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Tug notwithstanding from the flood
.,r;ckendistrictin Pennsylvania confirms
,Le worst predictions made yesterday
II seems impossible to exuggerate the
story of death and devastation, The
latest and most conservative estimates oi
,No loss Of life are to the effect that fully
eirht thousand people were drowned in
the owiuI torrent or burned in the ruins
More than 200 bodies had been re-
o,y,rej M to last night, and 1t is be-
re,cd that more than twice as many
mora lie buried in the debris. Hun
JrsIs oi men are ut work clearing away
fine ruins and searching for bodies
while A large body Of physicians and
nurses are ou the ground caring for the
sick and wounded.
Many are the pathetic stories related
hv the surviyors and the reports are de-
scrimiycoi affecting gcenesand incidents
ns wilntsaedbythe reporters. Volumes
could be written about the narrowing
details Of ,hu awful disaster, but the ac'
count unnecessarily condensed.
It will never be known how many
Ocrlsbed. The names of few Of the
identified dead are published. Aid and
sympathy for the suffering ones is being
received from all quarters of tue globe.
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bridge was piled small mountain ol
timber, and grinding in against this, and
so being reduced 10 splinters, otheI
houses were turned upon the works oI
the Cambria Iron Company,
The great buildings withstood the
water, but we're filled with lumber, A
half dozen OF the large buildings are yet
filed to the roof with wreckage, beneath
which lies Thousands OF bodies, Here
again the wreckage and the buildings
turned the current toward the opposite
side OF the river. There 10y Cambria
city directly in Its path.
THE HORROR COMPLETED,
Millions had not satiated its appetite
and over 800 dwellings and business
houses were carried away, broken up
and ground to splinters, Manyo them
were first thrown down and then rolled
several hundred yards. The Catholic
church was shattered but not entirely
destroyed, the altar with the Virgin be.
ing untouched even by The water,
The First ward Of MillYale Borough,
opposite Cambria City, and Just below
the great steel works, stood on the low
ground and numbered about 200 houses,
Murellville and Sheridan, In the or,
der named, and each about q mile apart,
and the former q mile from Cambria
City, are on the south side OF the river
aud received large portion OF the DRIFT
The Cambria Company had bridge
over the river near the former aud II
was lost,
Across from Sheridan stands Coopers.
dale, where a few houses which stood
on the river bank were destroyed. One,
\ twostory structure, was carried bodily
4 distance Of 800 yards and Is but slight
ly damaged, Just below the last named
place Is the pump station Of the Cambria
Iron Company, u stone building, which
was wrecked and the superb engines
badly damaged.
This was the end Of the Johpstown
district, and the flood, though 1t spread
beyond the banks at many places and
over down caused some loss OF life and
had done Its worst, The great.
'St horror Of the century was an accom-.
lllshed fact,
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HOW THE REPORTS CONE,
The Trials Of the Newspaper Reporters
Work Of tho Associated Press,

