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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-06-07
ful shock, which is almost too horrible to

ful shock, which ia almost too horrible t.
realize"
W. S. Steele, Secretary of the wsstmOre.
land and Cambria Natural Gas Company.
said: Twenty million dollars will moi
put JOhnstOwn on her feet again, and the
people have not begun to realize the ex.
tent OF this loss, and l doubt if they ever
VIII until the contracts for rebuilding are
let and the expense of clearing away the
debris has been betrayed. Oar comprny
alone cannot replace it's plant which has
been washed out fer less than Sl75. OOO -
Postmaster Bauman, of JohnstOwn, who
knew every building in it. and who is q
stockho'der IN a large number Of manufac-
tories and mercantile concerns in the val.
ley, said: The loss TO JOhnstown alone
Is estimated by the men with whom /
have talked at from Sl2, 600. 600 70 $25,-
600, OOO l think myself that $40, OO0, coo
Will be found very low estimate OF Johns
towns financial loss. 1 am trustee for the
largest estate in JOhnstOwn, and know
what am talking about when make this
estimate"
Among the heaviest losers, aside from
the Cambria Iron Company, are: Johns
Town Water Company, S1OO, 900; West
moreland and Cambria Natural Gas Com
pany, $3.50 600; Wolf, Son & Thomas,
clothing, 100000; Thomas & Sons, gen
eral merchandise, 800, 900; Rose & Sons,
lumber, S10O, 600; JOhustOwn Electric
Company. 800 600; T. G. Stewart & Co,
grocers, $50, 900; Greist, Foster & Ounce,
500, 600; Economy Clothing Company,
$4,000; Hulburt House, S6O, 0O0; Mer-
chants Hotel TO be cOndemued), S35, 600;
Greist & Shreigh, clothing. $4,000; John
@ Bsnshoof q Sons, $50. 600; Swank &
Sons, SIS 600; Acres & Bauman, grocers,
$50, goo; Marshall q Weskmore, planning
mill, 500, 600; Cover Bros, livery, $50, 600;
T. T. Morrell, 5000 First National
Bank, So, 1000; JohnstOwn Savings Bank,
$50 600.
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UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
A Pass From the Adiutant General Nec6s
sary-Inestimable Character.

A Pass From the Adiutant General Neces-
sary-Inestimable Character
JoHNsTowN, June 6.-At noon to-day
the borough of JohnstOwn and the adjoin-
ing boroughs or what is left of them, prac-
tically passed under martial law. Adju-
tant General Hastings says he hos not de-
clared martial law, yet the soldiers are on
guard and no one is permitted between the
lines unless through an order from the Ad-
iutaud General. The sightsee are de-
barred altogether, and the town is inacces-
sible except to newspaper men, and other
people who have business there Every
point is guarded, and soldiers patrol the di-
viding lines. They are very active, and
they depOrt themselves like veterans. Iney
guard the approaches and have orders to
stop anyone who crossed the line. 1t Is
probable that the 18th regiment will be or
dered out, from the fsct that 1t takes 90
many soldiers to cover the ground. A
specisl guard will have to be put at Kern
Vile. AIllvale and Cambria City, and other
points. and this alone will take regiment
Of soldiers.
The Adiutant General was at first back
ward at ordering out any troops, from the
fact that it would naturally create the i'm
preston that there was trouble here. The
only reason for calling out the troops Is to
relieve the Pittsburg and Johnstown police
men who have had little or no sleep for
several days past.
Early this morning Chairman Heinz OF
the Relief Committee was informed by
several railroad conductors that two or
three women Of questionable character had
arrived in town last night. The railroad
men watched them the entire route ana
said that from their language they were
PROGRESSES who hoped 10 prey on untortu-
nate young women. Heinz reported the
matter to the police officials who intend to
warn all suspicious characters 10 leave the
town at once. Heinz said: ''YOu can say
that should find the women and be sure
that they we're here for such purpose,
would throw them into the river. All
Young women who apply for relief will be
warned to beware OF these women. The
Ladies Aid Society, Of Pittsburg, is inter
ested in the matter and will have the Off
GERS prevent any more from coming here.
We have many instances of women VINO
have lost all their friends and are reckless,
and they will be sent to Pittsburg.
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1T WILL BE COMPROMISE.
A Settlement of the Stewart VIII Case
Its HIatoTY In Brief.

