The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-06-06
APPALLING!
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ever befel this nation occurred il
a southwestern Pennsylvania last Fri
g dsy' Unlike anything like it befor,
there has been no exageration. bu
g IRON day to day, as facts are brouuh
r-at.it grows more appalling. Th,
latest places the number of the dea6
ut 10000 with possibility that i,
. VIII reach $4,000. The benevolencp
OF the country is excited beyond all
precedent and help for the thousands
OF destitute and homeless are pouring
IN IN immense streams, New York
city alone furnishing $3.50, 900 in one
day. Commencing on our third page
and continuing on this one we publish
press dispatches that will give our
readers an idea of the extent of the
dire calamity.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 2.-Yes-
terdays estimate that the loss of life
by the bursting of the South Fork
reservoir will reach the appalling total
OF 60oO does not seem to be- exagger
ated. Six hundred bodies are now
lying IN Johnstown, and large num-
Der have been buried. Eight pros
porous cities and villages situated in
the beautiful little valley of the Cone.
mangh have been swept out of exis-
tence In the twinkling of an eye, as it
were, and their inhabitants, number
ing more than $4,000, are scattered
and shelterless in the surrounding
hills, exposed to the cold and rain, or
smothered in everlasting sleep in the
terrible turmoil of waters that over
whelmed them.
-Four immense relief trains arrived
last night and the survivors are being
well cared for. A portion of the DO
lice force of Pittsburg and Allegheny
are on duty, and better order is main
tanned than prevailed yesterday.
From Johnstown to Mineral Point
Tower the Pennsylvania road bed has ,
been completely swept away. For a
Lei of filile tlRSy4aad L All. ;a.
ed; then comes another complete
wreck to point above South Fork.
lwenty-seven Pennsylvania Railroad
locomotives and an unknown number
If both freight cars and passenger
are lying in the river bed, un- 7
Ter the debris of Johnstown at the
tone bridge. The towns of Wood p
lille and Conemaugh borough above
ohnstown are swept as cleanlv off f,
he face OF the earth as if they had b
ever had an existence.
Scenes OF terror and despair were v
along the bank. Two men e,
n a tiny raft shot out into the swift a,
st part OF the current. They crouch
d stolidly looking at the shores, =,
lille between them, dressed in white .,
nd kneeling with her face turned
eavenward, was a girl six or seven
ears old. She seemed stricken with
analysis until she came opposite a
lilroad tower, and then she turned re
er face to the operator. She was so be
ose they could see big tears on her
leeks, and her pallor was as death. he
he helpless men on shore shouted
her to keep up her courage, and 70
lie resumed her devout attitude and
sappeared under the trees of pro- y,
citing point a short distance below.
e couldn't see her come out again,
id the operator, and that was all of :
/" Do you see that fringeof trees"
id the operator, pointing to the !.
ace where the little girl has gone LII
t of sight. "Well we saw scores 'he
children swept in there. l believe
1T when the time comes they will 40!
d almost hundred bodies of child
! In there among those bushes"
Just above New Florence is the
lie town of Nineveh. 1t was here
1t the first charnel house was found ~ :,
ii 100 dead, the larger proportion
whom were women. Here it was
It the awful work of the freshet par
lid be realized. What have been mo
tile farms look like worn out brick 4
DIS. Great trees have been twist bee
and torn like weeds, and the GOV
ken household goods of hundreds Hal
houses line the shores for miles. I
eves Of the vilest sort, those who ms
Al from the dead and unfortunate, w.
e been busily at work robbing the Met
nks, boxes and articles of furni- Frit
2, and there is nothing worth TAX day
left except lumber. Every now essa
then gastly outlines could be seen C
lie water being swept down stream. the
It Woodville there was a row of Con
TX tenement houses l20 feet long
three stories high. 1t stood -
adside to the current. A few ten ,,,o;,
He'd, but many went to their at trial
to watch the flood. To-day If "
'cely the foundation of the row of neys
X houses can be found, and of the am