The Trials Of the Newspaper Reporters
Work Of tho Associated Press.
JoHNsTowE, Pa, June S,-The diff
Guilty to which representatives Of the
presshaye been subjected in their efforts
to depict the horrors of tue situation
here, are almost beyond description, For
the first iorty'elght hours eight or nine
correspondents struggled frantically for
precedent over the single wire in opera
ton, and when the Associated Press
finally obtained possession OF this
only means Oi communication from
the desolate valley, there
was chagrin and disappointment
on every side, But the troubles Of
this bureau, instead, of being now ended,
were really only begun, The electric
lluid was subject to interruptions that
were MS frequent as they were terrifying,
and at times 1t seemed as though the
only wire that connected chaos with the
universe was to be severed, The sur
roundings even now are not supposed
TO encourage literary productions,
The improvised office OF the Associated
Press Is in IN abandoned tile factory
that first became q morgue before the
disciples OF Fabian shared quarters with
the dead. As the wind blows from the
black fed ruins the -emanations
Of burning and decaying flesh steal
through the open windows and add to
the horrors Of the experience. A mar.
row board that rests upon the head oil
upturned barrels Is the table at which are
seated the representatives OF the
Associated Press, and tallow candles in
bottle necks have usurped tho gus and
electric light. Harry W. Orr, Of Pitts
burgh, the operator, who In this crisis
has distinguished himself by display
Of fortitnde and endurance seldom wit
messed, Is seated on low stool and
grasps firmly the box relay on the cir
cular table that surrounds him as he
ticks away at the rate Of 40 words a min
ute to the eleven operators thNt receive
simultaneously on the great Associated
Press circuit that radiates from Johns
town bridge to New York, Pittsburgh,
Toledo, Columbus, CinCin-
natl, Detroit, ChiCapo, Milwaukee, st.
Paul and Minneapolis. After ~ hours
81 almost continuous service, broken ut
no time by more than a couple Of hours
of slpmber, W, @, Connolly, Jr,, the
Associated Press agent, who chartered
rain to beat all competitors to the scene
Df horrors, has been forced this after.
noon to succumb to the mandate Of ma
lure and seek repose in his Pittsburgh
hama
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Loss ot LIfe ln MARYLAND.

BALTIMORE, June 3.-The loss Of life
by the recent floods, SO far MS reported
in Maryland, was as follows: Joseph
Cregar, Of Leitersburg, drowned in An.
tetam creek; George Derrick, Of Tree
yancon Mills, drowned in Pipe creek.
Mrs. Charles McFadden, OF Taneyiown'
drowned in the creek near that place
William Hudson, OF Orange Grove
drowned In the Patapsco; Miss Magic
Moore, ot Taneytowh, drowned In the
creek near that place; a colored man,
name unknown, drowned In Wicomico
county; James Lawson, OF MonroyiS.
Frederick county, drowned In the Mo.
noCcay; Theodore Wolf, OF Williams
port, drowned in the Potomac; a colOTe,,
man, unknown, Of Cumberland, drown.
ed In the Potomac. 'O" :"
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IT TlIRlllLBD TlB WORLD.

