Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-06-07


+ iug oi expense mo- sending relief TO suffer
ers Heavy bills have been incurred and
both MIR Miller and Mr. Gouriey stated %
I tbe meet this afternoon that they desired
/ as o hnsucial precaution 10 knog iusi how
I Iar they could 20 To ,his end it was neces-
I sary 70 know definitely how much of the
money now In the hands of Governor Bea-
ver would Dee devoted 90 Johustowu. Gov
/ ernoc Beaver was wired, and responded
thst be would meet represen alive of the
Pi,tsburg committee ma Philadelphia on
Saturday. ard the money question would
be setflod He also placed himself ia COM
municaCou with the authorities st q later
hour
At meeting Of the general relief com
mitgee held 90 The Johusiown ruins this
afternoon, the t.lloViug resolutions were
adopted
Roo'rc3. That the functions OF this
caumiues are simply Co receive c0ntribu-
tiou5 of money, 90 be responsible for its
safe deposit and 70 pay il out upon the
orders or requ'sitions of other and proper
authorities. That the payment OF wages
ot '-hor, aud other current expenses, in
the Judgment Oi this committee can only
he properly done in tbe manner provided
for in the resolutions adopted by this COM
mittee at its lsst meeting; that the emDlou.
uel' wi payment OF labor 70 rsll0rs ne in.
conceivable amount of debris in ciici is buried
fl, thousands or human bodies and TIE corDses
Or rnHn0'. ana Of restoring tts streams 20
t.elr normal channels IS oftie fr,f importance
90 is and C is also q matter of national CON
cer1. 1sif O. IS n0t thoroughly affected, the
tainted rIters nag cG7y ptsfiisncs INTO he
regions through ,ciict tleg pass This sill
involve an expense OF which no approx
mate estimate can be made-it Will be
enormous.
The survivors Of the flood are row, and
must be for some SINE wholly dependent
on issuses TO them o. food and clothing, as
there are 20 goods here except those sent
20 the relief committee and 10 places in
which inCOmers can be carried ca. The
method of the distribution Of money to the
survivors and the agency tor making such
distribution should receive serious con-
sidegstion. To is the sense Of this
committee that another committee
should be appointed tor this pur-
pose, composed I'm part OF citizens
OF this locality and of members appointed
By the Governors on the States, or By the
Chambers of Commerce in the cities, from
which c0ntrl buttons have been received,
OF in such other way "a viii give this
agency a national Chsrscter, and assure
the country that it's money viii be judi
ciously and fully applied 70 the relief OF
the victims Of this great calamity
Niueveh saw some woeful sights to-day
During the period OF daylight 746 bodies
were Consigned 90 the earth from the
morgues about the town. Father Dorm
conducted religious services at the St. Col
umbia Catholic church in Cambria City.
This armv of the dead was placed IN
trenches Less than 100 were recognized
by friends. None of them we're claimed
foe private burial. however, az In a
msio-ity Of instances the Survivors were
too poor 10 stand the expense. These
bodies we're gathered up from up and down
the river below lohustowD, and the com
missiouers OF Westmoreland county fur
nished the plo. of ground where they sleep
tonight
There is so uuususl amount Of sickness
about Near1vile. The physicians claim
chat several hundred cases Of pneumonia
exists. The children also afflicted with
measles and kindred complaints. The re-
action. uOW that the great shock has
passed ln a measure, has left hundreds OF
survivors with their nervous forces badly
shattered snd broken.
Johnslown and adjoining villages are
now under thorough military and police
regulations. Each place has been provided
with men enough ,O Keep out intru0ersi
and none save those who are actually em-
ployed Will be allowed TO remain. The
ficers are arresting men every hour, some
of them on the slightest provOCation. In
sll cases wLe-a Inc 0teuce be- trivial the
. victims are pressed into work with the re-
lief gangs.
Notices were posted 10 al the morgues
to-day. stating that after to-day bodies
would be held only twenI y-iour hours for
Identification. 10 at the expiration Of that
time tley are lot recognized they are
+ photographed and the photograph being
the ssme number as the m0Tgue number
of The corpse Recognition is "a difficult
matter, as the bodies are most terribly
bruised and discolored when taken ont,
aad in most cases the features are so dis
torted that recognition is considered much
more difficult than simply the blancneo
and shrveled appearance given from lying
no. the water.
The work O.. blasting the gorge at The
PENNSYLVANIA bridge was prosecuted to-
dsy with much better success than on any
previous day. Several men armed with
oicks were busy pushing the logs loosened
5y ths blast out into the stream at that
point they would doat away
The Cambria Iron Works, the second
largest in the United States was suppo ed
to- be- injured 90 the extent OF $, OoO 600.
A careful examination, however, was COM
pleted By an expert to-day, and demon
strsies that the real extent Of the damage
will not exceed 5000
A young lad named Eddie Fisher,
wnose mother and five sisters and brothers
los. their lives 10 the Hood to-day COM
mitted suicide, while in a ht OF desr on-
dsncy, By huriing himself from the top OF