Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-06-08

the dry finder of the floating houses,
human bodies were seen pinioned
between the house roofs, locomotives,
iron beams, freight, passenger, Pull
man and baggage cars, the greedy
flames licking, with haste, their diet
of human flesh. The scene was hor-
rible, beyond description. From in
fancy to the wasted figures of age
were burned before the eyes of the
beholders, and no rescue from such
fate was possible. Strong men
turned away with agonized express
sions and women shrieked at the
horror of the scene. The dead has
been computed at not less than 5000,
and the number may exceed that es-
innate, This seems incredible, but
until the waters will have abated and
the work of removing the dead from
this tremendous mass, it will be i'm
possible to tell how many lives have
been lost.
JohnstOwn, June 3-The latest
estimates put the loss Of life at from
10000 to 1900. 1t is impossible to
get any account of the number lost.
Every one is so thoroughly tired out
and overcome by the weight of the
disaster as to be utterly unable to
give any accurate details or figures.
The work of identifying the dead
goes on very slowly, and compare
lively few so far have been identified.
The Hotel Holbert has been entirely
washed away, and seventy.two
persons persisted in the wreck.
Behind the Morrill, property lies a
locomotive which was carried over
the bridge and swept up by the flood.
From under the large brick school
house 124 bodies were taken last
night and today, and in every corner
and place the bodies are being found
and buried as fast as possible. The
necessity for speedy burial is becom-
ing manifest, and the stencil arising
from the bodies is sickening. a
number of bodies have been found
with bullet holes in them, showing
cOnclusively that in their maddening
fright suicide was resorted to by
many.
JOHNsTowN, June 3, 1870 a. M
The rescuing parties who are at work
on the mass of unburned wreckage in
the river above the stone bridge are
finding bodies aud fragments Of
bodies at the rate of from ten to fit.
teen an hour. In other parts of the
submerged districts many bodies ale
being taken out. A careful estimate
at this time of the bodies recovered
everywhere puts thine from 700 Il
800. The total loss of life must Ger
tainly be from 5000 to 5000. They
are being picked up in pockets likt
ore in all sorts of unexpected places
YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, June 9Th,
twenty-five acres of debris accumu
lated by the Pennsylvania bridg,
over the Conemaugh will be dyna
, mited tomorrow. The idea is to dis
+ integrate the mass, start logs dowl
{ the river, catch the bodies thus dis
lodged and inter them as rapidly a
, possible.
5 Williamsport, Pa, June 3.-Sinc
t Saturday morning last this city ha
undergone the experience of bein
I flooded with thirty-four feet of water
I and of having the Susquehanna boon
e taken out with 2OO,OOO,OOO feet of logs
e over 4O0,0O0,00O feet of sawed lumbe
J. taken, mills carried away and other
t wrecked, business and industrial Is
s Establishments wrecked, and larg
: number of lives lost, flood nearl
{ seven feet higher than that of 1866
|. A level surface of water extends
1 from the northern line of the city en-
e tirely across the city to the mountai
e on the south side. This meant tina
: the water was six feet deep on tn
S floors of the buildings in Marke
v Square, and over four feet deep i
It station of the Pennsylvania Railroa
e and at the Stark Hotel. Fully three
/ quarters Of the city was submerged
q The loss is enormous.
h Johnstown, Pa, June 4.-Fou
y days have elapsed since the angel {
IL death swept down through the Va
n ley of the Conemaugh, but no ray (
st sunshine has lighted the scene of no
h rOr at Johnstown bridge. The sky
e overcast with heavy clouds and til
Y sun rests behind menacing pail ;
k though reluctant to view the hant
d iwork of his potent elements. FL
d thirty-siX hours, without interim