Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-04

the embalning was done presented sick
 ening sight. Human forms frightfullJ
 burned or cus or bruised were laid upon
 rough board table, washed and coffned
 If they were not recognized iR a short time
 they were placed on wagons and taken te
 the Adams street school house, where they
 will be kept as long as possible and then
 buried in grave bearing the legsnd "Un-
 known" The burgess of Johnstown and the
 acting chief of police deny that there waa
 anyone shot by ex-Burgess c. L. Dick yes-
 terdsy. The only man shot was punctured
 in the leg by Constable Callahan for refusing
 to stop when ordered to do so, on being de.
 tected in theft. There are now on duty
 ! in and about the ruins 400 police and depu-
 ties, which the burgess thinks is ample
 l without the assistance of the military. Very
 few arrests have been made. By order of the | burgess all men who refused to go to work ! to-day were given twenty-fours to leave the | town.
 THE GOOD WORK HANDICAPPED BY DRUNKARDs
 By noon the streets were beginning to be full of boisterous and noisy countrymen, ,who were trying to counteract the strain on their
 nerves. Then the police foreseeing the un- | seemly sights that were likely to ensue, drove ! out and kept out all the visitors who had not ' some good reason for their presence. After ! that and far into the evening all the coun- try roads were filled with drunken strag- glers. One thing that makes the work of | searching for the bodies very slow Is the l jects were rolled into intricate masses of rub bish.
 NOT ENOUGH CoFFINs. The hourly recovery of bodies at and near the vicinity of what was once the B. & O. depot is increasing with frightful rapidity. Half of the unknown dead are mangled or burned or crushed beyond recognition. Ever since the recovery of the first body the popu- lace have not had enough cofins for the dead, although hundreds arrive daily, and owing to the decomposed condition of most of the bodies they have to to be and are boxed up in rough board boxes, merely store boxes, and buried at once.
 Where Woedvale stood Is now stretch of mud. Nothing is standing but the woolen mills. The place is swept bare of all other buildings but the ruins ot the Gautier mill. The boilers of these great works were carried 400 yards from their foundation. Pieces of engines, rolls and machinery was swept far away from where they once stood. The mire has formed the grave for many a poor victim. Arms and legs are protruding from the mud and it makes the most sickening of pictures.
 Rain fell all day to-day and added to the miseries of the wretched people. The great plain where the best part of Johnstown used to stand is half covered with water. The few sidewalks in the part that escaped were inches thick with black sticky mud, through which tramped steady procession of the poor women who are left utterly destitute. The tents where the people are housed were cold and cheerless. The town seemed like 8 great tomb. The people of Johnstown have supped so full of horrors that they go about in daze and only half. conscious of their griefs. Every hour e one, goes through the streets he hears neighbors greet each other and then enquire, without show of feeling, how many each had lost in his family. To- across the street and say: "I lost five-all are gone but Mary and l." 1T am worse off ;" replied the other. s'I have only my grandson left. Seven of us gone." And 30 they passed on without apparent excite ment. The melancholy task of searching the soaking rain. There were little crowds of morbid curiosity hunters around each knot of workmen. There were hundreds and thou sands of these visitors from the country to- day.
 AN APPEAL FOR HELP. The great cry in Johnstown Is for men who will work and not stand idly by and do noth- ing but gaze at the ruins. The following order was posted on telegraph pole in Johnstown to-day:
 .$ NOTICE?
 During the day men who have not been idle, have been clearing the town and many have not re- ployment can be found for every man who wants to work and men offered work who refuse to take
 Johnstown i stow T for the present We cannot saord to feed men who will not work. All work will be paid for. Strangers who refuse to work will be ejected By order of Citizens Committe. Officers were stationed at avenues and rail roads that enter the town. All suspicious IoNl- olA.n nokn zfar oyl6 ooE End twill you works" If an affirmative answer is given the man is escorted to the employ ment bureau whers he is put to work. If not he is turned back. There are a lot of idle vagabond negroes in Johnstown who will not work. It is likely that a They have caused the most trouble during the past terrible days. It is fact, although 8 disagreeble one, to say that not a few of the ''relief committee" who came to this city came only out of curiosity and positively refused to do any the food. The leaders of the committees then had to do all the work. They deserve much credit. An old man sat on 8 chair placed on 8 box at the intersection of two
 streets to-day and begged for men. "For Gods sake, i" he said, "can we not find mena men who have not slept for three days and are dropping with fatigue. We will pay well. For Gods sake, help us."
 Tears rolled down his cheeks as he spoke. Then he would threaten the group of idlers standing by and again plead with them. Every man, it seems, wants to be police man where he can bulldoze strangers and an noy repo rters.
 RELIEF FUNDS.
 BERLIN, June 3.-A fund for the Johns- town flood sufferers he1 been organized in this city.
 LONDON, June 3.-Some persons are de- sirous that fund be started at the Mansion House for the relief of the sufferers by the Johnstown floods. The Lord Mayor was ab- sent from his office to-day, but his secretary in answer to an inquiry said he did not think it probable that a fund would be opened. PROVIDENCE, R. l., June 3.-A fund for the relief of Pennsylvania flood sufferers was started by the Pawtucket Business Mems as- sociation to night.
 HARTFORD, Conn.,, June 3.-At 6 meeting of citizens this evening at which Mayor Root presided committee of nine with the | mayor as chairman was appointed, to act | in conjunction with committee of the board or trade in raising funds for the relief | of the flood sufferers. The mayor to-day sent his check to the governor of Pennsylva- | mia for $459 the unexpended balance of the l fund raised here for the Jacksonville yellow