New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-06-05
dispatches was overcome by an expedient
familiar to the associated press in trying.


dispatches was overcome BY an expedientI
familiar to the associated press in trying
times.
The tracks west of Johnstown are at some
points entirely carried away and the road
bed gone The river for some distance above
the bridge is filed with buildings and drift
forty feet high, which is on fire and likely to
damage the bridge, which is of stone. The
fire is beyond control, and Johnstown is lit
orally wiped out.
POSSIBLY THOUSANDS LOST.
The course of the torrent from the broken
dam at the foot of the Lake to Johns
town is almost eighteen miles, and with
the exception Of at one point the water
passed through a narrow V-shaped valley
Four miles below the dam lay the town
of South Fork, where the South Fork itself
empties inta the Conemaugh river The
town contained about 1000 Inhabitants. It
has not been heard from, but it is said that
four-ffths Of it has been swept
away. -Four miles further down
on the Conemaugh river, which runs paral-
lei with the main line of the Pennsylvania
railroad was the town of Mineral Point 1t
had 500 inhabitants, 90 per cent of the
houses being on the fat and close to the
river. It seems impossible at this time to
hope til at any of them have escaped.
ALMOST W HOLLY DESERTED.
Six miles further down was the town OF
Conemaugh, and here alone was there to-
biographical possibility-the spreading Of the
Hood and the breaking Of its force. 1t con-
tanned $500 inhabitsnts, and must be al,
most wholly devastated. Woouvale, with
1000 people, lay a mile below Cone
maugh in the fat and one mile further down
where johnston and its cluster of sister
towns, Cambria City, Conemaugh borough,
with a total population of 5000, on made
ground and stretched along right at
the river verge, where the i'm
mense iron works of the Cambria Iron
and Steel company. who have $4,000
invested in their plant Besides this there
are many other large industrial establish
ments on the bank of the river that are dam
aged, how badly cannot be estimated. AT IL
.. m. a railroad man says the loss of life will
reach hundreds, and possibly over thou
sand. The report of loss OF these town
above cannot yet be confirmed.
M FLOATING DOWN sTREAN
BOLIVAR, Pa, May 31.-The water is higher
here than was ever known, and tWo-story
houses, barns, stables, whole forests Of trees,
outhouses, smoke houses, railroad bridges,
county bridges, RATS, skitfs and drift
wood by the acre, all of which
imploring hands were held out to those
on the banks, willing but impotent to help.
have foated down the swollen torrent of the
Conemaugh. Inform, d received is
meagre, but for the mo- art accur ate AT
tocKport, two miles east, more than twenty
people have been taken from the flood. The
first great rush of water reached here at z
o'clock this evening. This came from the
burst dam above JohnstoWn. 1t
came like frenzied whirlpool, and
before the people could realize It,,
| they were in Its grasp. Fortunately the
people living on the low-lying ground es-
capped. At 7.3O o'clock great pile of drift
| wood was swe pit along, and from it shrek
| upon shrek. The terrified spectators on the
| shore saw three women, to one of whom
| were clinging two children, neither OF whom
| was apparently more than an infant The
ra pidity OF the current and the position of
! the raft on the stream, together with the
lack of facilities fer rescuing, precluded the
possibility of ever thinking in the matter,
and the raft passed out of sight, The scream
Of the women and children blending in uhei1
pleadings for aid long after the craft was
around the bend. The stream then became
clinging to all sorts of temporary means Of
salvation and two men and woman clung
madiy to the tops OF huge trees, the men
| emulating the females III their shrieks for
help that it was not possible 10 give Three
| citizens of Pittsburg are known 10 have been
| drowned. They occupied house just below
| the dam, short distance above JohnstoWn.
| Their names are Thomas FalIon, James
Tight and telegraph operator, name IN
known.
I2 DISTRESSING REPORTS.
P1TTsRuRG, Pa, May 31.-Reports from
along the Kiskiminetas river, into which the
Conemaugh empties, are most distressing.
| The river near Salisbury is filed with wreck
age, and number of persons were noticed
clinging to such timbers as would
bear their weight AT Blairsville men
are stationed on the bridges and
| banks in the hope of securing some of those
| who were being carried down the stream
| The volume of water is unprecedented. The
iron bridge connecting Blairsville with
/ Blai1svil!e Intersection has been carried
away and with it a train of heavily loaded
! cars standing upon the bridge to hold it in
| place. This was the largest and strongest
| bridge on the West Pennsylvania road
| 1t is thought that all of the West Pennsyi-
vania railroad bridges will share a similar
fate. All of the towns in the klskiminetas
valley are expected to be submerged Among
them are Livermore, Salisbury, Apoo.o,
Leechburg and Avenmore, having popala-
tlon of from 5000 to 10000 each. The in
habitants all along the river have been
warned, but are almost panic stricken at the
idea of their great loss of property, which is
inevitable. Late reports from CoketoWn are
that the entire town is submerged and a
number of lives have been lost at chat place
Married at Last,