Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-13
MILITARY CONTROL.
JOhnstOwn Now in the Care
of the Z. s. Troops.
EXODUS OF WEARIED woRKMEN
Citizens Encouraging Each Others
Dropping Hearts-Gratl'
tude Expressed.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, June 12.-Johnstowr
and surrounding towns are now unoel
military rule. THE morning GENERA
Hastings took charge, and soldiers vert
placed on guard duty at all commissary
stations and morgues, and the city pre-
sents the most dismal appearance
Everything is turmoil and confusion
Little or no work is being done. Sufferers
were at the commissary stations as early
az usual this morning, and stood around
in the rain several hours before they
were served. They have the same dis
tressed look ever since the food, and
as the days roll by they do not eeem to
liven up any.
REALIZING THE SITUATION.
In fact, people here are just commenc-
ing to realize fully the terrible ordeal
they have gone through. Excitement
has kept them up heretofore, but
they are now conscious of the sit
uation, and if number OF suicides do
not follow it will be something re.
markable. For the first time since the
calamity people are commencing to talk
of their financial losses, and this seems
to worry them as much as anything else,
and to say that vast number Of former
merchants are disheartened is putting it
mildly. On all sides merchants exclaim,
cts no use, we will never recover from
this; we have lost everything"
IT WILL TAKE A MILLION.
General Hastings says he will have
5000 men at work tomorrow and thinks
there will be very little left of the 81 ,000,-
600 furnished by Pennsylvania by the
time the work is done.
ORDER OUT OF CHAOS.
Order is coming out of chaos, and mil.
itary discipline has shown its effects at
the end of the first day. The grand
exodus of workmen has been going on all
day. As fast as their money was handed
out of the paymaster's window, the work
men boarded trains, on which their
picks and carts were loaded, and left
Johnstown without any expressed Ie'
grets.
Work upon the ruins has been nearly
at stsndstill all day, but tomorrow
General Hastings expects to have $500
men at work.
The new plan of cauvassing the city
and systematizing the distribution of sup
plies is meeting with general favor. Pro-
visions and supplies continue to come in
freely.
There is little change in the health sit
uation.
Ten bodies were recovered to-day by
the small force of men working.
CITIZENS MEETING.
A meeting was held in Alma Hall by
the citizens of YOUNGSTOWN to-day at
which the leading business men, who
survived the flood, were present. Re-
marks were made by several OF those
present touching the great work before
them, and the necessity OF united and
individual action to rebuild the town,
and the cultivation of fortitude to bear
up under the burders 60 suddenly
thrust upon them. Resolutions were
adopted thanking James Scott for his un-
firing efforts to bring order out OF chaos,
the people of Pittsburg in particular, and
the citizens of the United States gener-
ally for their prompt and generous as
distance.
SURVIVORS REGISTERED.
The Bureau of Registration reportea
today that 15,67S survivors have regis
tered. Many registered twice, and some
half a dozen times, which caused the list
to run up to $1,000. Today scarcely
twenty names we're registered, showing
that the work is approaching completion.
The number of bodies recovered ID ll92,
End