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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-06-05
rHREArENPD sCoUReE.
Pneumonia Breaks Out Among the Fug
tlves on Prospect Hill.

Pneumonia Breaks Out Among the Fugl-
tlves on Prospect Hill.
JoHNsTowN, PA.-Up the ragged sides
of Prospect hill, the same to which several
hundred terrified people fed to escape the
food last Friday night, correspondent
scrambled this afternoon. He came upon
a pneumonia scourge, which bids fair to
do for a number of che escaped victims
what the flood could not. Death has pur-
sued them to their highest places and ter
ror will not die. Every little house on
the hill, and there are hundred or two Of
them, had thrown its doors open TO re-
ceive the bruised and half clad fugitives
on the dark day of the deluge, and every
one was now a crude hospital.
Half the women who had scaled the
height were so overcome with fright tnat
they have been bedridden ever since.
There had heen pneumonia on the hill,
but only few isolated cases. To-day,
however several fresh cases developed
among the flood fugitives, and local
physician said the prospects for a scourge
are all too promising. The infected COL
dition of the patients, the unhealthy at
mosphere pervading the valley, and the
necessarily clocs quarters in which the
people are crowded, render the spread of
the disease almost certain.
To-day ray of light came in the nature
of car load of provisions, another from
Columbus, Ohio, containing clean mat
tresses and bedding, all for the Prospect
Hill sufferers. In this eminence stands
the Cambria City hospitA. and in this ramb-
ling cottage, it resembles one in exterior
and comforts, great work is being done
through the combined agencies of medical
services, science and brOlherly love. The
hospital is in charge of a corps of Altoona
pbysicians which the Pennsylvania rail-
road company rushed to the scene the
morning after the flood. Their names are :.
NJ. J. Rack, VIM. Findley, w. S. Ross, F.
G. Arney, W. G. Bruner, ]. r. Harmon,
A. L. Spangler, Henry ]. CORDS, and j..
Sellers. S. D. Hicks, Attorney for the
Pennsylvania railroad company is Chair
man Of the Alternating Relief Committee,
assisted by Hon J. W. Curry, also OF AL
tOOna.
The wards are full of bruised and suffer-
ing ones who were dragged from the teeth
of the flood.
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TROOPS CALLED OUT.
The Fourteenth Regiment, n. G. p, Called
Ont

The Fourteenth Regiment, n. G. P, Called
Out.
JoHNsToWN, June There wss a scene
of considerable activity at the headquarters
of Adiutant General Hastings on the East
Side early this morning. The Sheriff at
this place made a request on General
Hastings 70 call out one regiment of the
N.G.P. He stated that he did not want
them called out on account of any trouble,
bat to guard against anything that might
happen. General Hastings Immediately
tslegraphed Col. Parchment to order out
the 14th regiment. They have not yet an
swered. but when they do they will be
stationed in JOhnstOwn proper to guard the
buildings from the acts OF thieves.
General Hastings is having all the men
he can secure TO remove the debris,
and ia offering them 81 and their food, and
shelter. Booth & Flynn, the Pittshurg
contractors. have a number OF men al
work. and have placards about the stone
bridge calling for 1000 men, and offering
them 81 a day.
The Cambria Iron Works Company are
already preparing to get their works In
operation. 1t is probable that two of the
furnaces will be IN operation by the end OF
the week. Men were at work all day yes
terdav clearing the dam out, and this
morning the company bad 600 men at
work. General Hastings was seen later ID
the dav. and when asked what caused him
to order out the militia, said:
''There is no need of troops to quell any
disturbance. but now there are at least =, QUO
men at work IN Johnstown clearing up the
debris. and I think that it will not hurt
TO have the Fourteenth Regiment here, as
thew can guard the banks and all valus-
HES. The Sheriff consulted me in the mat
ter. He stated his men were about worn
ont and be thought that we had better have
some soldiers. l ordered them"
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ing your city. will furnish means for
paying them reasonable wages and
this will answer the double purpose Of
preventing disease and the lawlessness
which springs from idleness. May not be
able to send you tents. The State has no
large tents such as you desire. Better use
your market houses and other public
buildings. May be able when communi-
cation is established to send you a Car
load Of ordinary canvass. The country is
responding nobly to humanity's call, sent
out last night. Will give better idea Of
the situation, though l have no fear of any
lack Of means for furnishing all needed
help. Communicate with me directly and
freely as to your needs and how can CO.
operate in supplying them.
[Signed] JAMES A. BEAVER,
Governor
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INCIDENTS OF THE DAY.
Dealers Who Want Blood MOney-Free
transportation From JohnstOwn to Pitts