Tho Dark Disaster that Startled two Con.
tinents-Tho Deadly Effects OF Allowing
Thousands az Bodies to Lie Unburied or
UnhurnGd,
JoISsrowN, Pa, June a.-Tho dark
disaster Of tho day, with It's attendant
tOrros thrilled the universe, and drew
two continents closer together In the
bonds Of sympathy that bind humanity
to men. The midnight terrors OF Ashta,
bula and Chatsworth evoked tears OF
pity from every fireside in ChristCndom,
but tho true story Of Johnstown, when
all Is known, will stand solitary and
alone us the acme OF mans annihIlatlon
by the potent forces 10 which humanity
Is ever subject, Tho InenaCing clouds
still hover darkly over the valley Of
death, and the mutterings OF thunder
that ever anon reverberates family in the
distance, seems tho sardoniC ChuCkle OF
the demon OF destruction, as he per.
sues his way 10 other lands and other
homes, but the modern deluRe has done
It's worst for Johnstown. The waters
arc rapidly HubSiding, but the angry tor
rents still eddy around Arrarat, and the
winged messenger Of peace has not vet
appeared 10 tell the pathetic tale OF those
WHO escaped the devastation OF black
Friday. II ls not a hOCknoyed utter.
ance 10 say that no pom can adequately
depict the horrors oil this twin disaster,
and deluge the deep emotions that swell
from the heart OF every spectator find
most eloquent expression Ia Allence, Inc
silence that bespeaks maui recognition
Of his snbaeryienoy TO the elements and
impotence 10 avert CastaRlrophleS,
The inslgnlnCanCe Of human life IA
only fully realized by those who witness
such scenes as JohnBtown and ChatE.
worth and Ashtabula, and 10 those
whose memory retains the picture Of
horror, the dread experience cannot fail
TO DO o iltting legIon. This morning
opens Np dark aud dreury. Great dFop5
Of rain fall occasionally and nnother
storm seems Imminent, Every one ieolS
thankful, though that tho Weather Am
remains cool and that thUgralual nrlfe.
tapllon Of the hundreds Of bodies thSl
still line tho streams and ia LiliUn
under the miles Of dflltwood aud tlebfil
ls not unduly hastOnOd,
THOUSANDS DEAD.
This morning the peculiar stencil oI
docaylng human flesh Is plAlply porcsp
tiblO 10 senses as cpp asc6nds lio ban
Of isItops creek Tor a lali mile along III,
smolderlng ruins Of the wreck. and m,
most skSpuCM now conceive llie won
aha ~ u, realize Ipat hundteda, aye, pbtliabi
thoHleanuaol bodies llo Chafrel anil blaCk
sneu beneath this great funeral nyFo
seatchep wander Wearlly oyOt lhll
mgSlng mass and az occasionally
sudden Shout Cotnea over the waIOtS. th
aLl0nt watchers on the hill realize tha
u lAhother ghAstly discovery has boel
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added to that long list OF revelations that
chill every heart, and draw tears to the
eyes OF pessimlsts,
APITlFUL SIGHT,
From the banks many charred remains
OF victims Of the flames and food are
plainly visible to the naked eye, as the
recedipg waters reluctantly give up their
dead, Beneath almost every log or
blackened beam a glistening skull or the
bleached remnants OF rites or limbs
mark all that remains OF life's hopes and
dreams. Since 10 o'clock last night the
fire engines have been busy. Water has
been constantly playing on the burning
ruins, AT times the fire seems almost
extinguished, but titful flames suddenly
break out airesh In some new quarter,
and again the water and flames wage
fierce combat, The chief sensation Of
the morning has been the united re.
monstrance Of the physicians against the
extinguishment OF the burning wreck,
They maintain, with q philosophy, that
to anxious searchers seems heartless,
that hundreds, II not thousands, OF life.
less and decaying bodies lie beneath this
mass OF burning ruins.
SCIENCE AND HUMANITY,
ut would better be-" they FAY, ITO
TO permit natures greatest scavenger--
The flame, topursue hiswork unmolested
than to further decay the horde of
purifying bodies that lie beneath this
Iebrts, There can be but one result,
Days will elapse before the rubbish can
DO sufficiently removed to permit the re,
'overy OF these bodies, and long ere that
'Very corpse will be putrid mass Weld.
ng iorth trightiul amount OF decayinp
lunian flesh that In q crowded Commun.
ty like this are given but one result
he dreadful typhus, Every battle field
las demonstrated the necessity OF tho
lasty interment Of decaying hodies, and
he stencil that already arIses Is a fore.
pnner Of impending danger. Burn the
he wreck Burn the wreckI"
A loud cry Of indignation arose from
Ups o.. the vast multitude and the warm
ngs Of science were lost in eager de-
nands Of those that sought near and
lear, The hose was again turned upon
ne kissing mass and rapidly the flames
'lelded to the supremacy of water.
IL IS almost impossible to conceive the
xtent OF the smoking ruins. An area
Il s or 10 acres above the dam Is covered
0 q depth ot 40 feet with shattered
louses, borne from the resident centre
! Johnstown. In each OF these houses
is estimated there were from / to 90
! 20 people. This Is accepted aa data
pom which to estimate the number that
erished on this spot and II the data be
orreCt tho bodies that lie beneath these
lins must run well up into the thous-
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A THREATENED PLAGUE,

