Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-04

one to say, that not few of the relief
committees who came to this city cam e
Ionly out Of curiosity, and positively re-
fused to do any work, but would hang
around the cars eating food. The lead
ers of the committees have had to do all
the work. They deserve much credit.
SAD LOOKING CITY.
YOUNGSTOWN, June "a sad and gloomy
sky, almost as cad and gloomy as the
human faces under it, shrouded Johns.
town to-day. Rain fell all day, and
added to the miseries of the wretched
people. The great plain, where the best
part of Youngstown used to stand, is hall
covered with water. The few sidewalks
in the part that escaped the flood were
inches thick with a black, sticky mud,
through which tramped a steady process
sion of poor women, who are left utterly
destitute. The tents where the people
are housed who cannot find other shell
ters, were cold and cheerless. The town
seemed like great tomb. The people
of YOUNGSTOWN have
| ''sUPPED so FULL OF HORRORS"
That they go about in a sort OF daze, and
are only half conscious of their griefs.
Every hour, as one goes through the
stree ts, he hears neighbors greeting each
other, and then inquiring, without any
show OF feeling, how many each had
lost in his family. To-day I heard a
gray-haired man hail another across the
street with that question. 81 lost FIVE.
All are gone but Mary and l." was the
reply. 81 am worse off than that" said
the first old gentleman. 81 have only
my grandson left. Seven of us gone"
And go they passed on without apparent
excitement. They, and every one else,
had heard go much of these melancholy
conversations, that somehow the calamity
had lost its significance. They treat it
exactly as if the dead persons had gone
away and were coming back in week.
THE CHASTITY FINDS OF sEARCHERs.
! The melancholy task of searching the
ruins for more bodies went on to-day in
the soaking rain. There were little
crowds of morbid curiosity-hunters
around each knot of workingmen. Even
those who come in from the neighboring
towns with the idea of days strange
and CHASTITY experiences did not care to be
near after they had seen one body
exhumed.
DRIVEN TO DRUNKENNESS.
There were hundreds and thousands of
these visitors from the country to-day.
The effect of the dreadful things they
saw and heard was to drive most of them
to drink. By noon the streets were be-
ginning to be full of boisterous and noisy
countrymen, who were trying to counter
act the strain on their nerves with un-
natural excitement. Then half of the
police, foreseeing the unseemly sights that
were likely to disgrace the streets, drove
out and kept out all visitors who had not
some good reason for their presence.
After that, and far into the evening, all
the country roads were filled with
drunken stragglers who were trying to
forget what they had seen.
THE RoLLED-UP RUBBISH.
One thing that makes the work OF
searching for the bodies very slow is the
strange way that the great masses OF
objects were rolled into intricate masses
of rubbish. AS the food came down the
valley of the South Fork, it obliterated
the suburb of Woodvale where not a
house was left, nor trace OF one, the
material they had contained being
rolled on down the valley, over and over,
grinding it up to pulp, and finally leav-
ing it against some unusually firm
eddy. These masses contained human
bodies, but it is slow work to pick them
to pieces. Inside of one of them, today,
saw the remains of carriage, the body
of harnessed horse, a baby cradle and
doll, tress of woman's hair, a rock
ing-horse and piece of beefsteak still
hanging to hook.
BETTER PATROL SERVICE.
The city now is very much better
patrolled than it has been at any time
since the food occurred. Many mem
beers of the police force of Pittsburg came
| in and offered their services. One OF
them showed his spirit by striking man
whom he saw opening trunk umong
the rubbish tremendous blow over the
head, which knocked him senseless
Several big trunks and safes lie in full
sight on the desolate plain, in the lower
part of the town, but no one dared to
touch them after that.
LONG RIDE ON A LOG.
A man named Dougherty tells thrill
| ing story of his ride down the river on q
| log. When the water struck the roof of
the house in which he had taken shell
| ter he jumped out astride telegraph
pole, riding distance of some twenty
three miles, from YOUNGSTOWN to Bolivar,
before he was rescued.
THE GENERAL HAD NO AUTHORITY.
Many inquiries have been made as to
why the militia did not respond when
ordered out by General Hastings. In the
first place, it is beyond the Generate
authority to order troops to scene OF
this kind unless the Governor first
issues a proclamation. Then it be-
comes his duty to issue the orders.
The General said lie was notified
that the Pittsburg troops, consisting
of the Fourteenth and Eighteenth regi-
ments had rendered their services and
no doubt, would have been of great ser
vice. The General consulted with Chief
Burgess, of YOUNGSTOWN, and the Sheriff
of Cam bria county, in regard to calling
troops to the scene, but both these Off
cials strenuously objected, as they
claimed they would object to anything oil
this kind. AS proof of this, not q
breach of the peace was committed last
night in Johnstown and vicinity. General
Hastings said he estimated the loss OF
human lives at not less than 1000.
| AHEAvY CROP OF CoRPsEs.
1t has not been generally believed thai
the district in the neighborhood OF Kern
Vile would be 30 extremely prolific Of
corpses as it has proven to be. The AS
ISOLATED Press correspondent visited that
part of the town where both the river
and Stony Greek have done their worst