The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-01
IN WAS PREDICTED,

hut tho People Would Not BOllOv0-T6rri.
bic Sights In the Sweeping Flood.
NEW FLoRENcE, Pa, June 1.-The
calamity Of yesterday was as singular as
1t was fatal. 1t is now very evident that
more lives have been lost because OF
foolish inCroduality than from ignorance
Of the danger. For more than a year
there have been fears OF an accident Of
Just such u character. Tho foundations
Of the dam were considered to be shaky
early last spring, and many increasing
leakages were reported from time to
time. According to phople who live in
Johnstown and other towns on the line
of the river, ample time was given
to the Johnstown folks by the
road officials and by other gentlemen
OF standing and reputation. In dozens,
yes, hundreds OF Cases, this warning was
utterly disregurded and those who
needed it early in the day were looked
upon as towards and many jeers were
uttered by lips that now are cold
among the rank grass beside the river.
AN AWFUL SIGHT.
onepoornNmeless woman, wholooked
with slglltless eyes at the gray clouds
from the Shiny banks Of n meadow just
below New Florence, with smile that
perhaps had its birth in that spirit OF
"who's afraid" which had such awful
results. An awful, mud-bedrUggled,
vhastly burden vast that came in along
the meadow and yet there was alook OF
peace on the features that broughttearsto
eyes Of the rough men who, found
her and fastened tho body by
aBhort string to post. She had q work,
days life, poor creature, her hands
were rough, her face thin and worn and
her hair was us streaked with gray as the
stormy sky Just aiter dawn. Whether
incredulily and iool.hardiness numbers
~ flood victims by scores or by the
hundreds, no one yet knows, and Il will
lie many days before the writing upon
tombstones and the tracing OF "tGe I'm.
known dead, are ended. There is grow.
ing n feeling among the surviving suffer.
ors against those who owned tic lake.
and damage suits will be plentiful by.
and.by. The dams in Stony Greek, above
YOUNGSTOWN, broke about noon yesterday
and thousand Of feet Of lumber passed
down the stream.
ONE HUNDRED BODIES At ONE PLACE,
1t Is impossible to tell what the loss Of
lilo will roll up, but at o o'clock the Cor.
oner Of Westmorland county sent a
TG Ss. out, saying that 100 bodies had
T isO,. recovered NJ Nineveh, half way
i'V'' nete To- Johnstown. Sober mind.
ioopEy jOple DO not hesitate to say that
,looIS 10y Gun anybody tell how many arc
,Norri, say q railroad engineer this
VIII ,,, have been nj Sang Hollow
n wy" Ivy nam since II O'Clock Yesterday
I W. d noyH seen fully 5OO persons iost Ii
j.. EsSh, a brave railroad emnlove
saved III lives at Nlncy"b ,T pE,pi NJ, y
awful elimination Of lIe owhi r ,JI
was tue roasting OF bundrcJ ~ u Inv,
persons In the inld.ilood, N" VI lnO''
FiRE AMID Tim rloop.
Tho ruins Of houses, outbuildIpvs md
other structures, swept against III" S np'S
railroad bridge at Johnstown and trow
an overturned store or some spcb cnnso
tle upper part Of the wreckHvc c ySu5v
nte. There were crowds of mon. &C.
men aud children ON tbS wrC %y
IVY their screams wcTo 400,
AadeI 70 tho awful cborus ''v =
norr9r' They were literally roNStpd n,
Hie Hood Soon after tho' fire l bSTn ID
iIscll out, Others were thrown SSaInU
9ne mass, There were some DIV pSopl
~ sight When The ruins Suddcniy bpS vGs
p pISEe up aud were swept under I'M
bridge into pitch darkness. ~ W
jonSsrowS ooNR.
Inc latest news from Johnstown
thNt Of o'clock but two houses could 1
sven IN the town.
II e also said that only three hous,
remain In Cambria civ, Mo Ant a
lehMc news was from W. N, Hayes,
tic Pennsylvania railroad Compan