The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05

JOHNSTOWN, IA, June 2.-Ihe hnalclal
loss by the great food will be 10 millions of
dollars. This is the conservative estimate
made to-day by body of business men, and
it is not one dollar too high AS the water
recedes the great loss can be more clearly
seen.
MORE THAN 5000 LIVES LOST.
It is now estimated from careful survey
of the flooded district that at least three
thousand dwellings were carried away. Two
representatives of the Press News Associa-
ton who have been at the scene of the dis
aster for the past two days made extraordi-
| nary efforts to determine as near as pessi-
BILE the actual loss of life. Inquiries were OF
course made in every possible place, and
from any person who could give any in.
formation, but the task was an exceedingly
difficult one. The lowest estimate formed
was that 5000 persons have perished: while
the estimates of many place the figures at
several thousand in excess of this number.
1t is simply impossible at this time to de-
termine anything like a correct estimate of
the loss of life beyond the fact that thous-
ands are known to have perished.
The Allegheny River, into which the
Canemaugh empties, has been almost over
flowing its banks for the past three days.
The Ohio is also high, and bodies of the
victims which were not rescued before
reaching the AIegheney, will probably not
be, unless they are picked up away down
the Ohio River. =
$4,000 DESTITUTE people,
There are at least $4,000 people here who
will have to be provided with provisions
donated for at leastl week. SO far there
has been enough sent in, but the greatest
difficulty experienced is in distributingit.
SWIFT JUSTICE NETEp OUT.
Vengeance is swift here now. Two Hun
earians were caught to-day few miles down
finger rings and other articles which they
had stolen from the dead bodies. They
were lynched. Both were left hanging to a
tree. No attempt is being made to ascer-
tain who did it. An old farmer walked into
town this afternoon with shotgun on his
shoulder. He said he had fred upon and
probably killed thief down the river who
was robbing a body.
SOME VERY SAD SCENES.
The sad scenes will never all be written.
One lady told this morning of seeing her
mother crushed to pieces just before her
eyes, and the mangled body carried down
the stream. William Tarpes lost six chill
dren, and saved babe about IS months
old His wife died three weeks ago. An
aged German, his wife and five daughters,
Hoated down on their house eight miles,
where the house was wrecked. The daugh-
ters were drowned, hut the old man and
his wife stuck in tree and hung there for
twenty-four hours before they could be
taken off,
There was such horrible stencil in GER
tain districts here to-day that it was deemed
best to bury the victims as rapidly as pos
s.sible.
aTA hundred undertakers have been busily
a5ork this afternoon, and Is result there
~ are'@ graves in the beautiful cemetery
a overlooArthe ruined city tonight, and at
s. least three-foI4s> Of them are marked
q unknown Man!ye she bodies were in
such condition, so Yuoled. that they
couldn't have been recognized had, the
friends or relatives been present. Ele
6 was no ceremony attending the burial. T.
n bodies were simply collected in groups
~ from twenty-five to fifty, and then plac'
>, - just as they were found, in plain coffin
and hauled away to the cemetery on lar
q wagons, fifteen or twenty at a time.