Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-06

to be large enough to carry of all surplus ! water that could ever be poured into the
 lake above and which could not es- l cape by the regular exit, which was a ! sluiceway around one corner of the dam at 8 ! level of eight or ten feet below the top.
 the water passing off through it finding it's ! picturesquely winding course down the hill- I side. .and running with the stream again some distance below the dam. The sluiceway and waste gates never failed to do the work for which they were designed and there is no ! reason to suppose they would have failed to do so at the present time and for the future had they been maintained as the builders contemplated.
 THE LIBERAL RELIEF NOT YET LARGE ENOUGH. Notwithstanding the fact that nearly every prominent citizen in the United States is raising fund for the relief of the Conemaugh sufferers the wants of the homeless and ahaict- ed are far from being alleviated. At the va- rious relief stations to-day the crowd of appli cants was continuous from morning till night and many of the needed were forced to wait in line for hours before their turn came and their little portion was allotted to them. Hundreds of thousands of dollars must pour into this stricken valley if positive suffering and pri- vation is to be avoided. Thousands of peo- pie are homeless and in these devastated homes thousands lost all. Labor and manu- featuring of nearly every kind is at stand still. and weeks or months must lapse before the Cambria Iron Works and other industrial institutions can possibly resume and give employment to the thousands that depend upon them for support. Even at the present time, five days after the great disaster, there are hundreds of hungry people in the Cone maugh valley who have no certainty of breakfast tomorrow.
 DYNAMITE FINALLY ASSORTED TO.
 The enormity of the devastation wrought by the Conemaugh flood is becoming more and more apparent with every effort of the laborers to resolve order out of chaos. Over 100 men have been all day engaged in an effort to clear narrow passage from the death bridge upward through the sea of debris that blocks the Conemaugh for nearly half mile or more. Every ingenuity known to man has been resorted to by this crew. The giant power of dynamite was brought into acquisition at frequent intervals, the roar of the explosions reverberated through the valley and sticks, stones and logs would fly high in the air. Gradually 8 few of the heaviest timbers were demolished and the fragments permitted to float down ward through the center arch. At nightfall, however, the clear space above the bridge did not exceed an area of sixty feet in length by forty feet in width. When one reflects that fully twenty-five acres are to be cleared in this way the task seems an in- terniinable one. But there is no royal road and if the hundreds or thousands of bodies beneath these blackened ruins are to be re- covered for Christian burial the labors of to-day must be continued with increased vigor. There are many conservative minds that recommend the use of the torch in this work of clearing the river but they are not among the sufferers, and when such counsels are heard by the wives, children, sisters or brothers of those who rest beneath this sea of hotsam and jetsam the suggestion of cremation meets 8 wild furore of objection. It is only in difference to the unreasoning mandate of grief that the herculean labor of cleaning the river by means of the dynamite and the derrick is persisted in. There is no hope in the cslmer minds that this task can be pursued to the end. The progress of to-day is hardly disceInible, and ere two more days have elapsed there is little doubt the emanations of putrid bodies will have become so frightful e5 to drive the har- diest workman from the scene. Until that time aiises, however, there is no hope that this gIief-stricken ropulecs will abandon the cherished hope of again gezing upon the forms of loved ones whose lives went out in the fire and flood of the Conemaugh. The pleadings of sanitarians and the logic of en- gineers alike fail to find an echo in the minds of the grieving and afflicted