The Springdale news., 1889-06-21
SETTLING DOWN AGAIN.

The Survivors at Johnstown Settling Down
 to Routine Life Again-sabbath Among
 the Ruins-W What the RegistratIon shows
 --Chicago's Great Head Houses for the
 People All Ready to be Placed on Thelr
 Foundations.
 JonNsTowN, Pa, June e17.-Johnstown's citizens have settled down to their rou- tine life again. There was almost a tetal suspension of work in the Conemaugh Valley yesterday, and the day was spent very quietly. There was no improve. ment in the weather.
 During the early morning a heavy rain tell. About nine o'clock the clouds rolled away and the sun came out bright and strong, and few moments later the mercury registered 80 degrees. Religious services were held by all denominations. Nearly all of the services were from necessity conducted in the open air. Tho sermons and addresses counseled the peopie to be brave and keep up heart.
 It is understood that polling places will be opened here tomorrow to give the residents a chance to vote on the con- stitutional amendment.
 About 150 men were working at ths gorge to make a wider opening in the de- bris. The channel opening is now over twenty feet wide. A hundred other men were engaged in searching for dead bodies and six were recovered during the day. None were identified.
 Late last evening a large quantity of oil was poured over the debris below the stone railroad bridge and the torch was applied. At nine o'clock there was sheet of flame twenty feet high and two hundred yards in length along both banks of the river. A careful search for dead bodies was made before tho torches were applied, General Hastings having issued orders that no human remains should be burned where it was possible to avoid it.
 Last night rain began falling again, but not heavy enough to interfere with the fires HOW raging.
 Colonel Rogers, who is in charge of the bureau of registration, reports to General Hastings that the aggregate registration is f5 ,569 names. Two thousand five hun- dred survivors have left the locality without registering, and many others are being entertained in the vicinity who, be- cause they were not affected by the food refuse to register, as they think they arc not legitimately survivors. Colonel Rog- CTS estimates the survivors at twenty five thousand. and says: "These figures are presumably approximately correct. De- ducting the twenty five thousand surviv- ors. from the total population leaves i,125 lives lost. This estimate is as posi- tive as it will probably ever be poss ible to give as they are made up from careful research house. to- house canvass and comparison with the proof shoots of the Johnstown directory which was conn., piled one month previous to the disaster.
 IT .I .4.a.. 4E.+a Ion day that where people desire to rebuild immediately he will clean out their cell lars and assist them to put up their buildings.
 4 Chicago firm has been furnished money by the Chicago relief committee with which to send one hundred and fifty houses here ready to place upon their foundations. These will begin to arrive in day or two. To facilitate building schemes, the Baltimore & Ohio railroad and the Pennsylvania railroad will con- stract special switches for the aceommo- dation of the lumber trains which arc now arriving. The State is to furnish the tools, nails and all the requisites for prompt work in rebuilding.
 Special orders were issued yesterday and arrangements made for rushing tho work of clearing away the debris with all possible dispatch. If expectations arc realized, and a few days of favorable weather interyenes there will be but little work left undone by next Saturday night. So confident is General Hastings of this, that he has expressed the determination of king, during the week, that twenty l five ministers of various denominations visit Johnstown next Sabbath and hold special thanksgiving services for the saved from the late visitation.