Settlement of the Stewart VIII Case
It's History In Brief
NEW YORK, June 6.-The Stewart will
case is in course of compromise.
Josep II. Choat and Elihu Root, for the
contestants and Judge Hilton respectively,
waited on Surrogate Ransom yesterday,
and begged an adjournment beyond next
Monday, the day set for srgumen, on the
ground that the case was likely to be set
tied ont OF court. Negotiations to that end
they said, had made substantial progress.
The Surrogate set June 26 for argument,
AZ q matter of form. There is not the
least probability that any thing more will
be heard of the case in a court room.
The expenses entailed by the contest
have so far amountci 70 over half a mil
lion dollars. The great question now If:
How much will Judge Hilton pay to have
the case choked ofg This suit was
brought in reality for an accounting Of his
management Of the estate of A. T. Stew
art. By Mr.. Stewards will he received
81, 900, 900. -Four days after Mr.. Stewart d
death, in consideration of that legacy, he
acquired from Mrs. Stewart a transfer to
himself of Mr.. Stewards interest, about
80 per cent, in the business of A. T.. Stew
art & Co. This WAS in 1876. In the next
nine years he acquired the Stewart build
ing, various bank stocks and ether prop
erty that had been Mrs. St,wart's, and at
her death the accounts for her showed her
in his debt about 81, 100, ,000 Figuring
from two distinct bases, Judge Hilton
passed from an ordinarily successful at.
tOrney, in 1876, TO the possession Of from
81, ,O00,0 to S16, ,0O0, 000-with no allow
ance for increase by investments or other
wisely 1856, when Mrs. Stewart died.
The testimony in regard to his control
over Mrs. Stewart wes astounding. il
weg proved without contradiction that he
rarely allowed her out of his sight; that
she signed all sorts OF documents at his
bidding; that he charge her with interest
on the drafts at per cent. until the legal
rate beclme per cent, and then at full
rates, nntil the interest charges against
her and u his credit were enormous, and
that goods from the store for her use were
charged at excessive figures.
Several witnesses testified TO Mrs.
Stewart having repeatedly declared that
she had given Judge Hilton only power
ofattorney to manage the business for her,
and had never intended TO transfer the
property to him. But, amaziDgrg was all
this testimony, the great surprise in the
cese came when, the contestants having
finished, Judge HiltOn's lawyers rested the
case without a syllable of testimony in
reply. This was in April. Argument was
set for May 30. AS the time drew near
for Mr.. Choate to uncork his oratory,
rumors began to circulote that COM
promise was on foot. This VIZ disappoint-
ing to those who had watched the case
from the outsider for a rare treat had been
anticipated from Mr. Choate, who never
before had an opportunity for the exercise
of his peculiar talent for sharp speech
making equal to this.
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HARDENED BY GRIEF.
People Bstray but Little Emotion In In
Identifying Their Dead.

People Betray but Little Emotion In In
Identifying Their Dead.
JoHNsrowN, June 6. 6.-Upon all the I'M
identified bodies an embalming process has
been attempted to be carried out, and en-
balmers we're at work upon the cOrpses as
people passed by them. In comparatively
few cases was an Identification made. The
people looking for missing relatives or
friends, like everybody else in Johnstown,
have become 80 hardened, or rather be-
numbed. by the awful experiences OF the
last four days, that in looking at the
corpses or even in actually identifying
their friends, they seem to feel but little
emotion. At any rate they show but very
little.
"That's Emma" said an old man before
one of the bodies. He said it as coOlly as
though be spoke of his daughter in life,
not in death, and as if it we're not the fifth
dead child of his that he had identified.
The way some families have been bro
ken up is something terrible.
"Is that you, Mrs. James?" said one
woman to another on the foot bridge over
stony Creek TO the Pennsylvania this
morning. =,
''Yes, it is, and we are all WELL" said
Mrs James.
.'Oh, have you heard from Mrs. Fem
toni"
0She's left" said the first woman, but
tha ok,1Iran ora nome ~
The policeman told the two women 10
move on, and they separated. And so
whole families are gone, and out of faInl-
lies of half a dozen or more three or four
or five will be taken-father OF motner'
brother or sister, or both.
Even the undertakers were unable to re-
main st work in the Fourth ward morgue
this morning among the stencil. Forty
bodies were in the small school r0omi all
the unknown dead were taken from the
room and placed in the front yard. They
will be kept for a day or two longer, ont
in the hot sun decomposition will set IN
very soon. Four bodies were found near
the stone bridge this morning. They are
at the Pennsylvania railroad station. Only
one was identified ss that of John Mckee,
who had a slip of paper in his pocket with
his name written on it, unquestionaoly
written in event of an accident. The other
bodies were those of young man and two
small children. The First Presbyterian
church contains nine "unknoWns," Bur
ials will have to be made tomorrow.
This morning workmen found three
members Of BENZ. Hofimann's family, which
occupied q large residence in the rear oi b.
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Trouble IS PREsAGED.
Affairs In Hayti Require the Early Con
pIetion of U. s. Cruisers.

