The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-08

) daughteT'in.lAW OF eX-Alayor Peterson
! Of Allegheny City, and had quite q p
culiar experience at Prospect, She
well acquainted with Miss Paulson, {
Pittsburgh, and went upon the hill
see a body which was supposed to b
Miss Paulson. While looking at th
different corpses, she came TO a coair
which was marked Mrs, II. L, Petel
son, Woodyille Borough, Pa, age abou
40; size 8 feet inch; complexion dark
weight about 200 pounds" This wa
quite an aCurate description OF Mn
Peterson, and for a minute she was non
plused, She tore the card from tn
coffin and one Of the officers was abou
to arrest her, He wanted TO know b,
what right she tore the card from thl
coffin. Mrs, Peterson replied that sh,
thought she had a perfect right To be
cause she was the person supposed 10 b.
in the coffin. This explanation was salts
factory, and she was permitted to go un
molested. In speaking OF the calamity
afterwards, she said:
"The people In Woodvllle had plenty
Of timeto get out OF the town II they
were so minded, We received wore
shortly before 9 o'clock that the flood
was coming and q Pennsylvania railroad
conductor went through the town notify
ing the people, ! stayed until 3:SC
when the water commenced to rise very
rapidly, and thought 1t was best to gel
out OF town. l told number OF women
that they had better go to the hills, bR!
they refused, and the cause Of this re-
fusRl was that their husbands would not
go with them, and they refused to leave
alone. Almost every woman In the
town knew Of the flood coming, but most
OF the men only laughed at It, and the
women would not leave their husbands.
NOT EXAGGERATED,
Snow some people say that the csti-
mate OF lives lost is exaggeration, but l
am satisfied they are mistaken. Now,
in the square | live in, can give you
the names OF about two hundred people
who have not been heard Of. The FOL.
lowing is a list Of the people on our
square, on Maple avenue, that ! know
have been lost, and their bodies not yet
recovered: Mrs. Mayhey and family OF
s: Brown family of5, all gone; Getty's
family OF 4; Alexander family Of TO-;
Miss Bremen; Brown family ol O.; Phil.
lip Smith and 0 OF his family; John
Oonrad's family; Thomas Erles' family
ofG; Mrs. Nixon and family rs; James
Davis and family OF 4; Mr.. Goode and
family Of s; James Baker and family Of
9; Blair Bottormaher aud family Of 4
Evan Jones, wiiG and ChildI John Hen
ming; John Rosenthal and family OF 4.
The last family had chance TO escape
as a rope was thrown 10 them, but they
were SO frightened that they did not
have presence OF mind enough to grab
the rope.
DEAD HEROES.
"Thcrc are quite u number OF dead
heroes here, and the acts Of bravery Of
both the men and women is something
remarkable. Louis Henselstein, who
was a clerk inthe tannery store, saw the
Ilood going and told every one In the
store 10 run for their lives. They all
did, with the exception OF Miss Carrie
Williams, one OF the clerks, who did not
hear the warning. Henselstein thought
every one had gone aud started on q run
TO save himself. He had only gotten q
short distance when some one informed
him that Miss Williams was in the store.
He turned around, although he saw the
flood was almost upon him, and went
back TO help Miss Williams, He just
got where she was when the water
caught him, and the last seen ot him
alive he was struggling In the water 10
save the girl. His body was picked up
this morning, but Miss Williams has not
been recovered"
CLARA nARToN AND HER FORCE or
TRAINED NURSES.
The presence OF Clara Barton and her
assistants Is felt everywhere in the
flooded district. They walk noiselessly
about In the church used % a hospital,
easing the sutierings OF the wounded.
Their advent at Johnstown was q bene.
diction. They are ministering angels Of
Christian love and pity.
Glare Parton Is q nativeof Maine. She
was q teacher In early life and founder
Of some free schools In New Jersey. In
1854 she went 10 Washington to- be Q
clerk in the Government service. She
resigned at the outbreak Of the war and
went into hospital service. OlRra BAR
ton appeared In strasburg the morning
after It's capitulation to the Germans
with scarlet cross wrought In her
sleeve, above the elbow. Her humane
work was carried on in Paris after the
fall OF the Commype. When the Miss
issippi oyerHoyed its banks IN 1884,
CLARA Barton appeared laden with rsilef.
Her work In AMERICA, additional TO what
has been mentioned, has relieved the
sufferers OF the Ohio floods, Michigan
fires, Charleston earthquake, Texas
drought, Mount Vernon tornado, and
now the awful calamity at Johnstown.
CLARA barton is president Of the Amer
lean Red Gross, Tho BED Gross is con-
federation Of relief societies in different
countries, acting under the Geneva Con:
vention. In Geneva Ia held once year
a meeting OF the Society Of Utility, which
Is the International Committee Of the
Rod Gross. The motto Of the American
brapcb Of the organization Is: "Reliei In
war, tontds, ReAIIcnGc sgdother nation