The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-22
BURNING THE DEBRIS.
Work of Clearing UP the Wreck
at Johnstown.
Tho Registration Bureau Reports $4,000
Former Inhabitants Unacoounted
For - Twelve Hundred and
Forty Bodies Have Been
Recovered.

Monday night, twenty-SlX nuge D0nfireS
lighted up the valley and mountain sides
for miles around. The piles of wreckage
removed from the debris during the day
was thus disposed of, making agrand sight
The horrors continue and there seems TO be
no end. Ever since the water receded into
It's channel, fathers, mothers, sisters and
brothers seeking their lost, have wandered
up and down amid the ruins. At each cry
"They have found another" these heart
broken searchers hasten forward and anx-
iously gaze upon the features of the dead.
Every now and then is heard wall of
distress, sometimes rising almost to the
pitch of scream and again nothing but a
es6 ie heard as q friend or relative is recog-
nized Monday evening the body of pretty
little Jennie Given, aged fifteen, was dis
covered. A charge Of dynamite loosened
the jam of drift, disclosing four bodies.
Under the floor Of wrecked building,
pinned down by the heavy sills lying across
her face and limbs, lay the body, crushed al
most beyond semblance to humanity. A
man elbowing his way through the crowd
stood gazing at the Undiscovered corpse.
His anguisb-stricken countenance pro-
claimed him q relative, even though he did
not speak. AS he turned away after the
body was removed he was asked If he recog
nized her. His look was as If he could not
understand and his only response was,
'Poor, poor Jennie"
A department for Identification of valua-
bles was established on Main street yester-
day, with Rev. Mr.. Baer in charge
JoHNsTowN, June 12.-Hundreds Of the
laborers left here yesterday. This is but
the beginning of the outpouring that will
setin to- day. The opinion is gaining strength
that General Hastings has made serious
mistake in offering less to the laborers than
has sheretofore been paid, and the resultwill
be at least temporary cessation of work.
Under present manager ent the wages have
been two dollars per day and food furnished.
Under the State management wages are to
be reduced to S1.50 per day with board fur
nished them. All of Booth g. Flynn's men,
about 1000, will be paid off and discharged
Transportation will be furnished for as
many as do not wish to remain and work
for the State at the reduced rate.
At six o'clock last evening the new regu-
lations for the government of Johnstown
went into effect. The heads of departments
were announced as follows: Colonel j. l..
bpangler will have charge Of all the supply
stations throughout the flooded district
Tho district will be divided into two post
commissaries. No. Twill be under command
of Mayor w. III. Horn, whowill have charge
of all supplies received over the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad No. Q under the direction of
Mayor Singer, who will have charge of all
supplies received from the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad. The county will be sub-di-
vided into eleven districts under the care of
auartermasters attached to the different
regiments of the National Guard of the
State Lieutenants Bean and Burnett of
the regular army are associated with Colonel
Spangler in the work.
The trouble that has been brewing came
late last night when William Finn, of Booth
g. Flynn, who secured nearly 1000 men to
work in the ruins around town, had long
consultation with General Hastings who
told him that Ryan & Mcdonald had the
contract. Mr. Mcdonald was introduced to
Mr.. Flynn and asked him to get him 10000
men and to work the contract with him.
Mr.. Flynn Indignantly refused to do so, and
unless the Governor yields and makes some
concessions it is believed that all the Booth
& Flynn men will leave Johnstown to day.
That will leave General Hastings and Johns
town worse off than has been expected.
Several stores were opened during the
day and were thronged with purchasers.
Many of the things purchased were for
female wear, which they had deprived
themselves of rather than accept them for
nothing in a crowd of scrambling men and
boys. There was asystem everywhere yes
terday and a great Improvement Is mani
fest. There is an excess of clothing. Money
and food is the present great need Two car
loads of fresh meat, delayed by the way,
were so badly spoiled when they arrived
yesterday that their precious contents had
to be burned. The donations of provisions
can not be too extensive
80 1.1
with petroleum and the torch. Yesterday
for the third time the drift wGs fired and is
burning fiercely, but if it is not destroyed
fifty barrels of coal oil will be employed on
it to-day and the whole mass will go up in
bonfire.
BELLEFoNTE, Pa, June 12.-Mr Wilmer
L. Malin, superintendent for the Bell Tele
phone and Supply Company for Central
Pennsylvania, has just returned from
Williamsport and describes the scenes at
tending the flood through the Susquehanna
Valley as beyond description. There is
hardly one building of any kind that stood
in near proximity to the river that now
stands on its original foundations, while he
estimates that as many as fifty farms in
the distance of twenty-siX miles have been
entirely cleared of buildings of any kind.
Large barns were lifted and carried for
miles, and deposited in the middle of wheat
fields without having sustained any per-
ceptible injury.
At one place about five miles below Lock
Haven there is pile of debris covering four
acres of ground and consisting of every
thing mentionable-logs, trees, fences,
wagons, farm implements of all kinds,
household furniture sufficient to furnish n
score of houses, dead animals, and at one
place was found silverware to the amount
of $500. In Lock Haven the work of clean
ing up is being vigorously pushed forward
and the merchants are ridding their shelves
of destroyed goods, all of which is COM
pletely covered by a coating of mud and IS
sold for whatever any one may offer.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 13.-W ednesday
morning notices were posted all over the
city reading: "Wanted, 500 men at sl.5O
per day. Apply to Committeeman Flynn"
Very few are applying for work. At
nine o'clock the representatives of the
Pittsburgh relief committee opened their
office in the Baltimore & Ohio depot and be-
gan the work of paying the men who have
been working here since the Hood. The
crowd was so great that company OF the
Fourteenth regiment was called upon to
hold them in check. This process Of paying
the men was found to be entirely too slow
and another paying station was opened in
the club house. The crowd waiting in line
for their money numbered nearly 1000 men.
Trains on the Pennsylvania railroad now
arrive and depart from the regular passen-
ger station; the broken tracks over the
stone bridge have been fully repaired Some
of the bodies recovered now are so badly