The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-15
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gether that they might almost be taken 70
the continuous discharge of heavy gun:
An opening four hundred feet long, whic
runs back in some places fifty feet, wa
made during the afternoon.
| There will be no inquest held on the bodie
of the thousands of residents of the Cone
maugh valley who lost their lives in tn
worlds unprecedented catastrophe. Tn
law of the State does not require such a
investigation and the responsibility of th
disaster, which can be directly charged t
the insecure wall which held the wall of tn
Conemaugh lake, will never be legally de
termined unless survivors should take indie
pendent action All reports that arrange
ments for an inquest had been commences
are untrue
When the Gautier steel mill of the Cam
bria Iron Company closed down at tel
o'clock last Friday morning nearly lao
men left the works. When the men yester
day answered the notice that all should pre-
sent themselves ready for work, only 4S7 re
ported.
PITTsBURGH, June 7.-The general relic
committee in this city gives out the follow
ing: "Hon. w. Flynn, in charge of our la
borers at Johnstown, reports that it will re
quire 10000 men for thirty days with al
modern appliances to clear the wrecks along
the ten miles of destruction, take out tn,
corpses and carcasscs of dead animals anG
place the city in safe sanitary condition
This will cost double the amount now in the
hands of the committee, which does not in.
clude the relief for the suffering and desti
tute, which is very great, all of which has
been carefully attended to. The destitute
are brought to this city, fed, clothed, housed
unnt frnn N fpipOHc oil puar ha land Ne
ask that the generous subscriptions which
are coming from all over the country be
continued until sufficient funds are pro-
vided to complete the above work, of which
due notice will be given through thepress.n
Morris, Tioga County, is total wreck.
The Dover mills and the Blackwell mills are
gone and many dwellings and other build
ings swept away. The Pine Creek railroad
track is torn away and large amount of
the embanlSment washed away just west of
this city. AT Saladaysburg houses and mills
were flooded and in some instances moved
and greatly injured. Many bridges were
carried away and great destruction caused
at every point All along the line of the
Philadelphia 81 Reading track through the
city destruction meets the eye, many cars
having been lifted from the track and torn
in pieces. The number of houses toppled
into heaps of rubbish can not yet be stated,
but it is quite large. Along the entire river
front lumber and other drift are piled up as
high as the houses. A car load of coal was
carried a distance of five miles and left
sticking on top of piece of the boom.
JoHNsTowN, June Stare the horrors of
the flood to give way to the terrors of the
plague!n is the question that is now agitat-
ing the valley of the Conemaugh Friday
opened warm and sultry and the stencil that
agsails one's senses as he wanders through
Johnstown is almost overpowering. Sick
ness, in spite of the precautions and hercu-
lean labors of the sanitary authorities, is on
the increase and the fears of epidemic grow
with the hour
SIT is our impression" said DR. 7. L.
White, assistant to the State Board of
Health, yesterday morning. "that there is
going to be great sickness here within the
next week. Five cases of malignant diph-
iberia have been located on Bedford street,
and as they are in different houses they
mean five starting points for disease. All
this talk about the dangers of epidemic is
not exaggerated, as many suppose, but is
founded upon all experience. There will be
plenty of typhoid fever and kindred diseases
here within a week or ten days. The only
thing that has saved us thus far has been
the cold weather. That has now given place
to summer weather. and no one knows what
the next few days may bring forth. Even
among the workmen and attendants there is
already disccrnable great tendency to
1iarrhma and dysentery. The men are liv-
ing principally upon salt meat and there is
A lack of vegetables
Governor Beaver will call a special ses-
sion of the Legislature. Adjutant General
D. H. Hastings sent a telegram to the Gov
,rnor at Harrisburg declaring that an extra
session of the Legislature for the purpose
'f making an appropriation of S2,000,000 for
he relief of the people of Johnstown was
General Hastings was at the
wire early last evening and had long and
arnest talk with the Governor. He told
lin that in his judgment special session of
he Legislature should be called at once. He
vas extremely anxious to know how the
contributions were coming in, and said that
would be necessary TO make heavy daily
rafts on whatever amount might be raised
utside, in order TO keep the work going on.
He said if the contributions reached "a
million it would take that amount to clean
ut the city debris and pay the people of
ohnstown and the men who were employed
rom outside. In addition he thought the
'ldlS give ututTdl I1dSU-
ngs told the Governor that if he thought |
is (HastingsO estimate too high he would |
70 glad if Governor Beaver would come to
ohnstown for day or two and look it over.
After the talk over the wire General Hast |
ngs said: "The work that is going on now
o nicely can not last longer than week or
o at the outside unless the money for CON
ucting it on permanent basis is furnished |
y the State or the people of the Upited |
tates."
Arthur Kirk is gradually proving that he
new what he was talking about when he
aid that dynamite was the only proper ma
erial to use in removing the debris above
ne railroad bridge. Hitherto he has been
cry much cramped in his work by scare
y of explosives, but yesterday a big sup
ly of cartridges arrived. A clear space
as been made about two of the piers. The
reat mass of wreckage is gradually be-
oming loosened. There is such vast
lantity of it, however, that weeks will be
squired to remove all. The rapidly falling
ater is acting as an impediment to the
ork, as the river is already quite shallow
places. If it gets much lower there will
D be enough water to float the heavy logs
his debris is one of the chief points of in
rest now, as it il undoubtedly the most
ingerous pestilence breeding place In the
hole flooded district. All efforts to remove
le remaining bodies buried beneath it have
zen abandoned. The pile has been gone
'er carefully several times, and all the
'rpses that could be reached have been
ken out. There are still several hundred
the wreck, but they are too deeply i'm
,dded in the mass to be recovered, and
ere is no alternative but to destroy them.
acknowledges this now and