Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 18??-????, 1889-06-04
THE WORST IS TRUE.
Three Thousand Collins Needed at once In
Addition TO the Thousands Al
rendv Led.

JoHNsrOwN, June 3.-There is a fam
inc among the dead. The 1900 surviv.
ofs Of the food who are suffering foi
food and clothing find their troubles
have q ghastly counterpart. There are
no collins here 10 bury the dead. The
last coffin was used yesterday afternoon.
Three thousand more at least viii be
needed. Therefore. TO the public appeal
for assistance may be added the words:
Send Us cotiins 10y the trainload. for we
need them as bad as we do bread.
The Water subsiding.
JoHNsTowN. June 3.-The water issuI-
siding. giving a chance to see the condi.
ton. The damage is even greater thar
estimated. There is not a score of houses
in Johnstown proper standing on THEN
foundation. and not one of them of any
value. Nearly a hundred houses are
standing scattered where the water left
them. The debrls is piled twenty feet
high. The Conemaugh cut swath
through the business portion of the town
forty rods wide, leaving no vestage of .
building or street IN its path. The bust
ness streets cannot be found, and the
town loooks like a mud-covered field.
The Loss of Life
is estimated by conservative police off
GERS well acquainted with the facts AT
not less than Z 900 to 5000 John town
people seem 70 be annihilated, and you
would not see $40 inhabitants in town
ali day. The people seem paralyzed.
Hundreds of people from other towns
are helping TO get Lodies out. The scene
at the bridge is horrible beyond descrip
tion. The bed of the river for third OF
a mile is n solid mass of debris. two
thirds burned over. The people in il
were heard calling for help up to I
O'Clock Sunday morning.
Two Pittsburg fire engines are now
playing on the fire Many burned
bodies are To be seen in the fire. The
scene Is terrible. The portion of the
town that contained the aristocratic resi-.
deces is entirely wiped out. Not s
vestage Of their residences remain. But
very few of their bodies have beer
found.
Cutting or Fingers.
The robbories were simply frightful
Last night Hungarians patrolel the rail
road. holding up many who passed. All
day Yesterday they were rObiing bodies
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everything of value from the bodies.
Elk Mavor Dick i, reported 90 have
shot two IlGngarians while at the work
two more were hanged 10y the infuriate5
people.
The city is
Vast Charnei House.
and bodies are being found all the time
The school house has been turned into 4
morgue Three hundred bodies are lying
side hv side in the school house, anC
hundreds more at other places.
Thousands are supposed 90 be under
the acres of debris and great fears OF an
epidemic are entertained. Bodies are
already beginning TO decompose and two
davs of hot sun will make the condition
simply terrible. The state board OF
health. by official orders has directed
sherifIs Of all counties on the river to
take from the wafer all bodies of persons
and animals.
steel Works Annihilated.
The steel works above Johnstown art
annihilated, not a brick nor piece of ma
chnery remaining. Nearly every build
ing Of the Cambria iron works has walls
crashed in. machinery intact, but GOV.
cred with O foot of mud and many feet
of debris. Tie loss of the company Is
estimated at from five TO six millions.
All the prominent men cosneeted with
the works are dead. VIII the town be
rebuilt: No one knows, but in all prob
ability it win not. 1t looks impossible.
The railroads have a large force Of men
working on the tracks, but can't get
trains through for days.
The Rapidity OF The Water.
An eve witness said the water YVES
three feet deep in the streets. Hundreds
had come to see the flood. when suddenly
the rush came, and soon the water was Q
seething mass of broken houses and