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The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27
HOW THE ALARM WAS GIVEN
a Brave Little Girls Presence of Mind
A True Story.

a Brave Little Girls Presence of Mind
True Story.
Bertha's dull pencil left awkward fig
Ires in its track across the slate. This
would not do, for Miss Elvo insisted
upon neatness as we'll as accuracy in
the work of her pupils. Bertha, there
fore. with a distressed little pucker be-
tween her dark eyebrows, raised her
hand.
We'll" said Miss Elvo, looking at
her
= My pencil is very dull-may 1 go
out and sharpen it?" she said.
1t was the custom within this great.
brick school building, known as mo.
4, to have the pencils put in perfect
working condition before school was
called in the morning. Then they were
passed around in neat box, and each
pupil took out her own. In some mys-
terious way Bertha's pencil had es-
capped the sharpening process, and its
hard-worked point of the previous day
was unfit for use. Miss Elvo looked
in the box for an unclaimed pencil but
a rare occurrence-theb box was empty.
She therefore granted somewhat un-
willing consent to Bertha's petition.
Bertha tip-toed across the floor, shut
the poor softly and went through the
long hall to the back door and into the
chill winter air. Standing in a shell
tered corner on the back porch. she be-
gan to sharpen her pencil. While
working away busily she took her eyes
q moment from her task and immedi-
ately discovered a thin curl of smoke
issuing from one of the basement win
dows. 1t could mean but one thing
the bui ding was on fire! Her decision
was Immediately taken. Only the
night before she had heard her father
explain to her brother how to give
''still alarm" How glad she was that
she had listened attentively to his in
structions, for it was now, above all
things, necessary to have the fire COM
pany arrive quietly without alarming
the pupils. There was a telephone in
the store on the corner, and in less
than five minutes the message had
reached the chief of the fire depart
ment, and Bertha was speeding on her
way back to the school building. She
paused few moments in the hall, near
the door of the room where she be-
longed. to quiet her rapid breathing
and calm her frightened face. When
she entered her room, instead of going
to her seat, she went straight to the
teachers desk. Miss ElvO admired
and loved her; she was one of those ,e-
lightful children who are always heart
lily in earnest in their undertakings.
There was nothing unusual in her ap-
pearance now save a CLINT in her dark
eyes and small red spot on either
cheek. From these signs Miss Elvo,
who was keen observer, allowed her
to step upon the rOstrum unchecked.
She turned her back upon the school
and said in a low, but distinct, whis-
per:
miss Elvo there is a fire in the
basement; l have been to the corner
and sent in still alarm"
Miss Elvo's cheek paled little, but
she took pencil Immediately and
wrote on a scrap of paper:
Dismiss your pupils quietly but as speedily
rs possible Miss ELvO"
She handed this TO Bertha. saving in
a low voice:
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27
ENGLISH DESERTERS.
The Causes Inducing Them to Abandon
Military Service.

The Causes Inducing Them to Abandon
Military Service.
Pure and simple dislike to the service
seems to be the common cause for de-
sertion, but it is interesting to note the
reasons given by deserters themselves
for the extreme course they have
adopted. The chaplain of London
prison some time ago made an attempt
to find out from the GIG men confined
there for desertion the causes which had
induced them to abandon the colors.
Of this number 161 informed him that
they had left the army because they
fervently hated the life which they
found themselves obliged to lead; ia
confessed that drink had been the cause
of their misbehavior; 100 that they had
deserted Ito better themselves" 72
urged that they had allowed themselves
to be influenced by the persuasiOns of
bad companions; 81 had gone on the
spree, had overstayed their leave. and
had not been able to pluck up courage
to return to their regiments, through
fear of the consequences of their indis-
cretion; 48 had been so badgered by
their comrades, or had found the treat
ment of,the nOn-cOmmissioned officers so
harsh, that they had been driven to
seek a refuge in flight; Al had absented
themselves for some cause or other,
and disclaimed any real intention of de-
serting; debt had driven 16 to take the
fatal st p; dozen had run away because
leave had been refused them; and. fin
ally, one had absconded because he had
been foolish enough to get married
without leave ALI The Year Round.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27
An Exclusive Person.

