The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
A THOUSAND FUNERALS
Coursed Their Way over the Green Hills
to Silent and Unknown Graves.

Coursed Their Way over the Green Hills
to Silent and Unknown Graves.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 5-The gray mists
had scarcely arisen from the hills this morning
until thousand funerals were coursing their
green sides. There were no hearses few
mourners and as little solemnity as formality.
The majority of the collins were of rough pine.
The pall-bearers were strong farmers teams,
and instead of six pall-bearers to one coffin
there were generally six collins 10 one team.
Silently the professions moved, and silently
they unloaded their burdens in the lap of
mother earth. No minister of God was there
TO pronounce last blessing as the clods ratified
down, except few faithful priests who had
followed some mangled representatives of their
faith to the grave.
\ fact that has been heretofore overlooked
In the awful strain is the sordid condition of
the corpses. Fully one-third of those recov-
cred have been so mangled, bruised OF charred
that Identification was impossible. In an or
binary flood this would not have been the case,
but here human bodies were but the filling in
of a mOuntain-like mass of houses railroad
tracks, trains and other debris which went
crunching and crashing through a valley three
miles long. How any of the lifes clay retained
form or semblance is enigmatical.
Almost every stroke of the pick in some pOr-
tiOns of the city to-day resulted in the dis
covery of another victim, aud, although the
funerals of the morning relieved the morgues
of their crush before night they were rs full of
the sinking dead as ever. Wherever one turns,
the melancholy view OF a coffin Is met. Every
train into Johnstown is laden with them, the
better ones being generally accompanied by
friends of the dead. Men could be seen, stag
gering over the runs. with shining mahogany
caskets on their shoulders. Several stumbled
and fell into the aboundlng man-pits. The
hollow houses of the dead went bounding over
the stones like drums in a funeral march. The
coffin famine appears to be allevlated.
A number OF names were handed in at relief
headquarters to-day. They are:
DAVID SIUESS.
JESSIE FRANK.
MARY EVANS.
SYLVESTER THOMAS
". EVANS.
BYBEL HENRY.
KATE LAMBERSKI.
FILA WARNER.
\. L wilmer.
ALEXANDER KING.
MARY PRICE.
CHARLES SCHUBERT.
TOM DAVIS.
MARY kULTZ.
A. MALLARD.
MRS. GARNER
JOSEPH HOFFMAN,
MISS SARBERS.
MRS. VERIND.
WINNIE suffer.
AGNES MANENY.
ARTIE STINLEY.
JOHN CLARK.
KATE FRITZ
". ALBEITA MCLEAvES.
MRS. JAMES MILLER.
KATE BRATZ.
HARVEY JENKINS.
MICHAEL J. MURPHY.
KENT CAMPBELL.
ELLA MULHERRON.
ELIZA JONES.
TAYLOR GRAY.
CHARLES MENZER.
JAMES BENNETT.
LAWRENCE MCGUIRE.
KATE MCGUIRE.
FRANK 0D0NNELL.
JOHN SCHNABEL
CATHERINE KEELING.
MARY KEELING.
MRS. CONRAD SCHNABEL
THOMAS CARROLL.
LAURA M'AULIFFE.
JOHN c. REIDALL.
MRS. TOM LENHART.
MRS. JOHN A. KEIFER.
LIZZIE WAGNER.
EMMA KANE.
WILLIAM CUSH.
PAUL ELDRIDGE.
LIZZIE HOWE.
MELVILLE BAKER.
CHARLES A RISE
KATE FRANK.
ROSE HAYES.
MRS. JOHN CUSH.
TOM FOGARTY.
MRS. WENZEL.
LOU WENZEL.
KITCHEN IRENS.
FRANK NELAND.
6. O'BRIEN.
MRS. FISCHER.
CHARLES STEPHEN.
J. s. WEIGH.
GEORGE MILLER.
MRS. N. o. DoLAN.
JOSEPH TOKE.
DAN DIEHHLMAN.
JENNIE COLEMAN.
G. NJ. MOEN.
CHARLES FRIES.
ELMER NEUE.
4. c. HINES and wife.
AUGUST NEWELL
MANUAL WARNING.
/. KARL.
". c. KINLEY.
MRS. AUGUST SOTIR.
CULBERT BRYAN.
FRANK WOLFERT.
CHARLES BRILE, JR.
MRS. GUNDIE.
MRS. HUNTLEY.
PETER FITZPATRICK.
MRS JOSEPH HEINEBAUM and three
children.
JOSEPH BOFF.
MRS. JOHF CULLEN.
MRS. MARGARET MICH.
JOHN HOGAN.
MISS DOWN.
MRS. b. KELLAN.
MISS MAY LUIS.
MRS. SUNBRASKA.
MRS STINLEY.
ANDREW BATES.
MRS. LUSIIER.
TENA MICH.
MRS. EVANS.
JOHN WAGNER.
MRS LUTHER.
JOHN ATKINSON.
KATIE REILLY.
H. HERARCH.
MRS. JOSEPH Marley.
MRS. MCONAUGHEY.