Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-06-13


borough, la which district reside possibly
1000 people. The scenes mere are repeL.
tion of the other parts OF the flood wasted
city. In St. Columbia church, Lew
structure, whice had Hooded 10 depth OF
six feet in the auditorium, the water had
receded and the floor WAS covered with
Shiny ooze to the depth OF seven or eight
inches. On boards stretched along the
tops Of the pevs were thirteen bodies which
had been snatched from the stream by FIR.
Thomas DaI1in and some OF his Pensioners
whom he had pressed into service
While in the awful presence of the dead
and amid the so emu surroundings OF
Gesolatod fame, the representative saw
Joseph Smith, Il man OF extraordinary size
and strength, cutter lie sid not word
but quietly went from corpse TO corpse mt
ing tho stained and mud bcsmeared cover
ings of tho dead. AT last he came TO the
corpse Of Il child about nlno years old, ms
daughter, He looked at the swollen ana
blood stained features "A moment and then
with voice OF the most unutterable agony
cried, My Maggie, my lst.e Maggie. at
the same time pressing the imam mate form
to his bosom and giving expressions 10 al
ternate careSsiug and @ acuia OF grief
The man took his child and ran with II 10
what had once beop his home. lie placed
it beside those OF his wife and TWO other
children, all of whom had been drowned.
IL is impossible to narrate the many pa
tnetlC incidents lnAt OCcuTIcu On III SluCo.
At Morrell forty H. rec bodies were LAID
out waiting to be ldodthed. Eight oil thom
were children, enc that oil child which a
physician said h ID been born while the
mother was fighting for her life in the rag
| ing food
AT Ninevoh, nine miles down the stream,
! l0j bodies, mostly women ana children,
were laid out in sawmill, ana additions
were being made by wagon Dads at a time,
which were being picked up on the mead
| ows over which the great tide had swept
| with the fury of a demon. Many were
| found with their hands yet clinglng tena-
ciously TO the branches Of trees and shrubs.
In one case young coupe wero 1ouno
| locked in each other arms. In another
case mother was found with child
clasped in each arm and he'd closely 10 her
bosom.
There is no pos sib,lity of telling just who
has been lost, as thousands are missing.
Tho survivors, many of whom tell OF tie
most thrilling escapes from collections OF
debris house roofs, car doors and planks,
seek tho banks and gaze with stuI or, born
of paralyZatiCu OF their mental faculties,
from the fright and horror they have been
subjected TO.
The number of people who are visible
from the banks are 80 few III contrast win
tho population Of the various little Dor
oughs which constitute the city thatotht
question Where are the people!' is asked
on all sides, The impression is gaining that
the disclosures yet TO come where int
gorge collected and which is now burning
over an area OF several acres, ls yet more
CHASTITY. The awfulness OF The scene de
lies language TO depict, as it does the mag
iuation to conceive of. Without seeing tn
havoc created no idea can be given eithel
Of the area of the desolatlcn or the extern
of the damage.
Food, clothing and money is needed by
IN IN nal ranfa of the atripiECn CITY y. InGI
need shelter also. The citizens OF Pitts
burg and Allegheny have started relic
fund, which is growing rapidly, but th'
sum needed is more than any one com
munity c. n give. Food has been forward
ed from the cities and towns along tn
lines of the road.
ON tho Baltimore & Ohio railroad thcr
was much damage also, but there was n
such torrent 70 devastate as that whicl
swept down from the South Fork reser
volr with a rap .dity incredible and des
truction unparalleled in the annals OF Amer
lean history.
The actual loss of life cannot possibl
be ascertained within less than week o
ten days.
The damage done tho Cambria iro
works mills is inc ,lculuble and the
VIII have TO spend a fabulous SUI
in repairs before they can resume wOrl
which will not be for several months.
: j. G.. Gill and thirty tive men started in
| wagon TO 20 up the mountain and al wer
; | drowned by the torrent which ovcrtoo
them. Gus Ntzhugh,, an engineer on tn
Pennsylvania railro d, who lived in Conc
maugh, was asleep when the torrent rush
/, | ed down the valley. His vile was ava
! from home at tho timc. Hos husband an
four childlca were drowned.
coUErED THEFT FATE.
The calamity was as singular as it W.
"a IL l.
= ives have been lost because OF foolish il
crCduity than from ignorance OF u
: | danger. For more than year there hav
: been fears of an accident OF just such
character. The foundations of the da.
were cOnsi cred to DO shaky carly last ,plu
/. and many lrcl casing leakagcs were repOrte
from time TO time, according 70 people wh
live in Johns;own and other towns along tn
. line OF the river Ample time was given I
he JoEnstOwn folks by the rallro.d OIL
Gals and other gentlemen Of Standing an
|, reputation. In dozens, yes, hundreds c
: cases this warning was utterly sregdrGe,
: and those who needed it early in the da
. were looked upon as towards, and man
jeers were uttered by lips th.t now ar
F. cold among the ranl: grass beside the river
Whether incredibly and foolhard mes
, numbers its Lood victims By scores or b
: the hundreds, no one yet knows, and il Wi
be many DAYS before the writing upo
4
: : known dead are ended
= There has grown up bitter feelin
among the surviving sufferers agains
!. those who owned the lake and dan
: and damage suits will be plentiful by an
by.
y ave wero afraid Of that lake" said
. gentleman WHO had lsyed in Johns, own fo
e years. ave were afraid of that lake seve
3 years ago No one could see the immens
n hight to which that artificial dam had bee
. d built without fearing the tremendou
0 power Of water behind it, The dam mus
}. have had sheer hight Of 100 feet thu
J. forcing the water that hig
u above its natural bed an
I malsng lako at least three mile
4 long and n mile wide out Of what coul
I scarcely be called pond. l doubt II Their
v is man or woman in Johnston who d
|. some time or other had not feared an
g spoken OF the terrible disaster that ha
4 now come, People wondered and aske
l. why the dam was not strengthened, as
q certainly had become weak, but nothin
was done, and by and by thoy Ia ked les
about it as nothing happene1, though no,
; and then some would snake their heads n
, If conscious that the fearful day woul
, come some time, when their worst fear
; would be transcribed by the horror Of tn
actual occurrence.
Advices from Johnstown on the mornin
, OF June say that the iull extent of the ayy
l full disaster ia beginning 10 bo roaliZed a