On one occasion a lady called and
presented a check which she wished
cashed. AS she was perfect stranger
to the paying teller he said politely:
Madam, you will have to bring some
one to introduce you before we can
cash this check"
Drawing herself up quite haughtily
she said, freezingly: But 1 do not
want to know you, sir!"-Richmond
Dispatch.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27

"A lady in the Sixth District of
Worth County, Ga, hearing that
horseshoe in the fire would keep the
hawks from catching her chickens, put
one in, but it only made the hawks
three times worse. An examination,
however. showed that she had made
mistake and got hold of mules shoe.
A change was promptly made, and now
the hawks sit about on trees and look
but dare not approach the forbidden
land.-Macon Telegraph.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27

On local railroad printed blanks
are furnished conductors for use in re-
porting accidents. 1t is related that
a recent return caused great laugh in
the superintendent office, Opposite
the side-head ''disposition" the conduc-
tor wrote that the injured passenger
was sober and Industrious, instead of
stating where he was sent The dis
position of the carcass of COW killed
by his train bothered another conduc-
tor, for he declared the disposition Of
the animal was kind and gentle. .-Buffa-
10 Express.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27

Speaking of the weather, warm
spring may be anticipated when man
sits on hot datiron placed on a chair
by his wife. -Norristown Herald.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27

"A new society manual gives
thirteen ways of popping the question.
The average man could never think of
even one stereotyped ''way' when the
critical moment came, if the girl was
pretty and he wanted her very much.
1t is a kind of warfare which does not
give premeditated action much of a
show
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-27

There is a reason for all things,
and the small. boy always wants to
know it-Somerville Journal,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12

Cambria county frequently complained, and
that at the time the dam was constructed
very vigorous effort was made to put stop 10
the work. 1t is true that the leader in this
movement was not citizen of Johnstown, but
he was large mine owner in Cambria county.
Bis mine sdioins the reservoir property. lie
related to me on Saturday the story OF his Ia
bors In an effort to protect the lives and prop
erty of the people in that valley. He was fire.
guently on the spot, and his own engineer
inspected the work.
lie says the embankment was principally of
shsle and clay, and that straw was used to stop
the leaking of the water while the work was
going on. He called on the sheriff of Cambria
county, and told him it was his duty to apply
to the court for In junction The sheriff
promised TO give the matter his attention, but
instead of going before court went to the Cam
bria iron company for consultation. An en-
ploye was sent up TO make an inspection, and,
as his report was favorable TO the reservoir
work, the sheriff went no further. But the
gentleman referred TO said he had not failed TO
make public his protest at the time and to re-
new it frequently.
The reader will note the remarkable conflict
between that shale and clay story of the mine
owner, referred 10 above, and the published
statement of Gen. Morehead. who had charge
of the construction, that the masonry was of
solid granite and limestone, and was believed
TO be enduring as the pyramids of Egypt.
The awful disaster would seem to confirm the
allegation of the use of unfit materials in its
construction.
The number of passengers of the day express
known 10 have been lost is six; beside these
there are two ladies missing and unaccounted
for, but who may yet be alive.
a conductor who was at Conemaugh on that
fstelul day claims 10 have run through the
cars and told the passengers to run TO the
mountain. The passengers who survive are
anxious to make the acquaintance of that con-
ductor. They certainly neither saw him nor
heard him on Friday. Other trainmen stood
manfuly at their posts and did noble work.
WILLIAM HENRY SMITH.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
BODIES RECOVERED.
Thirty-Two Taken From the Ruins Yester-
Identified

Thirty-Two Taken From the Ruins Yester-
daytime Identified.
JoHNsTowN, June s.-The number of bodies
taken to-day from the ruins was thirty-one, Of
which only nine have so far been identified.
Fifteen bodies were received at the Fourth ward
morgue, of which seven were unidentified. The
names of those identified are follows:
JAMES MURRAY, Philadelphia.
WILLIAM MARSHAL Jamestown.
MRS. J. J. LLEWELLYN. Johnstown.
JAMES DILLON, Somerset.
MARION ROOT, Johnstown.
MISS ANNIE MCKINSLEY,
MRS. MCKINSLEY and
JESSIE HIPP Johnstown.
At the Pennsylvania railroad morgue SIX
bodies were received and two identified as +.
NJ. Thomas and Howard J. Roberts, cashier of
the First national bank, Johnstown.
At the presbyterian church morgue ten bodies
were received and one identified as Sheriff
John Ryan of JOhnstown.
At 1890 o'clock this evening forty-seven
bodies were discovered in a hole on the site of
the Hurlbut house. They are supposed to be
the bodies of guests
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
ONLY A FEW IDENTIFIED.

