The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-06-11

sections of the day express, and that thu
Johnstown accommodation was caught in
the food.
ACRES OF DEsuLATIoN.
The water receded in the night almost a.
rapidly as it came, and behind ii remain.
the sorriest imaginable. The dove ha:
that has come had no green leaf of promise
for its wings are draped with the hue oil
mourning and desolation. Before the win.
dows of the Associated Press headquarters
lies the great skeleton of dead Johns town
The great ribs Of rocky sand stretch across
the chest SCARED and covered with abras-
ions. Acres of mud, acres of wreckage,
acres of unsteady, tottering buildings, acres
OF unknown dead, acres of CHASTITY objects
which have been eagerly sought for since
Friday, acres of smoking, streaming ruin,
acres of sorrow for somebody lying out
there in the sunshine. Hundreds of bodies
are lying along The river banks and under
piles of big timber, and the trouble will
come there, because they are hard TO find
and harder to dig out. Bonfires are burn
ing everywhere. Fire is the agent en-
ployed to help the committees get rid of the
refuse and broken wook BY means of fire
the Cambria Iron Company has cleared
away most of the lighter lumber and will
soon be able to work on the heavier piles.
The completion of the temporary track and
bridge which permits the passage of trains
over the river hes been blessing, for it al
lows the men to work much faster than BE-.
fore and to get tools and material closer at
hand.
This was the day set aside by the Citi-
Ems committee for the burYing Of all the
unidentified dead that have been laying In
the morgues since Sunday at 10 O'Clock.
This morning the men who were in charge
Of the Surying started to work, and have
been busy all day. There are no pathetic
scenes at these burials. The men who
have been hired TO do the work, seem to do
it just as matter Of business. The bodies
are being inferred In the cemeteries near
est the place where the bodies were found.
About noon a procession of about fifty
cotined bcdies was seen going up the hill
above the railroad. There was not a |
chastity one TO behold. 1t will take ssv-
sral days to bury the bodies now in the |
grave yards, as there were few
graves dug until this morning, and no i'm
elements to dig them with.
SCENES OF HERoIsM.
The sad story of the Conemaugh is not
without its deeds of hsroism. The appal-
ing scenes of horror developed daring
courage where least expected, while every.
lay heroes in the midst of the terrifying
Genes usually degenerated into arrant cow
rds. Those who viewed the frightful
Genes of fire and flood agree that the hope
essness of the situation was first fully 1eaI-
zed by women, and that by the tender sex
7as exhibited that dauntless courage which
} born of resignation. Mothers cody sac
ifced themselves to the fury of the food :
r fire to save the lives of their children
nd loved ones. Not infrequentIy some |
woman, clinging with her child I
} floating debris and realizing that the ,
Ipport was too frail for two, would be c
,en to lift her precious burden high upon I
he floating debris, and with hasty kiss. I
dding farewell to all that bound her to q
lie world, sink beneath the inky waves. !
Edward c. Will is foundry man of {
ambria, q years old. whom no one ever f
lspected of possessing more than ordinary a
'urage. When the food was at Its height
I'D people were floating down the rushing b
trent in hundreds, Will rushed to his n
'at and, senSeless to the pleadings of wife Il
I'd relatives, showed his frail craft for out Il
to the angry current. Gliding rapidly f
Ong .side floating roof, upon which a W
oman and two children were kneeling with ST
anched faces and stony stare, he skillfully d
AIDED the distractions that every minute a.
TO crush his cockle-shell craft, d,
d lifting the terrorized creatures 10 his 10
at shot across the current back to the ca
nix whence he came. A shout of applause pl
elled from the throng that lined the til
INKS, but, unmoved by plaudits, young W
i'll repeated his perilous journey not al
&c, but seven times, until twenty-five
ss had been saved by his indomitable 10
ergy. The next day when the most of di
hnstown was sill under water, Will th
'ended the stream to the desolate CITY br
d again distinguished himself by MANY i'm
S Of herOism and endurance. The trib- W.
!, too fulsome, can not be paid 10 his no
Die character but, after ali, among the M,
'oes that these strange scenes developed. tr;
is only one of the many. or,
To EXPEDITE WORK. tn
rel
1t the present rate there will be live ca
n digging the ruins to every dead one.
ans Johns, the Pittsburg contractor, who, be
i'll William Flynn arrives tomorrow we
rning, has charged of the Smoky CITY do
ces, stated to-day that 2200 men would for
at work in the ruins by tomorrow morn TIL
. Three hundred arrived from Pitts res
e to-day, and 500 more are announced ere
ONE under the captaincy of VIM. Flynn of