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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13
Something 70 Think or.

She looked sharply at the steak as
the butcher placed it on the scales, and
as he was wrapping it up she OBJ
served:
"You don't dehorn your cattle, 1
see."
"No, ma'am."
"What do you think of the ideag'
"Never gave it any thought, ma'am. '
IL wish you would, so that the next
time / come in you can tell me why
they should saw off and throw away
two or three pounds of horn instead of
finding way to sell them with the
steak at sixteen cents per pound r.
Detroit Free Press.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13
THE SCENE SIMPLY AWFUL.
Pen Pictures OF the Heartrending Con
dition OF the Valley.


dition OF the Valley.
This is certainly one of the worlds greatest
catastrophes, telegraphs Fred X. q les, the Chi
cago NeaCs special correspondent at Johnstown.
The scene is awful. The dead lie so thick that a
corpse scarcely commands attention, save as the
committees proceed ON their rounds. In n
schoolhouse on the hillside there are 100 bodies.
Many of them are frigntfully cut and bruised.
Every condition OF life and both sexes in almost
equal number are among the dead. The peo-
plo were caught without warning in the
midst of their regular pursuits. Mer-
chants, lawyers, and business men gener-
ally arc the most numerous victims. The
great number of young women, who can
be seen TO have had attractive faces despite the
distortions OF death, is deeply touching. La
dies are soon identified and dressed for burial.
Thousands of collins are coming in ON the trains
ard are being rapidly used In many cases
whole families perished. In small room OF
the school house lay eleven little children. A
big boy sat by contemplating them. They were
his brothers and sisters. His father, Squire
Fisher, and his mother were drowned, but their
bodies have not yet been found. The children
were In the attic and would have been saved,
but q locomotive was hurled through the house
and knocked down.
The business part of Johnstown is without
folm Tho stores in such buildings as still
stand are in vast disorder. The doors are block
AIDED with drift but peering within number
OF them, the proprietors, their clerks, and Gus
toners can be seen dead on the floor. The
Hotel Hurlburt, large brick building, was
made a place OF refuge, and fell, killing seventy
people.
an indescribable wreck, and upon this hideous
scene u cold rain has poured all day long and
still prevails o-night No attempt Is made To
avoid the weather and the thousands OF survivors
are wringing wet tonight. Most of the fugitives
have got shelter now.
The first dispatches from this scene were
many times short of the tremendous truth. The
catastrophe is SO great that none dare venture
an estimate upon its extent Woodyale and
Conemaugh are utterly destroyed, and THEN
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13
A Rnll.nog Winding Sheep.

Frank Trash, near Hartford, Conn.,,
owns bulldog which exhibits an nm
usual sagacity. Frank Frash owns
large flock of sheep which the dog
herds and takes care of. He drives
away sheep-killing dogs, and seems to
like the duties. A eve left it's lamb in
a distant part of the field and forsook
it. The bulldog singled out the mn
natural mother and drove her to the
spot where the lamb lay, but she wonld
not have anything to do with it. The
dog bounded away for his master and
tried to get him to go to the field.
Failing in this, after a second trial, the
sagacious brute went to the lamb,
gathered it up gently in his mouth.
and trotted to the house, walked into
the kitchen, and, by unmistakable
signs, demanded that the lamb be
taken care of. He then turned about
and went back, unbidden, to take
charge of the flock. = Philadelphia
Times
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13
STORY OF THE DELUGE.
HEAkTRENDING SCENES IN CONE.
MAUGH VALLEY.

