The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-06-13
FLOOD NOTES.

The general impression is that Governor
For1k r, of Ohio, dit more for the sufferers
than did jvernor Beaver.
At Sciptoville o., n pocketbook containing
s. 26, sat OF silver sp1ons marked y. y
n hank book ~ thu First y uion1L OF Johns
town, wi h "A credit TO y Nathan Dyer, and two
locks OF hnir, mementoes of lost loved ones,
were fou d..
Chairman Hicks. Of the Altoona delega-
tion. who has been all over tn district since
Surdly NOR ing, says the los Is 1880 to
1i,00I, and ha bases IL on talk with scores OF
all rts of pope. The Absence OF former
residents and uf n fixed and familiar popu>
lation Is most striking
The work Of recovering the dead goes on
with Il diminshe vigor, and as the works
men becomes accustomed to their CHASTITY
fluids, ard the orrors OF the scene becoms
commonplace they apply themselves more
diligently to tn r duty and labor with a sys-
TEN that produces rapid results.
With the rece ling waters the scene Of desc.
luton tecon's hour more weird and
picturesque. Like "A d SER, swept by some
fierce simeon, the valley level is mn unbroken
plain for miles, only at last to fnd abrupt
termination in n mountain OF debris that
found lodgment on some projection rock
which, Ike A. jax, defel the fury of all the
TO, ces OF tue elements
The borough of Johnstown and tn, djoins
ing aoroughs, or what is left OF them are
practically under mart al law. Adj. Gen.
Hasun - says he has not d Glazed martial
Law, Yet the soldiers are on guard an no one
Is permitted t-twecn tho riv, r. unless he has
un order from tn, All Itlnt q neral. Tne
sighisosrs are deunrIed altogeth +, and the
town Is nccessa 10 except o newspaper men
AM others who nave business here.
Que OF the peculiar things n stranger nos
tices in Johustown is the mpa atively small
number ot women see in the place q, the
bodi recovered there are at least two women
for every man. Children ais lare rarely seen
about the town, and Tor similar reason
they are all dead. There is never group OF
the dead discovered that does not contain
from one TO three or four chldrel for every
grown person. Generally the children nre
in the arms of tne grown perso -, aud often
M,tle toys and u iink4ts claspsd IN their han s
indicate that tn childre were eau ,ht up
while at play and carried as far as pos,iOu
toward sifety.
Cinci n,ti has SEM through the commits
te' S5j,OOO, in addition TO 81 PSI from banks
and $1,000 from oiher cohtri Iuiors
Nine curl ads of proys Is All cl1shilg
were mt TO j hpsto VA over 10 PjnIsTlvl-
/ railroai in saturday an eight over tho
Baltim1rs a ONO.
Some idea OF the IN ,gnitu 10 OF the damage
done to Pc nnsylvanil II iro al lines by the
recent flood may be formei from the st lts.
ment that nearly 5000 mon arc emp.uyei
in many cas- working l6 hou ~. Thi,
great army Of workmen is tu | ling bridges,
repacing track c,rried away, filing a ID
gra ling The wash oI5 road beu.
DR.. Ribbett estimate Sunday that Z, 500
bodies had bsn r,c)vored SO far Ia his
visit among nine mOrgues already IN IN nCioned
he clunJei 900 o lies. The mo gus above
an below Jonnstowu have nos been visit by
the doctor, bui the Coroner held 2S5 inquests
at Nineyeh 26 bodies were lost at Co iemaugh;
10 at Mineral Point an bodies ars constants
ly being touud.