The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-22

members of the South Fork Fishing Club
with view to bringing suits to recover for
their property destroyed. While in Pitts
burgh they will also consult attorneys as TO
best manner of procedure in case they do
eide to take legal steps
JouNsTowN, Pa, June 13-General Hast
ings yesterday distributed the work to be
performed among number of contractors
who are already prepared with men, teams
and appliances to push the work with vigor.
Colonel II. T. Douglass, chief of the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad engineering corps, has
been placed in charge of all the engineering
features connected with the task the State
has undertake
To facilitate matters the valley has been
divided into districts. Division 1 includes
Cambria City and all points below the rail-
road bridge down to Morrellsville Five
hundred men in charge of Contractor Ridge,
of Pittsburgh, will work on this division.
The gorge at the viaduct will be known as
Division No. g and will be cleared up by
James Mcknight, of Pittsburgh Mr..
Mcknight will use twenty hoisting engines,
twenty teams and zoo men to begin with.
Nearly all the city of Johnstown is included
In Division No. 3, and will be taken care Of
by Coburn 81 Mitchell, of Altoona, with r.
Lafand as engineer, Division includes
Conemaugh, and will be taken care of by
LcLain & johnson, of Pittsburgh. Kern
vile is the fifth district and James
Mcknight has undertaken to clear it up.
Each district will be under supervision of
civil engineer. Colonel Douglas, in charge
Of the work, says the cost Of clearing the
valley won't be more than half a million
dollars He could not estimate just how
long 1t would take.
The bureau of registration has completed
its work and handed the following report TO
Director Scott: Remaining survivors, 15,-
61S. Identified-Fourth ward school house,
l61; Millvale borough, As; Morrellville, So;
Presbyterian church, "a; Prospect, 43; Penn
sylvania railroad station, so; Saint Colum-
bla church, Cambria City, 139; Kernville,
Fifth and Sixth wards, 43 Grandview
chapel, 2. Total identified, 62S. Unidentified
Fourth ward school house, 81; Millvale
borough, 62; Morrellville, 9; Presbyterian
church, %; Prospect, IS; Pennsylvania rail-
road station, 70; Saint Columbia church,
Cambria City, 49,; Kernville, Fifth and
Sixth wards, 5; Grandview chapel, 10.
Total unidentified, 325. Nineveh, 1S9 bodies
recovered; also 80 recovered in Indiana
County, opposite Nineveh, making the total
number recovered 1882. Could not get an
account from New Florence on account of
its being in possession of the coroner, who
is at Greensburg. The last census of Johns
town reported $4,000 inhabitants The above
report shows that there are yet IL, 80 unac-
counted for.
The 800 special policemen employed by
the county sheriff were discharged ysster
day and the soldiers OF the Fourteeth Regi-
ment put in their places. Owing to the con-
flict of orders heretofore existing between
the sheriff and General Hastings the change
is very gratifying.
JoHNsTowN, juno 14.-Captain Sears, Of
the United States army engineer corps,
accompanied General Hastings on a general
round of inspection yesterday morning. He
says that the mass of wreckage embedded
in the river at the raft, covering several
acres, can not be burned and dynamite will
not do the work. The only way it can be
done is to put 1000 men on the mass, pull it
apart, cart 1t away and bury the bodies as
soon as they are found. 1t can he done in
no other way. Five bodies We're recovered
yesterday morning. Two were identified,
Mrs. Alice Jones and Mrs. Lay ton. They
were found in the ruins at the Cambria Iron
Company's works and were in an advanced
state of decomposition and were buried i'm
mediately.
AT 10:30 o'clock yesterday gang Oh
about 100 men were put at work on the
wreokage near the general office of the
Cambria Iron Company. A large company
of laborers from Greensburg refused to go
to work for 81 30 per day, claiming that they
had been promised fifty cents per day ex-
ira. On hearing this General Hastings
ordered company of militia to the camp of
the strikers, who again refused to go to
work, whereupon the soldiers were ordered
to charge upon them, running them out of
the camp at the point of the bayonct.
The weather is very warm and the fumes
and odors from decaying flesh is becoming
terrible. Two small stores were opened
yesterday and were thronged with Gus
toners all day.
The citizens of Cambria burough passed
resolutions last night asking General Hast
ings TO furnish them lumber and nails to
enable them to put up temporary houses,
there being only 400 houses to shelter l,5Oo
people now homeless.
A regular morgue corps of six men fol-
lowed the workers in each district yester
day, and as fast as bodies were uncovered,
removed them to the nearest dead house,
where they were quickly prepared for
burial.
ROCHESTER,, n. Y, June 1.-THE follow
ing extracts are from letter from Clara
Barton to Mrs. Jane Marsh Parker, of this
city: "About nurses-for the present the
sickness of Johnstown exists in the news
papers only. do not know but ought 10
say this more openly than do. The report
ers have more to do with the sickness here
than the doctors or other people. There are
for the present nurses sufficient. House to
house visitation among the poor, learning
their needs and supplying them properly is
the great want for relief work at this mo-
ment. We have some twenty people doing
this. Sickness may come later, but it is
not here at present If it does come there
will be use for your nurses, but do not ex-
pect it. The town will be cleaned up and be
kept clean, and see no reason why sickness
should come in this good mountainous coun-
try"
HARRISBURG, Pa, June 14.-The 81 600
bond scheme of Governor Beaver has fallen
through entirely, owing to the constitutional
objections to it and because another way
has been found to raise the necessary sum
of money to abate nuisances created by the
flood. The Governorreceived assurancesin
Philadelphia yesterday that the Peoples
and otherS banks would advance all the
money needed for the purpose indicated,
without interest The Governor met the
Philadelphia members of the commission
appointed by him to distribute the funds for
the relief of the food sufferers, and deci-
sion was reached to start on a tour of in
spection on Monday next and ascertain
where help is urgently needed
JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 15.--Pouring rain
with intervals of scorching sunshine greatly
retarded the progress of removal OF wreck
age yesterday. The laborerS generally re-