william Henry Smiths Graphic Descrip-
tion of the Floods Awful Approach
Mad Plunge of the Aqueous Avalanche ON
the City of COnemaugh-HOw Trains,
Houses, Everything, Went Down Before
the Fierce Niagara-Awful Scenes of De-
str1ictiOn.
Mr.. William Henry Smith, General Manager
of the Associated Press, was an eyewitness OF
the awful scenes in Conemaugh Valley on the
night of the great calamity. He tells the follow
Ing story of the foods devastation:
The fast-line trains that leave Chicago at 3 rs
and Cincinnati at p. IN. constitute the day ex-
press eastward from Pittsburgh which runs In
two sections This train left Pittsburgh ON
time Friday morning, but was stopped for an
hour at Johnstown by reports OF n washout
ahead. 1t had been raining hard for over six
teen hours, and the sides of the mountains We're
covered with water descending into the
valleys. The Conemaugh River, whose
bank is followed by the pennsylvania
flood nearly bankful. Passengers were inter
ested in seeing hundreds OF saw-loRs and an
enormous amount OF driftwood shoot rapidly
by, and the train pursued it's way eastward.
At Johnstown there was long wait, as before
stated. The lower stories OF many houses were
submerged by the slack water, and the inhab-
itants were looking out OF the second stories.
Horses were standing up to their knees in
water in the streets side-track OF the railroad
had been washed out loaded cars were ON the
bridge to keep IL steady, and the huge
poles OF the Western Union Telegraph
Company carrying fifteen wires, swayed
badly, and several soon went down. The
two sections ran to Conemaugh, about two
miles this side OF Johnstown, and lay there
about three hours when they We're moved ON To
the highest ground and placed side by side. The
mail train was placed in the rear OF the first
section and freight train was run on to side
track ON the bank OF the Conemaugh. The re-
port was that bridge had been washed out
carrying away one track, and that the other
track was unsafe. There was a rumor also that
the reservoir at South Fork, some time ago q
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13
Willie Sprague and His Father.

/ ran across Willie Sprague t'other
morning, just back from q visit to his
father, the Ex-Governor of Rhode ISL
and, who still lives at Canonchet In
renewed luxury and style. The "Gov-
ernor's" fortunes have, somehow, i'm
proved immensely, and he and his
second wife once more cut great dash.
Willie's relation to the household, by
the way, is a rather mixed one. He
married his step-mother's sister. In
due time his wife got a divorce from
him and married the manager of the
Canonchet farm. When Willie goes to
Canonchet he is Hospitality entertain
ed by his ex-consort and her present hus-
band. 1t is q curious fact that while his
son remains steadfast to the" Governor, 4"
his daughters, who both reside with
their mother in New York, never go
near him.-NeU York Journal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13
A Clear Case.

"I am sorry to see you here, Mr..
Shadbolt," said the police magistrate,
"on a charge OF being drunk on the
street. / think this is your first of
fense, though, and 1 am not disposed
to"
"But 1 was not drunk, your Honor"
protested Shadbolt. II knew exactly
what / was doing. can remember
everything that took place from the
time Dinguss asked me to lend him
SO till the policeman collared me-"
"You are well acquainted with Mr..
Dinguss, 1 presume?"
Certainly"
"Did you lend him the $10?"
81 did your Honor, but"
1.-The fine, Mr.. Shadbolt, will be SO
and COSTS" remarked the magistrate,
shaking his head sadly.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13
THE LOSS OF LIFE.
The Terrible Sacrifice Of Human Life
Will Never Be Known.

Will NeVeT DC hhOWhs
The Developments Of every hour make it more
and more apparent that the exact number OF
lives lost in the Johnstown horror will never DO
that have been made up to this time are conser-
vative and when all is known Will douDtless DE
found to have been too small. over
one thousand bodies have been 1ound
since sunrise to-day, and the most skeptical con
cede that the remains OF thousands more rest
beneath the debris nbove Johnstown bridge.
The population Of Johnstown, the surrounding
towns, and the portion of the valley
affected by the flood is, or was, from nifty
thousand 10 ffty-fve thousand. Associated
Press representatives to-day interviewed
numerous leading citizens OF YOUNGSTOWN
who survived tho floods and the consensus oi
opinion was that fully 30 per cent. OF the resi-
dents of JOhnstown and Cambria mad been VIC
Tins of the combined disasters of fire and wa
ter III this be true tho total loss OF lie IN the
entire valley may reach $1,000 OF the thou.
sands who were deyoured by the names, ano
whose ashes rest beneath the smoking debris
above Johnstown bridge, no definite informa.
tion can ever be obtained. As little will
be learned OF the hundreds who sunk beneath
the current and were borne swiftly down the
Conemaugh only TO be deposited hundreds OF
miles below on the banks aud I'm the driftwood OF
the raging Ohio Probably one-third of the decd
will never be recovered, and 1t viii
take list of the missing weeks hence
| made of the number Of lives that were
snuffed out I'm that brief hour. That this esti
| mate can never be accurate Is understood wher
| a. ia remem bered that in many instances whole
| families and their relatives were swept awal
| and found n common grave beneath the wild
waste OF waters The total destruction OF th'
city leaves no data TO even demonstrate tina
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13

