New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-04
wILLIAMsPoRT HEARD FROM AT LAST.
THE CITY AT THE MERCY OF THE YLooD-GREAT
LOSSES OF LUMBER MERcHANTs--

Ut MANY LIVES DOSIs
wIIIiamSport Penn, June 3.-slnoe Saturday morn
ing last this city has undergone tho experience OF
bsng flooded with thrtyfour feet Of water Of having
the .eusQueAanna boom taken out vita 200, 100000
fcet Of logs 20, 900 900 feet Of sawed lumber
takcu mills carried away and Others wrecked, bust
ness and Industrial establishments destroyed and
large number Of lives ios,. Early Friday news
reached hero of tho food at Clearheid. but 10 was
not before O'Clock Saturday morning that tho swell
fng water began 10 become prominent After midnight
Friday the rain came down In torrents until nearly
daylight Saturday morning. When the rain ceased
tho river kept getting higher and higher and spreading
out over the lower streets. At about O'Clock In tho
forenoon the logs began 10 go down,
filing she stream from bank 10 bank
when the water a. its highest the memorable
slsht was 20 DO seen Of level surface Of water
extending from the northern line OF the city from
Rura-ave. on Locustst, entirely across tho city TO
the mountain on the south side This meant that the
water was six feet deep on the floors OF the buildings
In Market Square, four feet deep In the station
of the Pennsylvania Railroad and at the Park Hotel.
Fully threeQu OF tho city was submerged The
loss was necessarily enormous.
The business houses throughout the city ali lose
heavily, any Of them over 10000 each The loss
falls heaviest on the lumber men, Al the logs are
lost and largo share Of the cut lumber.
The loss Of life has also been heavy Two children
Of Charles Edwards drowned, and three children
named shultz and child OF william DhtTich man
ali in the i city At Sppen5se Twelve miles up tSe
river twelve persons were drowned, members Of the
families Of George and william ioungman, and two
found today 9TH, that the ssS reg q Logs los.
aggregate OF manufactured lumber fuzzy 10000 600
An examination Of tho boom made to-day shows
that the piors ali safe but half dozen, and the
boom sticks are all In place but ono-tenth Of the
number. In about thirty days the boom win again
be in good working order.
Two more lives were lost to-day. Abrsm rIederfcy
and IL Nn1fYf gar ms ffRUaH ~ m
cross the 5TsS sbSye The dam in boat but were
GOV. BEAVER DIRECTING THE WORK OF RELIEF.
Harrisburg, Penn, June Ex-Governor Beaver ar.
rived here this morning over the Northern Central
Railroad from Annapolis, Md, and has been In CON-
munieaton With Adjutant-General Hastings At Johns-
town. He has received call for troops from Sheriff
NccaDdless, Of Allegheny County, who telegrsphs
that the situation Is such that u Is positively
sary 10 send st least four or Eve regiments Of the
EstionA Guard 10 prevent plllage robbery snd blood.
shed. AdjutantGenersi Hastings telegraphs
Have perfected good Organization; DO not think
everything win be Gone within possibility 70 relieve
the survivors and caro- for the dead"
The Governor, although perceiving no necessity fcf
calling cat the troops has Ordered tho 14th Regiment
q 70 BE- ready at moments notice 10 march TO the
3 srsno Of disaster.
oeasFai Hastings also tciegraphcd the following "a
ths manager Of the Postal Lines Telegraph Company
40 thts city;
netter inform Governor Beaver that this mornings
reports give the number lost II Johnsown Of between
;5%yv1s ana 1000: The greatest disorder prevas
19s place Y infested With thieves and vanda, who
ssseans tes apSa npa Wpfogdsting every thing thss
ost ger? thing IN tho shspo 81 psosisons ssas her.
( fer Tie Hood sufferers. = - $3.50
PhiisAslvhsa. Juno s--rhs foiioviag as.pasob ua,
fseaived this aftsynocn tY superintendent Gin o. "a,
western Union Tsisrsph cempshy; q =
@ss sss 'sss s s.s s u s:ss
burgess Hurt and General Hsstinss nxFre Ws,r NJ
NJ Good order psrvslA No arrests naas a,yirr NV
eight OF today. hpiiw well Organized ana es;sfsiI
n dttfibufed Medical and surgical beiD aud susssis
\ sufteient. feod and ma1s-ip closeing snr iSss
paper reports az loss OF lie and rroperSy ,at -
r ASExrstcd. a large force VIII be * w5sk toiaofro
ml9ninK 10 alesr away suin.s
wiz t'sne proclamation 10 general pubic in 0.