Affairs in Hayti Require the Early Com
pIetion Of U. s. Cruisers.
NEW YORK, June 6.-"Something j
going to happen, and pretty quickly, too,
was in everybody's mouth Tuesday nigh
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Firs
Lieutenant of the steel cruiser Atlanta
found himself in the afternoon in command
of large body of men who had been or
dersd to turn to- and assist in getting
the Atlanta out of dry dock.
The order received was that the Atlanta
must be out yesterday morning and that
the cruiser Boston must be in dock at once.
What this sudden activity means nobody
appears to know, but it is thought some
thing important is in the wind when ii
becomes necessary to work at night in
order to get vessel ready for going out oi
dock. These proceedings are decidedly
mysterious.
Some of the naval officers suspect that
the condition OF affairs in Hsyti means
work for the cruisers. II is said that the
authorities at Washington fear riotiDg as a
result of Legitime's downfall and believe
that American interests will be greatly
ieopsrdized. The Ossipee is the only
American vessel in Haytien waters, and
shovld riot and bloodshed follow oD the
island nothing short of a powerful force
could save the lives of the foreigners.
The fact of the Boston being ordered
into dock appears to naval officers eonclu,
sive that she is needed for a cruise and
that the cruise is a very sudden one. After
the length Of TINA the Boston has been
living at the navy yard doing no service,
the order for cleaning her bottom could be
prompted only by a desire to make mel
most efficient for fast steamiug.
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A SMALL SIZED RIOT.
workmen Who Wanted Fancy Articles of
DIat Rebuked by Their Fnramnn.

Workmen Who Wanted Fancy Articles of
Diet Rebuked by Their Foreman.
JoHNsTowN, June 6.-There was a small
sized riot at the labor camp this morning
on account of there not being food enough
for the men, or utensils to cook it with
Mr. Finn who is at the head Of the labor
bureau, made a speech to the men, and
stated that it was impossible to get things
down from the railroad, but that it would
be gotten down as soon as possible. He
stated that they did not want men who ex-
pected to live on the fat of the land, aud
that this wss principally work of char
ity, even though the men did get paid for
their work.
A few minutes after this, as Mr.. Finn
was drinking some black coffee and eating
some hard crackers and cheese, two work
men came up to him and commenced to
complain because they did not have soup
and meat This enraged Mr.. Finn, and
after telling them that he thought he was
as used TO good eating as they were, he or
dered the guards to take the men out and
not permit them to come back again. This
seemed to nave the desired effect and there
was no more trouble this morning.
Twenty time keepers from Pittsburg ar
rived, and they are now hard at work get.
ting the names OF men employed; this
morning it was stated that five thousand
men are at work, and it is expected
that by tomorrow at least 10, 600 men will
be employed. But even this large force OF
men will not be able to remove the debris
in less than several weeks. Last night
about 500 of the labOrers had no tents to
sleep in, but word has been received from
Washington that tents are on their way,
and it is expected that they will arrive TO-
night
Sheriff MlcCsudlass and W. S. Brown, OF
Piltsbdrg, are on duty at the labor camp.
Shortly after midnight a riot was reported
at Cambria City. Word was sent to Adju-
tanf General Hastings, requesting detach-
ment of soldiers. He Immediately ordered
one of the companies of the Fourteenth
Regiment TO the place, bat when they ar
rived there they found there was no neces-
sity for their services, the only trouble at
the place being between some drunken
Italians who were merely making idle
threats
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MANY MILLIONS oF Loss.
Careful Estimates OF the Enormous Dam
age in the Conemaugh valley.

