The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-15

Ol washing DOuV ana preparing 1b IOl
burial and retreated to the yard to await
the arrival of the next CHASTITY find.
Alex b. Campbell, New York detective
who is here acting under General Hastings,
returned yesterday from q three mile trip To
the country, where he located thrty-six
barrels of flour. Teams and men were sent
out to bring the stuff in. The house of Mrs.
Mills and the house of Jacob Stutzman, Mr..
Campbell says, are stocked with enough
provisions to last them months. He also
located n house in Prospect which is well
stocked with diamonds aud other valuables.
All were taken from the wreck. Despite
the vigilance Of the guards and the best
means employed by those in charge people
get through the lines and over the wreck.
age, where they pilfer unmolested.
1t is feared at the Red Cross Corps head
quarters that the flood has left parting
curse lowering over the Conemaugh valley
in the form of the dread disease diphtheria.
The attentions of the medical people are now
directed TO Kernvlle, where the Red Cross
makes no secret of prevailing epidemic.
Miss Clara Barton and DIR. O'Neill, of tho
Red Cross, decided to establish a hospital
at Kernville and after much trouble with
| the local authorities secured site and
erected their hospital tents, with DIR. Berns,
of Philadelphia, in charge. This morning
they will be prepared toreceive the patients,
of which there is large number.
Booth 81 Flynn's big ghoistingengines vera
started Friday morning on the Johnstown
end of the big wreck. They are making
good progress and are working graduallyin
the direction of Arthur Kirk and his dyna-
miters. Directly across the creek from
them is gang of l2j Altoona men with
picks and shovels, loosening the drift and
burning it. The Altoona men are under tho
directions of James Gardner, a practical
lumberman, who has had alarge experience
in this sort of work. The big brick school
building on the point commenced to crack
yesterday, and gang of workmen was put
to shoveling the mud from the floors and
putting props under it. The building is a
valuable one, but is likely damaged so badly
that il will have to be torn down.
The Pennsylvania Children's Aid Society,
of Philadelphia, is represented here. Their
object is to find all the orphans and home
less waits and obtain homes for them.
BELLEFoNTE, Pa, June s.-The damage in
this city by the flood was very slight but
in the Bald Eagle valley 100000 will not
cover the damage done. The Bald Eagle
Valley railroad was washed out more than
half its length, but has since been tempor-
arily repaired and trains are now running
into Bellefonte over that road. In Milesburg
the water filled the houses to a depth of
from three to six feet and great damage was
done. No lives were lost, however. Along
the line of the Bellefonte, Nittany & Lemont
railroad the worst damage in the county
was done.
At Coburn the waters reached their worst.
1t 3pread over the entire town and in some
places the water by actual measurement
was thirty feet deep. There were drowned
tl,a,,n Af,1 Stt,,n, hill
dren, but had it not been for prompt assist
ance scores would have perished. Simon
Phoust was in Cameron County at the time,
and being notified of the fate of his family
he started for home. In crossing a river he
fell in and was drowned, and thus the en-
tire family was wiped from existence In
Coburn there is not one good house left
standing. The total loss will aggregate
fully $500, 900. The valley is strewn with
bodies of all kinds of animals.
HUNTINGDON, Pa, June THE devasta.
tion in Central Pennsylvania is very great.
Not house is left that stood within reach
of the swollen streams here. The damage
is $500 0O0 while other towns in the county
suffered correspondingly. A. l.. Roberts
immense tannery at Mapletop was damaged
to the extent of 100000; other losses will
reach 100000 more. The Powell furnace at
Saxton loses S3O0,OO0 and both railroad and
county bridges were swept away. Four miles
of the Pennsylvania's tracks are gone, with
bridges gone at Mays, Manyunk and Lewis
town. Growing crops in the lowlands were
destroyed Relief committees are seeking
assistance for the destitute, and assistance
is coming in slowly.
WILLIAMsPoRT, Pa, June S.-A more
hopeful state of affairs is apparent here.
With the partial resumption of railway COM
and the generous contributions
of money and provisions from the outside
world for the sufferers here, the spirits of
our people are rising. All this is evident from
the activity of the people to resume their
normal condition prior to the flood 1t is
also evident from the fact that our citizens
have already contributed $4,000 for the
needy ones.
The Montgomery bridge is expected to be
in readiness for travel by this evening or
Sunday. The first mails to arrive here
from the east for a week were distributed
Friday morning. A relief committee
reached this city Thursday night after
perilous journey. They report great dam
age there and the people in need of aid.
Wash Collins and VIII Donnell rescued two
hundred people from the flood in this city
with slSiffs. Edward Parker, who was in
Johnstown, and supposed to have been lost,
reached his home in this city Thursday
night
Wellsboro, Tioga County, is in very bad
shape. A number of people We're drowned.
Much property was destroyed and the peo-
ole are suffering for the necessaries of life.
Reports from Muncy, in the lower end of
his county, have just reached here. They
ire to the effect that while no lives were
ost the loss to property is enormous. All
he bridges in the lower end of Lycoming
County are gone and the smaller streams
ire raging torrents. Cashier Green, of the
duncy First National Bank, had seven feet
II water in his house.
YOUNGSTOWN AS 1T WAS.
The telegraph accounts of the disaster at
Tohnstown have given little or no informa-
ion of the town itself, so that the following
,rief summary of its former population and
industries will be read with
interest and also aid in gaining clear idea
# the nature and extent of the property
destroyed:
Johnstown was beautiful manufacturing
own, situated in the valley OF the Conemaugh, |
urrounded by immense hills The population
Il the borough proper was about 1900, but the
population of the city was in reality close to
1000, spreading along all the valleys and hill |
ides in the neighborhood. The Pennsylvania
nd Baltimore & Ohio railroads reached the
own, the main line OF the Pennsylvania passing
through IL.
The great manufacturing establishment OF
ohnstown was the Cambria iron and steel
,orks. II was built in 1853 and is an immense
establishment. Its capacity OF finished steel
er annum was 10000 net tons OF steel rails
nd 10000 net tons of steel IN other shapes. {
'he mill turned out steel rails, splice bars, ,
ngles, flats, rounds, axles billets and wire