The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-06-06

away. begged for relief. One woman
asked man on the banks to out
her legs OF A man was caught BY
the arm and he asked for knife
to sever tho member. Others were 81
smashed and squeezed to death beneath
tho grinding timbers and surginQ waters
Some wero pressed deep into the water.
and the flood soon ended their misery.
But when tho fire broke out in the mass of
tambers nobody escaped Saturday after
noon men succeeded In reaching the ruins,
but were pOwerless to aid No APP
pnanoos were at hand TO do proper work,
and the people who are welged In among
tho ruins of their houses against the i'm
mense stone bridge, facing death by food,
BY IRE, BY hunger and by exposure, arc, in
al human probability, beyond hope. How
many OF them are in this awful plight may
never be fully known. E.
TRAINS WASHED AWAY
PHILADELPHIA, June Authorization was
received Saturday night ut the office of the
Pennsylvania railroad of irightful dis
aster to two Of the through trains from
Pittsburgh, which have been supposed to
be safe Ut Conemaugh. Assistant Surerin-
tendent Trump telegraphs from Blairsville
junction that the day express, east-bound
from Chicago to New York, and the mail
train from Pittsburgh, bound east, were
put on tho back tracks In the yard at
Conemaugh when the flooded condi-
ton of the main tracks made it apparently
unsafe to proceed further When the con-
tinued rise OF tho water made their danger
apparent the frightened passengers fled
from the two trains to the hills near by.
Many In thar Syj1A
themselves into the raging current and
were drowned It Ia supposed that about
fifteen persons lost their lives I'm
this way. When Superintendent Trump
reached Conemaugh he immediately
gathered together the remaining passen-
gers of the two trains and had them con-
veyed by wagon to Ebensburg, distance
OF about ten miles These survivors are
now at that place. The conductors Of tho
trains went with the passengers to Ebens-
burg, and the Pullman conductor, who is
supposed to have q list Of those under his
charge, is there ALSO
Mr.. Trump said that If the passengers
had only remained whore they were in
stead of jumping into tho water the ter
rible loss of life would have been avoided
After the people had deserted the cars the
railroad officials state the two Pullman cars
attached to the day express were set on
fire and entirely consumed. A car of lime
was standing near the train. When the
water reached the lime it set fire to the car
and the flames reaching the sleepers en-
tirely consumed them.
Mrs. Halford, wife Of the Presidents pu-
vate secretary, was on one Of these trains
with her two children. She was helped out
of the parl0r-car by trainmen and friends
oy16 nv ho <nok
ceeded In gaining q point Of safety far up
the hillside before the roaring water swept
away the train.
THE RUIN IN YOUNGSTOWN.
SANG Hollow, Pa, June IA reporter
was the first man to cross to Johnstown
proper by means Of q basket suspended
from a cable, rs passengers are removed
from wrecked ships. Here the scenes were
magnihed in their horror Police officers
and others were rendering all possible aid,
but the number of the dead seems greater
than the number of the living. Cinder,
Market, Main, Locust and Washington
streets have been swept clean and
bare OF all buildings of whatever character,
and their inhabitants seem to have fed into
the streets at the first warning of danger.
and others rushed to their deaths, for those
who remained in their houses had an oppor-
tunity to flee to the upper storiea When
the houses were frame they were fioated
from their foundations, aud many were
saved.
The Hotel Hubert, q brick structure, had
sixty five guests, and sixty three of these
were killed by the falling in of the floors
and walls
-Four travellers who were staying at
the Hurlbut went to the top floor when
the flood came, and after wishing each
other goodbye" surrendered themselves
TO fate. Fate was death to three of them.
The Morrill, library, the school-house,
Alma Hall, general stores and offices of the
iron company and one other brick building
are all of probably {, QUO buildings that have
not been fioated from their foundations or
caved in.
The condition of the streets is one of
unparalleled desolation Fine thorough
fares in the most densely populated parts
of the town are denuded of the shores
which once were the pride of their inhabit-
anita Trees have been denuded of their
branches, their trunks standing bare and
broken, or are uprooted and swept
away. 1t is no exaggeration to say that
not a single structure now left within the
confines of the city is safe as a place of
habitation, aud all must be torn down and
rebuilt All boats and water craft having
been swept away, the means of getting
about the deluged streets is attended with
danger.
A stencil arises throughout the whole val
ley of the Conemaugh. 1t is more awful,
more fetid as the hours go by with each re-
ceding ripple of the sullen river A
score of additional corpses are hourly
revealed with CHASTITY faces upturned
to an unfriendly sky Of clouds.
Death stares one in the . eyes at
has transformed the rugged scenery of the
Chestnut ridge, Pack Saddle and the sylvan
glories of Laurel Hill into monstrous
valley of the shadow of death Johnstown
is as completely shut off from the world as
Charleston was when an earthquake shook
her silent
All food supplies having been destroyed
and all places of shelter having been rem
dered insecure, hundreds took refuge on
thu slopes which surround the city on all
Sides The scenes of these camps were pa
thetic Little children clustered round
their elders crying for food and shivering
with the cold mountain air. For sixteen
hours the little city was cut of from the
world, and the tragedies of that awful night
can never be told
FOOd, clothing ana money are needed ny
the inhabitants of the stricken city. They
need shelter Also The citizens of Pitts
burgh and Allegheny have started relief
fund which is growing rapidly, but the
sum needed Is more than any one CON-
munity can give. Foud has been forwarded
from the cities and towns along the lines
Of the road.
The Cambria Iron Company has sent .
CORDS of butchers to it's farms. two miles in
the country, to slaughter all its blooded
cattle for the supply of every one free.
A formal appeal has been sent out to every
city of the Union asking for food and cloth
Ing quickly.
The actual loss of life can not possibly be
ascertained within less than a week or ten
days
Tho damage done the Cambria Iron
Works. mills is incalculable, and they will
have ITO spend a fabulous sum in repairs be-
fore they can resume work, which will not