The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-03
INCIDENTS or THE FLOOD

Scenes that BBggRr Descrlntion-PAthollc
Rscitals by Some OF tho Rescued Ones.
beyond the Power of Imagination.
JolENsTowN, June 2.-During all this
solemn Sunday Johnstown has been
drenched with the tears OF stricken
mortals and the air was filled with sobs
and sighs that came from breaking
hearts. There are scenes enacted here
every hour and every minute that ai.
feet all beholders profoundly. When
brave men die in battle for country or for
principle their loss can be reconciled
to the stern desLinies Of life. When
homes are torn asunder in an instant
and the loved opeshprled from the arms
OF loving and devoted mothers there ia
an element OF sadness connected with
the tragedies that touch every heart,
An utterly wretChed woman named Mrs.
Fem stood by q muddy pool OF water,
trying TO find some trace Of once hap.
py home. She was half Crazed with
grief and her eyes were red and swollen,
TOUCHING broRS.
As the writer stepped to her side she
raised her pale and haggared face and
remarked: "They are all gonel Oh,
God be merciful to them! My hus,
band and my seven dear little children
haye been swept down with the
food and ! am left alone. I'VE arc
driven by the raging flood into the
garret, hut tile waters followed US there,
Inch by inch II kept rising until our
heads were crushing against the roof.
Il was death 10 remain. So raised
a window and one by one placed my
darlings on some drift wood, trusting "a
the great Creator. AsI liberated the last
one, my sweet little boy, he looked al
me and said: Mamma, you alwayt
told me that the Lord would care iol
me; will be look after me nowT saw
GiR DRIFT away with his loyisg face
turned toward me, and with q
prayer on my lips for his deliverence
he passed from sight forever. The
next moment the roof crashed In and
| floated outside TO be rescued fifteen
hours later from the roof OF n house ID
Kearnsyille. II Icould only tlnd one O
my darlings could bow 10 the will o.
God. But they are gone. / have lost
everything on earth, now, but my life
anl I will return 10 my old Yirginil
home Sna lay down for my last Rrea
Sleep"
A MOTHERS AWFUL DISCOVERY.
A handsome woman, with hair al
black as q ravens wing, walked through
the depot where dozen or more bodleI
we're awaiting burial. Passing from on,
10 another, abe finally lifted the pape
covering from the face OF o woman
young, and With Traces q beduty showinl
through the stains oi muddy water
| With O cry Of anguish bhe feeled back
ward To- be caught BY a rugged man VIII,
changed " be passing. In q moment o
10 ahe had Caltied herself sufficiently Il
| take one more look a. tho features oi'he
dead. She stood gazing at the unioi
tunRte aS u dumb. Finally turn
Ing away With another wild hurs
| oi grief she sal ID; IAnd her heautliu
hair all matted and her Bweet face )
bruised and stained with mud an
water The dead woman was th
daughter Of the moutner, The bod
was placed ID q coffin a ie'
minutes later and sent away |
Its narrow house. These incident
fe hpt fair BAmhlup Of The SCENES fam
laf 70 every tyfn IN this sttICken elt!
The loss Ct life ID simply dfeaditi
The mpHt conservative people devlai
that the number will reach 300
The streets hayO been full
men carrying bodies 10 various place
. where they await Identification, Bln(
morning and the work has only juAt b
. gin. Every hour or 10 the forces Of inc
working on the various heaps Of debf
find numbers Of bodies buried Ia Il
0 ruins.
o y believed that when the flames al
gxtingullhed ID the wfuckage al u
d bridge, and the same 10 removed th
Z huRhIedA Rn1 hundreds Of Victims Nj
!. y! !dlbcovefed, Ia fact lhl1 beem1 cC
s ain, e dozens 81 bodie6I have GIfoat
Z been found on Tie oulskir,S oi Tie, ,hn
u mas Of broken tlmben,
. second case Of Attempted lynOhjI
" WAB witnessed thld eVAnlth nNak X Nafi