Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-07
NATIONAL SORROW.
YOUNGSTOWN WEEPS, AND THE
WORLD WEEPS WITH 1T.
The Hand of Charity Reaches Penn
sylvania From all Parts of the
Civilized World.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REooRp-uN1oS.l !

esque, like desert swept by the simeon
The valley is level, unbreken plain fol
miles, only at last TO find an abrupt ter.
mination in the mountain of debris that
found lodgment on the projecting rock
which, like Ajax, defed the fury of the
elements.
RECOVERING THE DEAD.
The sun shines brightly this morning
and the work of recovering the dead goes
on with undiminished vigor and with a
system that produces rapid results.
A blast of twenty-five dynamite car
tridges at 10 o'clock loosened up the debris
and made it possible to open the mouth OF
the old channel.
THE DAY EMPRESS LOCATED.
Workmen have located the day express
swept away at Conemaugh. The ruins Of
the train lie hundred feet from the fourth
buttress from the western end of the stone
bridge. Parts of the parlor cars have been
found, as well as traces of the passengers
The baggage of Annie Chism of Nashville
Tenn, was found. She was a missionary
on her way to Brazil for the Women s
Foreign Missionary Society of the Metho.
dist Church. 1t is evident that more lives
were lost on this train than was at first
supposed. The whole train affair is still a
mystery at least 10 passengers have so far
been found and located.
AN ARMY OF ToILERs.
Five thousand men are at work. and tits
expected that by tomorrow at least 10 0OOC
al cd hY,t
not be able to remove the debris in less
than several weeks.
There are thirty unidentified bodies al
the Fourth Ward school-house These
have been lying there three days at least.
and forty thousand people have viewed
them.
EMBALMING BODIES.
During the past twenty four hours sixty
bodies, embalmed, were taken from this
place. This morning five bodies were
brought in, one of them, Oscar Henne-
kamp, for whose recovery a large reward
was offered. A Gordon of soldiers will be
stationed around the town, and nobody be
allowed to enter it without pass.
The real work of ascertaining what the
living and dead of Johnstown are was
started this morning. A corps of clerks,
under the direction of the Relief Commit
tee, will go to every house in the vicinity,
to secure the names of the living. Another
corps will endeavor to find out who the
missing are.
A revision of the register list shows only
$4,000 people registered to l o'clock this
afternoon.
THEY WILL NOT REGISTER.
By this it is plainly apparent that large
number of survivors will not take the
pains to register.
The great number of bodies not identi-
fed seems almost incredible. Some OF
these have lain in different morgues for
four days. At Nineveh they are burying
all the unidentified dead, but in the NOR
CUES in this vicinity no bodies have been
buried unless identified.
Up to noon 72S bodies had been en-
balmed at st. Columbus Catholic Church,
Cambria City. Only one was secured to-
day, that of small child. A number of
bodies were taken from the debris at
Kernsville this morning.
UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
AT noon to-day Johnstown and adjoin-
ing boroughs or what is left of them, prac-
tically passed under martial law.
Adiutant- General Hastings says he has
not declared martial law yet. The soldiers
are on guard, and no one is permitted be-
tween the lines unless they have an order
from the Adjutant-General.
HORRIBLE DECOMPOSITION.
Even the undertakers are unable to re-
main at work in the Fourth Ward Morgue
this morning, owing to the stencil. Forty
bodies in the small school-room, all un-
known, were taken from the room and
placed in the front yard. They will be
kept day or two longer, but in the hot
sun decomposition will set in very soon.
-Four bodies were found near the stone
bridge this morning.
The body OF Benjamin Hoffman, his
daughter, 20 years old, and a 3-year. old
child were found in the large family resi-
dence.
HUMAN DEPRAvITY.
This morning Chairman Heinz of the Re-
lief Committee was informed by several
Pennsylvania railroad conductors that two
or three women of questionable character
arrived last night. The railroad men said
that from their language they were pro-
curesses, who hoped to prey on the IN
fortunate young women. Heinz reported
the matter to the police, who intend TO
warn all suspicious characters to leave the
town at once.
KEEPING OUT SIGHT sEERs.
A wall has been thrown around Johns
town, and nobody can enter it unless it is
shown he has business in the city. The
Pennsylvania railway has been making
every effort TO keep out the crowd, but the
Baltimore and Ohio opened yesterday and
brought in flood of people from Somerset
valley this morning. When General Hast
ings heard of it, he had a conference with
General Scott and the Pittsburg police, and
1t was decided to send a company of the
Fourteenth Regiment to Somerset for the
purpose of preventing any further rush of
people this way. A committee OF citizens
accompanied the military, and they will
stop off at all the stations along the road
and demonstrate with the people against
coming to Jehnstown. The crowds OF
curious ones are constantly growing, to the
hindrance of the work of removing the
bodies and clearing away the debris.
But ONE BRIDGE LEFT.
On the Pennsylvania roadside the gates
are practically shut, and it is hoped this
move will have some effect on the Balti-
more and Ohio. There is but one bridge
across the Conemaugh and nothing but a
pass from Adiutant-General Hastings or
General Scott will carry one over it.
Gloom settles over Johnstown as the sun
goes down. The colored lanterns of the
railroaders being about the only relief to
the darkness. Superintendent Duncan. of
the Allegheny County Light Company, is
still here awaiting the arrival of his eugine
and dynamos which have been blockaded
in the Pennsylvania freight yards west of
town. There are tons of supplies in this
blockade.
SANITARY CoNNIss1oNrps
The State Board of Health and the Penn
sylyania Railway are to-day busy operating
in the work of removing the bodies from
the debris above the stone bridge. DR..
Gross, of the Health Board, says there will
be thousand men at work here to-mor-
row. The sanitary question is the para
mount one of the hour. The State Board
of Health is looked on as a more potent
factor than the militia and civic forces.
This afternoon the work of the Board
was distributed. DR.. Lee taking the relay
to Pittsbnrg with the intention of estsb-
fishing headquarters in that city. The
Sanitary Inspectors will be established
there, half of which will go up the river
by boat and the remainder take a construc.
ton crew up the railroad.
yUSFRAL PYREs THROUGHOUT THE VALLEY
The latter have adopted cremation a:
their cry, and tomorrow night the des
olate valley will be Lit up with bonfires oil
Agency for the book called s.Tokolosy,,
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