Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-03

the west bank OF the river for a distance of
two miles leaves the mind confused. There
are not over two hundred bodies to be seen,
but while the mass of people walked back
and forth they were strangers. Not one
person in ten that one met was resident Of
this vicinity. 1t leads to the belief that
hundreds, perhaps thousands, are still
buried in the mud and debris burned in the
awful furnace at the stone bridge or lodged
further down than the saarchers have yet
gone. That many are buried yet is also in
dicatcd by the fresh finds every few houcs,
and the unmistakable odor that rises from
the acres Of fire on the river bank
pLUNDERISG THE DEAD.
AS the roads TO the roundabout are opened
| deeds Of the vlcst natures perpetrated in
| the darkness Of the night are brought TO
| light.
Just as the shadows began to fall upon the
earth last evening party of thirteen Hun
| garians were noticed stealthily picking their
| way along the banks of the Conemaugh
| towards Sang Hollow. Divining their pur
| pose, several farmers armed themselves and
| started in pursuit. Soon their most terrible
| fears were realized The Hungarians were
| out for the plunder lying upon the shores.
| They came upon dead and manged body
| of woman upon whose person were a num-
| ber of trinkets, gold iewelry and two dia-
! mond rings. In their eagerness to secure
| the plunder the Hungarians got iuto fight,
| during which one of their number severed
| the finger upon which were the rings, and
| started ON q run with his fearful prize. The
| revolving nature of the deed so wrought
upon the pursuing farmers, who, by this
| time, were close at hand, that they gave i'm
| mediate chase. Some of the Hungarians
showed fight, but, being outnumbered, were
| compelled to flee for their lives. Nine of the
brutes escaped, but four were literally driven
into the surging river and to their death.
| The inhuman monster whose atrocious act
has been described was among the number
| of the involuntary suicides.
LYNcHED THE LooTERs.
Another incident of even greater moment
| has just been brought to notice. At $3.50
o'clock this morning an old railroader, who
| had walked from Sang Hollow, stepped up to
a number of men who were congregated on
the platform of the station at Curransville
and said
Gentlemen. if l had shotgun with me
half an hour ago l would now be
q murderer, yet with no fear of ever having
to suffer for my crime. Two miles below
here watched three men going along the
banks stealing jewels from the bodies of the
| dead wives and daughters of men who have
been robbed of all they held dear on earth"
! He had no sooner finished the last sentence
| than five burly men were on their way to the
| scene of the plunder, one with rope and
| another with revolver. In twenty minutes
| they had overtaken two of the ghouls, who
| were then in the act of cutting pieces from
the ears and fingers from the hands of two
the scoundrels the leader of the posse
sr shou'1d ID Ehr0w h1aw vor up 6eads yo%r hands o1
With blanched faces and trembling
i fprnlS phnvnU and hnpppi
mercy. They were searched, and as their
pockets wer empted of their CHASTITY finds,
the indignation of the crowd intensified, and
when the bloody finger of an infant encir-
cled with two tiny gold rings was found
Lynch them! Lynch them!' Without "a
moments delay ropes were thrown about
their necks and they were dangling TO tree,
in the branches of which an hour before
| were the entangled bodies of the dead
father and son. After the expiration of
a half-hour, the ropes. We're cut and the
bodies lowered and carried to pile of rocks
in the forest on the hili above.
MINIsTERING TO THE SICK.
A squad of Battery b, under command of
Lieutenant Brown, (the forerunner of the
whole battery arrived at the improvised
telegraph office at d 30 O'Clock. He went at
once to Adjutant- General Hastings and ar
ranged for proper protection.
Medical dlspensary under Directors Wake
field, of the Cambria Medical society, Stew
| art, OF tne Allcgneny society, anu MllllBan,
of the Westmoreland society, is doing good
. | work. DIR. Millgan states that they treated
| 800 patients to-day. They are at Napoleon
street, in. Kearnsville. No surgical instru-
at GOULD O'Clock SS ths il" 'es sy
Among their 800 patients the doctors have
many with factured skulls, and nearly all
| have broken bones. One man had a heavy
, | iron bar driven through his leg beneath the
, knee, separating two bones A thigh ampu-
: ts.tlon was made. woman has her knee
and the lower part of a limb crushed out OF
all shape. DR.. Milligan reported AT 8 p. m.
| that sevonty-siX bodies had been taken out
of Kearnsvile and eighty-tive above the silk
| works.
Chef Evans, of the Pittsburg fire depart
ment, arrived this evening with engines Nos.
| ana Is and several hose carts and a full
| complement of men. A large number OF
| Pittsburg physicians came on the same train
Mr.. Grouse the proprietor of the South Park
Fishing club hotel came to Johnstown this
| afternoon. He says that when the dam of
, | Conemaugh lake broke the water seemed to
leap scarcely touching the ground 1t
bounded down the valley, crashing and roar
ing, carrying everything before il. For a
1 ! twenty feet high. The warning given the
stricken city was sent from South Fork by
Freight Agent Dechert. When the great
wall that held the body of the water began
ging the people of JohnstowD for Gods
sake TO take to the hills. He reports nc
serious accidents at South Fork.
Richard Davis ran to Prospect hill when
the water raised. AS TO Dechcrt's message,
, he says that Just sucn one has been sent
: down at each flood since the lake was made
, The warning so often proved useless that
little attention was paid to il this time.
+, 81 can not describe the mad rush, he said
4 "At first it looked like dust. That must have
3 been spray. | could see houses going down
4 before 1t like II chld's play blocks set on end
III row. AS it came nearer | could see
, houses totter for moment, thcu rise. and
the next moment be crushed like egg shells
r against each other.h
5 Mrs. James Davis, her two daughters and
, son, can nowhere be found. At Woodvalc
there was row Of brick tenement houses
l2O feet long and three stories nigh. II stoo(
blo oadsde to the current. A few tenant:
, fled, but many went 70 their attics to watct
h the flood, To-day scarcely foundation o
y the row of brick houses can be found. Super
intendent Kiertland, OF the West Pcnnsyl
vania railroad arrived Mt Il 80 p. H., with
:. car load Q. provisions from Blairsville.
EMBARRASSED BY sIoHT-sEERs.
I A member of the JohnstowE safety com
1 mlttee said 10 a reporter this evening: "f'ol
. Gods sake, tell them at Pittsburg To stoI
the rush Of slght-seers TO this strickeI