The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-04
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II IA nelteyrd TINT Fully Eight Thousand
Persisted -. ImpOsSIhiS To ExaEgerats'
Names Of Few Of thH Dsnd.
IouNsrowN, Pa, June 3.-The devel'
opments Of every hour maket 1t more
and more apparent that the exact number
OLIVES lost in the Johnstown horror will
never DO known. All estimates that
have been made up to this time are con-
seryatlye, aud when all is known will
doubtless be found to have been too
small. Over ono thousand bodies have
been found since sunrise to-day, and the
most skeptical concede that the remains
ofthousands more rest beneath the DRIFT
above Jotnstown bridge. The popula'
ton Of Johnstown, the surrounding
towns and the portion Of the valley af'
fectcd by the flood was from 5000 to
$1,000.
Associated Press representatives to.
day interviewed numerous leading citi.
zens Of JOlnBtown who survived the
flood, and their opinion Of It was that
fully thirty per cent Of the residents OF
Johnstown and Cambria had been VIC
tins Of the continued disasters Of fire
and water. Itthis be true the total loss
OF life in the valley cannot be less than
1000 or 5000, aud possibly much greater.
OF tho thousands who were devoured by
the flames and whose ashes rest beneath
the debris above the Johnstnwn bridge,
no definite information can ever be OBJ.
taincd. Little will bo learned Of the
the hundreds TINT sank beneath the
current and were borne swiftly down
the Concmaugh only 10 be deposited
perhaps hundreds Of miles below on the
the banks, and in tho driitwood Of the
raging Ohio.
FULLY EIGHT THOUSAND DEAD.
Probably one.third of the dead will
never be recovered, and 1t will take q
list OF the missing weeks hence 10 enable
close estimate 10 be made OF tue mum.
Der Of lives that were snulTed out in that
briefhour. That this estimate eau never
be accurate is understood, when II Il
remembered that in many instances
whole families and their relatives werC
swept away and found graves beneatl
the wild waste OtwateH. The total do
Struction Of the city leaves no room Il
even demonstrate that the names o
these uniortunNtes ever found q place OF
The pages Of eternity's history. "Al
indications point to the fact that tn
death list will reach over 5000 names
and in my opinion the missing will reaCl
5000 in number" declared Gen. D. Il
Hastings tonight.
At present there are said to DO 2,9O
recovered bodies. The great difficult
experienced in getting a correct list
the grcot number Of morgues. There
no central bureau Of Information and
communicate with tho different dea
houses is the work Of hours. The lou
nry from the Pennsylvania raIlroa
morEuO to the one in tho Fourth war
school house in Jobntown occupies
least one hour. ThisrCuderu II inposs
bic to reach all Of them In ono day, pa
lieuIarIy rs some Of the morpucs arc 81
uated ut points inaccessible from John
town. AT o'clock In the evening O.
bodies had been received at tho Ca,nbr
depository for CorpScS,
AFEw or THE IOESrrlRp nop,rs,
The names Of the lately identified A
burgess 0'Ncil, wife and children, Iol
Smith, Joseph Kramer, Mtm Geor
All, Luther and James schillck, Jull
bishop, John ClCnolc, Kate McEnei
There are ten that arc at present II
known.
AT Mi!lville was tho body Of a Vih
yeNlS olI, making the iorty.sixlh corr
LeeeiNcu There, An angry mark on
wrist looked Ns II q bracelet had be
Torn from the arm,
AZ the mOrgUD situated AL tho Fr,
Vlsvah convent IN JOhnNloWh, The bod
o. MtG' and Mlbs Rhad JOnes (colofe
Ch9tIes Renkp Brown, Of Woodvi
Gild % lle son Of Richard RilGhatflB "
Seventy bodies have been receive,
lnO rehnBylvAniA fallruad btAtI
Those Identified ara, Iri,niI,Sit,,hs