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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-19
THE STRICKEN VALLEY.
NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS ENDUR-
ING GREAT PRIVATIONS.
Provisions and Other Supplies Being
Gobbled Up by People Who Are Not
Entitled to Them and Do Not Need
Them-The State To-Day Takes Charge
Of the Work of Clearing Up the Wreck.

JoHNSTowN, Pa, June 11.-Notwlth'
standing this is the twelfth day since the
flood, most of the newspaper CORE
spondents are still without sleeping &C,
commodations of any kind, and. as on
the first day, are sleeping in barns,
brick kilns and other places, without
cots or blankets. Cots have been sent
them, they are told, but as they are toe
busy to watch the incoming trains some
one else gets them. The militia have
cots and blankets, as have also the labor
ers, but the correspondents, who are
dolng the hardest kind of work for the
outside world, are forced to endure the
greatest hardships. The supply of pro,
visions is improving somewhat, and
they manage to get one and sometimes
two fair meals a day.
PROVISIONS, ETC, MISAPPLIED.
The provisions sent to this valley
don't seem as yet to have reached the
right place. A number of carloads of
all kinds of all supplies have been sent
to Morrellville. and as there was no
damage there the stuff has been misap-
piled. \ prominent citizen of Morrell-
Vile said this morning: There
is large class Of people
here who have not lost thing IN this
flood, vet every arriving train finds them
in line ready TO receive their share. 1t
is safe to say these people have secured
provisions enough to last them SIX months,
and clothing enough for five years.
1T THE CAMBRIA IRON WORKS.
The Gambia Iron Coulpanys Works
ami wards show this morning the best
results thus far Of the hard work to-
ward a semblance of what they once
were. Each department was told to
clean up their own part Of the plant,
and as each department is damaged to
about the same extent they will finish
about the same time and he works Will
be started. The railroad running
through their yards was first repaired,
and wood and iron wreckage is hauled
to different parts of the yard, and great
piles of wood are being burned, while
the iron will be examined later.
THE STATE TAXES CHARGE TO-DAY.
This is the last day for clearing away
the effects of the flood by volunteer
authorities. Tomorrow the State takes
hold of the stupenduous work of restor-
ing the valley to its condition before the
flood, and iff-Sfs work done after to-day
will be under the supervision of AdJu-
tant General Hastings The volunteers
who have so untiringly worked for the
object of restoring order will have fin
ished their self-imposed task to-day.
After twelve days of almost superhuman
work by the army of volunteers, the
State Will assume its proper place in the
work, and do what every citizen OF this
Commonwealth has known for daIs<4e=
ka its 6,,tv
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-19

the General, who said: II have been
directed to clear the streets of Johns
town, and make contracts with men to
open the way il order that the mer.
chants may be enabled to get to and
from their business places. Our work IS
progressing rapidly aud vigorously, and
the best thing for Johnstown merchants
to do is TO begin business over agala.
have communicated with Eastern firms,
who offer to assist you if you will re-
sumo business in this city l would
suggest that you build temporary struc-
lures for the present, until more favor
able circumstances warrant the erection
of permanent establishments. Pittsburg
houses offer to stock your stores with
a full line of first class goods on long
credit. | advise you to improve this
opportunity; and when IN the course OF
time matters take more tangible shape,
you will be able to repay all losses in
Cured"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-19
~stssGooD EFFECTS OF THE RAIN.

The weary and dreary succession of
rainy days since the flood continues, and
the day broke amidst drilling rain.
With but single exception every day
here since the deluge has opened with
rain, but while the rain has
made the work more disagreeable,
it has had some good results.
But for the almost continuous rains
the river would have been too low and
shallow to float away the debris that is
fast being loosened aud thrown into the
river. The continued full stream has
rendered the work of getting wreckage
away from the stone bridge much less
arduous and much more speedy. Again,
the rain has served to cool the air and
temper the rays of the hot June sun.
Had there been continuously such
weather as prevailed yesterday after
noon. hot and exhausting, it is believed
by many that it would have been in
possible to continue the work of search
ing for the dead. Even as it is, the
fumes arising from the decomposed
bodies of persons and animals are most
offensive and at times almost overpow-
ering. So noticeable has this become
that each gang of men searching for
dead carries quantities of dlSlnfectants,
and when a body is located the vicinity is
thoroughly saturated with disinfectantS.
Bv this means the work, which other
wise would be unbearable, is less otfen-
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-19
REGISTRATION OF SURVIVORS.

JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 13.-The gene
raj opinion among well posted geople
here is that the loss of life will be be-
tween 5000 and 1000. 1t was generally
given out that Johnstown and the bor-
ough adjoining had a population OF
81, 900, bit this was a very high esti-
mate, anL conservative people put the
population between $4,000 and $4,000.
Col Rogers, who has charge of the regis
tration, states that from all he can learn
the population only amounted to about
$4,000, and this accounts for 10, 900 peo-
pie supposed to be lost. Reports sent
out from here to the effect that 10000
- 900 people were missing were based
srsupposition that there were
sents in these boroughs.
Athe number of bodies
81 points along the
NV conflicting.
been sent
S>these are
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-19
AUHT1tS UOTUIX
thing remarkabS
DISHEARy

DISHEAR;
For the first !
people are CONG
financial loSseS
worry them as (
and to say thats
mcr merchants !;
ting it mildly.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-19

resolutions were proposed and adopted,
| thanking James B. Scott for his untlrlng
efforts to bring order out of chaos, the
| peapte of Pittsburg in particular and
citizens of United States generally for
their prompt and generous assist
ance. They pledge united sup
port to the State officials in every
way in their power in the work now un-
dertaken to the end that the work may
be expedited There were some sharp
animadversions upon Governor Beaver
for his tardiness of action relative to the
great disaster which has rendered thou
sands of people homeless, and his at
tempt to belittle matters in favor Will
Transport and other Susquahanna Valley
towns which have been inundated. These
expressions were received with maEifes-
tations of disapproval, and the matter
Was dropped.
SOLDIERS SUPPLANT SPECIAL POLICEMEN.
The $50 special policemen employed
here by the Sheriff were discharged this
morning and soldiers put in their places.
This will cause satisfaction to oalmOStevery
one, as the police always had orders that
conficted with the orders Of General
Hastings, and there was no end of
trouble getting through the lines. Gen
eral Hastings gave orders to the soldiers
to permit all persons wearing press
badges to 60 to any place they wished,
and consequently newspaper men are
happy.
REGISTRATION OF SURVIVORS.
The registers who have been making
a house toulouse canvass will be ready
to report this evening to Colonel Rogers,
who has charge Of the bureau of regis
tration. After this q second canvass
will be made, to verify the first, and as
this will take over week there will be
no correct list of the living until that
time. This register will be official and
is being made for legal purposes as we'll
as general information.
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE SUFFERERS.
HARRISBURG, Pa, June 12.-Addi-
tionaI contributions for the flood suffer
ers were received by the Governor to-
day from all portions Of the country.
The total amount received by him to
date is about $40S, 900.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-19

