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

rival OF large number 81 lfe- and accidents
insurance agents. Fully one hundred OF
them arrived. and they are hard at work
looking up the victims who were insured IN
the different companies. Very little inioI-
mstion can be procured yet, as there Is
reslly no official list OF the identified dead.
and even II there wss, there are TOO
many people who cannot be identined,
20 that there Is little or no hope
for insurance agents getting anything like
complete list.
Another feature In the arrivals to-day is
the number OF professional amateur photo-
graphers who have put In an appearance.
On every hillside and at places among the
ruins cameras can be seen IN abundance.
A TOUCHING APPEAL.
A gray-haired woman was among
the applicants for clothing at the
distributing depot at the Pennsylvania
railroad station this morning. aud
an outfit was inside up and given her,
but after examining the dress she approached
the agent In charge and asked II lie would
exchange II for black one. Z" have iostall
my family" she added by way OF apology
as tears STRAINED down her wrlnkled lace.
and would like TO have a black dress u ]
could get one. My husband and four chill
dren are in that awful Pile hY the stone
bridge, and | am alone now" A black
dress wss found for her. Miss Clara Barton,
OF Washington, the head OF the Red cross
Corps known all over the world, arrived
here this morning, and will at once assume
charge Of all The female relief corps All
day long corpses were being hurried below
the ground. The unidentified bodies were
grouped on a high hill west OF the doomed
city, where one epitaph must do Tor all
that word Unknown" There are hum
dreds OF these graves already, and each day
will increase the number.
Fires are raging over the tangled graves Of
hundreds, and partial cremation o. many
bodies is inevitable. Others are becoming
50 blackened In their contact with the debTis
or through qualification that skeleton
would show as much resemblance to persons
In life ss they did In death.
Wherever one turns melancholy view OF
collins IS met. Every train into the city was
laden with them, better ones being generally
accompanied by friends OF the dead.
Notwithstanding the fact that nearly every
prominent city in the United States is raising
funds for the relief Of the Conemaugh SUI
fererS, the wants OF the homeless and a.
iictcd are far from being slIeyiaed. Thou
sands OF people are homeless. aud in these
devasted homes thousands also lost their ALL
Labor and manufacturing OF nearly every
kind is at a stand-still III tue valley, and
weeks and months must elapse before the
Cambria Iron-W ords and other industrial
institutions can possibly resume and give
empIoymentto the thousands that depend on
them for support.
Even at tie present time, five days after
the world was first thrilled by the news OF
the great disaster, there are hundreds oil
hungry people In the Couemsugh Valley
who have no certainty Of breakfast to-nor-
row.
MINNEAPOLIS.
MINNEAPOLIs, June 1.-The Citizens Com
mittee to-day voted 10 send 1000 barrels OF
flour 10 the .Johnstown sufferers. The order
was divided among al the mills, 50 as to get
the -four as early as possible.