iont population OF 5000 Is dead Johnstown
is wrecked and certainly 1000 people lie dead IN
the streets and among the driftwood in the SUD
siding stream. The business portion OF the
prosperous little city is oblitemted, and Tor a
mile along Main street the wreckage IL plleu
fifty feet high.
For miles below the debris Of shattered houses
chokes the stream. One hundred aud ninety
bodies were picked ont OF the river at NinoNeh,
and the ma ,ority were buried there to-day.
The depot is filled with dead, and all the pub
lie buildings left standing are used as morgues.
In Johnstown proper the work OF picking mp the
dead has barely begun.
There are about two square miles OF wreck
are gorged against the bridge and in flames. IL
| is said that 2, 900 people died there Ihis NasI
| drift is still ablaze, aud is tightly packed
| that it will require great engineering TO clear
| the stream. The river is parted by 1t, and runs
| like a milfrace on either hand.
| The lower part of the town along the river
| bank is washed as bare as n common and IL IL
! hard to believe that thousands OF dwellings
and business blocks so recently covered the
|
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13
DAzED BY THE HORROR.
Johnstown Like Great Tomb-Scenes
in the Stricken City.

in the Stricken City.
sad and gloomy sky, almost as sad and
gloomy as the human faces under it, shrouded
Johnsto to-day, continues Mr.. Giles. Rain
fell all day and added to the miseries of the
wretched people. The great plain where the best
part OF Johnstown used TO stand is half covered
with water. The few sidewalks in tho part that
escaped the flood were inches thick
with black sticky mud, through which
women who are left utterly destitute. The
tents, where the people are housed who cannot
find other shelter, were cold and cheerless The
town seemed like n great tomb. The people OF
John stown have supped so full of horrors that
they go about in a sort of a daze and only hall
conscious of>their griefs. Every hour as one
goes through the streets he hears neighbors
greeting each other and then inquiring, without
show Of feeling, how many each had lost in his
family To-day IL gray-haired man hailed an
other across the street with this question
Il lost FIVE all ale gone but Mary and L, was
the reply.
Il am worse off than that" said the first old
gentleman; Il have only my grandson Left.
Seven of us gone"
And SO they passed ON without apparent ex-
citement. They and every one else had heard
so much Of these melancholy conversation
that somehow the calamity had lost its signih-
canoe 10 them. They treat 1t exactly as II the
dead persons had gone away and were coming
back in a week.
for more bodies went on today in the soaking
rain. There were little crowds OF morbid curl
osity hunters around each knot Of workingmen,
but they were not residents OF Johnstown. All
their curiosity in that direction was stated Ions
ago Even those who come in from neighboring
towns with the idea OF days strange ano
CHASTITY experiences did not care TO he near after
| they had seen one body oxhumed There wore
hundreds and thousands Of these visitors from
| the country.
| One thing that makes the work Of searching
| for the bodies very slow is tho strange way thai
/ great masses Of objects were rolled into intri
| cate masses of rubbish As the flood came down
| the valley of the South Fork II obliterated thu
| suburb of Woodvale, where not house wa
| left nor trace Of one. The material they bat
| contained rolled on down the valley, over an'
| over, grinding ii up TO pulp and finally Leaving
| IL again st an unusually firm foundation or al
| eddy. These masses contain human bodies, bu
It Is slow work to pick them to pieces.
In the side of one of them was seen the rem
| nants of carriage, the body OF a harnesse'
| horse, baby cradle and doll, a tress OF won
| ans hair, a rocking-horse, and piece OF beei
steak still hanging to a hook.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13
THE FATAL DAM.
It's Owners Were Aware Of It's Rotten
Condition.