Number of Bodies Recovered But Only
Few Recognized.
JoHNsTowN, June 6-Up to noon to-day 72s
bodies had been embalmed at st. Columbus
catholic church, Cambria City. The only one
secured to-day was that of small child. A
number of bodies were taken from the debris
at Kernville this morning They were idsn-
tilted as:
MR.. and MRS. JOSEPH.
NORA POTTER.
MRS. LARRY HILES.
MRS. REESE.
FRANK BEAMAN.
LIZZIE WAGNER.
LAURA aud JESSIE JONES.
The parents OF George Hamilton, manager of
the Lyle opera-house at Braddock, still con-
slider their son lost.
This morning five bodies were brought to the
Fourth ward school-hoUse. Their names are:
HENRY LUDWIG, No. 8 Main-st., Johns
town.
ALBERT VERY, Johnstown.
MAGGIE IRWIN, Hillside, Westmorlaud
county.
OSCAR HENNECAMP.
JOHN STOWN.
The latter was a well-known merchant Of
Johnstown and his relatives have been looking
for his body since the food, and offered
large reward for the recovery of the body.
The only Identification at the presbyterian
church was that of Mrs. William Rich.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
NINETEEN PASSENGERS LOST.
An Authentic List of Those Lost in the
COnemaGgh.

An Authentic List of Those Lost in the
COnemaEgh.
PHILADELPHIA, June $50 many conflict
ing reports have been published concerning
the less Of passengers and damage to the trains
overtaken by the flood at Conemaugh on last
Friday that General Manager Pugh was asked
TO furnish the Associated Press with an official
statement of the number of people known or
presumed to have been drowned from the two
sections of the day express and also a statement
as TO what became of the trains. These facts
we're elected As near as can be learned nine.
teen lives were lost, two cars. passenger
coach aud baggage car were washed
away The baggage car has been found. The
missing coach may have been carried down
to the debris at the Johnstown bridge.
Some hours after the floods struck the train
three Pullman sleepers came in contact with
burning car OF lime and were destroyed. In
vestigation has been made most thorough and
the revised list OF names of those passengers
thought TO have been lost, as furnished is given
below. Some of the passengers heretofore
mentioned as being dead have turned up alive
in various parts of the country, and probably
some of the names now given may be those of
persons still alive, but not yet located.
The names are:
MRS TALBOT and two or three children,
Cleveland o.
MISS STANSON. Norristown, Pa.
CYRUS Shrek, Reading, Pa.
JOHN ROSS, Pittsburg, or Iron City.
MRS REV. J. a. RANNEY, Kalamazoo.
Mich.
JENNIE PAULSON, Pittsburg.
BESSIE BRYAN, Philadelphia.
Nh. MIZELL, Newark, y. J.
Manager Mansfield, O.. base ball club.
AGNES CHRISTIE BOGARD.
L. PHILLIPS.
-, cOlored Pullman porter New York.
MRS. SWINEFORD and daughter.
MRS SMITH and child Dayton, o.
MISS HARNISH, Dalton, o.
ANDREW EWING. Ligonier, Pa
MRS. MARY SWANEY, Pleasant Gap Pa
In the case of Mrs. Talbot of Cleveland
some say she had two children, while others
say there were three. Counting the children
as two, the above list foots up nineteen per-
sons. Some of the names were obtained
through the efforts of friends to trace missing
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
Nearly HaIf Are MISSING.

YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, June S.-The number of
persons who have so far registered is &c, ITO.
The registration is having its good effect and it
is believed that within five days all living in
Johnston and vicinity will have been account
ed for. The population of Johnston and the
neighborhood affected by the flood is about
thirty.hve thousand. The registration of 20, 10
leaves almost 5000 to be accounted for. Ii is
not claimed that those who have not registered
are dead, for many had left this section before
the system of registration began. Already
from 1900 to $4,000 passes have been issued to
persons wishing TO leave Johnstown and vicin-
ity. In some cases passes were issued TO the
same persons twice, those who were compelled
to return for some reason, but it is safe to say
5000 people have left this section.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
The Dam Was Bad.

JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 5.-The coroner's
jury to-day proceeded to the South fork and in
vestigated the case of breakage of the reservoir
dam. Witnesses testified that slight breaks
had appeared in the dam several times in past
years, but had each time been clumsily repaired
with straw, sticks and rubbish. The general i'm
preston is that the jury will declare that the
Pittsburg fishing club, that owned the reser-
voir, was guilty of gross negligence. In that
event many suits for damages against this
millionaire club will doubtless follow.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
MRS. WALLACE SAFE.
She Was in the Train Which Escaped the
Wreck and Is at Altoona.

