Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-07


 cent to tho Va, ious pay departments of tho mills: but Saturday morning the vaults uf the hank were buried under hundreds of :ons of debris. guard has been over the vaults ever since. They have not been reached yet, but the money is undoubtedly safe,
 superintendent Price said that the largest order the Cambria company had on hand was for steel bridge at St. Louis. Whether the order will be trans ferred or not MT. Price did not know He supposed it would. He was sure that the mill will be running at full capacity in six weeks.
 Mir Price was indignant at the reports that have been sent out concerning the reputed warnings that were given on Friday. He says there was no warming; the only intimation of danger of some sort which he had was when he heard the long continued screeching of an engine whistle. It came from an engine in the charge of Engineer Hess. He was con- ing down the valley drawing freight train at moderate rate of speed. Some men on the hill couple of miles from the town told him that the dam had broken.
 Hess pulled out the valve and set the whistle going. He dashed down the val ley and through town at top speed. On the hill to the west of Johnstown there after him. but Hess had good lead, and he kept 1t by few minutes. His warn- ing whistle brought the people from their houses. They were engulfed before they knew what it meant.
 The bodies that were believed to be in the mills are not those of workmen. The workmen had been compelled to abandon their labors early Friday morni ng be- l cause of the already high water. They l went home, with the exception of few, and some of them escaped. The homes | of others were right in the track of the flood. and they met the fate that would certainly have been theirs any way had l they remained in the mill.
 | Arevolver shot was heard to como from a dilapidated dwelling on Somerset street l yesterday. Some men working at mass l of rubbish nearby went into the house. l It had been turned on its side by the flood.
 In one of the rooms they found Edward l Fisher, a well-known lawyer of Johns- l town, lying on the floor dead. A pistol was grasped in his right hand. He had l shot himself in the right temple. Fisher | b q e, He ho1 Ia family was lost. It consisted of wife and five children.
 l When the flood struck his house 1t clipped off the part where they had hud- died together. Fisher had gone into an- l other room. The wife and children
 He heard the cry above the roar of the | waters. but he never saw them alive 1 again.
 1 He remained all night on the roof of
 his house. Saturday morning he began | search for his loved ones. In tho af-
 ternoon he was told that the bodies of
 three of them were lying on the bank a
 couple of miles below the town. He went
 to where they were.
 The sight unbalanced his mind. Since
 then he had wandered aimlessly over
 the town. He said nothing to any one.
 If sympathy was offered him he paid nc
 attention to it. He refused all proffers
 of food.
 This morning he was seen making his
 way over the hummocks of debris.
 few minutes later the fatal shot rang out Fisher was prominent man In the
 town. His practice was extensive and
 he was leader in political affairs. He
 was about 40 years old, handsome
 strongly built and man who promised
 to become a leader not only in local but
 in state affairs.
 Two women arrived in town from Pitts
 burg yesterday and began plying despic
 able trade. They took advantage of thu
 desolate condition of the people an(
 sought to induce young girls who hay,
 been left without protectors to return
 with them to their dens in Pittsburg
 They told them they would provide com
 fortable homes for them.
 Some one from Pittsburg recognized | uueL1, uuu ouSpeClluS IhcAA ocSlSuS warned them to leave at once or the, , would be sorry for 1t. They did. The, did not even wait for a train. The,
 walked three miles over the railroa, track to Sang Hollow and waited on tn station platform for the afternoon train Superintendent Hines, of the Pennsyl vania railroad, who Is chairman of tn committee on transportation, was hotl
 indignant when he heard that they ha, been here. He said If he had caugh them he would duck them in the rive before he kicked them out of the town. It is also reported that women of thi sort have been haunting the railroa station In Pittsburg, endeavoring to ir l duce young girls who are friendless, an , who have gone from their old homes t search for employment in new places,
 join them.
 There was consternation about thre l