Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-06-16
THE MASS MOVED.
A CHANNEL FORCED THROUGH AT
THE STONE BRIDGE.
HELP FROM THE LITTLE ONES.
Fifteen Hundred and Twenty-Three Bodies
Removed-Helping the Merchants
TO Get Upon Their Feet.
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YOUNGSTOWN. June 15.-Sunshine has sue
ceeded the morning showers, and this 10
the first bright noontide Johnstown has
seen for a week. On the general principle
that rain cannot fall perpetually, several
thousand men who are anxious to clear, up
the ruined city are hoping for fair weather
from this on. The COnemaugh IL swollen,
and its rushing current serves TO remind
Johnstown of the day preceding the Hood:
The water IS an advantage, however, as IL
carries away q great portion of the impurl-
tics LODGED along the river banks. The
engineers have resorted TO three-hundred-
pound dynamite cartridges to clear up that
portion of the wreck known IA the raft.
| This morning the first charge OF that size
frightened the town and shook the houses.
Half of the windows in Alillyale school
house were shattered, and in Prospect,
lust opposite chimneys came rafting down
upon the house-tops. The next charge
was diminished somewhat.
Adjutant-General Hastings was informed
to-day that the Philadelphia delegation OF
Governor Beavers commission had started
west this morning. Their mission IL I'M
derstood to he the distribution of the Gov
ernoT's million dollars. .,
This morning the State Board Of Health
BEGAN a sanitary survey Of the towns OF
the Conemaugh Valley from South Fork TO
Ninoyah. A complete census of the tami-
lies and n report of the condition OF the
health and the living will be made.
Major Phillips's dynamitards have had
Johnstown in a state of nervous terror all
dav, and this evening General Manager
John Fulton. of the Cambria Iron Compa-
nv. dictated f0rcible protest TO Governor
Beaver. stating that the mills and offices OF
the company were being ruined by the
blasts: that Acknowledgement Hastings
had paid no attention 20 the requests tor
its discontinuance, and that the State
would be held responsible for further
damage done. The message was lled Ill
the telegraph Office with instructions that
it be put upon the wire a3 soon AZ another
blast was fired. In the mean time AdJu-
tant-Geueral Hastings had gained cOmmu-
uication with Major Phillips, and All order
10 discontinue the blasting went INTO
effect. Tho message did not 60 10 the
Governor. but General-Mauager Fulton
showed il TO the Associated Press reporter
and said:
II do not hold General Hastings respon-
sille for the dyuamiting. IL IS the height
az nonsense, however, to make such heavy
blasts so near valuable buildings. Ny sll-
perinteudent reports that the damp walls
of the mills are giving away under tEe
shocks. and here in my own Office the cell
inc has opened q quarter of an inch within
the past three hours The buildings IN
Johustown are in too delicate u condition
10 be trihed with by dynamite. Major Phil
! lips has been engaged since Wednesday IN
blowing old wreckage in the channel OF tho
| C0uamaugh near the Pennsylvania railroad
stone bridge He was anxious 10 have
massage for the water Is this evening, and
10 that end put in q acknowledgement
blast Of dynamite at noon. The blast was
placed under two buildings, one OF when
was lying upon the other and both OF
them covered with logs. The explosion
was terrific. and one log large enough
fer a llainmast WAS hurled 500 feet
ia the air. The next blast not be-
ing placed so deep was four-hundred
FOUNDER. This one did ell the damage.
/ The report was awful. and the strongest
houses in the city tTembled like leaves.
All the glass was blown out OF the windows
Of Odd-fcllows' Hall, which seems to have
stood over the stratum of the unusual dis
the rear wall of the halr-wrecked
Catholic church fell on the Baltl-
more aud Ohio tracks blocking them.
CAinneys ratified down all about and
dishes were broken in the houses IN Kern
vile. half mile away. When asked ABOUT
the matter Major Phillips said: we nave
used only . 900 pounds of dynamite to-day.
l have ordered several tons of It. The
charges will not be SO heavy hereafter.
/ had no idea that we were doing any
damage SO far as know no persons were
injured"
Soon after the last blast, which opened
the channel of the river. the logs formed
gorge and a gang of mmbermen were put
TO work with hooks 10 clear the stream.
Adiutant-General Hastings reports as
follows:
E1IEns1IE, RHINE CLIFF,
or THE HUDSON, June 10.
Nv Dear General,-On my return to my
country home | find that my little girls.
from EIGHT to fourteen years of age, have
been hard at work since the terrible Hoods
at JOhnstown making articles OF clothing
for the poor, homeless children who have
survived the recent flood in your State.
am forwarding to-day by the American tx
press Company free of charge III articles
of wearing apparel as per list enclosed,
made by their own hands OF purchased
with their own money, with some OF their
dresses.
Rly children will feel greatly obliged if
! Won will cause the clothing TO be dlstrbu-
| ted among the little sufferers by the recent
calamity, for whom they feel the deepest
sympathy.
/ ann. dear General, very faithfully yours,
LEVI p. MoBToN.
The openiDgo of a wedge-like raft above
| the stone bridge to-day was an engineering
/ feat For ten DAYS several hundred men
( had been nc work upon the Heterogeneous
/ matter but only sixty feet OF the channel
/ had been cleared, when on Wednesday
/ William Phillips. of Lewi,toWn. and force
of dyuamitards were put ON the work. six
/ acres OF sOlGIy- packed WrechaSe Wedgeu
| between the river banks by hydraulic force
/ that can't bee estimated have IN three
/ days melted away. Large frame houses,
{ hundreds of logs, and monster trees
were tangled up and bound together
| with wire and iron bars brought
/ down with the food. The scene tins
afternoon when the great mass moved
I down tine river was n remarkable one. IAe
/ crowds that lined the shores and the now
/ famous stone bridge raised shout that
/ was heard the Length and breadth OF the
/ valley. Major Phillips won a basket OF
/ c1auipaene and suiJ of clothes besides
many Congratulations. lie is the same en-
/ giueor who cleaned up the wreck IN Pitts
/ DGrgh after the riots IN 1871 The west
I bank of (oucmaugh Is again o furnace Of
/ fire Tonight. Tic wr2ckage torn up by
/ dynamite to-day was piled up and the
/ torch applied, and the Whole valley Is lllu-
/ minated.
/ Adjutant-General Hastings was compli-
mcnted by Governor Beaver tonight on
/ his Success in opening the channel. The
/ Philadelphia contingent of the Governor
uiili0n-d0lllr loan commission did not ar
/ rive. aud now it is said theyHlll dcfer their
J visit until lLe latter part of next week.
The State Board of Health issued bull
+ lotiu today aud Br. O,ro0 says there Is
/ Htile change ia the situation, aud all that
+ /, necc-sli, i- The continuance o. street
+ SANITARY supervision. Mcaslc. are very pre-
/ yaleut 4mOla children, and Bedtord-Street
Hospital has .uocaaa Of pneumonia. BrOn-
chit AID lialrEUa are very general among
+ the NOrkmcn Ilero Is nOAC kness or con-
sequence AMONG the militia. From the
most authou.;r records ootainable the
number of bodies recovered SO far Is 1923.
Thirteen were takoa Out to-day. There is
n slight falling oil In the number of pre-
sriptious issued 81 the hospitals
Or. Free, OF ,no State Board of Health,
inspected tae Tifar towns as far down as
Sang follow to-day. The worst discovery
made wa O. e large number of dead horses
and cows floating IN the river. The dyna-
mite explosions have brought the carcasses
To Tie surface. They arr IN a bad state OF
+ decouV position.
Eight carloads Of lumber arrived to-day,