The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-06-11

hour. Fires are raging over the tangled
graves Of hundreds, and the partial crem a.
tion OF many bodies Is inevitable. Others
are becoming so blackeded in their contact
with the debris, or through putrefac alton
that a grinning skeleton would show as
much resemblance to the persons in life as
they. Almost every stroke of the pick In
some portions of the city to-day resulted
in the discovery Of another victim, and al
though the funerals Ot the morning re-
lieved the mOrgues of their crush before
night they were as full of the decomposing
dead as ever.
| Wherever one turns the melancholy view
of boffin is met. Every train into johns
town was laden with them, the better
onesbeing generally accompanied by friends
OF the dead. Men could be seen stagger-
gering over the ruins with shining mahog-
any csskets on their shoulders. Several
stumbled and fell into the Astounding man
pits. The hollow houses of the de3d went
bounding over the stones like drums in a
funeral march. The coffin famine appears
| to be alieyiated.
BENEFITS oE COOL WEATHER.
In the midst of this scene of death and
desolation, relenting Providence seems
TO be exerting subduing influence. Six
days have elapsed since the great disaster,
and the temperature still remains low and
chilly In the Conemaugh Valley. When
tt is remembered that in the ordinary June
weather of this locality from two to three
days are sufficient to bring an unattended
body to degree of decay and putrefaciion
that would render it almost impossible to
prevent the spread of disease throughout
the valley, tie inestimsb'e benefits of this
cool weather are almost beyond apprecia-
ton. The emanations from the h,lf-mile
OF debris above the bridge are but little
more offensive than yesterday, and should
this cool weather continue a few days
longer, it is possible hundreds of bodies
may yet be recovered from the wreck in
such a state of preservation as to render
Identification possible. Many hundreds
of victims, however, will be roasted and
charred into such shapeles; masses as to
preclude hope Of recognition by their
nearest relstion.
The work OF clearing up the wreck and |
recovering the bodies is now being condue- |
ted most Systematically. Over 5000 men |
are at work in the various portions of the |
valley, and each little gang OF twenty men |
is directed by a foreman, who is under Or
ders from the general headquarters. As
the rubbish is gone oyer and the bodies and |
scattered articles of value recovered, the |
debris is piled up in one high mass and the
torch applied. In this way the valley is
less devastated condition. In
twenty-tour hours more every mass of rub
Dish will probably have been searched,
and the investigations will be confined to
The smoking wreck above Johnstown bridge
Gen. Hastings sent the following telegram
10 Coy. Beaver this morning:
"The Chief of Police of JohnstOwn IN
orms me that there were no depredatiOns
asst night. and everything is quiet this
The stories about riots and
ynching are untrue, and are sent by peo-
Die who are DESTROYS of making sensations"
(Signed) 80. III. HASTINGS"
THE CHIEF CoMnSsARY STATION.
At Johnstown station on the east side of
he river everything was quiet, yet consid-
rable work is being done This is the
hief commissaTy station, and this morn
ng at O'Clock $1,000 people were fed, and {
bout 600 families were furnished with [
PROVISIONS. Five car loads Of clothing ,
Tere distributed, and now nearly every one
; provided with clothing. 4
This morning 100 men arrived here in {
barge OF Philip Finn. Hon. William Z
linn arrived later and took charge of the t
-ork, and by eleven o'clock they had sue 8
eeded In doing more work in clearing h
way debris than had been done heretofore. a
lr. Finn has offered the men special in u
uoements that will make them work. I
twenty-five carpenters and twenty car |
'ads OF provisions came up with the Ia c
oring men. Each man had a pick, | Fl
novel, saw or some other instrument n
D his shoulder and was prepared 10 60 to (;
ork Immediately. Adjt Gen. Hastings n
as requested the Associated Press 10 saw n
lat this is the kind Of men that are want a
here, and too many cannot be sent, ii
hirty doctors arrived from Philadelphia r,
rs morning in charge of DR.. FORBES. The al
'ctors were thanked for their willingness W
help, but their services were declined a
ON the fact that there no sick TO take care a
. In the Prospect hospital on the hilltop fir
ere IS not one patient, and the only use 70
ey have Tor doctors here is to utilize them ar
'laborers. W. II. Devore has been given Al
arge OF the impromptu embalming estab- IA
hment In the Pennsylvania railroad sta
m by BENZ. Lee, the secretary of the state iii
ard OF health. In his notice the gentle 10
IN gave him authority to discharge all ST,
m who used profane language about the ne
ice. r,
THE LOST. CO
AT the different registration places $4,000 W. W.
ldents OF the devastated district had Ii
,istered as alive and we'll. The total aS
pulation of this district was between 40 az
and $4,000. There are hundreds of az
'ple waiting around the Offices to have or;
III names placed on the list of saved. 1t ne
thought that by tomorrow night at least As
per cent of the survivors will be regis me
ed. Visits to several of the registra- arc
a Offices to-day and inquiries among sur arc
ors who came in 10 register, and COM the
alton OF the replies to them indicate ma
the proportion of the saved and lost is OF
ut equal. lie
lest estimates this morning IN tho lose of loo