JoHSSTowN. Pa, June 14.-Rain is
pouring down this morning and has ef-
fectually stopped work of all kinds in
this stricken city, where work should go
ahead as rapidly as possible. Even the
soldiers have sought the shelter of their
tents, and the newspaper correspondents
missed this morning with considera-
BILE relief the familiar Have you Pass?"
from the guards at different places. The
wrcckage at the stone bridge, which was
fired last night, has been dampened con-
siderably, and unless the rain stops soon
that invaluable work will also come to a
stand still.
THE CROWDS AROUND THE CoMMIssARlEs,
which seem to increase with each day,
are mud-bedraggled set. The entrance
to each station is very narrow, yet into
them women and children, each with
capacious baskets, crowd like sheep into
a pen. The line is long, and those who
are so unlucky as to have arrived after
6 or I o'clock have been standing unpro-
tected, and, in some instances, half clad.
in the pouring rain. Their baskets are
generally well filled, yet on leaving the
commissaries complaints are heard on all
sides of "No butter, nor anything fresh,
after two weeks" etc., etc.
WHEREIN THE RAIN IS BLESSING.
in one way the rain to-day is regarded
as blessing, as The terrible stencil from
burning flesh, which was almost unbear-
able last night, is scarcely noticeable.
A number of lumber men from the
Clarion region were engaged clearing
wreckage with their hooks last night and
this morning, and their work was so eff
fective that another detachment was
sent for.
1t has been decided to tear down all
unsafe buildings in the town and burn
the wreckage.
A house-to-house canvass will be. in
augurated tomorrow, to secure, as near
as possible, an accurate list of the living
and dead for the State officials. The
system of registration attempted a week
~, was not effective.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-19
MISS CHEESEMAN'S BODY FOUND

Ihlrty-elght DOdlts were recOVered TO
day, all of them being in an advanced
stage of decomposition. This afternoon
the body of Miss C. a. Christman, the
foreign missionary from New Orleans,
Tho was on the express when the food
swept 1t from the track, was found. On
her person was found draft for $275,
a valuable gold watch and small
amount of money and some jewelry. The
body was embalmed and held to await
the order ef friends.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-19
CLEARING AWAY THE WRECK.

HARRISBURG, Pa, June 14.-Gov-
ernor Beaver has received an official re-
port from the State Board Of Health, in
which the district from the railroad
bridge. over the Conemaugh River at
Johnstown, to the mouth of Stony Creek
River is declared nuisance. The Gov
ernor now has the legal machinery and
thefunds TO apply it, and the work will be
pushed without delav.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-19
AN EXODUS

set in here to-day, which before the day
closes will have reduced the number of
men now here by many hundreds. Will
ing and hard working volunteer laborers
began to leave early this morning, and
the train leaving here at s a. IN. took
away over 400 This is merely the be-
ginning of the great outpourlng that
will set in tomorrow, and many are
leaving to-day in order to avoid the rush
tomorrow. Among those who left this
morning were $50 iaborers from the
Hartman Steel Company, Beaver Falls.
They said they would not work for
$50. 1t is the general opinion here
that Gen. Hastings has made mistake
in offering less to the men than IS paid
a. present Sand that the result will
be the temporary cessation of the work.
One of the first things to be done by
General Hastings will be to discharge
500 policemen now doing duty here. In
this connection there is likely to be much
grumbling and hard talk. 1t has been
decided that they should not be paid out
of the relief fund, but that the County,
whose Sheriff deputized them, should pay
for their services. Some persons look
for trouble from this source, but the
general opinion is that the question will
be amicably settled. All the men em-
ployed by Booth & Flynn will be paid
off to-day and discharged and transpor,
tation furnished for as many as do moi
wish to work for the State at $3.50 pei
day. 4 number of men will remain:
but the great majority will leave.
MERCHANTS REsUMING BUSINESS.
\ number of proprietors of stores arc
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-19
THE HORROR OF THE SITUATION.

has not diminished, but rather grows.
The search for the dead continues, and
in all sections and directions bodies are
being found, Numbers of. bodies are
now coming to the surface of the waters,
and those whose work has made them
competent judges say as many more
bodies as have been found are lying
somewhere. Inmany unexpected places
bodies are hourly beng found, and
where this will end no human mind can
guess, At seven o'clock The monotonous
work began, and as the day advanced
the sun came out and the morning hours
were hot and muggy. The fires that
had been kindled among the timber near
the stone bridge were quenched by the
rain and the valley was filled with
steamy and ill-smeliing vapors.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-19

in order and open up. Already a mum.
Der have done so. and this has done
much to encourage others. A more
cheerful and hopeful feeling prevails and
is daily increasing.
Work all over the valley is being
pushed with vigor, as if the present
force We're trying to show how much
they could do. The channel of the river
above the stone bridge is being washed
clean out, and while comparatively little
impression has been made on the great
mass of debris near the bridge, the re-
suits along the channel are very marked.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1889-02-14
The Gambler Lost.