Dealers Who Want Blood Money-Free
transportation From JOhnstOwn to Pitts
burg.
JoHNsrowN, June 4.-Col. Moxham, the
iron manufacturer, is Mayor pro tenn OF
Johnstown to-day. He is probably the
busiest man in the United States. Al
though for days without sleep, he still
sticks nobly 10 his task. Hundreds Of
Others are like him. Men fall TO the earth
from sheer fatigue There are many who
have not closed an eye in sleep since they
awoke on Friday morning; they are hol-
log.eyed, pitiful looking men. They
have lost near relatives and all friends.
Men and horses is what is most needed
to-day. Some of the uniortunates who
could not 70 to the relief trains endeaver-
ed 10 obtain flour from the wrecked stores
in Johustown. One dealer was charging
S. a sack for -four, and WAS getting it, on
one er two cases. Suddenly the crowd
heard Of the occurrence, and several des-
perate men went to the store, and doled
the flour gratuitOusly to the homeless and
stricken.
Another dealer was selling flour at 81 so
a sack He refused to give any away, but
would sell it to any one who had the
money. otherwise ne would not allow any
one to 20 near it, guarding his store with
a shot gun.
Bodies are recovered in JOhnstown to-
dsv that have been robbed by the ghouls
that flock to the scene. 1t was known
that one lady had several hundred dollars
in her possession just before the disaster,
but when the body was recovered there
was not a cent in her pocket.
The Huns attacked a supply wagon be-
tween Morrellyille and Cambria City to-
dav. The drivers of the wagon repulsed
them. but they again returned. A second
igbt ensued, but after lively scrambling
the Huns we're again driven away. After
that the drivers and guards of supply
wagons were permitted to go armed.
Postofices were opened at MoTrellville
and the Fourth ward Of JohnstOwn to-day.
The first mail got in at $3.50 this morning,
and was enormous for such a small town.
The Knights of Pythias have received a
large donation from Pittsburg lodges.
An effort was made to hold religious ser
vices in Morrellville last night by Rev.
John Fox, of Pittsburg.
Rev. Mr.. Beale is making arrangements
with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to
transfer passengers from Johnstown to
Pittsburg free Of charge. A train packed
80 full that it was impossible to obtain
standing room on the platform left last
night. The passengers were mostly chill
dreu and women. The faces at the win
dows expressed nothing but relief as the
train drew out of the ill-fated city.
The Tariff Clubs relief trip from Pitts,
burg lay on the B. and o. to-day, and did
more good than any that has yet arrived.
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Gilmore, who has lost his wife and family
of five children. Ever since the calamity
this old man has bten seen on the river
bank looking for his family. He insisted
on the firemen playing a stream of water
on the place where the house formerly
stood, and where he supposed the bodies
OF his family lay. The firemen, recOgniz.
ing his feelings, played the stream on the
place for several hours this morning and
at last the rescuers got to the place the
old man said his house formerly stood.
81 know the bodies are there, and you
must find them" he said
On went the rescuers after this plea,
when at last one of the men picked q
burned, charred skull, evidently that of a
child. This stirred the old man up and
he exclaimed, ''that is my child, there lies
my family, go on and get the restSf them, "
The wOrkmen continued and i'll a few
minutes they came TO the remains of the
mother and three other children. The
heads were completely burned off, but
there was enough Of their clothing left to
recognize them by. What was left was
picked up and placed in coffios, the old
gentleman following closely the men who
were carrying the collins.
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DEEDS OF HERoIsM.
Mothers Who Were .rave-One Man ssve'
Twenty-twO Lives.