She Was in the Train Which Escaped the
Wreck and Is at Altoona.
Late Tuesday night report became current
in Johnstown that Mrs. Lew Wallace was one
of the victims of the disaster. This news was
telegraphed all over the country and caused
deep grief to the lady'S thousands of friends
Mr.. Brainerd Rorison. who was on the scene,
was thoroughly convinced of the truth of the
report. Notwithstanding this, Mrs. Wallace is
alive and WELL having been on the train which
escaped the flood. Saturday she telegraphed
TO her relatives at Charlottesville, but the tele-
gram did not reach them until late Tuesday
evening.
WASHINGTON, June 5.-Private Secy. Hat
ford received a telegram this afternoon from his
wife, at Altoona. announcing that Mrs. Lew
Wallace was with her and safe. Mrs. Halford
expects to leave Altoona for Washington to-
morrow.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12

]. NJ. DAVIS and family.
CAPT. CARSXELL.
D. s. GREKERT
MANUEL JONES.
HENRY HARRISON.
JOHN JONES.
w. c. GEMORE.
LEVI HORNBERGER.
THOMAS DAVIS and family.
THOMAS GORE.
MISS K. JENKINS and father.
c. L. MORGAN.
ANTHONY MORGAN.
THOMAS MORGAN
BEN HENCHMAN and wife.
JOE HENCHMAN.
JUDGE POTTS and family.
WALTER HAYNES and wife.
CHARLES VAHLE.
WM. MORGAN.
SAM AMBROSE.
HENRY HOFFMAN.
MRS. MARTIN WISE.
HOWELL ORR.
MRS. JOHN WHITE and daughters.
ELLA, MAGGIE and MRS. GESSIE DE-
LANEY.
MRS. NINA G. WHITE of Youngstown, O.,
and son Raymond
MRS. ROBERT. B. GAGEBY.
MRS. DOWNS and daughter.
MISS CONNORS.
MOSES OWENS, foreman Cambria machine
shops. wife and seven children.
GEORGE DELANEY, wife and son.
HINES, entire family.
JOHN HENNEKAMP and wife.
GEORE ROOP and family
Mr.. and MRS. ULVERGAZTA.
JOHN BURNS.
JOHN LEWIS
TILLIE FECHNER.
ELIZA JONES.
MRS. GERHARDT.
- LUDWIG.
GEORGE AUlT.
MARY REILLY.
FRANK REILLY.
MRS. SCHNELL.
MRS. LAMBERT.
MRS. CYRUS ELDER and daughter.
MRS. JAMES J. FROEHE, sr.
house-to-house canvass was ordered By the
sanitary authorities to-day, and its revelations
were startling in the extreme. II was found
that four and even six families were being
crowded in a single house; that as high as
fifty slept in one room; that the doors and win
dows were left closed to shut out the stencil and
dampness, and that as result pneumonia was
gaining an alarming foothold. DIR. Darlington,
oil the I. ;. marine hospital, who has come to
assist DR.. Lee intimates that there are at least
hundred well-defned cases of the disease in
j ohnstOwn to-day.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
Ther DIed Together.

JoHNsTowN, June THE bodyof the Rev.
Alonzo P. Diller, rector of the Johnstown epis-
copal church, and those of his wife and child
were recovered to-day under circumstances
both sad and strange. Four episcopal clergy
men, who had been sent here by Bishop White
head, were working about the ruins near Lin.
coln-st. when they came upon the body of their
late brother. Clssped in one rigid arm was the
body Of his babe and in the other his wife,
whose arms were about his neck. They were
removed in this position aud will be so buried
tomorrow, the episcopal clergymen officiating.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
rwENrY.EleHT DROWNED.

Many Lives Lost i'm the Flood Near Lock
haven, Pa.
LocKHAvEN. Pa, June 6.-0nly one person
is known to have been drowned in Lockhaven,
but in the country the dead number twenty
eight The names OF the persons drowned are
as follows;
JAMES GUILFORD.
WILLIAM CONFER wife and three chill
dren.
Two children of Jacob Koshner
ROBERT ARMSTRONG and sister.
JOHN HARTER.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
INFERIOR MATERIAL WAS USED.

