Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-14
AFFAIRS AT YOUNGSTOWN.
Loafers Try TO lnaugurate a Strikc--
Stores Starting Up.
Another Days Dofnps

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YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, June 13.-The first real
work under the supervision of the state com.
menced this morning. During the morning
crowd Of loafers IN some manner secured
entrance TO Johnstown and tried to iuaugur.
ate a strike among the workmen. James
Mcknight, the state contractor, went to
General Hastings and demanded pro-
lection for his workmeu. A detachment Of
militia drove tho loafers away and all
men who refused to work. An order was
issued not to permit any one to enter Johns
town withouta pass. Two grocery stores,
one jewelry store and two barber shops have
started up, and the probabilities are that in
side of a week hundred stores will be in
operation The general opinion among we'll
posted people here is that the loss of lie is
between three and four thousand. Reports
as to the number of bodies recovered are
very conflicting, and put the number any
where from l. 100 to 1,S00.
There is fight between DR.. Matthew's of
the state board of health, and Kate c. Bush
nell, M. D., of Illinois, who is here. Miss
Bushnell asserts she been appointed to
supervise the sanitation of homes by the
state board of health, and this DR.. Matthews
denies This morning Miss Bushnell issued
circular to the women of Johnstown, re-
questing them to meet at the headquarters of
the Children's Aid society, to-day, to devise
means of putting the homes of Johnstown in
good sanitary condition. When DR.. Matthews
saw the circular he stated that Miss Bush
nell had no authority to call such meet
ing;
this morning, but only two of them were
identified.
The report of the bureau OF TRANSPORTATION
which died with the citizens relief commit
tee, shows that from June 10th to the 11th,
inclusive, people were given free transpor-
tation out of Johnstown. The bureau of in
formation answered PSI kilograms and sixty
eight letters mostly inquiries from anxious
friends as to the safety of Johnstown.
Eight bodies were brought to the morgue
in the Presbyterian church on Main street
to-day.
A party Of men at work in the debris came
across the dead bodies of Mrs. Myra and her
daughter, lock ed in each others arms.
The total number of bodies recovered to-
day was 10, making grand total OF 1899
bodies recovered.
saThe mass ut the stone bridge was fired
ously. With it is destoyed all hope of recov-
ing the bodies that are centainly there en-
tangled.
To-day was the second day since the flood
that Johnstown was not deluged with rain,
and under the influence of a bright sun the
sandy soil was soon dry and things in gen.
eral brig htened up. A number of stores
started in business anew, and large sales Of
flooded goods were effected, being bought
chiefly as relics. The first decisive step
toward putting Johnstown's business men on
their feet again was made, to-day, when
about two hundred merchants, who had sur
vived the flood, many Of them without q
dollar, met AdIutant-General Hastings, this
afternoon, and were assured that they would
be re-established in business on long credit.
Both Pittspurg and Philadelphia wholesalers
have offered Johnstown merchants their
business courtesy.
100000 Loaned Without Security.
PHILADELPHIA, June Ex-Governor Beaver
announces that he has abandoned the using
of s, ZOO, 900 out of the state treasury under
the proposed indemnity bond scheme, for the
reason that such action must establish bad
precedent. He has decided to adopt the sug-
gestion that the money be loaned to the gov
| ernor by private corporations. The governor
stated that he had been offered $1,000, 600 by
the national banks Of Philadelphia without
security and without intel est, the loans to be
reimbursed by the legislature at its next
session, and he has accepted the offer. This
money will be used to clean the streams and
place the highways in order and perform
other necessary state work.