Mothers Who Were .rave-One Man Saves
Twenty-Five Lives
JOHNsTowN, June 4. The sad story Of
the Conemaugh is not without its deeds Of
herOism. The appalling scenes of horror,
after developed daring courage where lesst
expected, while everyday heroes, in the
midst of the terrifying scenes usually de-
generated into arrAnt towards. Those
who viewed the frightful scenes of fire and
flood agree that the hopelessness Of the
situation was first fully realized by women
snd that by the tender sex was exhibited
that dauntless courage which Is borne Of
resignation. Mothers cody sacrificed
themselves to the fury Of the hoOd, or
fire. 10 save the lives of their children and
loved ones. Not infrequently some pale
faced womsn, chngiDg with her child to
the hoating debris and realizing that the
support wss to frail for two, would be
seen to lift her precious burden high upon
the foatiug debris and with hssty kiss
bidding of farewell to all that bound her
to the world, sink beneath the inky waves.
Edward @ Will is a young fOundrymau
ot Cambria, q years old, whom no one ever
suspected Of having more than ordinary
/ courage, when the food was At its height
aud people were floating down the rushing
torrent in hundreds, Will rushed to his
boat, and senseless to the pleadings Of
wife and relatives, showed his frail craft
/ far out in the angry current, gliding rapid
I IL alougside a floating roof bpOn which
/ q woman and two children were
/ kneeling with blauched faces, he
skillfully evaded the distractions that
every minute threatened to crush his
cockle-shell craft and lifting the terrorized
/ creatures to his boat shot acIOss the cur
rent back to the bank from whence he
came. A shout of applause swelled from
the throng that lined the banks; but m
moved by ths plsudits, young Will re-
peated bis perilo' journey, not once, but
seven times until twenty-five lives had
been saved by bis indOminatable energy.
The next day when the most of Johns
town was still under water, Will ascend
ed the stream TO the desolate city and
again distinguished himself by many acts
Of herOism and endurance. No tribute too
fulesome can be paid to his noble charac-
ter; but, after all, among the heroes that
these strange scenes developed, he is only
. one of the many.
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CRAzED FROM GRIEF.
Deputy Marshal Dicks Mind Effected by
His Great Bereavement.

JoHNsTowN, PENN, June A.
Deputy Marshal Dick is q man whose
condition excites general pity. His total
bereavement of wife, family and relatives
has affected his brain, it is thought, and he
goes riding about the country giving all
the assistance in his power and keeping an
especial lookout for law breakers and van
dsls. He has distinguished himself on
seyersl occasions in the past, it is
reported, by shooting the HuDgarians,
whom he detected pillaging the dead, but
his last action is particularly noteworthy.
Detective McTighe and Officers Garrigan
and Mulvehil bad arrested two notorious
crooks that had reached town on Monday
evening. They were from Kansas City,
and we're probably travelling to JohntoWn
for pefarious purposes. McTighe knew
them and promptly nailed them as soon a.
soon az the got off the train, and the fellows
deftly dropped several gold rings. They
resisted furiously and struck out with
their fists. bat with some officially were
overcome and led to the Cambria City
lookup. This place was full of mud knee
deep. and it was impossible to lock them
in there. A box car was then visited, and
while the officers were wrsngliDg with the
railroaders as to the advisability OF placing
the crooks inside, Dick rode up. He was
seated on gray horse and imperiously de-
mauded to know the cause OF the trouble.
II was explained TO him.
"Stsnd the fellows there, shouted
Dick, reiguing up his horse. His features
stifened into an expression Of determine
tion and rage, and he whipped out a re-
volver. leyeled 1t a. the quarreling
wretches and muttered "pll stop their
thieving."
"For Gods sake don't," )" cried McTighe,
and he imploringly thraw up both arms
with tragic gesture. Don't do that
for Heavens sake. Remember we are
officers of the law" =.
After some moments Dick was called OIL
and better counsel prevailed. No accom-
modations could be found for the Kansas
City gentry, and they were given hve
minutes to leave town on the backward
trip to Sang Hollow. They left with white
faces and trembling limbs at an estimated
rate of Is miles per hour.
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town bridge. The sky is still overcast
with heavy clouds and the sun rests behind
q menacing pail as though reluctant to
view the hand work Of his potent elements.
For thirty-six hours, without intermission,
the tre engines have played upon the
smoking ruins above the bridge, but the
flames that break out afresh at frequent
intervals in this flooding field of ruins
seen to defy the subduing force of water
Nearly 600 men are employed in differ
emit parts Of the valley, clearing up the
ruins and prosecuting dilligent search for
the undiscovered dead. Their investiga-
tions are not without fruitful results for
the bodies OF the dead, and cherred victims
of flood and fire are discovered with undi-
miniehed frequency.
1t becomes hourly more aud more ap-
parent that not single Ysstige will ever
be recognized of hundreds that were roasted
in the flames above the bridge. Since the
last sentence was penned party of search
ers unearthed charred and unsIghtly
mass from the smouldering debris within
thirty yards in front of the Associated
Press headquarters.
Unused to such frightful discoveries, the
leader OF the gang pronounced the remains
to be blsckened log, and it required the
authoritative verdict of 0 physician to
demonstraie that the CHASTITY discovery
was the chsrred remains OF humDa being.
Only the trunk rename and that was
roasted beyond sll semblance to flesh
Five minu es search revesled fragments OF
a skull that at once disintegrited of it's own
weight when exposed to air, no single
piece being larger than half dollar, snd
the whole resembling the remnants OF
shattered charcoal.
Within the last hour and half dozen
discoveries in no way less hOrrifying than
thia ghsstly find have been made by the
sea-chers as they rake with sticks and
hooks in the smoking ruins. So difficult
is it at times to determine whether the re-
mains are those Of human beings, that it is
apparent that hundreds must be fairly
burned TO ashes. Thus the number that
have found q last resting place beneath
these ruins can ut the beat never be more
than apDroximated
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$5.OOO.OOO OF DAMAGE.

