Huntsville gazette., 1889-06-08
THE TOTAL LOSS
Il Lives win BE at Least 5000. and the
Property Loss About $50 900. 900.

c Lives win BE at Least 9,OOO and the
Property Loss About $50, 900 600.
TheGoss of life by the flood in the
( owns Of Mineral Point Frnnklinbor-
, slgh East Conemaugh Woodvule,
Ee1rsville, Cambria, Minersv1lle Nor
a.llvilJe Sheridan and COopersdale,
Ehich, with JOhnstOwn, constitute the
'tringss communities in the direct path
IF theft ood, is about 1900. and the loss
u prope ,rty, exclusive Of PENNSYLVANIA
abroad property, about Sc 000. coo.
} 2hnsto wn proper and Aillville will
possibly add 1000 to the death list and
about ~ 5000, 600 to the financial loss.
The Pen nsylvania railroads S loss will be
about 5 10000. 600 more, making the
total loss as near rs it can now be fig-
ured ove1 1900 lives and more S34 OO6.-
600 Of PIX 'pcrty.
Q an Only he Guessed At.
The lQ s Of life at JohnstoNn proper
is but lii le more than guess. 1t is too
large Il lace for anybody to know every
body, ans the survivors are so scattered
that the. registration of the living. which
has reacl ted II, 600 i'll the district. indi-
Gates MOI hing. The loss in the smaller
towns IS obtained from leading men in
each, who have in a measure g0t their
heads again, and are able to think with
some cOoluess.
W. S. Steele, secretary Of the West
luOreland and Cambria Natural Gas
cCQnpany, sa id: Our company alone
caIiQot replace its plant, which has been
washed out, for less than S175, 900"
In Detail.
In de all the, loss falls as follows:
Miner u Point. 800, 600
East [ 'onema lgh and Franklin. ST..
200 600.
Woodvale. So. 800, 900
Johnstown .and Milieviile, S18, 900, 600.
Kersville. $500, 600.
Cambria, S 1-dl GOO
Minersville $4,000.
Morrellville $4,000.
Sheridan and Coopefsdale, $75, 900.
Pennsvlvania railroad, $40, 600, 600.
Total, $34, 075, C50.
Nav Reach lIfteen Thousand.
The horror of the situation grows
apace with each sgIeceeding hour In
at least half hu Glred places in this
city. where masses OF debris are lodged
against brick hous :, a bank of earth or
some other obstacle, rEngs Of men num-
bering from fifty t, 300, are working
tearing down and exc; waiting.
There is never end ing procession Of
men with boards doc. \. shutters any
thing that will 40 for !; tlitter carrying
the dead to the seyt ral impromptu
mOrgues.
The death list grows LArmingly, and
there is no longer any Ill allow Of doubt
that the victims viii mum Der $4,000.
The wonder will be if L does not ex-
ceed that. No one not etually on the
spot can form any adequa t. conception
OF the situation and the horrors that
crowd fast on one another, Words are
too weak to convey even faint idea Of
the utter desolation, the q 'eep despair,
the mocking crueltv~of fate liza the awful
Of bodies. The L ernains Of
victims are no longer found lsinglp or
even by couples. a Dozen tv enty, yea,
o hundred are'dug out within ia feS rods
OF each other, whole families diving III
groups and all crushed, man gled and |
distorted.
The mud and slime Of the river bot
tom seem tc have taken an especial de- !!
n6hG III selecting the poor dead bodies
Ion th4lr 90rt, and the filth fills eyes. 4
ears, mo, tbs and nostrils and thi5hlv /
pesnrai's tIie air. In many cases tile .
bodies 'tfe'hudc, tbo clothes having been 4
torn Gil, Scattered garments, lie thick I
about tiefNreclled city, as the snow in 4
WINTER It many are the h0rl-i1 1la indica- n
tIona o- ,ila violent death Of tile wearer I
the show
1he st1+ets and yards in front Of the \