Careful Estimates OF the Enormous Dam
age i'm the Conemaugh valley.
JoHSsrowN, June 6-The loss Of life
by the aood in the towns of Mineral Point
Franklin borough, East Conemaugh, Wood
vale. Ksrnville Cambria, Minersville, Nor
rsuviIe. Sheridan and Coopsrsdale, which
with Johnstown, constitute the string Of
communities in the direct path Of the food,
is about 1000 and the loss Of property,
exclusive OF Pennsylvania Railroad prop
erty, about S6.oOOO0O. Johnston proper
and lIillysle viii possibly add 1000 to the
death list and about SlsOOOO 600 to the
financial loss The Penn ylvania Rail-
roads loss viii be- about $40 O0O. 900 more.
making the total loss, as near as lt can now
be ured. over 5000 lives and more than
B34. 600 600 OF property. The loss OF life
at Johnstown proper Is but little more
than "a guess To is too large a place for
ANYBODY to know everybody, and The
survivors are So scattered that the
registration of the living, which has
reached l2. OoO in the district, indicates
nothing The loss in the smaller towns is
obtained from leading men IN each, who
bevs IN q measure got their heads again,
and are able t0 think with some coolness.
liz detail the loss falls az follows: Mineral
Point. lives lest, l6i property, 500, 900.
r,e4 Copemaugh and Franklin, lives, 3s;
,so,srtv. 81. 20OO. 600 W0Odyale, hves,
500. n-opsrtv. 500 600 J0hnstown aud
wuviue. lives. 10000; property, SIS OOO,-
OO0. Kernviue. lives, 500; property, t5OO,-
00O Cambria. lives, I, 600; property, 800
000 Alinersville, lives, s; property tl5,-
o00 Alorrellville, lives !; property, elO,-
r00 Sheridan aud Coopersdale, no lives
Dropertv. SO .0OO Pennsylvania Railroad
s10'OO0OOO. Total lives, 9,063i property,
S34 O75.Oo0 r.
p E Chspin, of Washington, who ouilt
the Gautier Steel Works, and mp to Janu-
arv 1sss. was General Superintendent OF
NE Cambria Iron Works at JohnstoWn,
said this evening.
.eThs loss sustained in round numbers, /
should think. would reach $40 OOO,u In
Thai amount I would divide the items
sbouf as follows JOhnstOwn proper, elo'-
0oO 400. Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
e1O' 600 600. Gantier Steel Company, =, %
,OO GOO. Cambria Iron Company, sou, =
o0O and the general losses at Mineral
point EAST Conemsugb, Woodvale, Cone
,,sngb Borough. GTubtown, Bnckstown,
HT;llviUe Sheridan snd Morrellville,a about
a. 0OO 600. doubt if twenty years Will
enable the valley to recover from the a"-
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SEATTLE ALL ABLAZE.
WashIngton's Metropolis In Danger of
Total Destruction.

Washington's Metropolis In Danger OF
Total Destruction.
SEATTLE, w. T., June 6.-Fire broke
out at 2:3O p. m. to-day in the POntius
building on Front street and by 4:30 p. m.
was raging over a district of five or six
blocks with tremendous fury. The wind
was from the north and the direction Of
the fire was along the water on Front
street and from the water front to the
big brick block between Columbia and
San Francisco streets. The indications
were that the whole business portion Of
the city would be swept away, involving h
loss OF millions. The magnificent San
Francisco store and other stores in the row
were on fire, and the whole big block
seemed doomed.
The local firemen were helpless in the
face of the calamity, and telegraphed in
all directions for aid, aud at 4:3O p. m. the
confagratiOn was rushing through the
heart of the city.
To add to the peril smart breeze began
blowing or the b3y tanning the flames
and about the same time thousand feet OF
hose was caught in the advancing blaze
and destroyed. The Opera House block,
the block opposite, all the warehouses
at the foot of Columy street, and
also the great group of buildings
in the rear of the Post Intelligence
building were burning. The people in the
Vester block, occupied by the Western
Union Telegraph Company, and the Post
Intelligence, were hurriedly moving out,
and at this writing the Western Union had
but one wire undisturbed, over which this
dispatch was being sent.
At9p. m. 81 blocks had been burned
in the very heart Of the city and there is
great danger of the loss of about 20 blocks
more. The fire was not all under control
and had reached the great coal bunkers.
Should these be destroyed, the flames are
certain to be communicated to large
number of wooden buildings, and the loss
increased manifold.
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no friends who will care to write to us b.
Tomorrow

