The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-06-06

the cars and twelve passengers in the day
coaches are missing. The Pullman cars
took fire and were totally destroyed.
RUNNING UP TO 10000.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 4.-Nearly 1000
bodies have already been recovered and
as the work of examining the wreckage
proceeds the conviction grows that the
magnitude of the calamity has not
yet been approximatei. Conservative
estimates this morning put the number of
lives lost at 1000, and many men of calm
judgment, and who are not won't to exag-
gerate, who have been upon the ground
from the outset, place the number at TO-
600. At Johnstown the rescuers continue
to bring in bodies by the hundreds. Mrs.
Frederlcks, an aged woman, was rescued
alive from the attic IN her house yesterday
afternoon. The house had foated from
what was formerly Vine street to the foot
of the mountains. Mrs. Frederick says
her experience was terrible. She said:
Hundreds of men, women and children
were floating down the torrent
to meet their death; some pray
ing, while others had actually
become raving maniacs." Wreckers are
working nearer the bridge to-day and
harder than at any time since the disaster.
PNEUMONIA ADDS ITS HORROR.
JoHNsrowN, Pa, June 4.-Up the ragged
sides of Prospect hill, the same to which
several hundred people fled to escape the
flood last Friday night,your correspondent
scrambled this afternoon. He came upon
the pneumonia scourge, which bids fair
to do for number of the escaped VIC
tins what the flood could not. Death
has pursued them to their highest places
and terror will not die. Every little house
| on the hill, and there are hundred or
two of them, had thrown its doors open
to receive the bruised and half clad
fugltlves on the dark day of
the deluge, and every one was now
crude hospital. Half the women
who had scaled the height are so over
come with fright they have been bedridden
ever since. There had been pneumonia
on the hill, but only few isolated cases
| till to-day. However, several fresh cases
have developed among the flood fugitives,
and local physicians said the
prospects for a scourge are
all too promising. About 4
o'clock this evening the charred body of
young woman WAS discovered short
distance above the stone bridge. On fer
finger was found slender gold ring, or
plate, upon which were engraved the ini-
tials 81. j. B." She wore striped wooden
dress and black underskirt. The body
was taken to the Fourth ward school
house. Several yellow flags were
noticed sticking up from the
black wreckage above the stone
bridge. This was the new plan adopted
by the sanitary corps to indicate at what
points bodies had been located. AS it
grows dark the flags are still up and an
other day will dawn upon the imprisoned
remains. People who had lost their
friends and supposed they had drifted
into the fatal place peered down into the
charred mass in the vain endeavor to REQ
ogniAe beloved features.
MARSHAL DICK GONE MAD.
JoHNsTowN, June 4.-Deputy Marshal
Dick is the man whose condition excites
general public attention. His total be.
reavement of wife, family and relatives
has affected his brain, it is thought, and
he goes riding about the country, giving
all assistance in his power, and keeping
an especial lookout for lawbreskers and
vandals. He has distinguished himself
on several occasions in the past
reported, by shooting Hungarians whom
he caught pillaging, but his last action is
particularly noteworthy. Detective Nc
Tighe and Officers Gargan and Mulvehill
had arrested two notorious crooks that
had reached town Mondsytevening. They
were from Kansas City, aud were probably
travelling to Johnstown for nefarious pur-
poses. Mr.. McTighe knew them, and
promptly jailed them as soon as they
stepped off the train, and the fellows deftly
dropped several gold rings. They resisted
furiously and struck out with their fists,
but with some difficulty they were over
come and taken to Cambria City lookup
This place was full of mud, knee-deep, and
it was impossible to lock them in. A box
car was then seized, and while the officers
were wrangling with the railroad as to the
advisability of placing the crooks inside,
Dick rode up. He was seated on gray
horse, and imperiously demanded to know
the cause of the trouble. 1t was explained
to him. "Stand aside fellows" shouted
Dick, refining up his horse. His features
stiffened into an expression of determine
tion and rage, and he whipped out his
revolver, leveled it at the quakipg wretchea
and muttered: an stop their theiving.'
For Gods sake, DON'T" cried McTighe,
and he imploringly threw up both arms
with tragic gesticulations. "Don't do
that. Don't do that. For heavens sake
remember we are officers of the law
After some minutes parleying Dick was
called off and better counsel prevailed.
No accommodations could be found for
the Kansas City gentry, and they were
given five minutes 10 leave town on the
backward trip to Shang Hollow. They left
with white faces and trembling limbs with
remarkable speed.
The retentive eye of the amateur photo
grapher's camera is gazing from every
hill. There are no commonplace scenes
about Johnstown, and the little camera ap
preciates that fact. Artists and their para
phernalia may be seen tumbling about to-
gether absorbing all the sunlight the
scene. There will be no lack oil pictures
of the Johnstown flood horror.
HE LOST NINE RELATIVES.
| BALTIMORE, June 4.-General Passen
] uer Agent Charles Snhull of the Balti-