anything 70 eat mere is ho'hhs U s"oAo anu
Only wafer 10 9Ilha. ,.,.... 10000, g..
Inc OlllHoup committee are ~ aS,'IS ~ "'.
eHorls % preserve Pchlo' aL- 10 a.,
'aihoI'a GU! az "-lns 80 W - ~
iltu WIN ,'"Un ""o WIZ nv - - --.i
70 q outside lheH uou-es ine.e a,o'nS Vo ,s
ei@ole Ihe Pl'I tIi,o 40 f1't, "a ~ I'll tt
bl" luoS l''lv"' a. ".,'u VIZ -. - = - 49,, - -
rlnns are EellnS WJfAei up 10 cousl4oi 'D'0 "a
tent
IYNCHED.
Quito an evcitiDe srona took place in the
,.,ro,,on ~ T.tnafrvyr lasf night Hungarian
- ~ ..,e~ot iv tv-o r,sr i'm tho act OF NI0wng
ll-t. anil. Ga.
MN c,-nsr,ife 4 cry wa. r,fsel suf ia a lew
5,',r,orta o ,.r,,y1 hai COLLECTED sud the cry of
~ vuch him VAs raised and in less time thau 10
tages 20 tell IL the man wsstrung up 10 tree IN
Nns' va, iie ~ 90 yi,,rc ConToittca
"a 49, 49, 49, h,lr viii inlet. NJ 80,
,s,,(.i ,o,ci,.to tbo Tree for several hour.
-, 49,, ,, ,.,,, i,i,, -, srt mr. al nj "a
~, .,.,, .,,l.,,
Vt,tc M s,ar..hers vgere n, vrorl, in Johnstovn
,,rrer M -, min. cernc unou house an
t.ei.t "a noise undeT i. and cI,opned through the
- ard aiscovared = man in he ton story Of
~ 80. 'rb.v ,,riiea rim o,,t hut he vas too
80 10 ,ire ''rarne and no one hasIdenfided
hin, vot
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TIE FORCE OF TIE FLOOD.
The force Of tho foof can Toe estimated by the
fact that IL carried three cars mile aud hall,
ana mo tender Of an engine Weighing twelve
f|,s M carried fourteen milo. down the river
IL n NJ denutteiv settled that only aIonl four
lives were hos. o., tie train thai lett Pittsburgh on
Friday ,,torufnr Inst Conductor Bell. who had
,fsr,s If mo fren stated % dsvthat In his opin-
I'm rn'v four t,nsseugers were los,. said he
:. Ne wore b4fvesn Couemaugh and Joanet0Wn
whom mo IN cincor saw the food coming lie gave
US "otu an we ran Va. S
lives. but majority Of them thought 1t Was only
a wave and remained in the cars, while tho train
mon ran 10 tie mountains. When the mood came
II washed away the car next 70 the smuking-ctr
ana left the others remaining. Tho people in
the Pullmsn-car were ducEod. but mona OF them
were Otherwise injured The tnree or -FOUR Pcs
senCors who were lost wore men, but DO mol
know their names"
r,-rrpurNys
w.,
Fifty men are digging graYe' on prospect hllI
and bodies are being inferred ~ iasl as pOssiD'e
Three hundred bodies were iylng on the sauu a.
kernYilie, q; ihe mouth OF SANDY creek, ~ ,
O'Clock This afternoon. The sighi Is one thai
cannot Re described, ana l. ono OF ule most a.
tfcssing ever Witnessed. crowd OF az 'ast ?Ue
gathered around endsaYoTinE 10 lnd ne D' nc
mere AZ the time AMI The bodies had 10 be lad
on the ground. hoWever, 90 conlns are on We w.
way here ana the uudertahora nave sent lOI VO-
additional ones. ,.,,
ne water mas lalleh so Ii,ucn ,i.a' - y 49, 90
Ole 70 ger al Tue uoIieS' hV"o1oi. a. -, ~ ~
LaYo 70 De aug Oui OF tuo s'.Ht auu A. 49, ~
cho OF WORK. III u lho4k-. 80 ~ vi -, -
bodies VIII DC tounI AZ hs.h'.A9 u1uoi &C.. 80, p
pile OF oebr's eOout an acre IN tenI'n. -" ~. a.
where most OF me Oulu'usS u1n'o.'; ~ 80, "a
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