The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-04
ALL WILL NEVER BE KNOWN.
The Developments of Each Hour Add
to the Horror


The Developments of Each Hour Add
to the Horror
JoHNsTowN, PA, June s, 6 p. M.-Devel-
opments of every hour make it more and
more apparent that the exact number of
lives lost in the Johnstown horror will
never be known. All the estimates that
have been made up to this time are con-
servative, and when all is known, the esti-
mates will be found to have been too
small. Other bodies have been
found since sunrise this morning. and
the most skeptical concede that the remains
of thousands more rest beneath the debris
above Johnstown bridge. The population
OF Johnstown, surrounding towns aud part
of the valley effected by the flood is, or was
from $4,000 to $1,000. The Associated Press
representatives to-day interviewed numer-
GUS leading citizens of Johnstown who sur
vived the food, and the concensus of opin-
ion was that fully 80 per cent. Of the resi-
dents of Johns own and Cambria had been
victims of the continued disaster of fire and
water If this be true the total loss of life
in the entire valley cannot be- less than
1000 or 5000, and possibly much greater.
ALL WILL NEVER BE TOLD.
OF the thousands who were devoured bv
the flames and whose ashes rest beneath the
smoking debris above Johnstowr bridge
no definite information can ever be OBJ
tained AS little will be learned of the
hundreds that were borne swiftly down the
Consmaugh only TO be deposited hundreds
of miles below on the banks and In the
driftwood of the raging Ohio. Probably
/ one-third of the dead will never be recoy-
cred, and it will take the list of missing
weeks hence, to enable even q close esti,
mate to be made Of the num-
Der of bodies that were seen
floating in the river in the brief hour.
That this estimate can never be accurate is
understood, when it is remembered that in
many instances whole families and all their
relatives were swept away and found un-
known graves beneath the wild waste of
waters The total destruction of the CITY
leaves no data to indicate that the names of
these unfortunates ever found places on the
page of eternity's history.
GEN. HASTINGS INCREASES HIS ESTIMATE.
"All the indications point to the fact
that the death list will reach over 5000
names, and, in my opinion, the missing will
reach 5000 in NUMBER" declared Gen.
Hastings tonight AT present there are
said to be 2,200 recovered bodies. The
great difficulty experienced in getting
correct list is owing to the great number Of
morgues. There Is no central bureau of
information, and to communicate
with the number of dead
houses is the work OF hours. A
journey from the Pennsylvania railroad
morgue to the one in the fourth ward
school house in Johnstown occupies at leas;
one hour. This renders it impossible to
reach all of them in one day, particularly
as some Of the morgues are situated at
points inaccessible from Johnstown. At G
o'clock in the evening 613 bodies had been
recovered at the Cambria depository for
corpses.
Kernville is In a deplorab.e condition.
The living are unable to take care Of the
dead. A majority Of the inhabitants Of the
town were drowned
A building of boards has been erected on
the only street remaining in Cambria. This
is the headquarters for the committee that
controls the dead AS quickly as the dead
are brought to this point they are placed in
boxes and then taken to the cemetery and
buried. A supply store has been opened in
town,