Wnliamsport, Pa. Sends an Appeal to the
Country Through Gov. Beaver.
HARRISBURG, PA, June 4.-The fol-
lowing telegraphic correspondence has
passed between Governor Beaver and May
or Foresman, of williamspOrt:
WILLIAMsPoRT, Pa, June 4.
To Co.. Bearer:
The situation, expressed in few words,
is this: The boom has been cleaned of logs
from the principal yards along the river
front and the manufactured lumber has
been swept away. The houses of the poor
people nearest the river have beenlcarried
away with all they possessed. Thousands
of people are homeless and without any
thiug but the clothes upon their back.
Provisions are scare and are most needed
quick. Many of our people are in abso-
lute want for the necessities of life.
Although bereft of property them
selves our business men have responded
nobly for present necessities AT the
meeting called yesterday $1,000 in cash
was Iaisel. We badly need disinfectants.
Dead animals and all kinds of filth are
strewn upon the streets, and grave fears OF
an epidemic are entertained. Stocks Of
goods of stores in the centre Of the city are
ruined. 1t is impossible to estimate the
loss and damage to different kinds OF
property. Five million dollars ;is low
estimate of the lOss on lumber alone.
Other losses are larger. The surrounding
country has suffered Just as badly. Booms,
bridges and villages have been swept
away aud the loss of life has been consider
able. Judge Cummins is treasurer OF the
relief fund and will see personally
to the faithful distribution of all contribu-
tions. Responsible relief committees are
now organized in each ward of the city and
aid is administered as fast as we get 1t.
Please God we are not dismsyed and rely
on His guidance and the generosity of our
own State and country to aid us IN
this the hour of our dire necessity. One
thousand military tents will afford the
greatest possible relief to our people who
are now without shelter, and the lumber
all having gone, other temporary shelter
cannot be provided soon enough. The
tents that you might send will be taken
charge of by the Mayor and taken care Of
and returned in as good condition as pos
sible. Send us several large mess tents,
where we can feed the people in large num-
bers. The low ground where many of these
people reside is an unfit place for them
10 return to for sanitary reasons.
rSiUned1 MAYOR FoREsMAS.
HARRISBURG, PA, June 4.
To the Mayor Of WiuiGmspOrt, Pa:
Be of good cheer. Your reliance is not
misplaced. God and the country will sus-
tain YOU. Will resc5 you with help as
soon rs Montgomery bridge can he crossed.
am loading cars here with -four and gro
ceries notwithstanding the pressure OF our
own stricken people. Will telegraph
Philadelphia at once for provisions and
disinfectsnts. Put your unemployed men
=. -. -, -aroov;,, = tha dehrig and clean
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How The List Of the Dead Is Being Deter
mined-9 600 Names Registered.

