The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-06-02
LIKE N9lHS DHU('E
Eeh Thsusssl laiskd i il
JahnslsHn ealasI!sn.
The Bank ofthe Conemaugh
strswn with Dead.
Hsartreading Scenes in the val
1ey of Desolation.
1hsusanas Pfnienes fn : Carrs q
bebsts and Drouped er surnea
- D~~sh xot House Len whsss
- Jshnstown -Hane.rtaas Pfiiax-
inx ths DeaA-f fits.bss csndasts.
of sass starvinx Survivors
Heartrending Scenes in the Val.
ley of Desolation.

Il
SANG HoLLow. June III q. nj. The
first accounts sent cut "a the Johns-
town disaster are far below The u.f,.iexs
estimates placed upon tie exsrsss 81
the calamity, and instead 81 90 or
5.o00. probably the III will reach s.f,00.
Il + n0s known that two passenger
trains. two sections OF an express on
the Pennsylvania railroad. have been
thrown into the maadened foxreus
and the passengers drowned. These
trains were held at Johnstowu from
Friday At II .. m. and we're lying on )
siding between Johnstown and Cone
ymaugfl stations.
The awful torrent came down the
narrow defiIe between, distance of
nine miles and with q fall Of so feel
IN that distance, sweeping away the
villages Of South Fork. Mineral Point.
WoodgAie and Conemaugh, leaving
but onis Building sta nding, wooden
h.ss.. -s nou1
tsAa ssovu nnhuTeds,
dashing on with the roar
of sataracs and the speed OF the
wind upon The fair city at the foot OF
the hits. The .iain IN ut.ich h,t
v%ster,sav saf r..hrs,as.,,, r.s-s. i. 49, -.
mountains like jewel in dilaerfs.
The great iautier steel works we're in
this Place. and the city below it, the
railroad tracks bounding Ii al the base
of the I,nonnfa;,,s f.,. ff.s vnvsh
IT,, s - -. -.
- 8 80. ssas''s n. ss'a'u-
lHs "Asn snV etue - watsfs IKE cats-
putt came doWn upon tEem withsuch
resistless force that heavy trains. iccs-
motives and ali. we're overt urned and
swent dsxn the torrrnf and tos1vad
...i,,ys -. .4<,,,. .a.,.. .l-n .-s..s.
$500 80 ',s>,.'e 80 asos 'sai
ious .'.s,oAlaoaases rom tue 1onhstoWn
roundnouse. fhe heavy machin-
cry and p0nderous framework of
the Gautier mill. the acaur,au-
lated debris OF more than 4
thousand houses. furniture. bridges
lumber. drift and human beings. The
low arches of the stone viaslsict wers.
chokad up im rnediafely, and the water
hacked over the entire level az the val
lev npon which the cify stood 4, 4
deptfi al what from the xater would
indicJte about fhirfv-eirht .eer IN
the great sea thus formed Thousands
~ ues,u.e we're struggling for life.
Thh Story af the scene 4 one II the
most heart~rending poxsiDie for the
imagination Of man 10 conceive. The
r,1Isat,iated drffr rorerd nu n IRE
yiadslcf Ia 4 height al forty feet and
then took fire from the upseftlpx or q
stove or lamp. Then were skrosIg men
- ada sick a. the siyht. as the tlames
crackled and r..sreei among thesirift and
drv fEul,rr nf fionfinr ha,aseS. Human
hoa,,.s were seen ninionei between
hors.s roofs. locomotives. iron beams.
freipht paSsenrer. Pullman and hae-
rays. rars the greedy flames licking
gifh haste their dief az human fiesh'
The scene was hurribIe bryond de-
serinsinn From infancy = Few sfays
old 4, the waxted figures az are. the
nrss<,rers wer. IL, rr,e.f htf.sre tiat. YES
~ th'e hahnlaers and no re.cue from
shei,. fate Was no-Sibie. strong meu
tnrn.a awav with egnnixed exnres-
slous and r1,,nsn shris.kess at the hor-
r,rs of fhe scene
The dead have heen computed nj
not sess thsn 4 no and the number
= !, .s,vs.,, 4 1900 tt,;s nstfrata This
see see n,s ,nrrr,i,hle Int until the water
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