Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-04
DEATHS DOINGS.
THE MOST FRIGHTFUL STORIES
FULLY CONFIRMED.
The Unidentified Victims of Fire
and Flood Buried in Deep
Trenches by Thousands.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO TIE RrooRD-us1os. !

JoHNsTowN, June 3d.-Developments every
hour makes il more and more apparent that the
exact number of lives lost in the Johnstown
horror will never be known. All estimates that
have been made up to this time are consery-
ative, and when all is known it will doubtless
be found to have been too small. over 1000
bodies have been found since sunrise to-day,
and the most skeptical concede that the re-
mains of thousands more rest beneath the
debris above the JohnStown bridge. The popu-
lation of Johnstown and the surrounding towns
and the portion OF the valley affected by the
food is or was from $4,000 to $1,000.
The Associated Press representatives to day
interviewed numerous leading citizens of
Johnstown who survived the food.
CoNCENsUs OF THEIR OPINION
Was that fully 50 per cent. of those residing in
Johnstown and Cambria had been the victir
of the combined disasters of fire and water.
If fGhis be true the total loss of life IN the en-
tire valley cannot be less than 1000 or 900, and
possibly much greater.
Of the thousands who were devoured by the
flames, and whose ashes now rest beneath the
smoking debris above the JOhnStown bridge no
definite information can ever be obtained, as
little will be learned of the hundreds that
SANK BENEATH THE CURRENT
And were borne swiftly down the COnemaugh
only to be deposited hundreds of miles below
on the banks and in the driftwood of the raging
Ohio.
Probably one-third of the dead will never be
recovered, and 1t will take the list of the miss
ing weeks hence to enable even a close estimate
to be made of the number of lives that were
blotted out in that brief hour
mat TINS estimate can never be accurate is
understood when II is remembered that in many
instances whole families and their relatives were
swept away and found a common grave be-
meath the wild waste of waters.
The total destruction OF the city leaves no
uata 10 even demonstrate the names of those
unfortunates who ever found place on
THE PAGES OF ETERNITY's HISTORY.
'All indications point to the fact that the
death list will reach over 5000, and in nv
opinion the missing list will reach s 900 in num-
ber,' declared General Hastings tonight.
Az present there are said to be 1900 recovered
bodies. The difficulty experienced in getting g.
correct list is the great number of morgues
There Is no central bureau of information and
to communicate with the different dead houses
is the work of hours
The journey from the Pennsylvania Rail-
road morgue to the one in the Fourth Ward
school-hOuse IN Johnstown occupies at least
one hour This renders it impossible to reach
all OF them IN one day, particularly as some of
the morgues are situated at points inaccessible
from Johnstown.
At O'Clock this evening the 6SOth body had
been received at the Cambria City depository for
corpseS
At Milville was the body of girl Is wears
old, making the 10th corpse received there An
angry mark on her wrist looked as if a bracelet
had been torn from the arm.
Seventy bodies have been received at the
pennsylvania railroad station.
list OF THE IDENTIFIED.
Those identified are as follows: Schelhefmer.
Mrs. ID. J. Wildham, Fanny FIosSer, Mrs r. NJ
Parsons, John Myers, James Jones, Thos. Tho
burn, Mrs. Leach, mother of the County Super
David Surding, Mrs. Margaret Frank, Mrs
Molly Burkhardt. Miss Molly James, Frank
Davis, Miss Alice Kenna, Christy Formerly, of
BntieF; utad Mis- Maggie stoppelir Mrs; Maria
Lucas Williams, DIR. H. p. Will
son, Catherine Myers. The family of
Patrick Pagan, husband wife and two grown
daughters; John Murphy, Charles Beam. Mary
Callahan, Samuel Hite. Samuel Blough Charles
MUIR, John S. Buchanan. Superintendent of the
Cambria Iron Works warehouses; Mrs John w
James, Bessie Brosser Blankman Field. Mrs.
Mary Downey, Paul Geddes William H. Over
beck, Ore Lewis, Mary Anne Ownes Mary Anne
Jones, Richard Jones. ex-Burgess Gottleib
Schuizelderck. George f. Geddes, II. C. Rose,
District Attorney; George Helsel.
AT the Fourth Ward school-house a great
number OF victims are being prepared for inter-
ment Yesterday 2UO more were disposed of and
to-day as many more received their attention.
MORE NAMES.
Those identified are: Charles A. Marshall,
Mrs. II. T. De Frances, son of Dr. Poland
daughter OF Dr.. Poland, Mrs. Eatzenstein, son OF
Mrs. Katzenstein, Mr.. Long butcher: Moses
Strauss, Frank Wheat Sadie Gageby, Mrs. Ella
Layton, Miss Mary Leyden, a Hurlbut House
porter lcolored) supposed TO be William Henry.