How rbe List Of the Dead ls Being Deter
mined-9 600 Names Registered
JoHNsrowN, June As 1t is imPossi-
bic to give a complete list of the dead
General Hastings has decided to get as far
a. possible, q list Of the living. He has
established thirty-siN registration offices
in and about the flooded districts, and the
people are registering at lively rate. Up
until 1890 to-day, nine thousand regis
tered snd it is probable that nearly all
the names of the living can be secured.
At each place where tood is gwen out
tsere are several men taking the names Of
tbs neople who receive aid Already the
,be registration offices have become q great
ss~vics. There ere large crowds form IN
front of each Office and inquiries come IN
thick and fast. Until this morning II was
;-ono..ible for the Survivors Of the mood TO
s,sf near their homes, and consequently
few people are able to tell whether their
friends or relatives are living or dead.
AT the Fourth ward railroad house In
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To the Penltentiary.
.peeIal Telegram . IL 80. .

5peclaI Telegram " nc ttkIsIeIs
CHARLESTON, June 4.-Sherid Boone.
Of Fsyelte county, arrived in the city last
night with Dick Thomas, convicted Of the
murder OF Nora Hill, near Coal Valley,
several months ago; T. o. Buzzard, who
pleaded guilty OF forgery, and L. G Sta
ten, convicted Of usiDg steel knuckles.
Thomas goes for five years, Buzzard for
two years and Staten for one year. The
prisoners were taken 70 Moundsyille to-
day,
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CIarksburE Briefs.
rseinl 7sl1rnm u NJ R.rt..n.

STeciGi Tt<grdHg 70 ~ kegiz7.
CLARKsBURG, June 4.-The Board Of
Education selected ia. day T. s. Hardesty
and f. W. Flowers, who with F N. Hsr-
bert, the recently elected Superintendent,
constitute the Board Of Examiners Of this
county.
Rain is continuously falling here, and
there is great fear Of freshet. Elk creek
is out OF it, banks.
Elisha Owens, an old and respected citi-
zen OF this city, now in his eighty-iourth
year, was stricken with paralysis yester-
day evening.
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RUINS ABOVE THE BRIDGE.

A DniEent Search for the Desd-A Char
red Mass of Human Remains.
JoHNsrowN, Juue -Four days have
ELAPSED since the angel of death swept
down through the valley of the Cone
msugb, but no ray of sunshine has yet
lighted up the scene Of horror at Johns
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RarnasriiIe Goes Wet.
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Special Telegram 10 ne ReglSI'
GAINESVILLE, o., June "A special
election was held here to-day on the re-
neal of the local option ordinanc The
Vets carried the day by thirty-three ma.
iorltv. The ordinance will be repealed
and saloons opened.
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NAN QUESTION OF DIOPOSING OF BODIES.
Sa They be Allowed to Burn Up in the
Ruins?
mUlIl THE CORPSES BE LEFT To PUTRIFY
INF PoIue the Waters and the Fire Put
Out

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-.s.-ic in That Cty-Their Appeal TO the NatOn-Five
,-..., of Dollars in Lumber Lost
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Court reassembled in the afternoon and
bv D o'clock the court room was packed to
oyerflowing by an audience that filled the
seats crowded in the bar and swarmed
sven up to the Judges chair in their eager
ness to catch the slightest word which
uould indicate the guilt or innocence OF
the prisoners. and throw some light on the
mystery of Lizzie Tsggsrt's tragic death.
Both the prosecution and the defense had
fnrni-hed the clerk with a lis. OF their
witnesses. and these were read to the num-
her OF about thirty. AS each name wa
called the witness, if present, answered,
and was sworn. The reading revealed the
fact that while most Of the witnesses fol