Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14
Charm an State Committee
TENTH DAY AFTER THE
GREAT CONEAIAUGu DIS
ASTER,

JoHNsTowN, June 10.-Tho great
raft is IN endless, measurclcss grave
yard, made i'll night. Its tomb
stone is tho shattered timbers stick
ing out OF tho wrcckage, the torn,
ragged fragments OF walls marking
where the waters had been. Though
hundreds have already been uncover
cd the dead today arc coming to
light i'll surprising numbers. If any
one here eau be surprised and there
ere some faces among them that have
never been missed. People just ar
irving i'll Johnstown say tho stencil
is fearful, and sickening, tainting the
air of tho valley everywhere, while
those who have worked here through
out Che trying scenes have noticed it
only ut times and i'll certain places,
showing that their senses arc numb.
ed. All the waters ARE giving up
their dead and tho skiils and crap.
piers are in waiting for them. The
rcd shirttd lumber man standing
midway the raft and who is called
Tthe marker and color bearer, rnised
His axe once TO strike this raft but
tho terrible blow never fell If il had
1t wculd have cut in twain tho first of
the bodies taken from that point ON
ithe morning OF the tenth day. 1t was
:the remains of woman, Emmn
Roth, by name, identified by hcr
broken hearted husband IN hour
later. Others, unknown, were taken
from The raft at all hours of the day.
among them an old man with his lit
tie boy claspod in his arms. With
every hour comes salute for the
hundreds yet buried there. 1t is the
blast of dynamite. Five bodies were
found under one single heap of the
wreck today. One Of them was Kate
Norry, the millincr and modisto.
One of tho ladies identified was that
of Miss Blanche IIornish, of DAYTON,
ONO. She was a passenger on the
day express, and her father had
searched for her the past three DAYS.
Some worlmen found her BODY I'M
der the trestle, near the Pennsylvania
railroad station. George Crumm was
we'll known insurance agent. No,
body had given him thought until
this afternoon when his body was
carried to tho Presbyterian church
The day is past when tho discovered
dead can be kept any time for identi
iication. Frightful scenes at tho
morgues bear quick testimony OIL
This. The keepers say that as soor
MS the air strikes the corpse now il
becomes almost impossible to handl,
them, and the sooner they arc buried
the better. There are over fifty new
faces on the slabs at the morgue to
night, and record shows that ND tc
noon yesterday, just a week from tho
time morgues were established 1,49:
people were buried from those who
were discovered right in this vicinity
YOUNGSTOWN June 1O.-One day il
very like another in Johnstown now
Ten thousand laborers swarm over
square mile of ruin. The mir is heay,
with the smoke of hundred bon
fires, upon which they heap til,
debris. The white camps of the sol
diers are scattered about MS though
they were taking possession of
town abandoned and burned at th,
enemy's approach. The railroa,
tracks are crowded with constructioj
and supply trains, being shifted
about by tiny locomotives. Dynamit,
booms frequently down by til,
bridge. With it all there is no an
parent progress. The town is as DIES
oiate as ever A stranger would al
most swear that no hand had touch
ed it since that of the food crushe,
1T together like lot of egg shells
The task OF making its site again hal
liable is one that the most coniiden
might easily consider hopeless, an
that undoubtedly would be practica
ly impossible had not the State sta,
ped in and undertaken the work.
is pretty well settled by this tim
that the State will confne its wor
to the clearing up of the ruins an
the restoration of the streams 10
safe and pure condition. The nee
for private charity for the support ,
the peOpla mill fhoy nv,