no friends who will care to write to us by
tomorrow"
On the same street, and almost within
a stones throw Of the Worthington-Plun-
kett home, the reporter found the deserted
husband. He WAS seated in his sumptu-
Ous Office at his desk, dressed as for prom
enade, except that his feet were encased in
gold-embroidered slippers. He was calm
and placid, but sad. He confirmed the
statement of his marriage, his separation
from his wife and her subsequent marriage
to WorthiDgton, but appeared to bear no
malice or resentment.
"It is true" he said, after a thoughtful
silence, ''that my wife and I have lived
lives of cslibscy for several years. Our
separation was decided on that we might
appear before our people in our true light
do not approve of my wife's conduct in
taking up with this man Worthington,
and think she has only succumbed to the
weakness of the flesh. fear her example
as a religious teacher will be bad to 9TH
ers."
''Shall you apply to the courts for di-
vorce?" Was asked.
''0h, no. / do not belisve in going to
law under any circumstances. do not
deem it Christisn-like on my part 10 pre-
vent he7 marrying another if she believed
she loved him.
''I have allowed her to keep the chill.
dren because she asked for them. As to
our property, have always allowed her
to take care Of the money we have made
together. She must have now between
$15, 900 and 500, 600 of our joint funds.
have written to her for a settlement, but
have only received an insolent reply from
WorthingtOn. shall not 90 to law to re
cover my share. do not care for money
anyhow, and shall always have all ] re
quire in this life. While we we're togeth
er l made from $1,000 to $4,000 year IL
my personal practice, and she made a.
much more in her department Of work. ,
A sick girl entered the room to be cured
and the doctor intimsted that he must at
tend Gods work and the collection Of {
fee, and bowed the reporter out
Mr.. Worthington insists that the doc
tors statement that Mrs. Plunkett-Wo
ingtOn holds any of his money is not true
as they divided their funds share and shar,
alike when they parted, and that he hold
his receipt for the amount paint him.
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FROM THE MOUNTAIN sIDE.
A Wierd and Picturesque Scene Of Desc
Iation-systematls Labor.

wierd and Picturesque Scene Of Desc
Iation-Systematls Labor.
JoHNsTowN. June 6. "a bird s eye view
from the mountain side this morning
shows that the waters in the COnemaugh
Valley have subsided almost to their
usual level. With the receding waters
the scene of desolstiOn becomes hourly
more weird and picturesque. Like a
desert, swept by some fierce simeon, the
valley level is an unbroken plane for miles,
only at last to find an abrupt termination
in a mountain of debris that found lodge
ment on some projecting rock which defed
the fury of all the forces of the elements
The sun shines brightly Ger Cambria
land this morning, and as the pastoral
population hastens down the mountain
side in early morn, the scene reminds one
of some festal day rather than an eager
Gathering at q field Of horrors. The work
nj recovering the dead goes on with updi-
minished vigor, and as the wOrkmen be-
come accustomed to their CHASTITY finds and
tbe borrors of the scene become common
nlsce. they apply themselves more dill
GENTLY TO their duty and labor with a sys-
tenn that produces rapid results.
The Altoona delegation has been one OF
,be busiest and most useful on the ground.
They took charge Of two leading hospitals,
the Cambria hospital and that under Dr.
Robinson, in JOhnstOwn, and ran them up
to this morning, when they were relieved
hv the Philadelphia branch Of the ked
Gross Society, under Clara Barton. Ihey
have also been in charge of the wreckage
above the bridge. %
B NJ. Bunker, Of Altoona, has had 90
men M work aided by Dave Kirk, who ls
doing the dymsmiSing. Altoona pays all
he hills for this work. This party OF
,roIkmen have done so we'll that a big
Mast of twenty-five dynamite cartridges,
at 10 O'Clock, loOsened up the debris and
made il possible to open the mouth OF the
old channel.
This gang of workmeu have located the
day express, which was swept away al
Conemaugh. The ruins Of the tram lay
about one hundred feet from the iourtn
hnttress from the western end Of the stone
bridge. Part Of the psrlOr cars have to
dsv been found as well as traces OF the
About nine o'clock the baggage of Miss
annie Chism. of Nashville, Tenn, was
found. She was missionary, on her way
70 Brazil. for the Women's Foreign Mis-
s;onary Society Of the Methodist Church.
Among her effects was Bible and IN II