The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-07-06

GuaG bue WOrQ UNKNOWN. - There are
hundreds of these graves already, aid each
day will increase the proportion.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 6.-Two hundred
and forty-six more bodies were found
Wednesday, of which the majority have
been identified This swells the list to 8, Lib
bodies.
Over 5000 men are employed in Johns
town proper clearing the streets, about
1000 of these being the regular street
hands hired by Contractors Booth and
Flynn, of Pittsburgh, the others being
volunteers Mr.. Flynn declares it will take
10000 men thirty days to clear the ground
so that the streets will be passable and the
work Of rebuilding commenced.
PITTSBURGH Pa, June 6.-Chief Bigelow
has ordered corps of engineers to report
this morning to go to Johnstown About a
dozen men will go, taking with them all
the necessary instruments for surveying
and laying out the streets and property
with view to recognizing the DESTROYED
city.
A nOuse-tO-hOuse canvass was ordered by
the sanitary authorities, and it's revela-
lions. as far as it went, were startling in
the extreme. 1t was found that four and
even six families were being crowded into
q single house, and as high as fifty slept in
one room, that the doors and windows
were left closed to shut out the stencil and
the dampness, and that as result pneu-
monia was gaining an alarming foothold.
Mr.. 2. M Darlington of the United States
Marine Hospital estimates that there are at
least a hundred well-defned cases of the
disease in Johnstown to-day. He ascribes
its growing prevalence to crowded rooms.
damp cellars and exposure.
The coroner's jury Wednesday proceeded
to the South fork and Investigated the cause
of breakage Of the reservoir dam. Wit
nesses testified that slight breaks had ap-
peared in the dam several times in past
years, but had each time been
clumsily repaired with straw, sticks
and rubbish. The general impression is
that the jury will declare that the Pitts
burgh Fishing Club that owned the reser-
voir was guilty Of gross negligence. In
that event many suits for damages against
this millionaire club will doubtless follow.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, June g. Out Of a total
population of 1,O3O at Woodvale 667 are
known to have been saved, making the loss
of life about 50 per cent of the submerged
portion of the village.
It is estimated that the number of orphans
in the Conemaugh valley will be about 500.
where they can be found in case they are
inquired for
St. Marks P. E. Church lost ~ out OF a
membership Of $50. Rector A. P. Diller.
wife and two children were drowned.
Their new church building has disap
peared
The drift of opinion among intelligent
men, physicians, engineers railroad men,
is that from 900 to 1,500 OF the bodies will
never be found
Captain Peter Fitzpatrick, Of Cambria
City, learned yesterday that his two little
boys, supposed to be dead, were safe eighty
miles down the river, where they were car
ried on the roof of house and rescued
Work has been begun on the wreckage of
the Cambria mills in Millville. Only about
600 of the 1000 employees have been &C
counted for.
CONTRIBUTIONS FLOWING IN
PHILADELPHIA, June 6.-The rivalry exist
ing between the various collectors in this
city for the JohnstoWn sufferers has been
the means Of swelling the amount Of the
cash subscriptions to about $3.50, 900, while
the donations of food and other necessaries
are SO numerous that some difficulty is ex-
perienced in handling them. Thirty-one
carloads in all have been shipped, and it is
thought that fully as much is awaiting ship
ment
HARRISBURG, Pa, June 6. Governor
Beaver has received by check and draft
$125, 1866
NEW YORK, June 6.-Dispatches from
various points outside Washington and
Philadelphia report flood subscriptions
during the day and night about $780,
GOO. The receipts of cash at the mayors
Office in this city Wednesday aggregate
$1,000 Besides this over 100000 was
subscribed to other funds Of exchanges
and newspapers The Equitable Life has
sent SIC, 900 to the fl d victims