Arizona silver belt., 1889-06-15
THE JonSsrows DISASTER,

Tho delugc winch overwhelmed Jchnstown, Penn, was one of tue few cataStrophes, the rayages of which were not magnhed Tn tho first pub 4;shed accounts, during the eonstsrna lion that then prevailed. Indeed, when ike extent of tho destruction of life and property began to be realized by the survivors, language was made. quate to depict the awfuness of the situation, A press reporter wr,tesS Could every person whe reads these lines see the frightful sights that have confronted the members of the press here during the last week, they would all unite in declaring that only small portion of the story had been told"
 The grief of those bcreft of relatives and friends, as helplsssly they gazed upon that dreadful scene of deselation, found no expression in lamentations. Thelrs' is
 "The grief that does not speak,
 Whispers the o'er-fTaught heart anu bids it
 break
 The associated press refers to that once busy mart of industry as dead ,lohnstown," and that "ths dove had not come bearing the green leaf of promise" but instead the human vul- lures who rob the dead and at first, were almost as numerous there as flies that batten on decaying flesh, and whose lust for gain was only checked by stern and unpitying decress of Judge Lynch. The asssoeiatod wires have also this to say of what was once Johnstown: Acres of mud, acres of wrockage, acres of unsteady, lettering buildings, acres of unknown doad, acres of ghastly objects which have been eagerly sought for since Friday. heres of smoky, steaming rum, acres ot sorrow for somebody lie out there ln the sunshine Hundreds of bodies arc lying along the river banks aud under piles of blg timber, and the trouble will come there, because they are hard 10 find and harder to dig out Bonfres are burning everywhere, Fire is the agent employed to bsip the committees get rid of the refuse and broken wood"
 An army of eight thousand men employed for a week in the search fer human victims of the disaster, has scarcely made an impression upon the great accumulation of debris. It Is almost impossible to conceive the ex- tent of these smoking ruins. An area of eight or ten acres above the dam is covered to depth of 40 feet with shattered houses, borne from the resi-. dance center of JohnStown; in each of these houses it is estIn'ated there were from one to twenty or twenty five people. Beneath almost every log or blaekened beam glstening skull or the blanched remnants of rlbs is all thatremaias of hfe's hopes and dreams Several thousand bodies have been re- covered, but it now looks as though the search would have to be dlscon- tlnued, as the stench from the putrsfy- ing bodies is So oyerpowering that no human being can long withstand it.
 X thousand funerals were witnessed on the morning of the 5th. There we're no hearses, few mourners and very little solemnity. Instead of six pall-bearers to ono coffin, thers were generally six collins to one team. No ministers at the graves to pronounce a blessing as the clods rattled down up, on the dead, except few priests who, aided by little company of nuns, have worked heroieally. Unidentified bodies were grouped on hill west of the city where enc epltaph, unknown" must do for all.
 The exposure and priyatiOn incl dent to the flood and the pellutlon of the atmosphere by the horrible stench arising from decayiRg bodies is caus- ing much sickness of malignant type. and fears are entertained that it will become epidemic. Pneumonia, diph- theI4a, dysentery and measles are alarningly prevalent and an outbreak of typhoid fever is feared. The pneu- nenia scoarge grows alarmingly. The hospital is full to oyerfowing, and forty-two sick persons, en the Eth, had to be cared for elsewhere. Every pos sible sanitary precauhon is being taken to prevent the spread of disease, but the situation is grave, and appre- hension is felt that death may gather a second harvest m the fated Cone lnaugh valley.
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