The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-12
WRECK OF THE WATERS.
VOLUNTEER wORKMEN ALREADY
LEAVING FOR HOME.

Day - The Finding of Bodies Still
Almost Momentary Occurrence.
JoHNsTowN, PA, June 1I.-Notwith-
standing that this is the twelfth day since
the food, most of the newspaper correspond
ents are still without sleeping accommoda-
tons of any kind, and, as on the first day.
are sleeping in barns, brick kilns and other
places, without cots or blankets. Cots have
been sent them, they are told, but they are
too busy to watch the trains. Some one
else gets them. The militia have cots and
blankets, as have also the laborers, but the
correspondents, who are doing the hardest
kind of work for the outside world, are
forced to endure the greatest hardships.
The supply of provisions is improving some,
and they manage to get one, and sometimes
two, fair meals day. The provisions sent
to this valley do not seem as yet to have
reached the right places.
AN OUTRAGE ON THE GIvERs.
A number of carloads of all kinds of
supplies have been sent to Morrellville. and
as there was no damage there the stuff has
been misapplied. A prominent citizen of
Morrellville said this morning: ''There is q
large class of people here who have not lost
a thing in this food, yet every arriving
train finds them in line ready to receive
their share. 1t is safe to say these people
have secured enough provisions to last them
six months and clothing enough for five
years."
CAMsRIA's IRON WORKS.
The Cambria Iron Company's works and
yards showed this morning the best results
thus far seen of the bard work TO make
them a semblance of what they once were.
The head of each department was told to
clean up his own part Of the plant, and as
each department is damaged to about
the same extent, they will all finish about
the same time, and the works will be
started. The railraad running through the
yards was first repaired and the wood and
iron wreckage is hauled to different parts
of the yards, and great piles of wood are
being burned, while the iron will be ex-
amined later.
LAST OF THE VOLUNTEER WORK.
This was the last day for clearing away
the effects of the flood by the volunteer
authorities. Tomorrow the state takes
hold of the stupendous work of restoring
the valley to its condition before the flood,
and all work done after today will be
under the supervision of Adit. Gen.
Hastings. The volunteers who have SO I'M
tiringly worked for the object of
restoring order will have finished
their self-imposed task to-day. After
twelve days of almost superhuman
work by the army of volunteers the state
will assume its proper place in the work
and do what every citizen of this common
wealth has known for days to be its duty.
The weary and dreary succession of
rainy days since the food continues, and
The day broke amidst a drizzling rain
With but a single exception, every day
here since the deluge has opened with rain,
but while the rain has made the work more
diSagreeable it has had some good results
SOME OF THE GOOD EFFECTS.
But for the almost continuous rains the
river would have become too low and shall
low to float away the debris that is fast
being loosened and thrown into it, The
continued full stream has rendered the
work of getting the wreckage away from
the stone bridge much less arduous and
much more speedy. Again, the rain has
served to cool the hot air and temper
the rays of the June sun. Had there
been continuously such weather as pre-
vailed yesterday afternoon, hot and
exhausting, it is believed by many
that it would have been impossible to CON
tlnue the work of searching for the dead.
Even as it is, the fumes arising from the
decomposed bodies of persons and animals
are mosC offensive, and at times almost
overpowering. So noticeable has this be-
come that each gang of men searching for
the dead carries quantities of disinfectants
and when body is located the vicinity is
thoroughly saturated with disinfectants
BY this means work, which otherwise would
be unbearable, is less offensive. The horror
OF the situation has not diminished but
rather grows.
FINDING BODIES CONTINUOUSLY.
The search for the dead continues, aud in
all sections and directions bodies are being
found. Numbers of bodies are now coming
70 the surface Of the waters, and those
whose work has made them competent
judges say as many more bodies as have
peen found are lying somewhere. In many
unexpected places bodies are hourly being
found, and where this will end no human
mind can guess. At o'clock the monoto-
nous work began, and a the day advanced
the sun came out and the morning hours
We're hot and muggy. The fires that had
Deen klndled among the timber near the
stone bridge were quenched by the rain,
ana the valley was filled with
Steainy and ill-smelling yapors An exodus
seI IN here to-day, which before the day
closed reduced the number of men here by
many hundreds. The willing and hard
working volunteer laborers began TO leave
early this morning, and a train leaving
mere at o'clock this morning took away
over 400. This is merely the beginning of
the great outpouring that will set in to-
morrow, and many are leaving to-day in
order to avoid the rush tomorrow.
OBJECTION TO THE CUT IN PAY.
Among those who left here to-day were
1oJ laborers from the Hartman Steel Com
pany, at Beaver Falls. They said they would
not work for 81 80. 1t is the general opin-
ION here that Gen. Hastings has made a
mistake in offering less to the men than is
PAID at present-S2-and that the result
Wll be temporary cessation of work.
00ne 0ne of the first things to be done by
yen Sen Hastings will be to
discharge the 800 policemen now
DONG duty here. In this connection there
Is likely to be much grumbling and hard
Cd4k 1t has been decided that they should
not be paid out of the relief fund, but that
the county whose sheriff deputized them
should pay for their services. Some persons
took for trouble from this source, but the
general opinion is that the question will be
nS,Inlcably settled. ALI the men employed by
3ooth & Flynn were paid off to-day and
uscharged, and transportation was fur
IlShe1 Tor as many as do not want to work
1or the state at 81 80 per day. A number
VI ,l;I men will ramain, but a great majority
VIII leave
number Of proprietors of stores are
nuTrylng to get their places of business in
ofder. Those who have done this have
uone much to encourage others. A more
Sheerful and hopeful feeling prevails and is
oally increasing.