The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
DISEASE RAPIDLY SPREADING.
Pneumonia, Diphtheria And 8ieasIes-A
Large Number of Cases Reported.

Pneumonia, Diphtheria And Measles-A
Large Number of Cases Reported.
YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, June Eight thousand
men have been at work here to-day cleaning
out the debris, but truth compels the state
meDt that the undertaking has not yet been
fairly started. Fires are burning up and down
the valley of the Conemaugh as far as the eye
can reach. The air is thick with smoke, and
yet to people familiar with the situation the
efforts of this army of toilers is hardly appre-
ciabie. William Flynn, mounted on a weary
looking steed, is riding up and down the city
directing the fOremen in their labors, and his
executive ability is telling its own story. Some
thing like system is being established, but the
most careful estimates are 10 the effect that It
will take 10000 men for weeks to clear out the
heaps OF ruins piled up for miles between the
hills up and down the course of the river.
There is belief with many people that
newspaper reporters live chiefly in a world of
fiction. Could every person who reads these
lines see the frightful sights that have con-
fronted the members of the press here during
the last week they would all unite in declaring
that only small portion OF the story had been
told. Human fancy cannot conceive the hor-
rors OF the situation. This report is being
written from the second story of building
worth, possibly, S15, which commands a view of
the mountainous wreck at the point bridge.
The stencil that is waited through the doorless
and wlndowless structure by every passing
breeze is sickening. An hour ago the writer
completed tour of the mighty wreck in this
vicinity In company with Arthur Kirk, the
millionaire oil man, who is looking after the
work OF opening up the river channel, chiefly
by the use of dynamite.
Dozens of human beings and animals were to
be seen on the surface, chaTred and blackened
by the fire and in such a state OF decOmposi-
ton that the strongest man could no more than
glance at them. Mr.. Kirk, who is a man OF
iron nerve and a stranger TO fear" declared
that he was sick at heart and anxious TO quit
the awful scene.
Eighty-six men from Altoona, under orders
OF the sanitary officials are scattering disinfect
ants over the area of wreckage that the railroad
bridge stopped. Mr.. Kirk declares that thou
sands of bodies will yet befound in this terri
tory alone.
The problem of the hour is the disposal of
the debris above the Pennsylvania railroad
bridge. Unless it is soon got rid of the stencil
will soon be so overpoWering that no human
being can withstand it
The pneumonia scOurge grows alarming. DIR.
Sweet OF Philadelphia, prominent member of
the state board Of health staff, came down from
the Cambria hospital tonight with a startling
report. DIR. Sweet said: Prospect Hill is full
of pneumonia with some diDhtheria and measles.
The hospital is full to overlooking, and to-day l
attended forty-two cases on the outside. They
were almost severe pneumonia. There is every
condition needed for the spread OF the disease,
and fear an epidemic"
DR.. Darlington also reported several cases of
pneumonia, having found them on the hill near
Morrellville.
DIR. RUSSELL came in with load of informa-
ton from the Kernville-Hornerville district
this evening. The cellar of a house on Bed
ford-st. was found with wet clothing which
was full of disease. butcher shop on Frank
lin-st. was found full of putrid meats, which
were destroyed. Nine horses and four cows
were cremated, making 80 animals in this dis
trict.
A row of human feet was noticed sticking
out of the sand on the river bank near Kern
vile. A band of men soon unearthed the
bodies OF two men and girl, all in good state
of preservation. The identified as
Messrs. Young and Bantley. The girl was
buried among the great army Of Unknown"