The Portland daily press., 1889-06-06
YESTERDAYS SAD WORK.
The Crash Of Dynamite Heard In the
Ruins.
It Makes Little impression-one
Thousand Funerals With Few
Mournsrs-Men Wanted Who Can
Work-The Labor systematlzed.

JoHNsTowN, Pa, l-ne 5.-There is no
surcease Of horrors hs r The situation is
resolving itself into k e. thing like order
and relief work is so fsystematized that
there is no danger 'otatonfusion. At the
several distributing t.rvss hundreds as
semble at morning. noon and night, and
forming In line are supplied with provisions.
Men and women with families are given
bread. butter, cheese, ham, canned meats
and tea or coffee. Nine hundred army tents
from Ohio have been divided into two white
walled villages which afford shelter for near
ly 6000 homeless people. These villages are
policed and under the charge of Gen. Axline.
The action Of the authorities yesterday in
consolidating all the authority and resting 1t
In j. B. Scott of Pittsburg as dictator, was
received with favor on all hands. He has
taken hold with energy and has already
mapped out the work and assigned the direc-
tion of its various portions to men equally
Jealous. He has $500 men at work and has
called for $500 more to whom he promises
work for 90 days at So per day and board
Mr.. Scott today said he proposed to clear
the town Of all the wreckage and debris of
all descriptions and turn the town site over
to the citizens, when he has completed the
work, clean and free from obstructions of all
kinds.
Today Superintendent Duncan. of the
Johnstown street railway, one of the lead
ing citizens of the place, declared that as
soon as the people recovered in measure
from their dazed condition immediate meas
ures would be taken towards rebuilding.
This will be gigantic and costly work, but
Mr.. Duncan expects to see new city spring
from the ruins of Johnstown. The work of
reconstructing the road bed and relaying the
tracks of the Pennsylvania road is being
pushed forward vigorously already, and
trains are running to the passenger station.
The construction trains also go considerably
further. The high embankment at the big
bend of the river which detected the river
from It's course on the fatal Friday and
was finally washed away itself was recon-
structed today.
Where Johnstown's principal stores stood
Friday are now pitched 1000 tents and be-
fore tomorrow night the number will proba-
bly, be doubled. Under this shelter are ac-
commodated the members of the militia and
thousands of workmen
TRYING TO CLEAR THE STREETS
OF the wrecked city. Over 5000 men are thus
employed In Johnstown proper, about 1900
being regular street hands employed by con
tractors and the others volunteers. William
Finn of Pittsburg arrived this morning and
at once took charge Of the army of laborers
He said. 1T will take 10000 men 80 DAYS to
clear the ground so that the streets will be
passable and the work of rebuilding can be
commenced. am at a loss to know how the
work is to be done. This enthusiasm will
soon die out and the volunteers will want t(
return home. 1t would take all summer fol
my men to do the work necessary. Step,
must be taken at once to furnish gangs Of
workmen Tomorrow shall send commu
nication TO the Pittsburg Chamber of Com
merce asking the different manufacturers q
| the Ohio valley to take turns for month q
SO in furnishing reliefs of workmen. / sbal
ask each establishment to stop work for ,
week at time and send all hands In charr,
of the foreman and timekeeper We Wi
board and cafe for them here. These gang
should come for week at time. No OF
ganizatior can be effected If workmen arriv
and leave when they please"
The volunteers are doing noble work
Nearly every town In Western Pennsylyani
is represented by from 10 to 100 men an,
many towns in Ohio and New York hav
furnished their quota of laborers. Thes
volunteers are working with q win. All th
laborerS were quartered tonight, some 1