The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-06-18
PENNSYLVANIA Takes Hold of
Affairs at YOUNGSTOWN
To day.
An Exodus of Tired Volunteers
from the Stricken
City.
Thirty-Eight Bodies the Results
of Yesterdays Industrious
Search.

ing change in the control of the town, the
exodus of workmen and food survivors and
the steady rain baye combined 10 make
Johnstown more quiet to-day than at any
time since the food. At all the headquar-
tiers work has been narrowed down to the
finest possible caliber, and good many
faithful men are getting rest they needed
long ago. James b. Scott throws down the
reins of government with breath of relief,
and Adit-Gen. Hastings undertakes the
largest contract of his life, At least 100000
will be paid out to wofkmen tomorrow,
and the majority of it will leave the town
with the men who earned it. The new
leaders claim to have number of plans TO
introduce by which the work of clearing
up The wreckage and caring for the survi-
vo-s will be greatly systematized and SIM
pli6ed. The military will be retained.
Booth and Flynn will retain large num-
Der of mel on the work at Sl.50 per day.
There will be very few Americans among
them. Dynamite will be used in the river
below the bridge to-day, but Gen. Hastings
expects to dispense with it. Good progress
was made in cleaning out the channel of
the Conemaugh above the bridge to-day, a
number of stationary engines and long
cables being used to pull out the heavy TIM
bers.
The state board of health still issues en-
couraging bulletins, although isolated cases
of pneumonia, diptheria and fever are re-
ported, generally from the suburbs.
The spirit of recovery took firm hold
on Johnstown citizens to-day. Everywhere
owners of property seemed TO have re
gained their senses alter this terrible dis
aster, and were hard at work cleaning out
their cellars, drying carpets and bedding
and inaugurating general renovation,
The women labored bravely, and with
water and brush soon began to see their
floors for the first time in twelve days.
The mud is caked all over the walls and
furniture and most of the carpet is utterly
useless, but it will have to be used until
something better can be secured.
DRYING VALUABLE PAPERS.
At the general offices of the Cambria
Iron company every clerk and mansger
was at work. The books, maps, deeds,
sheepskin land patents and other yslus BILE
papers, which were thoroughly soaked,
were spread out ON tables, and lines, and
fires built in the CRATES to aid in drying
them. 1t will take about three weeks to
finish this work, and :hen business in the
Offices will 60 on as usual,
The associated press removed this after
noon from their "ofice" in the dilapidated
old tile mill to the second story of the
Cambria Iron company's Office, where much
more comfortable, although crowded, quar-
tiers are allotted them. The Western Unioa
are directly under, and the operators are
greatly pleased by their change from the
stuffy l2x15 oil house of the Pennsylvania
railroad to their present quarters.
Adit. Gen. Hastings was the busiest man
in Johnstown to-day, and even at the sup
per table he was interrupted not less than
half dozen times to read and reply to tel
egrams. He has taken charge of the city,
or rather will be in command tomorrow
morning, and James B. Scott, the director
since the disaster, will step out. A COM
mission will be appointed by the governor,
as stated, to supervise matters. All the
men have been discharged and will be paid
tomorrow. This work will require the en-
tire day, and it may be two or three days
before the work of clearing away the ruins
will be resumed.
FEARFUL DECOMPOSITION.
But two bodies had been recovered up to
noon to-day. and 1t is quite likely that af-
ter to-day no bodies will be taken to any of
the morgues on account of the bad state of
decomposition in which the bodies now
are. There is now but little attempt at
identification. The bodies are SO badly
decomposed that even aft,r they have been
covered with disinfectants the workmen
can not stand the stencil longer than 10
allow them to cut off their pockets, and in
this manner try to find some means of
identification. Yesterday Rev. DR.. David
Beale and nine other citizens of Johnstown
identified, as they supposed, the body of
young Mr.. Austin, prominent business
man. They had just nailed the box con-
tanning the remains, and were starting to
the cemetery when they were confronted by
Mr.. Austin, who had been carried away
down the river. This only serves to show
how difficult Identification has become, and
why it is proababls that within a day or
two the morgues will be entirely done
away with,
Notwithstanding this is the twelfth day
since the food, most of the newspaper cor
respondents are still witrout sleeping ac-
commodations of any kind, and, as on the
first day. are sleeping in barns, brick kilns
and other places, without cots or blankets.
Cots have been sent them, they are told,
but as they are too busy to watch the in
coming trains some one else gets them.
The militia have cots and blankets, as have
also the laborers; but the correspondents
who are doing the hardest kind of work
for the outside world are forced to endure
the greatest hardships. The supply of
provisions is improving some. and they
now manage to get one and som etimes two
meals day. The provisions sent to this
uaIley don't seem as yet to have reached
the right places. A number of car loads
of all kind of supplies have been sent to
Morrellville, and a. there was no damage
there the stuff has been ,nisapplied.
A prominent citizen of Morrellville
said this morning: There is q large
class Of people here who have not lost q