The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-06-28

- Survivors - Jshs-tswn Settling D.vs
% Eoatine Life A<.ia-<ahh.th AsassG
sAs Raias-W hat the Es<i.sr.siea <h-us
-Chicago's Great Head ~ enses f.r the
People All Ready 10 - Placed Thei1
Honndssian>-
JoHSsrowx. Pa. June f-.--Johnstown's
citizens have settled dern % their rou-
tine lie again There ~a~ almost total
suspension % work in the ConcmAr <h
Valley yesterday. aud the day was spent
very quietly. There was No improves
uient in the weather.
Daring the early morning heavy rain
Tell About MAE o'clock THE Clouds
rolled away and the sun came ont bright
aud strong. and few moments later the
mercury registered - degrees. Religious
services were held BY all determinations.
Nearly all of the services were from
necessity conducted Ia the OPEN air. TIE
sermons and addresses coElselel the
peop.e 10 b. brave and keep np heart
II j. understood that polling places
wil. he op-ned here fo-n.orrow 10 Sive
Tie residents chance - vote on the con-
sliturlDnal amendment
AnoIt - men were working AZ tho
gore ~ make wider opelin. ia the d.
bri~- The channel opening j. ne~ over
fweaty feet vale. a hrnirei other men
we're engaged IN searching FOR dad
bodies and SIX were recovered daring fhs
day. None were identified
Late last evening q large quantity ~ oil
wa poured over the debri>' b0iow lhs
stone railroad brii-e. and the torch was
applied Al nine O'Clock there was a
sheet " fame twenry se@f high AMI two
hundred yards IL length along both
banks ~ the river. careful search Cor
dead bodies was made before tie torches
we're applied. General Hastings having
issued orders that no human remains
should be burned where il WAS possible 10
avoid IL
Last night rain began falling again.
hut Mt heavy enough - Interfere with
tne fires now raging.
Colonel Rogers. who j. IL charge " the
bureau ~ regi$rration- reports ~ General
Hastings that the aggregate registration
is 1879 names TO tholsanf I'VE hun
dred survivors have left the locality
without registering and many Others are
being entertained in the viciuirr who. be-
cause they were not Affected BY the food
refuse % register. a. they think they are
not e<irimarely survivors, Colonel Eog-
ers estimates the survivors ~ twenty-five
thousand and saws: -These figures ara
presumably approximately correct De-
drctin- the twenty-five thousand surviv-
-ors from the total population leaves
f.1E lives lost This estimate Il rs posi-
tive as il will probably ever Be possible
% give a they are male Up from careful
research. house-to-housA canvass and
comparison With the rroos-she~ts o. the
Johnstown directory which was CON-
piled one mouth Previous 70 the disaster.
General Hastings determined ye-r@--
day that where peopie desire - rebuild
Immediately he will clean ons their eel
lars aud assist them ID put Up their
buildings.
A Chicago FIRM has been furnished
money By the Chicago relirs COMMITTEES
Nth which 70 send one hundred and fifty
houses here ready % place upon their
foundations These will begin 10 arrive
IN day ortEo- To facilitate buil1iry
schemes. the Baltimore a Ohio railroad 4
and the Pennsylvania railroad will con-
etruct special switches for the acromrn0-
dalton - the Lumber trains which are
NOW arriving. TIE Safe IL ~ furnish the K
tools. nails and all the REQUISITES FOR \
prompt work il rebuilding
Special orders were issued yesterday
and arrangements made for rushing the
work " clearing awav the debris With all
possible dispatch Il erpecratioas are
realized and . feE days o. tar0rabis
weather intervenes there will b bit little
work left undone By next Saturday night /
50 confdentis General Hastings ~ this. !
that he has expressed The Determination ,
% asking. darir- th. week. fhaf twenty
five ministers % various denominations
visit J0hnstown next sabbath ard hold
special thanks giving services for the
saved from tie late visitation