The Dam Was Not Constructed of Granite
and Limestone Claimed.
JoHSsTowN, Pa, June Al notice that the
secretary of the South Fork fishing club said
Yesterday that the club had not filed an in
dsmnity bond. as claimed by a citizen of Ebens-
burr, and that no complaint had ever been
made about the safety of the dam by any OF
The Johnstown citizens. He Is undoubtedly
correct a. 10 the bond, but is misleading as to
the second part of his statements. There is
not shadow Of doubt but that the citizens of
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
THE FLOOD IN CENTER COUNTY.
a Number of Persons DrOwned-Great
Damage to PropertY.

Number of Persons DrOwned-Great
Damage to Property.
BELLFoNTE, Pa. June THE food of
last Friday night and Saturday played
terrible havoc in Center county IN
both loss of life and damage 10 property
Bellfonte itself suffered but little, being built
on the hills. The list below contains all in this
region known to be dead so far. At Mackeys
vile:
=. RYAN and two children.
MRS. KELLER and two children.
JOSEPH III. HARTER.
Seven unknown.
At Salona-
WILBUR WHITLEY and wife
WILLIAM EMERHELSEN, wife and child.
MRS. HENRY SNYDER.
MRS. LUTHER SAYLOR and three chill
dren.
ALEX WHITING and wife
There a great amount of damage done
in the western part of the county, but no lives
were lost. The total damage in the county will
be between two and three million dollars.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
Flood Notes.

The Philadelphia fund has reached $4,000.
The Johnstown fund in Chicago has reached
$50, 5S7.
The first national bank at Johnstown has
opened up for business.
Lockhaven, Pa, has issued call 70 the peo-
pie of the United States for aid.
Collections for the Johnstown sufferers were
taken in all the Huntington Qnd-l churches
Sunday.
AT the New York city ball Monday 1888
were received for the sufferers in the Cone
maugh valley
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
A Peru Victim.

PERU, June 7.-LSpecial. Miss Alice Wal
lace of this city, sister of Benjamin Wallace of
the Wallace & Co. circus. is supposed to have
persisted in the Johnstown disaster, as she was
expected to be in New Florence, ten miles be-
low Johnstown, on the 30th of Nay. Tele-
grams have been sent to, but none received
from her
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
Mrs. Kali and Son safe.

PHILADELPHIA. June Among the passen-
gers who escaped from the Inflated train at
Conemaugh, and who are now safe at Altoona,
are Mrs. E NJ Kali and son of Liberty, Ind
Lulu Cubleight of Logansport, Ind, is also
among the passengers here.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
oneen victorin,s srmpnthr.

WASHINGTON, June S.-Sir Julian Paunce-
fote, the British minister, called on the presi.
dent this morning, in company with Secy.
Blaine, and delivered a message from Queen
Victoria expressing her deep sympathy for the
sufferers by the recent foods in Pennsylvania.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12

Eagle valley, and along Fishing creek in Kit
fanny valley, where everybody is destitute.
The citizens of Bellefonte are doing all in their
power to relieve distress, but they are unable
10 cone with il
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12

That tired feeling so subtle and yet so over
towering is entirely overcome by Hoods Sar-
saparilla, which tones and strengthens the sys-
TEN and gives good appetite. Be sure to get
Hoods Sarsaparilla. 100 doses one dollar
is true only Of this peculiar medicine
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
The Cheek of Hovey.

The supreme court in the Riley case seems 20
have given Gov. Hovey a square slap IN the
face but no blow from that source can be ex.
pected to hurt the cheek of the great constitu-
tional expounder.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
Great suffering.

BEILEFoNTE, Pa, June s.-The suffering in
the valley is very great The principal places
in need of help are Millheim, Coburn and
vicinity in PENIS valley, Center City. Bald
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12

selves by scattering copperas over their cloth
ing and bed-clothing.
The work OF registration of survivors is GO
ing steadily on. Up to this evening there we're
about twenty-one thousand registered, and the
list is still increasing. The number of the lost
is placed now at 5000 by those who held it
would reach 10000 a week ago. A conserva-
tive estimate is between $500 and 1000. Up
TO date there have been !, 500 bodies recovered.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12

ANDREW R. HEN wife and two girls.
ALEX WHITING and wife.
WILLIAM ENfERHEISER and wife
MRS. SNYDER, widow OF Henry Snyder.
MRS. LUTHER SEYLER and three chill