Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-03


chase. Some Hungarians showed fight,
but being outnumbered, were compelled
10 flee for their lives. Nine of the brutes
but four we're literally driven
into the surging water and to their death.
The inhuman monster, whose atrocious
act has been described, was among the
of involuntary suicides.
SHORT sHRIFT FOR THR GHoULs.
Another incident of even greater mo-
ment has just been brought to notice.
AT $50 o'clock this morning, an old
who had walked from Sang
Hollow, stepped up to number of men
who were congregated on the platform OF
the station at Curranville, and said:
Gentlemen, had l had shotgun with
me, half an hour ago, l would now be
yet with no fear of ever hav-
ing to suffer for my crime. Two miles
below here l watched three men going
along the banks stealing jewels from the
bodies of the dead wives and daughters
of men who had 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 plumber, one with coil of rope,
and another with a revolver. In twenty
minutes they had overtaken two of their
victims, who were then in the act OF
cutting pieces from the ears and fingers
from the hands of two dead women.
With his revolver leveled at the scoun-
drels, the leader of the posse shouted,
"THRow UP YOUR HANDS,
Or I'll blow your heads off," With
blanched faces and trembling forms they
obeyed the order, and begged for mercy
They were searched, and as their pockett
were emptied of their CHASTITY finds, the
indignation of the crowd intensified, and
when the bloody finger of an infant, en-
circled with two tiny gold rings, was
found among the plumber in the leaders
pocket, the cry went up. "Lynch them
lynch them !" Without moments de
lay, ropes were thrown about their necks
and they we're dangling to the limbs o.
trees, in the branches of which, an houl
before, were entangled the bodies of &
dead father and son. After the expira
ton of half an hour the ropes were cut
and the bodies lowered and carried to |
pile of rocks in the forest, on the hill
above.
SCENES IN THE CEMETERIES.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 2.-Men wer
at work in the Lower Yoder Catholi
Cemetery and Grand View Protestan
Cemetery this afternoon digging trenches
The bodies that were exposed when tn
waters began falling are in bad con
dition. Some have already been in
tered.
In the haste and excitement no definit
arrangements seem to have bean mad
| for funeral services. The only suggestion
| that could be obtained at Morrell's Hal
was that all the bodies would be burie
and general memorial services held afte
the pre- sent suffering is alleviated.
DESCRIPTION BY ONE WHO WAS THERE.
In talk today, Conductor Bell, of tn
first section of the day express, whic
was laid up at Conemaugh, on the nigh
of the disaster, said "The fret and sec
ond sections stopped side by side a
Conemaugh on Friday at ernoon on &C
count Of the washout at Lilly's. Tn
second was next to the hill and the frs
on the outside. Suddenly l saw wha
looked like a wall of water. 1t wa
thirty feet high, and we barely had tim
to notify the passengers, and they nearl
all filed up the hillside. One old man
who, with his son returned, for som
reason, was drowned. Two cars wen
down in the current. l do not knoN
how many were drowned. We saw tw
on top of the cars. The water set fire t
lot of lime and the FIRE caught two Pull
man cars, which were destroyed, but n
person was burned, ell the passenger
having left the train before the car
caught.
"There were about 100 persons on m
section, which was made up of da
coaches. After the rush was over, tn
passengers went back to the cars an
later were cared for by the people c
Conemaugh. Afterward they we're take
to Ebensburg. They expected to 60 cas-
to Altoona this afternoon. The friend
of those in the Chicago limited need fec
no anxiety, as it was not in the foo
at ALL"
CARING FOR THE INJURED.
A squad of battery 3d." under com
mand of Lieutenant Brown, the forerun
ner of the whole battery, arrived at tn
improvised telegraph office at 6:3
o'clock. He went at once to Adjutant
General Hastings aud arranged 70
proper protection. Another dispensary
under Drs. Wakefield, of the Cambria
Medical Society, Stewart, of the ALLIE
gheny Society, and Milligan, OF tn
Westmoreland Society, is doing goot
work. Or. Milligan states that the.
treated 800 patients to-day. They are q
Napoleon street in Kearnsville. No sur
gical instruments could be procured il
the city until 2 O'Clock this afternoon
Among these 300 patients the doctor.
have many with fractured skulls anG
nearly all have broken bones. One mar
had heavy iron bar driven through his
leg beneath the knee, separating the two
bones. A thigh amputation was made
A woman had her knee and the lower
part of her limb crushed out of all shape
Thigh amputation was necessary. DR..
Milligan reported at P. NJ. that sixteen
bodies had been taken out of Kearns-
vile and eighty. five above the silk works.
Chief Evans, of the Pittsburg Fire
Department, arrived this evening with
engines Nos. 2 and Is, and several hose
carts, with a full complement of men.
A large number of Pittsburg physicians
came on the same train.
HOW THE WATERS CAME DOWN.
Mr.. Grouse, proprietor of the South
Park Fisheries Club Hotel, came to
Johnstown this afternoon. He said that
when the dam of Conemaugh Lake
broke, the water seemed to leap, scarcely
the ground. 1t bounded down
the valley, crashing and roaring, carry.
ing every thing before it. For mile its
front seemed like a solid wall, twenty
feet high.
THE CRY OF "woLF."