The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-06-06

persons who persisted is fully 10000 o.
more.
Adiutant General Hastings at mid
night wired Gov. Beaver his reports o.
the day. 1t is a most encouraging one
, and shows that the terror-stricken city
is recovering from the blow struck her
The report is as follows To Governor
Beaver: The Fourteenth Regiment ar
rived here today, 400 strong The Bur
CESS of Johnstown and the Sheriff o
Cambria county finally requested troo pl
this morning. There has been no viol-
ence or disorder reported. Severa
thieves have been arrested. About 1901
laborers are at work aud squads are com
ing in from all sides. The present force
will probably be doubled tomorrow
There is plenty of food and clothing
The survivors are regaining their health
Organization is now perfect, 1t will
take weeks to complete the work. Kind
farmers lent their assistance and dug
trenches and graves for the victims OF
the food today. Four long trenches
100 feet long, feet wide and feet deep
form the graves for 200 victims of the
flood whose bodies have been recovered
at NIneveh, 10 miles below Johnstown,
today, A planning mill has been con-
verted into a morgue. Across the river
at Old Nineveh 35 bodies were taken
out of the debris and mud. This is the
first opening of the narrow valley
through which the Conemaugh dashes
like mill race. From the field of mud
today many bodies have been taken.
The searchers find many OF the bodies by
| means of a hand or a piece of clothing
sticking up through the mud. They
carry long sticks with which they probe
the soil. One of the most CHASTITY finds
was that of baby which was hanging
in tree. Its foot had caught in fork,
and by this means it was suspended.
One of the men reached up with pole
TO pull down what he believed to be a
piece of clothing, when the body fell.
The Westmoreland County Commission
ers yesterday purchased an acre Of
ground on the side mountains and con
verted it into cemetery. A gang OF
laborers were at work all day digging
the trenches. A rough pine board was
| placed at the head of each coffin in the
trenches. The name of the victim was
written On the board with a lead pencil.
The scenes at the cemetery to night were
depressing and pathetic. The torches
of the laborers looked from across the
fields like so many jack o-anterns. Two
hundred victims were found here today
and 35 across the river. OF this num-
Der hut few have been identified. DR..
| w. b Lowman of Johnstown is in charge
of the medical relief corps. He is assis-
ted by over 800 physicians, DR.. Low
man said today: The first day or two
very few injured people were seen, sick
ness is getting alarming, and we see our
duties multiply hourly. Nervous pros
tration. pneumonia and fever will be,
and are, the most frequent ailments, and
pneumonia is sure to be very prevalent
| because of exposure in the water and
dampuess. There are over 1000 sick in
the general hospitals here and in the
borOughs already, and there will be three
times as many. We must arrange to
disinfect the city Immediately, Two
carloads of disinfectants have already
bsen received from Pttsburg, but train
load will be required.
This was the day set aside by the CIti-
zens' Commute for the burying of all
the unidentified dead that had been
placed IN the morgues since Sunday at
| ~ " GlOCh, LUIS HUI lluB GuS ulSh VIM
were in charge of the burying started to
work and were busy all Gay. There were
no pathetic scenes at the burials. The
men who have been hired to do the work
seem to do lit just as matter OF business
The bodies are being inferred in the Gem
etery nearest the place where they hap
pen to be found. 1t will take several
days to bury the bodies now temporarily
| lying IN the different cemeteries, las there
had been but few graves dug until this
morning owing to the fact that there
were no implements to dig them with.
However, large detachment OF men
arrived from Plttsburg during the day
who were put to work at digging graves
Immediately, Altogether about 5000
bodies were taken to the different ceme-
teries during the day.
The 25 acres of debris accumulated by
the Pennsylvania bridge over the Cone
maugh will be dynamited to day, 80 as
to dlslntegrate the mass, start logsl down
the river, catch the bodies which will be
thus disloged and inter them as rapidly
as possible.
Last night Robert Bridgard, letter
carrier, mounted "A wagon and began a
|
Huns. the necessity of good workmen
for the clearing away of the debris and
rescuing the dead. He closed with a
bitter attack on the lazy Huns and Poles
who have lived in the valley only short
time, and refuse to turn a hand toward
the relief of their suffering neighbors,
yet are begging and even stealing the
provisions which the people OF the
United States are sending here. The
crowd soon numbered nearly 1000, which
greeted Bridgard's words with cheers
and shouts of approval, The feelings of
the mob intensified in bitterness to such
an alarming extent that an outbreak
was feared, but the meeting finally sub
sided into a calm. determined body
which adopted resolutions requesting
that nothing be given to the Huns and
Poles unless they work for it, and il
they would not work that they be warn
ed to vacate the premisls.
Nearly 1000 bodies have already been
recovered, and as the work of examin-
ing the wreckage prOgresseE, the convic-
ton grows that the magnitude of the
calamity has not yet been Appropriated,
Conservative estimates this morning put
the lumber lost at 1000, and many men
of calm judgment, and who are not
wont to exaggerate, who have been upon
the ground from the outset, place the
number at 10 900. The debris wedged
against the big Pennsy lvania Railroad
stone bridge is still burning, and the eff
forts of the firemen to quench or stay
+, the progress OF the flames are as futile
as were those OF Guliver's lilliputIan fire
men. The mass, which unqestionably
: forms a funeral pyre for thousands oil
victims who lie buried beneat 1t, is burn
. ing and is likely to burn for weeks Ia
come. The flames are not active, but
burn away in a sullen, determined fash
ion, as though bent for once upon prov
ing how fntile are mans efforts when
the fire god is aroused, and perhaps
after all the hand of Providence is in 1t
for the suggestion made by the ph ysi
, clans yesterday that the bodies not burIel
: !, be allowed to be cremated, in the inter
est of public health, and which aroused
such storm of indignation among tn,
: surviving pOpulace, is viewed with NOR,
calmness today, and there is growing
sentiment that il is, after all, the bes
solution of the problem, Weeks, MONTH
: will be required to remove the stupen.
dous mass by artificial means, and mean
: time, the rotting, putrefying remain
of poor humanity buried therein would
be dealing pollution and death to all thu
: surrounding country The awful desc
latiOn Of the scene has been described
: often enough already to render a repeti-
ton Of the attempt here unnecessary
: These descriptions have been as truthful
and graphic as it is possible for man Il
!, make them, but none have been ade