Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-16
DYNAMITE DOES 1T.
The Dam at the Stone Bridge
at Last Broken.
AN IMMENSE FUNERAL PILE.
The Explosions Wrecked Some Build
ings, but Did Grand Work
of Clearance.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALp.l
JoHNsTowN, June 15.-Major Phillips
dynamiters have had Johnstown in a
state of nervous terror all day, and this
evening General Manager Fulton, Of the
Cambria Iron Company, dictated forci-
BILE protest to Governor Beaver, stating
that the mills and offices of the company
are being ruined by the blasts, that Ad-
jutant- General Hastings had paid no at
tention to two requests for its discontinu-
ance, and that the State would be held
responsible for any further damage done.
Before the message was sent, however,
Adjutant. General Hastings had issued
an order to Major Phillips to discontinue
the blasting. Major Phillips has been
engaged since Wednesday in blow
ing out tie wreckage in the
channel OF the Couemaugh river
above the Pennsyl vania Railroad
stone bridge. He was nxious TO have d
passage for the water by this evening
and to that end put in a five hundred
pound blast of dynamite at noon. The
blast was placed under two buildings
one OF which was lying upon the Other
and both of them covered with logs. The
explosion was terrific. The next blast
not being placed SO deep, was four hun
dred pounds.
DAMAGE BY DYNAMITE.
This one did all the damage. The re
port was awful, and the strongest houses
in the city trembled like leaves. All the
glass was blown out of the windows OF
the Odd Fellows Hall. In the same
neighborhood the rear wall of ball was
wrecked. The Catholic church fell upon
the Baltimore and Ohio tracks. blocking
them. Chimneys ratified down all about
and dishes were broken in houses il
Kernville, half mile away. WheI
asked about the matter, Major Phillip:
said "We have used only 1000 pounds
of dynamite to-day. The charges will
not be 80 heavy hereafter. l had nC
idea we were doing any damage. So fal
as | know, no persons were injured"
THE LITTLE MISS MoRToNs' OFFERING.
Adjutant General Hastings today re
ceived letter from Vice. President Nor
ton, saying that, on his return to hi
country home, be found that his little
girls, from to IA years of age, bad bee1
hard at work since the terrible disaste
az Johnstown in making articles of cloth
ing for the poor, homeless children wht
have survived the foods; that he for
wards today 1877 articles of wearing ap
parel made by their own hands or pur
chased with their own money, togethe
with some of their dresses; and that hi
children twill feel greatly obliged if yo,
will cause the clothing to be distributed
among the little sufferers by the recen
calamity, for whom they feel the deepes
sympathy"
AN ENGINEERING FEAT.
The opening of the wedge line raj
above the store bridge today was an on
gineering feat. For ten days severa
hundred men have been at work upor
the heterogeneous mass, but only abou
sixty fee Of the channel had been cleared
when, on Wednesday, VIM. Phillips, O
Lewiston, and force of dynamiteri
we're put at work. The six acres O
solidly packed wrecksge, which wa,
wedged between the river banks by {
hydraulic force that cannot be estimated
have in three days melted away. Large
frame houses, hundreds of logs anC
monster trees were tangled up and bounC
together with wire and iron bars brough
down with the food.
AN IMPRESSIVE SCENE.
The scene this afternoon, when tn,
| great r. ass moved down the river was
remarkable ore. The crowds that line(
the shores and the now famous stor,
bridge, raised shout that was heart
through the length and breadth Of th'
valley.
A GIGANTIC PYRE.
The west bank Of the Conemsueh il
again furnace of fire tonight. Th,
wrecksge torn up by the dynamite to
day was piled up aud the torch applied
and the whole valley is illuminated.
HEALTH OF THE VALLEY.
Measles are very prevalent among thu
children, and the Bedford street Hofpit4
has two cases of pneumonia. Broncbiti
and diarrhna are very general among
the wo kmen. There is no sickness o
| consequence among the militia.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
From the most authentic records OBJ
| tainable, the number of bodies re
covered, 30 far, is 1858. Fourteen
bodies were taken out today.
DR.. Free of the State Board of Health
inspected the river towns as far down al
Sang Hollow today. The worst discov
cry made was a large number Of dead
horses and colts floating in the river
The dynamite explosions have brought
the carcasses to the sulface. They are
in bad state of decomposition.
Eight carloads of lumber arrived to-
day, and rough sheds are already being
erected in the heart uf the city, to be
used as stores.