ltS owners were AWdTb VI lJo ASOJICil
Condition.
Messrs H. Singer George Singer, Louis Clark,
and r. Hussey Binns, of Pittsburg, relatives OF
members OF the South Fork Fishing Club have
arrived from the broken dam, says dispatch
from Johnstown. -
The lake is completely dried out. The dam
broke in the center at o'clock on Friday after
noon, and a. o'clock IL was dry. Ihas great
body of water passed out in one honI, MessIs.
Park and Van Buren,, who are building new
draining system at the Jake, tried TO avert the
disaster by digging sluice-way on one side 10
ease the pressure ON the dam. Ihey had ABOUT
forty men at work and did all they could with
out avail. The water passed over the dam aDoutH u
foot above its top beginning ut about 2%O
Whatever happened in the way OF u cloudDufst
took place during the night. There had been
but little rain up to dark. When the worknlen
awoke in the morning the lake was very full
and was rising ut the rate OF a foot an hour. III
kept on rising until o'clock, when II first be-
gan breaking over the dam, undermining IL
mon We're sent three or four times duilnB the
day to warn the people below OF their danger.
When the final break came AZ O'Clock
there was sound like thunder, and trees,
rocks and earth were shot up into lnid-alr III
great columns and then the wave started down
the ravine. A farmer who escaped said that the
water did not come down like wave, but
Jumped on his house and beat 1t TO fragments III
an instant He was safe upon the hllislde, D1'
his wife and two children Wcle killed.
At the present time the lake looks like
a cross between the crater of n volcano and
n huge mud-puddlo with stumps OF irees aad
rocks scattered over it.. There is n small stream
of muddy water running through the center ol
the lake. The dam was seventy feet high ano
the break is about 200 feet wide and there Is but
n small portion of the dam left On either side
| No damage was done to any of the buildings be
| longing TO the club. The whole south fork Il
| swept with not a troe standing.
man named Mcguire says he was standing
| on the edge of the lake when the walls burst
! The water was rising all day and was on leve
with pile of dirt which, he said, was above tn
| wall of the dam. All of a sudden II burst VIII
n "a "A
down tho mountain side sweeping before 1
| trees as il they We're chips; powders wer
| rolled down ms If they were marbles
| The roar was deafening The lake was emp
| tied in an hour and hall. All the water, IA
said, is now out. The railroad is in terribl
| condition. At some points holes twenty U
| thirty feet deep were washed in the tracks. On
| his way down he stopped at Mineral Point
| where sixteen houses were washed away an
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13
SMALL TOWNS SWEPT AWAY.
Little Left of -woodvale SCI
of Mud

out of the 900 houses that once made up the
little town of Kernville only 155 remain stand
ing, saws a Johnstown special One thousand
people is low estimate OF the number of lives
lost from this town. But few OF the bodies
have been recovered. 1t Is directly above the
ruins at the bridge, and the bodies have hoated
down into them, where they burned walk
through the town revealed a desolate sight Only
about twenty-five able-bodied men have sur
vIved and are able TO render any assistance.
Men and women can bo seen with
black eyes, bruised faces and cut
heads. The appearance OF some OF the
ladies Is heartrending. They were injured in
the flood and since that have not slept. Their
faces have turned sickly yellow, aud dark
rings surround the eyes. Many have sue
cuInbed 20 nervous prostration. For two days
but little assistance could be rendered them.
No medical attention reached them. The
wounded remained uncared for in some houses
cut of by the water and died from their injuries
alone Some were alive on Sunday, and their
shouts could be heard by the people ON the
shore.
A man Is now I'm temporary jail In what is
left of tho town. He was caught stealing gold
watch. shot was fired at him, but he wasnot
wounded. The only thing that saved hiIl from
lynching was the smallness Of the crowd His
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13
TWO cH1cAaoANs' EXPERIENCE.
How They Escaped the Rushing Wall
of Water.

