Telegram-herald., 1889-06-09
CLUB-MEN IN DANGER
Strong Feelings Against the Own
ers OF the Fatal Dana.
IHE SURVIVORS SEEkIsC REVENGE
ghs CoroDsr's sury Thought 10 Have
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sks striosen s4tsy.


% angry are some II tie people iA I.sls VI
entity that trouble ls feared ia "
> Boyer, superintendent at the cot
tases on TIE lake. Already several 81 the
pretty villas have been broken into rs
1naraudeIs and the furniture demolished
The boaIs owned by the club hzNt been
stolen IL broad dag hsht G0a reduced -
kndling wood by tAe I'M 1TiaJea crowd 4kv
men who broke into the cottages have MOI
been discovered IL is evident robbery a.
not iuten endsd Affairs ~ present are
assuming d serious aspect The coroner :
lury lHat kas been IL session al 0ay at
NlnesAh terminated its labors Friday after
noon The verdict has been fully pre-
pared and ony l@CAs the signal aros
oI the Jurors before being giving publicity.
Ii Is understood that tie jury, after review
Ing al length the successive breaks and
careless repairs IN the Gam IN past years,
declares the Executive Committee Of The
South fO1k Fishing Club guilty Of gross. II
not criminal, negligence.
That Tlgld inyestlg cation viii be de
manded and insisted upon lie generally con-
caded by those who have oonYeTsed with
the people upon tie subject and that there
Will DO an enceayor 70 IN the responsibility
Or blame, II any such there can be anc to
prevent any tendency 10 white ash mat
ters, Is almost equally certain
Mr A NJ Wellington, with =. p Burt,
associate editor OF the Engineering News,
of New York has Just completed ex-
animation of the dam which caused the
great disaster here. kr. Wellington states
that the dam was IN every respect OF in
fcrior construction and OF IA kind
wholly unwarranted by good engineering
practices of thirty years ago Both tie
original and reconstructed dams were Of
earth only with no heart wall The
original dam however, was made Ia
Tammed and watered Layers, which
stu show distinctly in the wrecked
dam. The new end merely added IL
It's stability, bat IL was 10 al appear
ance simply dumped ia like an ordinary
railroad NIL Much OF the old part If stand
Ing intact while adjacent parts OF tie new
work are wholly carried Of There Was
10 central wall CT masonry either IA the
new or old dam- Ii has been the inyGriable
practice OF engineers for thirty or forty
years 10 use one or the other II building
high dams OF earth.
Mr. Wellington said that no engineer of
known and good standing for such work
could possibly have been engaged on II.
since IN the particulars mentioned IL NO
lated the most elementary and universally
understood requirements OF good practice
He did not believe that any other dam Of
equal height had ever been constructed in
this country wholly Of earth without some
kind of special protection against leakage
or abrasion by water In the center of the
dam.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, June S-Immediately
upon learning OF the JOhnstown disaster
ha pt,sr in ,.ifx
Saturday morning sent 100 blankets.
Charles J. Clarke sent his check for 900,
". b Morehead gave 81 900, Jesse H. Lip
pincotJ. 81, coo; Joseph Horne, q 100; Joseph
". Brown, 500: Colonel J. J. Lawrence,
500; Calvin Wells, 500; C. i. Shay. ESQ,
and other members $50 each-in all about
$1,000. The club lost also about s250 O0
by the dis;.ster, though none of its mem
bers or their relatives were drowned
WEEK or WOE
JoHYsTows Pa, June Sit Is over a week
since the demon OF destruction swept down
the valley OF the Conemaugh, but the desc
lation that marks its angry fight
is still visible in all It's intesity
and horror. The days that have
been spent by weary toilers whose
efforts were steeled by grief have done
little To repair the devastation wrought ID
one short hour by the potent fury OF the
waters. To the watchers on the mountain
side all seems yet chaos and confusion
The thousand fires that spot the valley
show that the torch is being used 10
complete the work OF annihllatlOn where
repair Is impossible. The corps Of Govern
ment engineers that arrived Friday night
has already demonstrated the valuable rs
sistance which IL is capable of rendering IN
these times OF emergency.
Governor Beaver has invited Governor
Hill. OF New York, 10 issue Joint procla-
nation with himself. calling on the people
of New York and Pennsylvania for aid for
the sufferers by the great Ere at Seattle.
STILL * MED oF FUNDS
The work Of removing the wreckage here
ana putting up structures that are needed
is in competent hands and progressing rap
idly. One expert saws that 800 800 viii be
needed TO remove the debris and bury tho
dead bodies. Ano.ae. estimates the
sInOunt necessary this work al
twice that sum. I-rge sums OF
money are needed at once Labor
eTs must be hired and disciplined that they
may do the best work Governor Beaver is
being roundly censured by the officials v DO
accuse him OF sending the relief funds re
ceived by him from Eastern cities 70 the
Susquehsnna district instead OF 70 Johns-
town. where supplies are badly needed
Father Smith. pastor of the Catholic
church at Ebensburg. Cambria County
reached here Friday after a two dsys jour
ney from South Fork lie saws the residents
Of Mineral Point. Cooperville Dutchtown
last Conemsugh and other smsn set
Elements along that valley are IN
destitute circum stances and are IN need Of
rH-.a. .Ts.aE.
ing Reports from each of these villages
show that betwee seventy aud eighty lives
were lost between Wo0Jvaie sno the ham
let Of south Fork
UE1EIyG orT TIE DEnHIs
Eight thousand men were 81 work here
FRIDAY clearing ont the debris buf truth
con- nDels tie = statement that the unIerfak-
ing has NOT get been fairy started Fires are
burning up and down the valley 4 TIE
ConeHaugh ss far So ths eve 90 reach The
sir 81 TRICK with smoke sua Fef The people
familiar wifh the situation say the Efforts n
49, army a. earnest fciiera -ra hardfv en-
prcc'sb.e Something he svrtern is being
established. but the most careful estimates
are 70 ths effect tsst It viii take % 90
men sevsral weeks 70 clear out
ths hssps q ruins piled 70 for Tniles be-
tween fse Hills along tbe coarse - 80
TlvaT Eighty SIX men from Altoona urder
orders of TIE sanitary 90 csais are soafter-
inr r gafectsuts over tbe acres d wreck
ace that IRE railroad hrioge STOPPED u q
thought that ta01sands 81 bodies VII ys,
he foano in fais terri oTv ai0pe
TEE FTssFCEsI Eosz
i s ncw taoaeat tbst the destruction -
properly wall reach TIE sara - 6 - ~
exclusive ~ fns 6smsgs - TIE HenneFi +
vaEIa rai-roed and tae Csu.hris irsn works
1hs feguaers loss Is p.sced ~ Sc -. 20
ssf TIE sttersst fren So ~ r. fEf 60