Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-09
DYNAMITE DOING THE WORK.
Clearing Up the Ruins at the Johns
town Bridge.
BRINGING ORDER OUT OF CHAOS
A Locket Containing a Lock OF Wash
ington's Hair Found-A Bogus
Undertaken Caught Rob-
bing the Dead.
Remoyine the Wreck.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ia, June Sine corps OF
government engineers that arrived last night
has already demonstrated tho valuable assist
ance which it is capable of rendering. BY s
o'clock pontoon bridge had been stretched
across the river at Kernville. and by sun
down it is expected pontoon bridges will be
erected at all places where the necessities of
traffic demand. The day here opened with a
heavy rain and thunder storm, and the
air was cold ahd damp. BY s o'clock
five bodies had been taken from the
mass of ruins at the stone bridge. A
large force Of men have been at work there,
but their progress is very slow A number
of charges OF dynamite have been fired dur
ing the day, and each time with good effect.
The channels through to the bridge are
almost clear of debris, and each charge has
)oosened large quantities of wreckage. The
continued falling OF the rain renders the re-
moval of debris every day more difficult,
and whore few days ago timber, when
loosened, would float away. now have to be
From Bolivar to Johnstown the side
tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad
are filled with cars loaded with
lumber furniture and goods and wares Of
all descriptions for the sufferers At the
Cambria iron works 900 men are at work and
most rapid progress Is being made in clear
ing away the wreck. 1t is said the works
will start up in about three weeks. 1t comes
from good authority that within day or
two the Eighteenth regiment will be called
on to relieve the Fourteenth.
AdjutantrGeneral Hastings said to-day that
the whole condition of affairs was much i'm
proved and there was not the least trouble
last night from any source About forty
bodies were recovered to-day up TO 3 o'clock,
but of these only three were found at the
bridge .J
Judge Advocate Rogers this morning de-
cided an important question which arose
over the discovery Of forty barrels of
whisky in building on Main street. Adiu-
tant General Hastings was disposed to con-
fscate it as safeguard, according to the
military code prohibiting the sale, Of liquor
within the limits OF military camp, Rogers
ruled that it was private property and IL
censed dealer had right to sell liquor.
Last evening ten barrels of beer were
found and under orders from General Hast
ings 1t was destroyed, with the promise that
1t would be paid for. Already twenty bar
rels of embalming fluid have been consumed,
aggregating nearly eight hundred gallons.
1t requires from half pint to a quart to each
corspe. %. t.'-H-
The members of the secret societies in
Conemaugh valley Jared unusually WELL
1000. Out of this only nine lives were lost.
Most of them lost their homes. but all are
employed and expect to be on their feet
again in short time. The committee from
Pittsburg and Allegheny established head.
quarters in town and relieved the wants of
oil applicants. The Independent Order of
Heptasophs had membership of eighty
five, and lost but two The Independent
Odd Fellows had a membership Of sos
here, and out of that number lost seventy
nine, the distressed members beng we'll
cared for. 1t is not known how many
members of the Masonic order were lost, al
though prominent Mason says they are
| few, and the survivors are being loyalty pro-
| vided for by the relief committees of that
! fraternity. A trap was laid for crook un-
| dertaker who was robbing the bodies in the
| Fourth ward mOrgue. A female was brought
| in and before 1t was dressed for burial, q
/ diamond ring was placed upon finger, and
| the pseudo undertaken was assigned to take
| charge of the body. He was detected in the
| act of stealing the jewelry, and was arrested
by the police, who took him to Edensburg. 3
| Forty-seven bodies have just been recov-
| cred in a hole on the site of the Hurlbut
| house. They are supposed to be the bodies
| of guests.
| A citizen from Kernville went to General
Hastings, to-day, and made complaint that
| the citizens from Kernvllle were not permit
| ted to cross Stone creek to Johnstown. He
| said guards had refused many citizens who
houses and families had been carried across
| the creek, permission to pass over. He said
| he believed the reason so man dead had
| been unidentified was that only the persons
| who could identify them were in Kernville.
| General Hastings at once gave the necessary
| orders to permit all such persons to pass the
| lines.
The number of persons who have so far
| registered is having its good effect and it is
| believed that within five days all the living
in Johnstown and vicinity will be accounted
| for. The population of JohEstown and
vicinity effected by the flood is about 81, 900.
The registrationOf of 20. 40 leaves about $4,000
to be accounted for. 1t is aot claimed that
| those not registered are dead, for many
| had left this section before the registration
began. Already from IL, 600 to 1900 passes
have been issued to persons wishing to leave
| In some cases the passes were issued to the
frnyinn tnn
| PEELED to return for some reason, but 1T is
| safe to say that 8, 600 people have left this
section. The Pennsylvania railroad COM
| pany has rendered the use of their wrecking
| machinery with which to tear apart the
material piled in various sections of the town,
| The members of the state board of health deny
there is an epidemic. There are eight cases
of liberated tonslitis in the hospital of the
| Red Cross society, and it is reported that
there are forty-fve cases of diptheria on
the hill. To prevent an epidemic, Surgeon
General Hamilton. Of the United States gov
ernment was hero to-day to meet the state
ing the propriety Of the government assum-
ing charge of the sanitary work here. The
matter will be decided when it Is reported to
| the president
food is a small gold loclset found in the ruins
| of the Hurlburt house. The locket contains
a small lock of dark brown hair and has en-
graved in the inside the following:
"A lock Of George Washington's HAIR,
cut in Philadelphia, while On his way to
| Yorktown in 17Sl."
Mr. Benford, one of the proprietors of the
house, states that the locket was the prop
erty of his sister, who was lost, and that it
was presented to her by an old lady of Phila-
delphia, whose mother had cut the hair
from the head of the 'fatner of his coun-
! try"
Aid from Ireland.
| DUBLIN, June S.-Lord Mayor Sexton has