Frank Felt and Sidney McCloud, two Chicago
me trehants, were in Johnstown when the ava
lance of water fell upon the ill-fated city.
Both gentlemen give it as their estimate that
the lost will number between 10000 and
1000. They say that on the night OF Decora-
tion Day they saw 10000 people in the streets,
and the town was alive with people. Friday
morning the streets were crowded with people
rnshing for the mountain when they
started, and not more than 500 reached
the place. All others went down Win
the flood Messrs. McCloud and Felt tell a
graphic story of their escape. They were out
attending to business during the morning, and
when they went to the hotel, the Hurlbut
House AZ noon there was about ten inches OF
water in the Office, and they went to
n restaurant TO get something 10 eat:
When they came out of the restaurant
they saw the streets crowded with people run
ming to the mountains. They stepped out the
back way to an alley and ran for the bill, but
had to wade through water up to their Waists
before reaching the high ground. They had lit
tie mole than n block to go, and the peo-
ple who were twenty feet behind them Were
caught by the flood and swept away. For TINS
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13

greatly needed. Money is also urgently
Teouired TO remove the debris, bury
the dead and care temporarily for widows
and orphans and for the homeless families
Other localities have suffered to some extent in
the same way but not in the same degree Late
adyices would seem to indicate that there is
GREAT loss of life and destruction of property
along the west branch of the Susquehanna and
I'm localities from which we can get no definite
information
The responses from within and without the
State have been most generous and cheering.
North and South, East and West from the Uni
ted States and from England there comes the
same hearty, generous response OF sympathy ana
help. -
be deposited with Drexel a. Co.. Philadelphia
| Jacob H. Bamberger, banker, Harrisburg or
| William r. Thompson Co., bankers, Pitts
| burg All money contributed will be used care
| fully and judiciously
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13
GOV. BEAVERS CALL FOR AID.
Money, Provisions, and Clothing Badly
Needed.

Gov. Beaver, OF Pennsylvania, issued strong
appeal for aid. II is addressed TO the people OF
the United States, and says
Newspaper reports as TO the loss OF life ana
property have not been exaggerated. The Valley
OF the Conemaugn, wnicn is peculiar, has been
swept from one end TO the other as with the
beson OF destruction. 1t contained n population
of 10000 To $4,000 people, living for the most part
along the banks of n small river confined within
marrow limits. The most conservative estimates
place the loss of life ut 900 human beings and
OF property at SIS 100000
The most pressing needs so far as food is con-
cerned have been supplied. Shoes and clothing
OF all sorts for men, women and Children are
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13

NOTHING seems much clearer than
the natural direction ofcharity. Would
we all but relieve, according to the
measure of our means, those objects
Immediately within the range of our
personal knowledge, how much of the
worst evil Of poverty might be allevi-
ated,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13

THE man who gives his life for q
principle has done more for his kind
than he who discovers q new metal or
names a new gas, for the great motors
of the race are moral, not intellectual,
and their force lies ready to the use Of
the poorest and weakest of us all.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13

A MAN is neither good, nor wise, nor
rich at once; but by softly creeping up
the hill, he every day betters his pros
pect until at last lie gains the top.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13

20 the gross sum for the destruction Of proper
ty? Can they restore the dead 20 life. aseuago
the grief OF the bereaved? The question OF NOR
al responsibility swallows up the financial as
completely the angry waters did the city OF
Johnstown WILLIAM HENRY SMITH.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13

He that accuses all mankind OF cor
ruption ought TO remember that he is
sure to convict only one,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13

SOCIETY MEETINGS.

>-~~4o-00-0-~-0l>r-(<oll N<>0-0~~<>|~
NJ f. CHURCH-Rev j. w Taylor Pastor.
Services at 10 80 o'clock an and 7la pm. Sun
day school at IL m. Prayer meeting every
Thursday evening ut IA o'clock All are cor
daily invited 10 attend.
GGAYLING LODGE. No. $50. y. e. A. NJ,
meets in regular communication ON Thursday
evening on CT before the full OF the moon.
Transient members are fraternally invited TO
attend. J.F. HUM w. n.
A. TAYLOR, Secretary.
MARVIN POST No. 24O G. A. r., meets the
second Saturday and fourth Friday i'm each
month VIM WOODBURY.. Post Commander.
]. c. HANSON, Adjutant
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-13

several lives lost At East Conemaugh thirty
houses were carried away by the nood' Inc
loss of life is large at this point.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-12
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