Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-06-13

The Death ROiis
JoHssrows, June Sit is the popular
impression here thar the DEAD Will mum.
Der 10000. The majority of the people
here sooff at the estimate OF 5000. Those
who were in Jamestown the day after the
food are particularly skeptieal. They
say that at that time, when every person
who survived would be out looking OF
the scene of desolation, there was hardly
any one out, and that the first questions
asked by those who were out was,
stWhere, in heavens name, are all the
people2" Men from out OF town who
were familiar With the aspect OF Johns
town on both busy days and quiet days
like Sunday, declare that only about one.
third of the usual number OF people
were around anywhere on Saturday
and Sunday, before the strangers
began to flock in from Fits
burg aud other towns. A man con-
nected with the Pennsylvania road here,
who walked up to South Fork on the day
after the food, told Sun reporter that
he actually could not see anybody, and
that he felt like an explorer IN deserted
land. The New York Sun reporter,
however, thinks his estimate of 5,OOO Is
very fair one. Though any quantNy OF
people were drowned and their podies
sunk in the river bed or burned inthe drii.
at the bridge, 1t is hardly possible ina.
5000 were 30 destroyed alone, 81 woulo
have to be the case did the total NUMBER
of deet amount to III, 900. The fact tnst
| after thYee days continual nlasting WIN
| dynamite at the dam al the railroad
bridge only one body has been tounu'
ahows that the number OF bodies sup
nosed to be in the drift has been over
Estimated. The bodies found, too, IN
tbe ruius OF JohnstoWn are certainly
deoyeasin0. II was predicted that
the fourth days WORK OF clearing
up the town would result in en- appalling
nnmber of bodies being found. rms,
| howayar 10 not the case. The result
shows that comparatively few people
wave allied in the houses. Most OF tine
people in Johnstown knew that the noou
was coming five minutes Of 80 peloto IL
did oqme, and they managed to get on
the streets before the great wave sWep,
through the city. They were not Killed
nv the housAs crashing down. bus lew
neople have been found drowned OF
kilisd In rooms in houses. In the utterly
wrsoked condition OF the town after the
sood il naturally looked as though re"
people were there. The greater part OF tine
rnryivnrs too. we're on the hills Wnere
tbey e0uld not be seen az glance.
II is significant, as bearing upon IN,
ouest,on OF probable pestlienoe, tna'
tne bofiy of a woman which was biowf
mi of The drift at the bridge yesterda,
was in frightful stage OF dscomposi
t;on The men at work AZ the drift sal
,hat thsye ia a terrible stencil there. Thi
haS;ss ramayed before were decomposet
80 Ii.tIa Those taken from the sane
were hardly decomposed st al. L lhsa'
is bed OF B2nd both under ana apo''
them acting as perieot euohinlet.
So for nearly 1000 people nave regis .
tered their names as survivors or tne neot
al the different bureaus appointed 10
that purpose. The exact population = !,
,Iohnstown and the many boroughs Wnioi
really composed part OF inc so city wa
29.li4. The registration OF ~ Oo cover
! All tnis territory, 1t is probable that "a 2
Least is per cent Of the survivors VIII
for various reasons, net register at all
II Il known that at least 1000 are no!
he;no cared for in Pittsburg Who lei
Jobpstown before the registration. unde
tbsae circumstances 1t seems impossipi
that ia. 600, or anything approaching tina
. Number. have been lost. Five thousan
! il ant to be large estimate.
LOCOMOTIVE FLOATING ON THE Fboor
William E. McHenry of Philadelphi'
: Who TOOK refuge in the Cambria DIN
honse as the food went by, says: "fh
current flowed but three feet below N
, window, which was IS feet from th
! Ground. For five minutes | stood SEPT
! satad from the avalanche of death only :
a i0.inch wall. was ready to spring
, tha moving mass the instant the clul
: honse should collapse. A roof came b
= bearing a man with child in his arm
He was inst out Of my reaol