Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-06-22
BURNING THE DEBRIS.
Work or Clearing Up the Wreclz
at Johnstown.
Iho registration Bureau Reports IL. 600
former Inhabitants Unacoounted
For - Twelve Hundred and
Forty Bodies Have Beon
Recovered.

N'i"y hleh1, IWenJy-slA huge bonfire
hgh'ed up the valley and mountain sid
Tor miles around. The piles of wreclal
removed from the debris during the da
was thus disposed of, making a grand sigh
Inc horrors continue and there seems to |
no ond Ever since tho water reccdcd int
Its channel, fathers, mothers, sisters an
brothers seeking their lost, have wandere
up and down amid the ruins. At each or
"They have found another.n these heor
broken scarchers hasten forward and an,
iously gaze upon the features of tss dea,
Every now and then is heard a wall d
distress, sometimes rising almost to tn
pltch OF scream and again nothing but
sob is heard as friend or relative is recop
nlzed Monday evening the body of prett
Httle jennie Given, aged fifteen was dis
covered. A charge of dynamite loosenc,
the jam of drift, disclosing four bodies
Under the floor of wrecked building
pinned down by the heavy sills lying acroe
herface and limbs, lay the body, crushed al
most beyond semblance TO humanity. !
man cIbowing his way through the crow,
stood gazing at tho mud-covered corpse
His anguish stricken countcnancc pro
claimed him relative, even though he die
not speak As he turned away after tn,
body was removed he was asked if he recog
nized her His look was as if he could mo-
understand and his only response was
Poor, poor Jenne.n
A department for Identification OF valua
bles was established on Main street ycster
day, with Rev. Mr.. Bacr in charge.
JonNsrowN, June l2.-Hundreds OF the
laborers left here yesterday. This is but
the beginning Of the outpouring that will
sctin today The opinion is gaining strength
that General Hastings has made 4 serious
mistake in Offering less to the laborers than
hashcretofore been paid, and the rcsultwill
be Mt least temporary cessation of work.
Under present management the wages have
been two dollars per day and food furnished.
Under the State management wages are TO
be reduced to Sl.50 per day with board fur
nishcd them, All of Booth q Flynn's men,
about 1000, will be paid Off and discharged.
Transportation will be furnished for as
many as do not wish to remain and work
for the State at the reduced rate.
At six o'clock last evening tho now regu-
latiOns for the government of Johnstown
went into effect Tho heads of departments
were announced as follows Colonel J. H.
Spangler will have charge Of all the supply
stations throughout tho flooded district
The district will be divided into two post
commissaries No. Twill be under command
Of Mayor w. II. Horn, whow have charge
Of all supplies received over the pcnnsylya-
in ,,gt1, NJ 1, 1! a.
Mayor Singer, who will have charge of all
supplies received from the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad. The county will be sub di-
vidcd into eleven districts under the care OF
quartermastcrs attached to the different
regiments of the National Guard Of the
State. Lieutcnants Bean and Burnett of
the regular army are associated with Colonel
Spangler in the work
The trouble that has boon brewing came
late last night when William Finn, of Booth
~ Flynn, who secured nearly 4,000 men to
work in the ruins around town, had long
consultation with General Hastings, who
told him that Ryan & Mcdonald had tho
contract Mr.. Mcdonald was introduced TO
Mr.. Flynn aud asked him to get him % 900
men and to work the contract with Inn.
Mr.. Flynn Indignantly refused to do so, and
unless the Governor yields and makes some
concessions it is believed that all the Booth
q Flynn men will leave JohnstoWn to day.
That will leave General Hastings and Johns
town worse of than has been expected.
Several stores were opened during the
day and We're throngcd with purchasers
Many Of the things purchased We're for
female wear, which they had deprived
themselves Of rather than accept them for
nothing in crowd of scrambling men and
boys. There was asystom everywhere yes
tcrday and n great Improvement is mani.
fest. There is an excess of clothing. Money
and food is the present great need, Twocar
loads of fresh meat, delayed by the way.
were so badly spoiled when they arrived
yesterday that their precious contents had
to be burned. The donations of provisions
can not be too extensive,
The intention is TO solve the raft problem
with petroleum and the torch, Yesterday
for the third time the drift was fired and is
burning ficrcely, but if it is not destroyed
fifty barrels of coal oil will be employed on
it to-day and the whole mass will go up iu a
bonfire.
BELLEFoNTE, Pa, juno l2.-Mr Wilmer
l.. Maln, superintendent for the Bell Tele
phone and Supply Company for Central
has just returned from
and describes the scenes at
tending the food through the Susquehanna
Valley as beyond description, There is
hardly one building of any kind that stood
in near proximity to the river that now
Ia. tee, ,itri,, dot
that rs many as fifty farms in
the distance of twenty-sx miles have been
entirely cleared of buildings of any kind
Large barns were lifted and carried for
miles, and deposited in the middle of wheat
fields without having sustained any per-
ceptible injury.
At one place about five miles below Lock
Haven there is pile of debris covering four
acres of ground and consisting of every
thing mcntonable-logs, trees, fences,
wagons farm implements Of all kinds,
household furniture sufficient to furnish a
score of houses, dead animals, and at one
place was found silverware to the amount
Of $500 In Lock Haven the work OF clean
ing up is being vigorously pushed forward
and the merchants are Kidding their shelves
Of destroyed goods, all of which is com
plctcly covered by coating of mud and is
sold for whatever any one may offer.
JonNsTowN, Pa, June l3-Wedncsday |
notices were posted all over the
city reading "Wanted, 500 men at Sl,50
per day. Apply to Committeeman Flynn"
Very few arc applying for work Az
nine o'clock the representatives OF the
Pittsburgh relief committee opened their
office in the Baltimore & Ohio depot and be-
yan the work of paying the men who have |
been working here since the flood, Ihe |
crowd was so great that company oil the
Fourteenth regiment was called upon 10
mold them in check. This process oil paying |
he men was found TO be entirely too SLOW
and another paying station was opened III
he club house. The crowd waiting IN line |
Tor their money numbered nearly 1000 men.
Trains on the Pennsylvania railroad now
arrive and depart from the regular passeh-
ger station; the broken tracks over .he
stone bridge have been fully repaired some
If the bodies recovered now arc so oauiy
lecomposed that the skin breaks and hair
Ialls off while being washed by the under
,alSers. None are being embalmed now Inc
bodies when first recovered arc saturatca
with disinfectants, brought to the morgue
where the clothing is cut off, valuables pre-
served description taken, after which the
remains are wrapped in a muslin shroud,
,ofllned and Immediately taken away ior
burial. A request has been made that the
MAYORS of all cities and towns along the
-iyers between Pittsburgh and New VI
cans send description of any bodies ,,. tn.' |