The Water Polluted by the Dead I.odfes
aud Animhls-ThO PrOsllent Asked 10
Take steps-The Water Impure from
Pittsburgh to New Orleans.
PlrTsnuRdHL Pa, June 3.-The Ma
sonic fraternity met this morning and
received reports from the committee
sent to Johnstown, The chief point
was the terrible sanitary condition. A
committee was appointed to ask tho
United States Government to take action
atonce. This committee telegraphod to
President Harrison asking him to send
out a sanitary commission immediately
and warning him that unless promx
action was taken TO remove the dead
bodies and animals every stream into
which the Conemaugh empties would be
polluted and carry plague germs 10 the
people. This would effect this country
from Pittsburgh 10 New Orleans, Like
messages were sent to tho Pennsylvania
Senators,
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VOLUME XXXYIl--NUMBER 244,

ruins looking like a miner, Mr.. Frazier
has 0 sister here, whose family OF four
children WAS almost drowned, but
managed to escape after an excit,
ing experience, When the food came
down upon them they were driven from
the first to the second story and soon
after to the third, They were kept
there six houS, from 0 o'clock in the
evening to l2 ut night, before they were
helped through the roof aud from there
made their escape TO the hills over the
housetops in the neighborhood.
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TnE FLOODS IN NAV Y0RK.
Tho Damage up in Tho Mllllons-orsot
Loss of Life,


ELNlRA, N. Y, June S.-The damage
by floods in this city alone will exceed
half a million. Trains on all railroads
entering here are beginning to move
slowly. A dispatch from Corning saws:
The flood in this district was the greatest
ever known. Almost all tho country
from Corning to Hornellsville was
flooded and the loss in steuben county
alone will exceed a million. The FaIl
Brook Coal Company lose nearly n
million. Fifty miles OF track on tho
Pine creek division between Ansonia
and Jersey Shore has been washed away
and II Will be weeks before 1t can. be re-
built. Thirteen bodies have been picked
up between Ansonla and Stakesjalo
Junction and yet no regular search has
been mnde.
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sylnpalhy FROM England.

LONDON, June 8.-rho Daily Me,,,
discussing tho danger Of artificial lukas'
says america, where everything Il
on scale Of vastness which wa cn,,nt
experience, seems destined 10 SlliTsr HCS y :,
la!nities oi civilization as Il exhibiis n.
t.lllI stlnmph IN the most colossal scale rbe
sympathy 81 the whole civilized wati9 1
viii be with tho people Of XmerirS O'in T.,
the saddest, most Striking and inost S oSer
Whelming misfortune that ever beiell n
people Of tho English race" '''''' 7"
line Lne other morning dalies refer 10 tho
dlsaster 10 Q sImilar BLrain. " 'Ho
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serve much credit. An old man sat on
q chair placed on q box at the intersec.
tion Of two streets in Johnstown and
begged for men. "For Gods sake" he
said, "can we not find men2 VIII not
some Of you men help? Look at these
men who have not slept for three days
and are dropping with fatigue. We will
pay, well; for Gods sake help US"
Tears rolled down his cheeks as he
smoke.
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AS CLEAN AS A RlvER BED,

The whole South Fork is swept out as
clean as n river bed, with not tree
standing. There are but one or two
small streams, showing here and there
in the lake o great many OF the work.
men carrying of baskets full Of fish
which they caught in the mud.
Rescuing parties at work on the
mass Of unburned wreckage in tho river
above the stone bridge are finding bodies
and fragments Of bodies at the rate ol
from ten to fIfteen an hour. In other
parts Of the submerged districts many
bodies are being taken out. A careful
estimate at this time noon OF the bod.
les recovered everywhere puts It from
700 to 500. The total loss Of life must
certainly be from G,O00 to 5000. They
arc being picked up In pockets like ore
in all sorts OF unexpeCted pllCes,
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The Details Of the J0hnst0Wn.
Horror More Terrible.
The AVfulness Of the Disaster
Being Realized.
FULLY EIGHT THOUSAND PERISH,
Scenes and Incidents that Make
the Blood Run Cold,
And Perhaps the Number is
Even Much Greater,
MORE HORRIBLE THAN DREAMED OF