PORTLAND, Jan. 26.-This evening
as City Attorney Adams was walking
along First street, a gambler named j.
A. Remarque stepped quickly from a
barber shop. After attracting his a,ten.
tion be struck Adams vicious blow on
the jaw. Mr.. Adams defended himself
from a shower Of blows that followed.
Watching his opportunity he countered
on the gamblers eye, knocking him into
the mud.
The now-angry attorney jcmped upon
Remarque aud began choking him into a
meek, penitent mood, but large crowd
which had gathered by this time inter-
fcr.ed to save the gambler from severe
punishment. With the aid of police,
man Adams then marched his ass.ilant
to the city prison, where the latter was
locked up. Remarque says he las come
to the conclusion that he assai.ed the
wrong man. Some time since he was
arrested for gambling aud was prose
cuted BY the city attorney.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1889-02-14
VOORHEES, ON ADMISSION.

Like all other speeches made by
Delegate voorhees, delivered by him
on the huor Of the House recently in
favor Of admission, and published in the
Reuiesc Of last Sunday, was good one.
Although not as lengthy as former
speech delivered by him in the same
hall and upon the same subject, it con-
tains many strong points. That was an
especially strong arrangement Of his own
stupid party with which be closed his
remarks On this occasion. Referring to
his cfuts to strengthen his party in this
territory, he says:
''That l failed was not through a
failure OF diligent, determined effort on
my own part, aud l stand here to-day.
in the shadow OF verwhelmins political
defeat, to insist, with the same vigor and
zeal that animated me 10 the sunshine Of
political success, that any further delay
in the contamination Of this paramount
result is an unconscionable usurpation OF
the inalienable rights Of nearly three
hundreu thousand American citizens"
1t is no private secret that prior TO the
late campaign Mr.. voorheer, in addition
to his public efforts, labored in private
for many an hour with democratic mem.
bers OF the committee ON territories and
with other prominent members Of hi.
party, and cndeavored to show them
wha. a great political blunder they were
commi,iiog, even viewed from party
standpoint, in not passing en- enabling ac'
for the admission Of this territory before
the late election. Mr.. Springer, now
that il is too late to do his party any
good, has blossomed out fucly in favor
Of admission.
Mr.. Voorhees, ought to be proud OIL
MIR. Springer aud the sagacity 10 genera
displayed By bis party leaders in sustain
ing his efforts SO handsomely at Wash
instou as the representative Of thi.
territory Reuieu.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1889-02-14

GEN. NETCALFE'S VIEWS.


Attorney General Metcalf has pre-.
pared long opinion ~ answer to the
letter Of H. c. Wilmarth to Governor
Semple, which was referred to him, rel
alive to calling constitutional conven
ton in the event Of the present congress
adjourning without passing an enable act
for the admission OF Washington. He
shows that the so-called precedent which
occurred previous to the admission Of
California to the Union is not, in his
Judgment, one that can be followed here
dc gives elaborate extracts showing why
this is true. He suggests to Governor
Semple i: he is satisfied that will be re.
spending to the general sentiment of the
people. the calling OF the convention
would be entirely proper, even though
there is no absolute authority vested in
him, by virtue Of bis Office to do so. He
suggests that probably there is some
way by which evidence Of the sentiment
Of the people can be secured. He thinks
that the county commissioners of the va
rious counties will afford this evidence.
Mr.. Metcaie is anxious as anyone that
every proper means should be taken in
order to facilitate the admission Of
Washington.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1889-02-14
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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1889-02-14
The Saints Pep airing to 60 to Msxico


The Salt Lake Tribune says: Agcn,
Stewart Of the Mexican Colonization
scheme, is in town. He reports the
colonisipy progressing slowly but surely,
and in addition to having bonded 1000,
600 acres, his company are figuring for
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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1889-02-14
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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1889-02-14


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