Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-06
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. | THOUSANDS OF FUNERALS. Five Thousand Men At
 Work In The Debris. LIBERAL RELIEF COMING IN. Fire Raging Over The Tan-
 gIed Graves. THE MAVERICK POISONING CASE. Robbers Pay The Penalty
 Of A Crime.
raEJoHNsTowN HORROR.

A Change In Temperature Causes More SuferIng-Thousand of Fun eral Processions-Fires Raging Over the Tangled Graves of Hundreds- Over Five Thousand Men at Work Fears that she Volunteers Will quit
 Work-The Regissration of she Sur-
 vivors.
 JoHNsTowN, May 5-There has been
 radical and disagreeable change of tempera-
 ture since yesterday that will be prolific of
 much suffering and many ills. Since mid
 night there has been a material decrease of
 the mercury and the atmosphere to-day is
 CTS, and thinly clad women and children are shivering this morning.
 Under the eyes of every convenient build
 ing sight of the long relief trains rolling
 into Johnstown and from every section of
 the country almost every hour of the twenty
 four tends to make the observer conclude
 that charity, whether Christian or not, is
 not so rare under the sun as the oynic phil-
 osopher would have us believe. From East
 train-loads of clothing and provisions ac-
 companied by special messengers having
 funds and large corps of physicians, nurses
 and workers. Accompanying the big Phila-
 delphia relief train was special car occu-
 pied by the corps of surgeons who were
 equipped with large outfit of instruments
 and medicines. The registration of surviv-
 ors goes on, but not so rapidly as yesterday.
 The total registration to date is only trife
 over 12, 900 out of total estimated popula-
 tion of the torrent swept district of from 35, 900 to 40, ,00o. Allowance must be made,
 of course, for the large numbers of survivors who have sought refuge with friends in oth- CT places, ss we'll as many who have failed
 either from ignorance or remissions to regis-
 ter. The falling off to-day leads the au-
 thorities to apprehend that their worst fears
 may yet be realized and the death roll will
 amount we'll up into the five figures.
 THOUSANDS OF FUNERAL PROFESSIONS.
 The grey mists had scarcely arisen from the
 hills this morning before a thousand funerals
 were coursing their green sides. There were no
 hearses, few mourners and as little solemnity as formality. The majority of the cofhns
 were of rough pine. The palibearers were strong OK teams and instead of six pallbearers
 to one coffin there were generally six cof6ns
 and silently they unloaded their burdens in
 the lap of mother earth. No minister of
 God was there to pronounce last blessing.
 Fully one-third of the bodies recovered
 have been so mangled, bruised or charred that
 identification was impossible. All day long |
 The unidentified were kept on hill. There
 are hundreds of these graves already and
 each day will increase the proportion.
 The possibility of identification diminishes
 every hour. Fires are raging over the
 tangled graves of hundreds and the partial
 cremation of many bodies is inevitable.
 Others are becoming 50 blsckened in their
 contact with debris, or through putrefaction,
 that grinning skeleton would show as much
 resem mblance to the persons in life as they.
 Almost every stroke of the pick in some per-
 tions of the city resulted in the discovery of the morning relieved the morgues of their crush, before night they were as full as ever. Wherever one turns the melancholy view of a coffin Is seen. Every train into Johnstewn was laden with them. The better ones being generally accompanied by friends of the dead. Men could be seen staggering over the ruins with shining mahogany caskets on their shoulders. Several stumbled and fell into the abounding man pits.
 OVER FIVE THOUSAND MEN AT WORK. Where Johnstown's principal street store tents, and before tomorrow night this num- Der will probably be doubled. Under this shelter are accommodated the members of the militia and the thousands of workmen who are trying to clear the streets of the wrecked city Over {, 5,000 men are thus en- ployed in Johnstowu proper; about ], ,5OO of these the regular street hands employed by contractors and the others being volunteers. William Flynn, of Pittsburg, arrived this morning and at once toek charge of the army of laborers. He said: 'It will take ten thousand men thirty days to clear the ground so the streets are passable and the work of rebuilding can be commenced and am at loss to know how the work is to be done. This enthusiasm will soon die out and the -I. ,vufn xN Rn Akva-r@ will take all summer for my men alone to do what work is needed. Steps must be taken at once to furnish gangs of workmen and to- morrow shall send a communication to the Pittsburgh chamber of commerce asking the different manufacturers of the Ohio valley to take turns for 6 month or so in furnishing reliefs of workmen. 1 shall ask that each establishment stop work for e week at & time and send all hands in the charge of 6 foreman and timekeeper. We will board and care for them here. These gangs should come for 8 week at 8 time as no organization can be et- fected if workmen arrive and leave when they please"
 THE LABoREBs AT SUPPER.
 Nearly every town in western Pennsylva- | mia is represented by from ten to one hun ! dred men, and towns in Ohio and New York l have furnished their quota of laborers. These volunteers are working with will, but before the end Of the week they VIII | want to return home. Men who come here | will be paid $2 day and board. All the laborers who have been toiling with the wreck age are quartered tonight, some in barns ! and others in the tents above referred to- When supper was ready the long pine tables were crowded. Stoves were erected out In the open air and coal fires heated the gallons 1 of coffee. This beverage was heated in large | wash boilers, and fer one gang of l men seven boilers full were emptied in ! a half hour. Coffee, bread and cheese was | the fare to night, but more substantial rations | will be given out to morrow. As the dark- ! ness drew a veil over the scene the valley be- | bame quiet, the only noise being the occa- sional challenge of soldier as he bade some
 belated indi vidual obey the orders of the sheriff and leave the city of the dead. Johns town is under martial law and laborers onl6 | are wanted.
 POOR CONSTRUCTION oF THE DAM. The investigations show clearly that the major part of whatever responsibility may
 belong to human agencies for the calamity
 that has desolated the Conemaugh valley must be placed upon the South Fork Fishing