The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1889-06-20
BURNING THE DEBRIS.
Work of Clearing Up tho Wreck
at Johnstown.
Tho Registration bureau Reports $4,000
Former Inhabitants Unaooounted
For Twelve Hundred and
Forty Bodies Have Been
Recovered.

Monday night tWenty-SA nuee Donnrei
lighted up the valley and mountain side
for miles around. The piles OF wreclng'
removed from the debris during the da,
was thus disposed OF. making agrand sight
The horrors continue and there seems 10 b
no end. Ever since the water receded int
its channel, fatherss mothers, sisters an(
brothers seeking their lost have wandered
| up and down amid the ruins, At each cry
"They have found another" these heart
broken searchers hasten forward and anx
| iously gaze upon the features OF the dead
| Every now and then is heard wall OF
| distress. sometimes rising almost to The
| pitch Of scream and again nothing but a
/ sob Is heard rs a friend or relative is recog
nized Monday evening the body OF pretty
little Jennie Given, aged fifteen, was dis
covered. A charge OF dynamite loosened
the Jam Of drift disclosing four bodies
| Under the floor of wrecked building,
pinned down by the heavy stills lying across
her face and limbs, lay the body, crushed al
most beyond seinblance TO humanity. a
man elbowine his way through the crowd
stood gazing ut the Undiscovered corpse.
His anguish-stricken eountenance pro
claimed him relative. even though he did
not speak. As he turned away after the
body was removed he was asked II he recog-
nized her. His look was as IL he could not
understand and his only response was,
.'PoOr. poor Jennie.n
a department for identification of yalua-
bles was established on Main street yester
day, with Rev. Mr.. Baer in charge
JoHNsIowN, June I2-Hundreds Of the
laborers left here yesterday. This is but
the beginning OF the ontpouring that will
setinte-day. The opinion is gaining strength
that General Hastings has made serious
mistake in Offering less TO the laborers than
hasheretofore been paid, and the resultwill
be nj least temporary cessation Of work.
Under present management the wages have
been two dollars per day and food furnished.
Under the Stale management wages are TO
be reduced TO Si.Dp per day with board fur
nishcd them. All Of Booth 6 Flynn's men,
about GU. will be paid on and discharged.
Transportation VIII be furnished for rs
many as do not wish 10 remain and work
for the State at the reduced rate
At six O'Clock last evening the new regu-
latians for the government Of Johnstown
went into effect. The hcads.of departments
were announced as follows: Colonel J. l..
Spangler win have charge Of all the supply
stations throughout the flooded district,
The district will be divided into two post
commissaries. No, iwill be under command
OF Mayor W II. Horn, whowill have charge
Of all supplies received over the Pennsylva-
mia railroad. No. 2 under the direction Of
Mayor Singer, who viii have charge Of all
supplies received from the Baltimore a
Ohio railroad. The county will be subdi-
vidcd into eleven districts under the care 0f
quartcrlnasters attached 10 the different
regiments Of the National Guard Of the
State. Iieutcnants Bean and Burnett Of
the regular army are associated with Colonel
SpHBe1er in the work
The trouble that has been brewing came
late last night when William F!inn, 81 Booth
& Flynn, who secured nearly 1900 men 10
work IN the ruins around town, had long
consultation with General Hastings, who
told him that Ryan & Mcdonald had the
contract. Mr.. Mcdonald was introduced 70
Mr. Flynn aud asked him 10 get him 20,ooo
men and to work the contract with hiin.
Mr., FLYNN Indignantly refused TO do 50, and
unless the Governor yields and makes some
concessions il Is believed that all the Booth
q Flynn mcn viii leave Johnstowu TO day.
That will leave General Hastings and Johns
town worse OF than has been expected
Several stores were opened during the
day and were thronged with purchasers
Many OF the things purchased were for
female wear, which they had deprived
themselves Of rather than accept them for
nothing in a crowd Of scrambling men and
boys. There was asystem everywhere yes
tcrtlay and a great improvement is mani
fest There is an excess OF clothing. Money
and food is the present great uecd- Twocar
loads Of fresh meat, delayed by the way,
were so badly spoiled when they arrived
yesterday that their precious contents had
20 be burned. The donations OF provisions
can not be too extensive
The intention is 10 solve the raft problem
with petroleum aud the torch. Yesterday
for the third time the drift was fired and is
burning fieroely, but IL it Is not destroyed
fifty barrels OF coal oil will be employed on
it to-day and the whole mass will go up in a
bonfire
BrLLEFoNrE, Pa, June l2-Mr Wilmer
l.. Malin, superintendent for the Bell Tele
phone and Supply Company for Central
Pennsylvania, has Just returned from
Williamsport, and describes the scenes az
tending the Hood through the Susquehannh
Valley as beyond description There IS
hardly one building Of any kind that stood
in near proximity TO the river that now
stands on its original foundations, while he
estimates that as many as fifty farms in
the distance OF twenty5six miles have been
entirely cleared Of buildings Of any kind.
Large barns were lifted and carried for
miles, and deposited in the middle OF wheat
fields without having sustained any per
ceptiblc injury.
At one place about five miles below Lock
Haven there is pile OF debris covering four
acres Of ground and consisting OF every
thing mentionable-logs, trees, fences.
wagons, farm implements Of all kinds,
household furniture sufficient TO furnish a
score Of houses, dead animals, and at one
place was found silverware 10 the amount
Of 500 In Lock Haven the work Of clean
ing up is being vigorously pushed forward
and the merchants are Kidding their shelves
OF destroyed goods, all OF which is COM
pletely covered by coating OF mud and is
sold for whatever any one may offer
JouSsTowS, Pa, June b. Wednesday
morning notices were posted ali over the
city reading; Wanted, 800 men at 81. 50
per day. Apply to Committeeman Flynn y
Very few are applying for work At
nine O'Clock the representatives Of the
Pittsburgh relief committee opened their
ofiice in the Baltimore 4 Ohio depot and be
gan the work Of paying the men who have
been working here since the food. The
crowd was so great that a company Of the
Fourteenth regiment was called upon 10
hold them in check This process Of paying
the men was found TO be entirely too slow
and another paying station was opened in
the club house. The crowd waiting in line
for their money numbered nearly 1900 men.
Trains on the Pennsylvania railroad now
arrive and depart from the regular passen-
ger station, the broken tracks over the
stone bridge have been fully repaired. Some
Of the bodies recovered now are so badly
decomposed that the skin breaks and hair
falls on while being washed by the under
takers. None are being ehbalmed now. The
bodies when first recovered are saturated
with disinfectants, brought TO the morgue
where the clothing Is cut on, valnables pre-
served. description taken, after which the
remains are wrapped in muslin shroud,
cQiiined and Immediately taken away for
burial Arcqncst has been made that the
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