Jacob Wild, Mrs. Jacob Wild, Mrs W. W Jones,
Howell Powells and two sons, George Bal
OWN, William Layton, Mrs. O'Connen, Mrs.
Mckay, John o. Richards, Patrick McNa lv.
Charles F. Butler, Assistant Treasurer C. l.
90; Mrs :. NJ. Jones, Jessie Hamilton
2: ". McAley Miss Harrgan, James Murtha'
William L. Davis, Samuel i. Eldridge, Miss
Laura Hamilton, Mrs. Knorr (whose body had
been robbed of Naluables), Elmer Brinkley, A.
Little OF PittSburg. Charles II. Wilson, a female
resembling Miss Ella Layton, Nellie Williams,
ychn Burns, brakeman of the c. l. Company,
Miss Jennie Nellis, John Andrews, Frank h.
Harris. Arthur Smith, Carrie s. Barbour. George
Randolph, Frank Diamond, Annie Falcon a
lady supposed to be Mrs. Gels James G. Cox.
Mrs. James /. FrouheiSer, Amelia Robb VIM
Penrod, James J. Murphy, a young lady with
the initials W. II. on a ring Miss Hotter, NJ L.
Davis, John Steum, Mary Davis, Peter Brown.
Minnie Linton, Charles Fitzharris, Charles
Rohnke, Thomas Matthews, Bertha Hoffman,
Mrs: b; F. Hoffman, Florence Hoffman, Fred.
A. Holman, Marion Hoffman, Joe hoffman.
Dr. W. c: Bean, A. Lytle Laura Hamilton. Mrs.
John ID. Hornicke Conrad Weese, August Denis,
TIE DEAD AT KERNvILLE ARE:
Three children of y. Shanks, Mrs. Walter
Dawes, Mrs, John HOwker Mrs. Ream, Mrs W.
Wesley stuff, Mrs. Jacob Swank Luther Bow
man and child, Jessie Hamilton Mrs l. W. De.
laney, Otto Cooper, Annie Reese Windsor Reese
Ella White, Maggie White, Charles Muscer, Mr..
Edward Brennan, daughter of Bernard Cunz
Mrs knoLey, ssllie Lavey Mrs. Kinney, mother
of Joseph Kinney, child of John Murl, Mrs
Robert Nixon, Mrs. Dywer James Howard
Mrs j. J.: Craig. J J. Craig, Mrs Rachel Forkes
David Fisher, Margaret Fisher, George Fisher
John II. Fisher, Fishers servant tirl, Mrs
Kinney and five unknown bodies.
BAD STATE OF AFFAIRS.
Kernville is in a deplorable condition. The
living are unable to take care of the desd A
majority OF the Inhabitants of the town were
drowned. shed of boards has been erected
on the only street remaining in town, and this
is the headquarters for the committee that con-
troll the dead.
AS quick as the dead are brought in they are
placed IN boxes and then taken to the cemetery
and buried
A milkman who was overcharpine for milk
this morning narrowly escaped lynching The
infurtated men appropriated all of his milk and
distributed 1t among the poor, and then drove
The body of Hungarian who was
LYNCIIED IN AN ORCHARD
Last night has been recovered by his friends
The lnhHman monster was noticed as he cut of
four fingers of a woman's body. He dropped the
fingers into his pocket, where they found them
when he was captured. The act msddened the
men and they took him to an orchard on the
hillside and hung him.
There is but one street left in this town and
about 155 houses are standing where once there
stood over thousand A thousand is the low
est estimate of the number of lives lost from
this town.
But few bodies have been recovered. 1t is
directly above the ravines and the bodies have
hoated down into them, where they were
buried. walk through the town reveals
DEsoLATE SIGHT.
Only about twenty-five able bodied men have
survived and are able 10 render any assistance
Men and women can be seen with black eyes
bruised faces and cut bodies who were injured
in the food, and since that have not Slept
Their faces have
TURNED TO A sICKLY YELLOW,
And dark rings surround their eyes
Many OF the women have succumbed to
nervous proStration.
For two days but little assistance could be
rendered them. 1he wounded remained un.
cared for in some houses, cut off by the water
and died from their injuries alone. Some were
alive on sunday ana their shouts could be
heard by the people on the shore.
man caught stealing gold watch is now
in JAIL or rather what is left of the Jail
\ SHOT WAS FIRED AT HIM
Rut hp WAS not ySOunded Tho only tbing IN a.