St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-02

ina f''i Pol a JOHN Karts. Ed.
ward Lightner, missing; John
Lightner, missing; Dennis Car.
roi, missing: Samuel and Rose Haw-
thOrne, Mrs. Joseph Smith and three
children, Peter McEnnery and family
of nine, Mrs. and Miss Hammil, Mrs. II.
M. Ogle, Western Union telegraph OPP
orator. and Miss Minnie Ogle, Miss Grace
German, Miss Watkins, Miss Minnie
Linton (missing); Thomas Jackson, tel
egraph lineman; Mr.. Rodgers, William
Gather, all the others were unidenti-
fed. The condition Of the streets is one
of unparalleled desolation. Fine thor
Oughfares in the most densely populated
parts OF the town are denuded of the
stores which once were the pride Of
their inhabitants. Trees have been
stripped of their branches, their
trunks standing bare and broken
or are uprO0ted and swept away. 1t is
not eXaggeratiOn to say that not single
structure now left within the confines
of the city is safe as place of haDitar
ton and all must be
TORN DOWN AND REBUILT.
The gorge has so INSTRUCTED the
slujceways of the yladuct that the
water, although all the cOncretiOn oil
the streams debaucbing into the Cone
maugh Is not great, does not recede as
fast as it otherwise would. All boats and
crafts having been swept away, the
means of getting about the deluged
streets as now tit rivals for the canals OF
Notwithstanding the dire distress
of their fellow citizens the
Huns were caught purloinlng garments
and searching the pockets of the vic
times of the awful tragedy. All food
supplies having been destroyed and all
places of shelter having been made
insecure. hundreds TOOK refuge on
the slopes which surround the city on
all sides The scenes Of these camps
were pathetic. Little children clustered
around their elders
CRYING FOR FOOD
and shivering with the cold mountain
air. For sixteen hours the little city
was cut off from the world and the trag
edies of that awful night can never be
be told. The Pennsylvania rail
low, three miles west, were torn
out and absolutely washed away for a
distance of three-Quarters of a mile.
The heavy steel rails were twisted
about as if they were slender copper
wires, and in some instance were broken
off by the strain brought to bear
on them. One track was swept into the
river, the rails and ties of the east track
were thrown on top of the west-bound
track, and in one place they were
twisted into a plat. The stone bal
last was washed from between ties
for over mile, and in one place the
rails, ties and ballast were all swept
away. and the heavy clay roadbed was
beaten as hard as cemented floor by
the force of the current sweeping over
it.
FOOD, CLOTHING AND MONEY
is needed by the inhabitants of the
stricken city. They need shelter also.
The citizens of Pittsburg and Allegheny
have started a relief fund which is
growing rapidly, but the sum needed
are more than any one COM
munity can give. Food has been for
Warded from the cities and towns along
the lines of the road. On the BaltI-
more q Ohio railroad there was much
damage also, but there was no
such torrent to devastate as that
swept down from the South Fork
reservoir with rapidity Incredible and
a destruction unparalleled in the annals
of American history. The actual loss
of life cannot possibly be ascer-
tanned within less tuan week
or ten days. The damage done
the Cambria Iron works mills is incal-
culable and they will have to spend
fabulous sum in repairs before they can
resume work, which will not be for sew
eraI months. g.
WASHINGTON, June lat. 1880 to
night the water had reached Pennsyl-
vania avenue at Sixth street and washed
aWay to the street car tracks on the
south side and nearly to the door
steps. A strong current is sweeping
through E street and around the corner
of Thirtieth and Pennsylvania avenue
and down the, gutter on the south
side