The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1889-06-13

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Ten million dollars Is how some q the
Pennsylvania railroad officials now at this
place figure the loss and damage TO their
property. Through trains will not be run
for three weeks at least. The damage at
East COnemaugh station will run into the
millions. Further up, where the railroad
crossed the river diagonally on fine iron
bridge, rot even a suggestion remains TO
show that there ever was a bridge there,
nor is there a particle Of road bed, rails or
ties remaining for three-fourths OF mile.
| From there for distance OF mile the bal
last is washed away and the track badly
twisted. The viaduct at South Fork, hav-
ing span Of eighty feet and supposed TO be
/ one Of the strongest in the country, has en-
tirely disappeared. The Duncannon bridge,
a large iron structure, is also destroyed.
A large number Of bodies were buried in
Graudyiew Cemetery yesterday. Kernville
! has been overlooked in the great rush and
excitement, and the 1900 people at that
place were in half famished condition un-
I'll yesterday, when a supply was estab-
lished and their wants supplied. The stock
Of burial caslets at Kernyille has become
| exhausted and necessity has compelled
many bodies TO be placed in the ground with
no other protection from the earth than a
winding sheet and few loose boards laid
over them in the graves. The list OF uni
Identified recovered at Kernville is very
small Fifty diggers were busy excayating
and filling the graves in Grandyiew Gene
terry yesterday,
W. II. Devore has been given charge Of
the imprumptu embalming establishment in
the Pennsylvania railroad station by Benia-
min Lee, secretary Of the State Board Of
Health The best estimates on the loss Of
life, based on the registry Of living and the
unofficial poll, put it at from Il, 900 to 1900
The drift Of opinion among intelligent
men, physicians, engineers and railroad
men is that from 200 to ], 800 bodies will
never be heard from.
An eyewitness Of the horrible scenes in
and about the stone bridge Of the railroad
during Friday night and Saturday states
that nothing in art or literature can half
delineate the horrors OF that night after the
ruins had taken fire. Dores wonderful
imagination would be at fault were he TO
attempt TO depict anything so fearful in its
accumulation Of horrors as this showed.
low Johnstown, are that there is plenty TO
eat but lack Of tents, blankets and other
comforts Altogether seventy dead bodies
were taken out Tuesday near this point
The work Of removing the debris is being
pushed as rapidly as possible. The majority
Of arrests made thus far have been for
petty ofienses, such as stealing from private
houses. and suspicious characters refusing
10 work. There is no doubt, however, in
spite of all precautions, but that the bodies
Of the dead have been mutilated by ruffians
TO remove rings and other yaluables-
The Fourteenth Regiment, reinforced
Wedneslat uh.ll II y no" w s.iVhg' y
sun cainped IN Ireieht cars Deyonu tnc oe-
pot opposlte the isee Guy proper. opace =
rapidly oelhg cleared ior us uenls' however
near tne ruins Oh the Ca1hOilc cnurch'
Mhch was on hre "neh lne ueluse caiie.
Eariy yesterday morning tne regiinent went
INTO service company was detailed 70
cambria Clty, where tne eieiaentoi rnnlan-
Ism, meeung tnat OF desperation, ioreshaa-
ows storm. during tne aay many people
OF quesuonaple character were escorted out
OF the city limits
| From JohnstoFn up the valley easy com
mnnlcatlon mas Deen opened as lar as Conc
maugh, Two miles, ana ~ Is possible ior any
one mere 70 reaaly Denold signt ever Do
lore seen IN TINS world and wnicn no one
VINO does not see ~ nimseiI VIII never DC
heVe ald reahy exist IT'S oescriDeo mere
aswel as Worus can describe IL, out nereiy
as DUTY 70 history and not WIN tne ldea
tnat any one VINO can not look al II VIII
ever think II true. Every one mas seen the
hght IRON Dean snaits ana rous IN iattory
lying In twisted, broken ana cr1ss-eross
shape after nre mas destroyed tne factory
In me gap above sonnstown tne wafer mas
picked up ionr.tracK railroad covered
Win uains-ireight anu Passsnger-ane !
with nacnine snops, round mousse ana
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ana mas torii lhe trAcK 70 pieces tWis'e1,
turned ana crosseu u as nre never coulo: IL
mas tossed nuge lrelgnt locomotives nke
, uAr.N-s' anu oars nae PaoAI Ds' M Soln
them 10 pieess anu scatte.eu mem over
miles OF territory IL mas IN one place put
stream Oh water q block VIDE between tne
railroad and the blum, and IN another place
It has changed the course OF the river as iar
IN the other direction and IeIt hundred
yar.s inland the tracks tnat formerly
skrted the banks
Iherc Is llltle 20 inolcaue the iate pres
enccof railroad from here to the upper
part of the Conemangh. The little plain
into which the gap widened here, and in
which stood the bulk OF the town, Is wiped
out There is not the slightest Indication
that the center OF the plain was anything
but fiood-washed gulch in some mountain
region At the upper end stands iantastic
collection OF ruined railroad equipments
Three trains stood there when the Hood
swept down the valley On the outside was
a local passenger, with three cars and To-
somotive- 1t stands there yet The cars
were tilted by the washing OF the track
tJat are comparatively uniniured- Two
more locomotives have been run into the
sand bank in front A freight train stood
on the track whereon large collection OF
smashed cars has its place now, II was
broken all TO pieces. Inside OF all this was
the day express, with its baggage and ex-
press cars, and at the end three vestibule
cars.
IL was from this train that number Oh
passengers were lost Some OF the freight
i cars were loaded with lime and quickly had