Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-14
Clerks Canva ssing JohnStOwn to As
certain Those Living.
The Country Under Martial Law and
no Strangers Allowed.
The Recovered Bodies Now PASSED All
Identification.
Not Sutfi cient Food to Alleviate the
Intense Suffering.

| every house Ill this vicinity and secure
the names of the living. and another
corps of men will endeavor 20 find out
who the missing are, and in this matter
it can be hardly definitely known just
| how many lives were lost IL the food.
The revision register list shows that only
1900 people had registered up until 1
| O'Clock this afternoon at the different
registration stations. By this list it If
! plainly apparent that large numbers of
survivors will not take the trouble to go
! and register. At one of the stations, con
sequently, the plan of having registers
make canvass, was adopted. The great
! number of bodies not identified seems al
most iIcreduious and impossible. Some
bodies have lain in different morgues for
| fonr days. Thousands of people from
| different sections of the country have
seen them, yet they remain unidentified.
! At Ninevah they are burying all unidenti
fed dead, but in morgues in this vicinity
no bodies have been buried unless they
! were identified.
JoHNsToWN, Pa, June Ga wall has
| been thrown about JohnstOwn, and no
| body can enter unless 1t is srown that he
| has business III the city. The Pennsyi.
| vania railroad has been making every
| effort to keep out the crowds, but the
| Baltimore and OHIO opened yesterday
| and brought in q food of people from
Somerset valley this morning. When
! General Hastings heard Of il he had
| conference with Scott and O'Mara, of the
| Pittsburg police force, and 1t was decided
! to send Co. F, of the 14th regiment to
| Som srset for the purpose of preventing
| any further rush of people this way.
| A cornmIttee OF citizens accompanied
the militia. They will stop off at all
| stations along the road and demonstrate
with the people against comir < to Johns
| town. The crowds of curious ones is
| constantly growing and hinder the work
| of removing bodies and clearing away
debris. On the Pennsylvania road the
side gates are practically shut, and it is
hoped this move viii have some effect on
the Baltimore and Ohio. There is but
one bridge across the Conemaugh and
| nothing but a pass from adjutant
Hastings or Scott will carry one over 1t.
| Gloom black as ink settles over Johns
| town as the sun goes down and the
cOlored lanterns of the railroaders being
about the only relief to to the darkness.
| Supt. Duncan of the Allegheny county
light com pany, is still here awaiting the
arrival of his engine, dynam0s, etc,
which have been blockaded in the Penn
! sSlvanIa freight ards west of the town.
| There are tons and tons of supplies IN
| this blockade. The sanitary question is
! the paramount one of the hour. The
state boaru of health is looked on as a
more potent factor than the militia and
civic forces combined. This afternoon
| the work of the board was distributed,
| DR.. Lee taking relay to Pittsburg with
the intention of establishing headquar-
ters In the city hall. This force of sani
| tary inspectors will be es ablished, half of
which will go up the river by boat, and
| the remainder will take the construction
crew up the railroad. The latter have
adopted cremation as a cry, and tomOr-
row night the desolate valley Will be lit
up with bonfres of wreckage
which will be pyre ,of hundreds of dead
bodies. DR.. Morrel, deputy chief of the
state board of health, said today the
| point had come in this horror when sen
timeut should be laid aside. To endanger
the lives OF the living that the dead may
be identified is no longer justifabIe.
! Besides bodies all past being en-
| balmed and friends can scarcely recog-
! nize the features any longer. Identifica
! ton is possible by the clothing or
]
is now IN charge CT the Jo1ustowu
! bureau states that the board of health and
! sanitary inspectors assured the press
| CORES pondent that there is no
! immediate danger OF an epidemic in
| Pittsburg. The danger is, said he,
| that the people will be scared into being
! sick. We need thousands of mel to work
! on the debris aud clear it of carcasses.
! An inspector ust arrived from the
| WoOdVale districu reports great destItu-
! tion. There is nothing in to En but flour
! and bacon, an very little of that. This
! afternoon it was reported TO
| Chief Gageby, of the police
| committee that body of alleged
rescuers at the foot of Main street were
removing jewellery from bodies they car
risd away. Gsgeby ordered policemen
to go and pretend TO superintend the
| work for the purpose of apprehending
The thieves. Special police had to be
detailed to prevent stealing from debris
| back of the general hospital.
| Johnstown and adjoining villages are
| now under thorough military and police
| regulations. Each place has been pro
vided with men enough to keep out
| irtruders, and none save those who are
|
remain. The officers are arresting men
every hour, some of them on the slightest
| provocatiop. In all cases where the
! offence is trivial the victims are pressed
into the work with the relief gangs.
! Notices were posted in all the morsues
today, stating that after today bodies
| would be held only pa beurs for ioentifics-
| tion. If st the expiration of that time
they were not recognized they were pho
| tographed, the photograph bearing the
| same number rs the morgue number of
| the corpse. Recognition is a difficult
| nstter, as the bodies are most terribly
bruised and discolored when recovered.
A motion Was made that after
| forty-eight hours farther search,
| the debris be consumed BY fire.
| engines to be on hand to play upon any
| valuable building that despite previous
precautions, might become ignited by a
general oonfag ration. Those whose
! relitives or friends still rest beneath the
wreck, remonstrate strongly against any
such summary action. Physicians warn
the committee that the further ex oosure
of putrid bodies could have but one re-
sult-Typhus fever or suue other equally
fstsl to Its victims. Although the
proposition 30 burn the wreck vss de-
gaining many adherents and the result
will doubtless be that in few days the
torch will be applied.
New YORK. June 6-Msyor Grant asked
Governor Beaver if portable houses
would be useful. In a few minutes Gov
ernor Beaver seat the reply. It re ea6:
Sup piles of clothing and bedding great
ly needed in WIll.amsport and Lock
Haven. We are shipping supplies TO
both points Houses / think are very
desirable as l hsye urgent req uests for
more tents to shelter the homeless and
those who are at work removing the
debris. II these houses could be pushed
forward at once they would bring much
needed reiief- The removal of the vast
accumulation of wrecksge at Johnstosn
will be the work of weeks and 1t Is esti-
mated by reliable parties 10 COS. over q
a million doliars-h
WuLIANsPoRr, Pa, June 6.-Wo1d has
been received from the Crescent Nail
works on the Northern Central railway
that the place has been nearly all washed
away. Macy houses and part of the nail