The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-02
BREAKING OF THE DAY.
Corpses and Survivors Coming Ashore
at New Florence.

show either hope or mitigation Of the aw-
full fears OF tie night. We are where we
drove across tle mountains in the darkness
of the early morning at New Florence,
fourteen miles from the scene of desolation
at Johnstown. 1t has been hard night to
everybody. The weary, overworked news
paper men, VINO have beeniwithout rest and
food since yesterday noon, and the opera
tors who have handled the messages, are
even now preparing for the work of
the day. There has been a long wrangle
over the possession of the special train for
the press bet Reen rival morning news
paper men, and it has delayed the work Of
others who are anxious to get further east.
SEVEN BODIES FoUNDS
Even here, so far from the washed out
towns, the horror is in our midst. Seven
bodies have been found on the shore near
this town, two being in a tree, a man and
woman, where the tide had carried them
The country people are coming into the
news centers in large numbers, telling
stories of disasters along the rivers banks
in secluded places.
John Mccartney, a carpenter, who
lives in Johnstown, reached here
about o'clock this morning. He
left Johnstown at 4:30 o'clock
yesterday afternoon and says the scene
WuOu u0 ADlb " dS l14GSCilOlC no DoOplo
had been warned early in the moaning to
move to the highlands, but they did not heed
the warning, although it was repeated a
number of times up to l O'clock, when the
waters poured into Cinder street several feet
deep.
wRECKING OF THE HOUSES.
Then the houses began rocking to and
fro, and finally the force of the current car
ried buildings across streets and vacant lots
and dashed them against each other, break
ing them into fragments. The buildin S
were freighted with the poor wretches who
so shortly before had laughed at the
cry of danger. Mccartney says in
some cases he.counted as many as fifteen
people clingiug to buildlngi McCartney's
wife was with him. She had three sisters
who lived near. They saw the house in
which these girls lived carried away and
then they could stand it no longer. So they
hurried away. The husband feared his
wife would go crazy before he could drag
her away, and they left the doomed
district and went inland along the coun-
try roads until they reached here.
IMPOSSIBLE TO REACH JoHNsTowN.
1t is said to be next to impossible to get
to Johnstown proper to-day in any manner
except by row boat. The roads are cut
up 50 that even the c>untrymen refuse to
travel over them in their toughest vehicles
The only hope is to get within about three
miles of Johnstown by special train or by
hand car. This will be done by the Asso-
ciated Press agent within the next hour.
The waters are now receding here as rap
idly as they rose last night, and as the banks
uncover the dead are showing up. Already
nine dead bodies have been picked up with
in the limits of this Dor ugh since daylight.
None of them has yet been recognized.
Five of those found are women.
A CORPSE CLAsPING A BABE.
One lad q, probably 35 years old, and
rather handsome. had clasped in her arms
a babe about months old. The dead body
of a young woman was discovered in the
branches of huge tree which had bee
carried down the stream. All the orchard
crops and shrubbery along the banks of the
river have been destroyed. The body of
another woman has just been discovered il
the river here. Her foot was discovered
above the surface of the water. A rope
was fastened about it and it is now tied to a
tree awaiting assistance to land it.
SAVED FROM A ROOF.
John L. Weber and his wife, an old
couple, Mike Metzgar and John Forney were
rescued near here early this morning They
had been carried from their home i'll Cam
bria City on the roof of their house. There
were seven others on the roof Of the house
when it was carried off by the angry waters.
They were all drowned. They ars unknown
to Weber, they having drifts1 on to the
roof from floating debris Weber and his
wife were thoroughly enched, and were
almost helpless from exposure. They were
unable to walk whe taken from the roof at
this place They are now at the hotel here
FOUR THOUSAND COLD IN DEATH.
NEW FLORENCE, PA, June 1, P. M
At o'clock two more bodies had been re-
covered from the wreck and another had
been sighted.
The latest estimates make the loss about
1000 lives, and the property loss about
| $l1 900 900.
G. w. Poppenstall of East End, Pitts
| burg, distinguished himself by his bravery
Yesterday afternoon. He was messenger
on the mail train which had to turn the
hollow. As the train passed a point where
| the water was full of struggling people, a
woman and child floated in near the shore
The train was stopped, and Hoppeastall
| undressed, jumped into the water aud in
two trips saved both the mother and child.
Among the identified dead were:
JAMES MCMILLIN, superintendent of the
| Cambria Iron Company's store. and his
wifi four children and daugh er-in-law.
JOHN P. LINTON, a leading lawyer, wife
and tVe cnlldren.
Mrs. THOMAS KIRLEN and two children.
Mr.. NOLAN and seven of his family.
Mrs. WIssENGER.
Mrs SARAH PALMER
Dr. GEORGE WAGNER, wife and three
children.
FRANK P. BOWMAN and two children.
Mrs RICHARD WoRTHINGToN and seven
children.
WILLIAM HowELLs.
Mrs ANN HowELLs.
Mrs JOHN REESE.
CORA. LIZZIE and ALvAH REESE.
RACHAEL REESE, mother of John Reese.
Mr.. PEARSON, his mother, wife and six
children.
Mrs. RECKsTEIN.
| HORRIBLE AND PITIFUL.
Obi the horror and infinite pity Of it all.
What journey has been that of the last
hour. Swollen corpses lay here and there,
| in piles of crossties, or on the river banks,
among the tangled greenery. 1t was about
9 o'clock when the first passenger train
since Friday came to the New Florence
depot with its load of eager passengers.
| There were no idle travellers, but each had
| a mission. Here and there men were star
| ing out of the windows, with red eyes, and
among them were tough-looking Hu ga
rians and Italians who bad lost friends
near Ninevah, while WON were weeping
| on all sides. Two of the passengers on the
train we're a man and his wife from Johns
town. From every newcomer and possible
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