New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-08
LESS WOE AT JOHNsToWN,
BRIGHTER FACES SEEN IN THE CoNEsfAuGH
VALLEY.
PLENTY OF WORK AND SUNSHINE TELLING On
THE SPIRITS or THE PEoPLE-LowER
ING THE ESTIMATE OF THE
LOST TO 5000
SUNSHINE TELLING On
lar TELEGRAPH TO rHE Tribune.

IBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TxIBUSE.l
Johnstown, Penn, June 7.-Another day of sun<
shine and another day of work have, In fact,
driven away the shadow which has hung over this
town for week There was different look on
mems faces to-day, and it is not too much, per-
haps, TO say that the reaction has come and tho
valley is on the road TO recovery from the stroke
it has received. Not until to-day has the spirit
OF work spread beyond the limits Of the fats
where are pitched the tents OF 1900 workmen..
change has certainly come oyer the place, and
ID is seen on all sides, Men are less dependent,
and many who have suffered great loss have gone
down TO the plain and Joined the army there
in its work of rebuilding the city. A better
example Of change in disposition could not be
found perhaps, than the story Of man who was
shot at Morrellville for stealing mattress from
relief car. Had this story got abroad two
days ago people would have distorted it to s
wholesale butchery OF Hungarians who had been
caught robbing bodies. To-day they bave paid
no attention 10 the rumor, but have gone their
way, entirely satisfied to believe that the story
false Another encouraging sign is the desire
of people to break away from being supported
by relief committees. and TO take care Of them
selves
With the various committees working in har-
mony, hcmes being rapidly improvised for
the survivors, provisions supplied 70 all who arc
needy, and measures taken TO prevent the spread
Of disease there is room for no little encourage
ment. So much has the condition Of affairs i'm
proved that some one has found time 10 sort
out and label the mass OF kilograms which
have poured into the town during the week
asking about friends and relatives. These messages
have lain unnoticed on the tables at the head
quarters of the Citizens Committee.
There is not a noticeable change in the number
Of dead found during the twenty-four hours but
there are fewer bodies lying in the morgues: more
graves on the hillside, but not nameleSs ones.
Strange 10 say, most people have given up estmat-
ing the number of those that perished. There
seems 10 be little doubt that, although the loss was
great it will fall far below the sensational figures
given by many. Liberal estimates may be made
as TO the number now lying under the ashes at the
bridge those under the wreckage In the Cone
maugh, and still others scattered along the river,
and the total of these added TO the list already dis
covered will not conservative men say, make moro
than 5000. II the city can escape pestllence.
and there is great danger OF one breaking out, IL
will begin TO rise from the ruins more rapidly IN
few more days. The progress will be slow at first.
for there is great task to he done, and the people
have deep wound TO heal, but work, whether Vol-
untary or enforced, has awakened men from their
despair, and tonight, one week from the ume OF
the disaster, il is easy TO see that men have gone
10 their homes with lighter hearts.