Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-07
Valley Of Deatl!.
Thousands Who We're Destroyed by
Water or Fire Recovered.
Not Two thirds of the Missing Ones
Can be Found.
Their Bodies Scattered Along the
Banks of the Rivers.
A Miracle Witnessed by Many of the
Unfortunates.
The Cry Now is for Men to Help Re,
move the Debris.
IdlerS and Curiosity Seekers Promptly
Run Out of Town.
Physicians Insist in Allowing the
Debris to Burn,
Physicians Insist in Allowing the
Debris to Burn,
Fearing if the Fire is EXtinguished
Disease will Follow.
An Eye Witness Gives a Graphic De-
scriptiOn of the Scene.

JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 3.-Develop-
ments every honr make it more and more
apparent that the exact number of lives
lost i'll the JohnsUown horror will never
be known. All estimates that have been
made up to this time are conservative,
and when all is knosp will doubtless be
found to have been too small. Over 900
bodies have been fouad since sunrise to
day, and the most skepticat concede the
remains of thousands more rest beneath
debris above Johnstown bridge. The
population of Johnstown, surrounding
towns and portion of the valley affected
by the food is, or was, from $4,000 to
$4,000.
Associated Press representatives today
interviewed numerous leading citizens of
Johnstowu who survived the flood aud
tho conscientious opinion was that fully
30per cent. of the residents OF Johnstown
and Cambria had been victims of the con-
tinued disasters of fire and water. If this
be true the total loss of life in the entire
valley oahnot be less than 1000 or 5000
and possibly much greater. OF the thou
sands who were
DRyoURED BY FLAMRSl
and whose ashes rest beneath
the smoking debris above Johnstown
bridge, no definite information can
ever be obtained, as little can be learned
of the hundreds that sank beneath the
current and were born swiftly down the
Conemaugh only to be deposited miles
below on the banks and in the drift
wood of the raging Ohio. Probably one
third of the dead will never be recovered,
and it will take the list of
missing, weeks hence to enable
close estimate to be made of the humber
of lives that were snuffed out in that
brief hour. Tnat this estimate can
never he accurate is understood when it
is remembered that in many instances
whole families and their relatives were
swept away and found a common grave
beneath the wild waste of waters. The
total destruction leaves no data to even
demonstrate that the names of these un-
fortun ates ever found place on eternl-
tys history.
WILL REACH 5000.
All Indications point TO the fact that
the death list will reach over 5 900 and in
my opinion the missing reach 5000 in
number, declared Gen. Hastings tonight.
At present there are said to be 2,200 re
covered bodies. Great difficulty is ex-
perienced in getting correct list from
the large number OF morgues. There Is
no central bureau of information and to
CON muuicate with the different dead
houses in work hours. The journey from
the Pennsylvania railroad morgue
to the one In the Fourth ward
school house in Johnstown occupies
al least one hour. This renders it i'm
possible to reach all of them in one day
Il.
situated at points inaccessible rom
Johnstown. At six O'Clock this evening
the 63Oth body had been received at the
Cambria city depository for eorpses. A
Millville there was the body girl about
l5 years old, making the 46th corpse re-
cei we'd there. Angry marks on the wrist
looked as if bracelet had been torn
from the arm.
Seventy bodies have been received at
the Pennsylvania railroad station.
THOSE IDENTIFIED.
Those identified are: Schelheimer,
Mrs. D. j. Wlldhsm, Fanny Prosser, Mrs.
E. NJ. Parsons, John Myers, James Jones,
Thomas Thoburn, Mrs. Leach, mother of
Sup't of Schools Leach, Mrs. Lucy Liver
more, David Surdny, Mrs. Margaret
Sames, Frank Davis, Mis-. Alice
Miss Maggie StoppeI, Mrs. Maria Lucas
Williams, DIR. Il. P. Wilson, Cstharine
Myers, family of Patrick Pagan (husbaud,
wife and two grown dsughters), John
Murphy, Charles Beam, Mary Callahan,
Samuel HiIe, Samuel Blough, Charles
MUIR, Johu S. Buchanan, superintendent
of the Cambria iron works ware houses),
Mrs. Johu W. James, Bessie Prose Blank
manifold, Mrs. Mary Downey, Paul Ged-
des, Wm. 81. Overlook, Ore Lewis, Mary
Anne Ovens, Anne Jones, Richard Jones,
(exburgess), Gottleib Schutzeldeick, Geo.
Geddes, h. q. Rose, district attorney,
George Helst.
At the Fourth Ward schoolbouse were
great number of victims for interment.
Yesterdsy 200 more were disposed of,
and today as many more received atten-
ton. Those identified are: Charles A.
Marshall, Mrs. II. 7. Dsfrances, SOD az
daughter of DR.. Bland, sou of Mrs.
Karstein, Mr.. Long. a butcher; Moses
Strauss, Frank VT eat, Sadie Gsgeby,
Mrs. Ella Layton, Miss Mary Ledden
Hurlburt, q coiored house porter, sup
poSed to be VIM. Henry,
Jacob Wild. Mrs. Jacob Wild,
Mrs. W. W. Jones, How
| ell Powells, two sons of
George d. Baldwin, wu. Layton,
| Mrs. O'Coun.n, Mr.. Mckay, John o.
Richards, Patrick McNally, Charles f.
| Butler, assistant treasurer, C. l. Co, Mrs.
| NJ. Jones, Jessie Hamilton, P. ". McAIey,
Miss Hsrringan, Miss Laura Hamilton,
| Mrs knorr, the lady whose body
was ROBBED of valuables; Elmer
| BrinSler, Mrs. Little, of Pittrsburg;
Chss. P. wilsoe, female resembling
Miss Ella Lyton, Nellie Williams, John
Burns-brskeman .. 1. company, Mss
Jennie Nelis, John Andrews, Frank Il.
Harris, Arthur Smith, Carrie s. Barbour,
| George Randolph, Frank Diamond, annie
Falcon. lady supposed to be Mrs. Gels,
James G. Cox, Mrs. James /. Frouheiser,
| Amelia Robb, VIM. Hen-od, jas. Murphy,
Bessie Murphy, young lady with the in
itials W. H on her ring, Miss Hotter, NJ.
| Davis, John Steum, Msry Davis, Peter
| Brown, Minnie Linton, Charles Harris,
Chs>- Rohnke, Thomas Matthews, Bertha
Hoffman, Mrs. B. F. Hoffman, Florence
Hoffman, Fred A. Hoffman, Marion Hoff-
man, Joe Hoffman, Dr.. W. C. Beam, A.
| Lytle, Laura Hamilton. Mrs. John d
Hornick, Conrad Weis, Auau ust Deris.
The dead at Kearnville are three chill.
dren of n. Shanks, Mrs. Walter Dawes,
Mrs. Hoeker, Mrs. Ream, Mrs. ". W.
Wesley Stuff, Mrs. Jacob Jvank. Lusher
Bowman's cbils, Jessie Hamilton, Mrs.
l.. W. Delaney, Otto Cooper,
Annie Reese, Wipdo, Reese,
Ella White, Maggie White, Charles