The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-03
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THE TORRENTS TRACK.
The Awful Harvest of Death
Revealed as the Flood
Subsidies.
A HEROINE AND A MARTYR.
Mrs. 0gle of the Western Union
Makes Her Name Immortal.

JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 8, 1889. Some of
the most prominent citizens of this city
and of the State are among those who
have perished in this terrible flood. John
Fulton, president of the Constitutional
manager of the Cambria Iron Works, is
drowned with his wife and children.
H. j Roberts, cashier of the First
National Bank, and John Dibert,
banker, were also drowned, the formers
son perishing with him. The wife and
daughter Minnie of Cyrus Elder, one OF
the greatest authorities on the tariff in
the country, are dead.
H. A Schumacher, Prothonotary OF
Cambria county; II. G. Rose, District At,
torney; DR.. John Lowman, Sheriff. and
eight children of Chief of Police Harris
and the wife and three children Of 7. Fl.
Kirkland, awell known jeweller, are dead.
C. F. Schubert, editor of the Freie PresSe,
is also believed to be drowned.
LET HER NAME BE REvERED.
Mrs. Ogle, the manager of the Western
Union, who died at her post, will go down
in history as a heroine of the highest
order Notwithstanding the repeated no
tifications which she received to get out
of reach of the approaching danger she
stood by the instrument with unf1inching
loyalty and undaunted courage, sending
words of warning to those in danger in
the valley below.
When every station in the path of the
coming torrent had been warned, she
wired her companion ut South Fork
"Ihis is my last message" and as such it
shall always be remembered as her last
words on earth, for at that very moment
the torrent engulfed her, and bore her
from her post on earth to an eternal re-
ward.
DEATH WAS IN THIS HOUSE.
The most awful obstruction in single
house occurred at the Hurlbut Hotel.
There were fifty-seven people in the house
when the torrent came down, and OF these
only ten are living Four travellers who
were staying at the iHurlbut went to the
after wishing each other "Good bye'' sur
rendered themselves to fate. Fate was
death to three of them. Those three were
John Little, of Sewickly; w. j. Cox, of
Philadelphia, and r. S. Metz. The one
survivor is John Dorsey OF Phfladelphla
The register of the wrecked hotel can
not be found, SO it is impossible to give
the names of all those who perished in
the Hurlbut House. Those who are
known to have perished are Elmer
Brinker and DR.. Brinker, two brothers,
Mrs. Richards ma man named nfasS nther' Butler
sister and brother of the proprietor. Mrs.
Smith and her two children ascended to
the fourth floor with the four travellers
when the food came. She was drowned.
A CITY OF THE DEAD.
Nineyah is literally a city of the dead.
The entire place is filed with corpses. At
the depot eighty-seven coffins were piled
ND and boxed.
ON the streets coffin boxes covered the
sidewalks In the improvised undertak-
ing shops, Sampson & Devore have em-
ba1med and placed In their shrouds 1913
persons.
At every place there were dead strewn
around as thick as flowers in conserva-
tory. Most of the bodies embalmed last
night had been taken out of the river in
the morning by the people at Nineveh,
who worked incessantly night and day,
searching the river.
The bodies when found were placed in
four-horse wagon, frequently twelve at
time. and driven up to Robert Kerr's and
Graham's shops by Harvey Moorhead.
OF the bodies taken out near Nineveh
fully three fourths are women and the
rest children. But few men are found
there. In one row at the planning mill to-
day were eighteen children's bodies
awaiting embalming. Next to them was
a woman whose head had been crushed
in so as to destroy her features. On her
hand were three diamond rings. The cry
is now for more collins, as the death list
is mounting up appallingly.
Members of the State Board of Health
arrived in Ninevah this morning, and de-
termined to proceed at once to dredge the
river, to clean it of the dead, and prevent
the spreading of disease. To this end they
have wired the State Department to fur
nish them with the proper appliances.
They will take charge Of the town today.
A remarkable story is told about the
sisters at the Irish Catholic Church
and Convent. The mother of the Con-
vent saw the wave coming which she
called all sisters into the chapel. Here
the dozen nuns began to pray as
they possibly never prayed before
for protection from the water. When the
water struck the building it shattered
the entire structure, and every room ex-
cept the one where the sisters knelt in
prayer. The room is still standing.