Exagseate tho Fearful DOVastatOnA Few rhe PIl
Scenes mud Incidents Witnessed by the RpOrCThc Search for tile V
@ still Goes On-Fndng Bodies at the Rate Of Ono Every Three Minutes
nds Of Collins OrdeedThlng Stories erOsm-A Paul ReVeres
pc Death Willie Warning tho PeOple-Sad Scenes at the MOguCs
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Nv ,WNAsllIls9roS, I b, O., June a-Two
ghanB Of the Long Bridge, e,ns,Ir, ia GS
away by the flood 'O "Ve" V"'r'c"
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stiI lug popular blood purifier, Hoods
SILaiIssapatilla, nv Y having tremendous sala
NJ Is \ IIse,son. sa,ii Yearly everybody takes IL
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PfotnlB0nt lInirhls on I1tlI,is, ,,.........,

:. CHICAGO, lLLg June J.-1lo ChicSUo
knights Of pythIaS have information ia
tho ! effect that Past Supreme Chancellor
IiaI1ol gSha p; s,s.in Simon, q tho order In tho
,.,iIn united sa states, With his entire family,
Nlle W anu louf children, were lrowngi
y ,a..III J.oInInr'Nwn, a prosperous lodge Wng
iSGs'sa ,1iA "a, - JI0hnstown aud also IN CAIN.
,au S,1 ,S,l.y, IVY Ige majority Of The members
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uovernment SIsn.nrD..

WARRINGTON, D. O., June ,,-No m.
plicatlon for rationS has vol been M ,nSdo "R
upon the War Department. no ill., ill., i,.i. r"a.O
6ylyanla authorities bnt iGo. sno D.l,t,; rem,
9s,tIi ier TENT, which could not be stipbIoG' %
9eiieral Sehoaela, who ls acting ps ,pIsSS. gDn.
tisettary Of War, called at tho WhIls iinSSn vU
inla morning and remained wiz iiOuS" ~"
ateS,luent ~, lot hours, comforting with 70.
gard 70 tho best means OF rolievjng ,hn
giatress ~ prevailing al Johnstown. ~. %
FEesiuent 70 III constant colnmgnic0ilnv
Win the State authorities on the sWIioCi
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WOMEN TO THE RESCUE.

Mrs. j. O. Campbell, Of Allegheny
City, and Mrs. W. V. Hughes, Of the
East End, Pittsburgh, have reported at
the scene OF the disaster for the relief
Of homeless children. Mrs. Hughes
said: Wear here for the purpose OF
attending TO the wants OF the sufferers.
AS soon as children report who arc de-
void Of parents they will at once be iurn-
ished with transportation and sent in to
Allegheny City, there to be cared for by
tue Christian people OF that place"
ONE EVERY TnREE MINUTES.
Tho body Of Superintendent b. @.
Cameron, Of the Cambria Iron Works,
was picked upthls afternoon at o'clock.
John A. Little, travelling salesman,
Charles Muir, cigar makor, Mrs. John
James, a child and sister, and David
Sweeney, Hollldaysburg, Pa, were all
picked up dead, Undertaken Flannery
states that bodies are coming into the
morgue at the rate Of one every three
minutes. II. 4. Collins, Chairman OF
the Pittsburgh Relief Committee, states
that II Ia tho height OF ioolishneSs 10
send soldiers here and II there Is any
place In the word they don't need sold.
iers II Is In Johnstown.
Linemen, who were engaged In con.
Stfucting telegraph line between
Johnstown and Cambria City, recovered
a body at the north end OF tho railroad
bridge, which was completely crushed
out 6t all SemhlRnCe Of d human being.
John Frazer, Youlan Scots and II.
Painter, prominent citizens OF Altoona,
have Just arrived In charge Of q car load
Of provisions for the sufferers.
o. Craiger and family were saved from
the disaster by taking bis family To tho
roof Of q house and remaining In this
place until rescued the next morning, "
81. Johns Convent Is On Clifton near
Locust street. on the eastern side Of
JohnBtoWn, Although partially destroy
Cd none Of tho sisters, eleven In NUN.
Der, were lost.
Dir. w. o. beams body has lust been
recovered, although bis brother, Dr. L,
O. Beam, one Of Johnstown's leading
physicians, has not been recovered.
| pFVbtbt AANNNbs 10 ItlNSVl
on the depot door At JohnBLown. "A
temporary postofliCe has been establish.
ed NJ Cofnor ot Main and Adams street,
where oil ma matter will be received
and delivered ~ promptly AZ possible" +"
A nRoKRN HEARTED COUPLE,
| A broken hearted couple are Thomal
Leyden and bis wife, hard working poo
pie Of the little town Of Minervllle. Al
day they have been trudging over iht
slippery, 0oIlng Johnhtowfi asking ever,
pefson for news Of their daughter Mary
Mary was q diBh.washer In tie Hurlhu
house and the porter statea that Nc Sav
her plnnPd beneath d falling timber
MI Ieyden wants the remains Ben
70 Ills house. Ne. 2, Company row
Mlnefsylllg, Rev, ". II, Hates, pasto
d 'st, JOhn'5 Reformed church, ha
Bayed bib ianlly but his Church d
total wreck. 4, s. EraSlet, Tho pIIli
> 'bursh lawyer Was itSmPing' among III
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added to that long list Of revelations that
chill every heart, and draw tears to the
eyes OF pessimlsts,
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only thing that saved him from lynch.
ing was the smRllness OF the crowd, His
sentence will be the heaviest that can be
given him,
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Tho Dark Disaster that Startled two Con.
tinents-Tho Deadly Effects OF Allowing
Thousands az Bodies to Lie Unburied or
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NE VS. IN GENERAL.

