Bismarck weekly tribune., 1889-06-14

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| If he is not willing to agree to all the com
missioners have said to you, then ther.
will be no thing done and you shall remain
as you are. There is no desire in the hear
OF the commissioners to urge you. You
must decide for yourselves, and each one
for himself. The paper is here; you thai
want to sign, do so. have nothing fur.
ther to say Crow Dog, who killed Spot.
ted Tail, was the first to sign.
/ sickening Sight.
JoHNsTowN, Pa. June I. Eight thousand
men have been at work here to-day clean
ing out the debris, but truth cOmpels the
statement that the undertaking has moi
yet been fairly started. Fires are burning
up and down the valley of the Conemaugh
as far as the eye can reach. The air is
thick with smoke and yet to people familiar
with the situation: the efforts of this army
OF earnest toilers is hardly appreciable
VIM. Finn, mounted on weary looking
steed, is riding up and down the city
directing the foremen in their labors, and
his executive ability is telling its own
story, something like system being estab.
lished. But the most careful estimates are
to the effect that it will take 10000 men
weeks to- clear up the heaps of ruins.
There is established belief. with many
people that newspaper reporters live
chlet1y in the world of fiction. Could
every person who reads these lines see the
frightful sights that have confronted the
members of the press during the past
week, they would all unite in declaring
that only small portion of the story has
been told. Human fancy cannot conceive
the horrors of the situation. This report
is being written in the second story Of a
building worth fifteen dollars, which
commands a view of the mountainous
wreck at the point Of the bridge. The
stencil that is waited through the doorless
and windowless structure by every pass.
ing breeze is sickening. An hour ago the
writer made tour of the mighty wreck in
company with Arthur Kirk, the million
aire oil man, who is looking after the work
OF opening up the river channel, chiefly by
the use Of dynamite. Dozens of human
beings and animals were to be seen on. the
surface, charred and blackened by the fire,
and in such state Of decomposition that
the strongest men could no more than
glance at them. Mr.. Kirk, who is man
Of iron nerve and a stranger to fear, de-
clared that lie was sick at heart and
anxious to quit the scene, In fact, while
he was talking with the reporter,
the chief Of the sanitary committee came
to him and said that:Director Scott begged
him to stay and carry on the work. He
will stay to the limit, but his task is an
awful one. Elghty-six men from Altoona
under orders OF the sanitary officials are
scattering disinfectants lover the acres of
wreckage that the railroad bridge stopped.
Kirk declares that thousands of bodies
will be found i'll this territory alone. The
great trouble thus far experienced at the
bridge has been caused by the mass of
telegraph wires that reach across the
various spans through which the water
has passed. Line repairmen are badly
needed to help in removing wires, and
Kirk says that as soon as they are gone he
will hustle the debris through by the acre.
The Western Union Telegraph officials
have been asked to send experienced men
here to help in the work. The problem of
the hour is the disposal of the debris above
the Pennsylvania railroad bridge. Unless
it is got rid of, the stencil will be so over
powering that no human being can with
stand it.
NEW YORK's RELIEF.
NEW YORK, June 7.-COntributiOns for
the relief of the flood sufferers continue to
pour in during the day. Among the con-
tributions received by the chamber of COM
merce was $1,000 from the London &
Brazilian bank of London; paid through
Mayor Grant to Treasurer Simmons $24I,-
212; received by the treasurer from other
sources, S52885; Total $294.O97.
THE WATTS MISSION.
JoHNsTowN, June 1.-THE Waits Mis-
sion is deing noble work in Johnstown.
Miss H.tW. Hinckley and her assistant
Miss Cordelia Hancock are the heroines
of the hour. Within an hour after their
arrival upon the scene OF horror they had
established bureau and were receiving
children and wee babes that had been
orphaned by the cruel food and flames.
STRICKEN WITH PEsTILENCE.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 7.-.Are the hor-
1ors of the food to give way to the terrors
of the plague ~ is the question that is now,
agitating the valley of Conemaugh. To-
day opened warm and almost sultry and
the stencil that assails ones senses as he
wanders through J0hnstown is almost
overpowering. Sickness, in spite Of the
precautions and herculean labOrs of the
sanitary authorities, is on the increase and
fears Of an epidemic grow with every
hour. .It is our impression said DR.. T.
L. White, assistant to the state board Of
health this morning, ssthat there is going:
to be great sickness here within week.
Five cases of malignant diphtheria were
located this morning on Bedford street,
and as they were in different houses they
mean five starting points for the disease.
All this talk about the dangers of an 'epi-
demic is not exaggerated,a jas many suppose,
but is founded on all experience
THE DAM EXAMINED.
,JCHNsTOWN. Pa. lime "A M Walln0.