The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10
STATE AID PROMISED.
No Part of the Relief Money to be
Used IN Cleaning Up.

No Part of the Relief Money to be
Used in Cleaning Up.
JoHNsTowN, PA, June 9.-There was an
important meeting to-day at which Gov.
Beaver, Gen. Hastings, Sheriff McCandless
and a number Of prominent people were
present. There was general discussion of
the situation. William McCreary, chair
man of the relief committee, said he
thought it was time the committee was
relieved of the work of clearing away the
debris by the state. Gov. Beaver said all
the necessary money could be raised. There
were 200 men who would become responsible
for S., 900 each. He would give his bond to
the state treasurer for 81, 900, 600, with those
200 men as bondsmen, and the state treas
urer would then pay out S1,000,00o for the
necessary work. When the legislature met,
the money withdrawn from the treasury
could be appropriated. He said that the
monsy already subscribed should be used
entirely for the relief Of the sufferers, and
the money from the state treasurer be
used for res oring tle vicinity to
its condition before the flood. All
debts already contracted for the removal of
debris should be paid, but all money paid
out for this purpose from the relief fund
would be refunded so that every cent sub
scribed for the relief of the stricken people
should be used for that purpose alone. The
governor has $3.50, 900 in his hands now for
the relief fund and a commission of seven
well-known men of the state will be ap-
pointed to distribute the relief fund and re-
lieve the present committee.
GOV. BEAVER INTERVIEWED.
In an interview tonight Gov. Beaver
said that he had been over the entire flooded
district, and found the supply depots all
well filled, but they. must soon be replen-
ished. 81 found the streams filed with
debris and accumulated drift, in which
there is possibility of human
bodies being imbedded, with the Droba-
bility that If they are allowed to
remain they will endanger the public
health, leaving it more firmly impressed in
my mind that the police powers of the
state must be exercised to restore things to
their normal condition. The funds which
have come into my hands in such large
amounts from so many quarters outside of
the state, and which have been imposed
upon me as a sacred trust, will be expended
wholly and absolutely for the benefit of
individual sufferers. No part of it
will be expended in work which is legiti-
mately the domain of the state under its
police powers. This [ wish to emphasize so
that all contributors to the fund may feel
assured that their money will be judiciously
and economically expended for the benefit
of suffering humanity, and not to work
which should and will be undertaken by the
state or municipal authorities"
SPEEDY BURIALS.
Forty of the fifty-eight bodies recovered
to-day were buried Immediately, and the
undertakers say that all bodies will here
after be buried as soon as found.
The tower of st. Johns Roman Cath olic
church was destroyed by dynamite to-day,
as it was constant menace to passers-by.
IA Greensburg dispatch says that Coroner
Henmer has returned inquisitions on the
bodies of 21S victims of the Johnstown
food with a verdict that death was by vio-
lence due to the oreaking of the dam, and
that there is such strong suspicion OF un-
La rvfIl acts as to make an inquest nacassarv