Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-02
INTO THE RAGING CURRENT

ent Trump reached Conemaugh he i'm
| mediately gathered together the remaining
| passengers of the two trains and had them
conveyed to Ebensburg by wagon a dis
| lance of about ten miles. The survivors
are now at that place. The conductors of
the trains went with the passengers to
| Ebensburg, and the Pullman conductor,
who is supposed to have list of those
under his charge, is there also. 1t was i'm
| possible to give the names of any of those
| who lost their lives
| Superintendent Trump fully confirms
! the reports sent out of the terrible disaster
| in and near Johnstown. He says
IT WILL NEVER BE KNOWN
Exactly how many lives are lost, but the
number will reach among the thousands.
! He describes the devastation wrought by
! the resistles flood at Johnstown as being
something awful to behold.
HORRIBLE DEVELOPMENTS.
An Associated Press correspondent was
the first man to cross to Johnstown proper,
which he did by means of a basket sus,
pended from cable. Once over, he found
the scenes magnifed in their horror Here
were the residences of the little ci,ys most
wealthy and intelligent people Here
were found bodies of many of the most
prominent citizens and those of their entire
families. Cinder, Market, Main, Locust
and Washington streets had been swept
Clean and bare of all buildings of whatever
character, and their inhabitants seemed to
have fled into the streets at the first warn
ing Of danger and
RUSHED TO THEIR DEATH,
For those who remained in their houses
had an opportunity to flee to the upper
stories. In cases where houses were frame
they were f1oated from their foundations
and many were saved. The Hotel Hubert,
brick structure, had had sixty-five guests,
and sixty-three of them were killed by the
falling in of floors and walls.
MOrell Library, the school-house, Aims
Hall, general stores and offices and one
other brick building are all of probably
1000 buildings that have not been fioated
froN their foundations or caved in
The stone viaduct is forty feet high from
the river bed at low water, and over this
the water
RUSHED IN REsISTLEss FLOOD.
On this, or the west side, is the Bessemer
Steel Rail Mills of the Cambridge Iron
Company. Although warned to flee to the
hillsides many of the men, resting in fam
Cied security, lOitered about the mills and
were
ENGULPHED IN AN INSTANT.
To-day their bodies are strewn along the
Conemaugh, Riskiminitas and Allegheny
| rivers, and are being caught as far down
the OHIO river as Rochester.
Below the mills is Cambria sub borough
in which reside probably 1000 people. The
scenes here are but repetition of those in
other parts Of the flood wasted city
In st. ColumSia's Church, q new struCt-
ure, which has been flooded to the depth of
six feet in the auditorium, the water has
receded, and the floor was covered with
Shiny ooze to the depth of seven or eight
inches.
The number of people who are visible
from the banks are so few in contrast with
the population of the various little burgs
which constitute the city, that the question:
Where are the people," is asked on all
sides. The impression is gaining ground
that the disclosures yet to come where the
gorge collected, and which is now burning
over an area of several acres, is vet more
CHASTITY than language can depict. No idea
can be given either of the area of desola-
ton or extent of the damage. The people
of YOUNGSTOWN
ARE ACTUALLY STARVING.
Men who were yesterday worth half a
million of dollars are to-day actually pen
niless and suffering for the necessaries
life. A loud cry of distress is being sen
up from the entire city, and the doleful
Millions cannot repair the damagetand
the desolation covers miles of territory The |
number of bodies thus far recovered is
about 500. How many lie beneath the great
bed of fire underswept by the raging tor
rent the uncoyeripg of their bodies can
alone determine, but from all appearances
) there are thousands
The agoniZed cries and lamentations of
friends who have not been able to learn
any tidings of their loved ones is the most
pitiful and pathetic. When a form is seen
to drop down deeper into the flames from
the burning way of supports shrieks pierce |
the air like
Wall FROM A LOST SOUL.
The condition of the streets is one of I'M
paralleled desolation. The five thorough
fares in the most densely populated parts
of the town are denuded of the shops
which once were the pride of their inhabi-
tants. Trees have been denuded of their |
branches, their trunks standing bare and
broken or are uprooted and swept away.
1t is not an exaggeration to say that not
single structure is now left within the
confines of the city that is safe as a place of |
habitation, and all must be torn down and |
rebuilt.
The gorge has so INSTRUCTED the sluice- |
ways of the viaduct that the water does
not recede as fast as it otherwise would.