Mrs Harriet Beccher Stowe is
gradually losing her mental faculties
and is mildly demented. She lives at
her old home in Hartford, Conn.
T. ]. Tiffany, ex-postmaster OF
Bennington, will finish his sentence
at the reform school February 3,
having gained time for good be-
haviOr.
acknowledgement Wanamaker is
Ill favor of reducing the postage on
merchandise and simplifying the laws
by consolidating the third and fourth
classes.
Anotherlarge raft of logs-this one
to be $50 feet long and consists of
from 81, 900 to 2SOOO sticks-is to
be built i'll the Provinces for towing
to New York.
Postmaster General Wanamaker
buys all his butter in Vermont. The
dairy farm is situated in Sharon in
the White River valley and they raise
more than 5000 bushels of corn, all
of which is fed to the COWS.
Col Fletcher ID. Proctor and fam
iIy, with his mother and her invalid
son, Redfield Proctor, Jr., of Rutland,
will spend the winter in the South or
in California.
The fact was developed at the re-
cent national council of the Congre-
gational church at Worcester, Mass,
that Al of the 80 delegates, cover
ing the whole country were natives
of Vermont, and Il large proportion
of them were men of mark, acknowl-
edged influence and strength, and
having more than a local reputation.
This is noteworthy incident, reflect
ing credit upon the state of their ma
tivity.
The annual meeting of the 1st Yer
mont cavalry was held at Middle
bury, last week Henry o. Edison of
Rutland was chosen president, and
s. H. Wood of ST. Adams and w. L.
Greenleaf of Burlington were elected
secretary and treasurer respectfully
A banquet was held at the Addison
in the evening and Il campfire follow
ed. at which Col Greenleaf read a
paper, and others made short
speeches.
John Crcerar of Chicago has left a
fortune Ndlueu 1T 0,OOO,OOO anu
50. $50, 900 has been set apart for a
public libary i'll Chicago. He directs
that in the selection of the books the
creation of a healthy moral and
Christian sentiment be kept in view,
and that all ''nastiness and immoral
itv be excluded" In the last catego-
nv he includes dirty French novels
and all skeptical trash The rest of
his fortune is left to charities, hos
pitfalls, historical, scientific and liter
arv societies, etc.