Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-06-04

B0hnke, Thomas Mathews. Bertha Hoff-
man, Mrs. B. F. Hoffman, Florence Hoff-
man. Fred A. Hoffman, Marion Hoffman,
Joe Hoffman, Dr. " @. v Beam, A. Lyt-
tie, Laura Hamilton, Mrs John D. G.
HornOck. Conrad Weiz, August Doris.
The dead az Kearnsville are: Three
children of n. ShaDks, Mrs. Walter Dawes,
Mrs. John HOwker, Mrs. Ream, Mrs Wes-
ley Stuff, Mrs Jacob Swsnk, Luther Bow
mans child, jessie Hamilton, Mrs l. W.
Delaney, Otto Cooper, Annie Reese, Wind
sor Reese, Ella White, Maggie White,
Chas. Muscer, Mrs. Ed. Brennan, daugh
ter of Bernard Cunz. Mrs. Knoley, Sallie
I.avey, Mrs Kinney, mother of Joseph
Kinney. Mrs. Robert Nixon, Mrs. Dyer,
James Howard, Mrs. J. J. Craig, J. J.
Craig Mrs. Rachel Forkes, David Fisher,
Margaret Fisher, George Fisher, JOhn H.
Fisher, Fisher's servant girl, Mrs. Kinney,
five unknown bodies. At other points
Mrs. A. w. Lockhart, of McKeespOrt; /;
Mrs. Loekhsrt's father, q servant girl,
Mrs. Umerhoff md son, Peter Brown,
Minnie Linton, Charles Ftzharris, Charles
BOnnke and three unknown.
A Deplorabls Condition.
Kearusville is in a deplorable condition.
The iviug sre unable to take care of the
dead. The majority of the inhabitants of
the town were drowned. A frame build.
ing has been hastily erected on the only
street remaing 10 the town. As quickly ~
the dead ara brought to this point they are
placed in boxes and then taken to the Gem
etery and buried. A supply store has
opened in the town
A milk man who was Overcharging for
milk this morning narrowly escaped
! lynching. The infuriated men sppro-
priated sll the milk and distributed it
among tee poor and then drove him out of
the town.
The body of the Hun who was lynched
in aD orchard last night was removed by
his friends during the night. He had
robbed desd woman. The IN
human monster had cut Of her four En-
pers OF the right hand. He was noticed
before he escaped and dropped the fingers
/ into his pockets, where they were found
when he was captured. The act so mad
deped the men and they they took him to
an orchard on the hillside and hung him.
There is bat one street left in the town.
/ About 155 houses are standing where once
/ there stood a thousand. None of the large
buildings IN what was once thriving little
borough have escaped One Thousand people
/ ia low estimate Of the number OF lives
lost from this town. But few OF the
bodies have been recovered. 1t is directly
above the ruins and the bodies have tlosted
down into them where they we're burned.
A walk through the townrevealed des-
olate sight. Only about % able bodied
men have survived and are able TO render
any assistance. Men and women can be
seen with black eyes, bruised faces and
cut heads. The appearance of some OF the
women is heartrending. They were IN
| iured in the flood and since that have not
slept. Their faces have turned sickly
yellow and dark rings surround the eyes.
Many have succumbed to nervous
prostrgtion. For two days but
little assistance could be rendered them.
No medical attention reached them, the
wounded remaining in some houses cut OIL
/ by the water 10 die from their injuries
alone. Some were alive on Sunday and
their shouts cOuld be heard by the people
OF the shore.
A msn is now in temporary Jail IN
what is left Of the town. He WAS caught
stealing gold watch. A shot was fired at
/ him, but he was not wounded. The only
thing that saved him from lynching was
the smalluess of the crowd. his sentence
will be the heaviest that can be given him.
Decomposition setsIn
This morning opened up dark and
dreary. Great drops OF rain fall occasion
ajlv. and another storm seems imminent
Everyone feels thankful, though that the
weather still remains cool, and that the
Gradual putrefactiOu Of the hundreds o.
bodies that still lire the streams and l'
hidden under the miles of driftwoOd and
debris is not unduly hsstened. The pecn-
liar stencil OF decaying human flesh Is
plainlv percaptible to the senses as one
sscends the bank of Stony Creek, for 6
half-mile along the smolderlng RUNS o.
the wreck. and the most scepticle now con
csive the worst, and realize that thousands
of bodies lie charred and blackened be-
meath this great funeral pyre.
Searchers wander wearily over TINS
smoking mass. and as occasionally sud
den shout comes over the waters, the
patient watchers on the hill knew thal
another chastity discovery has been added
10 that long list of revelations that chiI
every heart and draw tears to the eyes.
From the banks many charred remains
of flames and flood are plainly visible tC
the naked eve, as the recediug waters re-
lnetsntlv give up their dead. Beneath
almost every log or blsckened beam,
skull or the blanched or blackened rem
nsnts Of ribs or limbs mark all that re-
mains of life's hopes and dreams:
Since 10 O'Clock last night the IRE en-
eipes have been busy. Water has heeu
constantly playing On the DurniDe
ruins. At times the fire seems almost eH
tinguisbed. but fitful flames suddenly
bresk ont afresh in some new quarter ahu
again the water and flames wage fierce com
bat.
PbvsIoIans Want to Burn the Dead
The chief sensation of the morning mas
baen The united remonstrsnce of the poySl-
clans against the extinguishment OF the
burning wreck. They maintain, Win
nbilosoDbv. that to anxious seaIcners
seems beartless. that hundreds, II not
tboDsands of lifeless and decaying bodies
lie beneath this mass OF burning IuinS' Ca.
'Tt would better be, " they say 10 70
hermit NATURES greatest scavenger-tne
| aames-to pursue its work unmolesteu'
thgn to allow further delay to the p"tre-
fvino bodies that lie beneath the debris; Is;
There can be but one result. Days VIII
elapse before the rubbish can be sufhclenuy
removed to permit recovery OF THESE tn.y5
bodies and long ere that every corpse WIZ
be a putred mass. Every battlefield mas
demonstrstsd the necessity Of the hssty
interment of decaying bodies, and tne
stencil that already arises Is torerunntsI,
Of impending danger. Burn the WrecR'
Burn the wreck" A..
a loud cry of indignation arose from tne
ll;ns Of the vast multitude and the warn
nos of science were lost in esger demands
of ibese that sought the remains of near
and dear. The hose was again turned
nnon the flames and gradually the flames
yielded to the supremacy Of the water
n Is almost impossible to conceive the
evtent of the smoking ruins. An area ol
e;,bt or ten acres below the dam IS GOV,
cred to a depth of forty feet with shattered
bonses borne from the resident center OF
JOhnstown. -. 0os
Adiptant General Hastings, who mas
cbarce of everything, stated this morning
that he supposed there was at least :. OVU
neople under burning debris, but the only