Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-05

ccdtng Waters-Corning. Olsnn and Belnont,in New York State, Visited by Death ana Destrrc,lon-Troopa Ordered to Sohnstoxvn from Pitts burg.
 JoHEsTowN, June 5.-The estimates of the number of lost have mounted up again with an awful leap. - { Twenty thousand Is now the figure, and 1t is believed not to be exaggerated, The bodies were taken out yesterday in enormous numbers. The total of those recovered is not far short of 5000 so far, and it is being increased every moment The big force of men at work have la bored with feverish haste. There are 2,500 of them. Gen. Hastings has placed all the labor of clearance in the hands of Booth & Finn, the Pittsburg contract ors, who have sent down an army of men, in charge of about fifty experienced fOremen. sS Part of them went to work immediately in what is known as 1Johnstown proper, anu HUH UhC CAAAO pAACJ pSSdh IhSS turned out bodies at the rate of about one every ten minutes. In addition to these bodies, were those taken from the wreckage just above the stone bridge. MT. Arthur Kline, of Pittsburg, a pow der m an, set off half dozen blasts of dynamite in the midst of the debris yes terday.
 Hhn C., Oe I trees and everything imagineable that had collected ore were thrown high in the air. <
 To the people who stood on the bridge watching the blasting was presented the horrifying spectacle of flying arms and legs.
 They fell back into the mass, but it had been loosened and the work of clearing it away went ahead more rapidly. ! Portions of bodies were taken out and put together as best they could, but 1t is certain that many a trunk has arms and legs which never belonged to it be- fore.
 The horrifying sights at the morgues and at the cemeteries grow more horrify- ing.
 A second schoolhouse had to be taken for another dead house. It Is upor Prospect hill. It Is a pretty, new build ing of brick, and the rooms are light and large.
 here are brought the dead that arc taken from Woodvale. Those that are found in Johnstown are sent up to the Adams street school house.
 Yet another morgue has been estab lished at Morrellville, two miles dowr the river, for the reception of bodies taken from Cambria city and near there The bodies in the school house in Pros pect Hill are in collins. Pasted on thu lid are the doctors certificates.
 It is just reported that 25O lives wer, lost at Phillipsburg.
 It is said that 900 bodies were take1 out at Ninevah, instead of 300.
 Mayor Reed has issued an order tha idlers and curiosity seekers would not b tolerated any longer in town. All wh refuse to work will be ordered to leave and if they do not go, will be arrested They will not be asked to work for noth Ing, Dut LII WuO WoAh VIII Ue pdlu 1dl wages.
 b,ast of dy namite was exploded i the debris above the railr oad bridge yes terday afternoon. It was more effectiv than those before it, blowing up the dc bris in the ..ir from fifty to seventy-fiv feet. and forty-five bodies were take out
 They were in horrible condition burned and mutilated almost beyond tn semblance of human beings. They coul not be identified and were carried to tn morgue, where they were placed in co fins just as they were taken out, an kurriedly buried.
 Itwas a most trying task for the Ill dortakers and their assistants.
 Camp Hastings, as the collection tents that face the Ebensburg Pix about mile and a half north of tI town, has been called is within sight the Prospect mountain burial ground.
 There are sixty tents there and all al full, as are all the houses along u Ebensburg pike road.
 The camp is in excellent condition There are four commissary tents file