The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-06

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wore smile that perhaps had its birth
nsthat spirit of who's afraid ?f which
has had such awful results. A pite-
BUS, mud-bedrabbled. CHASTITY burden
was it that came in among the mead
ows. and yet there was look of peace
IN the features that brought tears
10 the eyes Of the rough men who found |
her and who fastened the body with a |
short string to post. She had a work
a-day life, poor thing, her hands were
rough. her face was worn and thin and
her hair was Streaked with gray just
after dawn. Whether incredulity or
foolishnesS numbers its flood victims
by the score or by the hundreds, no
one yet knows and it viii be many days
before the writing on the tombstones
and the tracing of the unknown
dead' are ended. There has grown
up bitter feeling among the surviv-
ing sufferers against those who owned
the lake and dam, and damage suits
will be plentiful by and by. The dams
in stony creek above Johnston broke at
noon yesterday and thousands of feet
of timber passed down the stream. 1t
is impossible to tell what the loss OF
life viii roll up, but at O'Clock the
coroner OF WeStmoreland county sent
a message out saying that one hun
dred bodies had been recovered at
4A14Chs hd11 way DSbHCCh hO1O anu
Johnston. Sober minded people do not
hesitate to say
THAT 200 Is MODERATE.
How can anybody tell how many
are dead?'' said railroad engineer to
me this morning. II have been at
Lang Hollow with my train since IL
O'Clock yesterday. and have seen fully
500 persons lost in the flood" ]. w.
Esch, brave railroad employe, saved
sixteen lives at Nineveh. The most
awful elimination of the awful night
was the
ROASTING OF A HUNDRED or MORE
PERSONS
in mid flood. The ruins of houses, out
buildings and other structures swept
against the new railroad bridge at
Jamestown, and from an overturned
stove, or some such cause, the upper
part of the wreckage caught fire. There
were crowds of men, women and chill
dren on the wreck, and their screams
were soon added to the awful chorus of
horror. They were literally roasted in
the flood. Soon after the fire burned
out, others were thrown against the
mass. There were some fifty people in
sight when the ruins suddenly parted,
broke up and was swept under the
bridge into pitchy darkness. The Ia
| two houseS's could be seen in the town
It is also said that only three houses
remain in Cambria city. The first au-
thetic news was trcm w. n. Hays, OF
the Pennsylvania railroad company who
reached New Florence OF O'Clock
| He says the valley towns are annihi-
lated. The Associated Press now has
the only wire between New Florence
and Pittsburg and has it connected
with its main circuit. Details are me
age but will be furnished at first mo
ment possible.
II a. m.-The hospital train has just
arrived.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 1.-Indi-
cations point to the present trouble
being the worst ever experienced by thu
Pennsylvania railroad company during
the blizzard of March Is.
| SANG HOLLOW, Pa, June AT 9:3I
the first train passed New Florence. 1
was crowded with people from Pitts
burg and places en- route. People VIII
were going to the scene of disaster will
but little hope of finding their loveC
ones alive, rich and poor were on boarC
that train all thinking of but on,
thing and that was what viii
we seek. 1t was hear
rending sight and not a dry eye was il
children, husbands paced the aisles
and wrung their hands in mute agony
Fathers pressed their faces agains
the windows in an endeavOr to Sc
something they knew not what, tina
would tell them in a measure of TIT
dreadful fate that their loved ones ha
met with all along the railing Cone
maugh. The train stopped and bOdie
were taken on the express car, bein
carried by the villagers who were on
along the banks. The horror and IL
finite pity of it all.
, What journey has been that of tn
lay here and there in piles of crosStie
or on the river banks among the tar
gled greenery. 1t was about O'cloc
when the first passenger trai
since Friday came to the New FlorenC
depot with its load of eager passenger
They were travellers, but each had
mission here and there. Men wei
staring out of the windows with re
eyes. Among them were tough-lool
! ing Hungarians and Italians, who ha
, lost friends near Nineveh, while man
are weeping on all sides. Two of tt
passengers on the train were man an
! wife from Johnstown. He VIZ
quite dignified and more
> less self-possesSed, while she w;
anxious and tried hard to control m
feelings. From every new conner an
= possible source of information ST
, sought news. In few moments a
, those in the car knew the story of Il
! pair, and many pitying glance W;
! cast at them. Their house was one
> the first to go. Just before reachiI
Sang Hollow, the end of the main lii
, of the Pennsylvania railroad. is tt
GSC17 cinun1 fnEU0r and tho
. told stories of what they saw so pit
; Gus that l could not listen
= half of it and control my fee
4 iDgS.
v The present suspension of traf
caused by the washing away of bridg
r and viaductS, heavy land slides, iOl
s and deep washOuts and the fall
! masses of rock from mountain sides
+ the track below between Altoona ar
q JOhnstown, distance of forty mile
8 and east of the former city, Is expect
d to last fully as long as the snow bloc
n ade of year ago.
= A dispatch received from William
3 port at one o'clock this afterno.
8 states that that city is flooded al
the water still rising. The Pennsylv
MIA s. Reading railroad bridge over tt
q Susquehanna river at Minch was SWe
q away. and crashing against the Phil
= delphia s. Erie bridge at Montgome
q seriously damaged the latter structuI
:, A train of loaded coal cars which b;
been placed on the Montgomery brid
4 prevented it from being carried ava
q AT PITSBURG.
e PITTsBURG, June 1.-The body of
e Welsh woman sixty years of age W
n taken from the river near the SuSpe
g sion bridge. In this city at ten a'clOC
e this morning four four bodies we
Y seen, but owing to the mass OF wrec
= affe coming down the stream TIL
d could not be recovered and pass
/. down the Ohio river.
n a citizens meeting has been called
2 devise means to aid the sufferers
!. the Johnstown flood. The Pennsylv
Il mia railroad officials have alreaC
o placed cars ON Liberty street for t.
purpose of receiving provisions al