Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-07
it, so far as known. Pittsburg has about
100000 in receipt.
A CHANGE

at Woodvale, has issued an order request
ing all the employees TO report at the mill
office to-day. The mill, which manufact-
ured steel railway specialties, is 10 be re.
moved to MoXham, another suburb OF
Johnstown. This will leave only the
woolen mill and chemical works in Wood.
vale. The removal will be a serious blow to
its future prosperity. The new site is To-
Gated on Stone Creek, near Moxham Steel
Works.
FORTY CARLOADS OF FOOD AND CLOTHING.
Captain Logan, at Morrellville, unloaded
forty cars of relief goods to-day. He ad-
vises all goods not to be consigned to him,
but TO send them to the committees, as it
only creates confusion. Drafts for the re-
lief fund should be addressed to James B.
Scott
A carload of supplies was unloaded on
the track in Johnstown to-day by the Re-
lief Committee. There was a rush for the
goods. The strong overpowered the weak
and got the best. 4 fight occurred at Con-
Mineral Point and Woodville.
Provisions and clothing are still badly
needed.
WooLEN MILLS BURNED.
The Byron Kernville wooden mill
burned to. day. For time it looked as if
the whole village would be DESTROYED. The
mill was three-story brick, situated in the
midst OF the wrecks of several houses. The
ruins were on fire several times but extin-
guished after a hard fight by the bucket
brigade. There is strong movement on
foot favoriDg applying the torch 10 the
wrecked buildings in Johnstown, and al
though the suggestion meets with strong
opposition there is little doubt but the ulti-
Ona S~l1.inn Of . ha !; L..
will be by this method.
CLEARING UP THE WRECK.
An army of men has been for two davs
employed in clearing up the wreck in the
city proper, and although hundreds of
bodies have been recovered, not one-ffth
of the ground has yet been gone over.
In many places the rubbish is piled two
or three feet high, and not infrequentIv
there are great drifts which covered nearly
an acre.
Narrow passages have been cut through
in every direction, but the herculean labor
OF removing the rubbish has as yet hardly
begun.
At meeting of the Central Relief Com
mittee, Governor Hasting suggested the ad
of applying the torch to the great
sea of waste.
He explained that this was the only way
for the great work to be accomplished, if it
were hoped to thoroughly clear every por-
ton of the debris, and insisted il would
take $4,000 men months TO complete the
task.
PROPOSITION TO CREMATE.
A motion was made that after forty eight
hours further search of the debris of the
city that it be consumed by fire. Engines
are to be on hand to play upon the valua-
Bile buildings that might be ignited by the
general confagration.
Those whose relatives or friends still rest
beneath the wreck demonstrated strongly
against such summary action.
The physicians warned the committee
that further exposure of the putrid bodies
could have but one result-the
TYPHUs OR SOME OTHER EPIDEMIC
Equally fatal to its victims. Although the
to burn the wreck was de-
feated, it was evident the movement was
gaining many adherents, and the result
will doubtless be that in q few days the
torch will be applied.
At Minerva 7S6 bodies were consigned to
the earth to-day from the morgues about
town.
This army of dead was placed in
trenches. Less than 100 has been recog.
nized by friends, and none of them were
claimed for private burial. However, as
in majority of instances, the survivors
were too poor to stand the expense.
There is an unusual amount of sickness
about hernville. Physicians claim that
several hundred
CASES OF PNEUMONIA
Exist. Children are also afflicted with
measles and kindred complaints. The re-
action, now that the great shock has passed
in a measure, has left hundreds of the sur
vivors with their nervous forces badly
shattered and broken.
JOhnstown and the adjoining villages are
new under military and police regulations.
Each place has been provided with men
enough to keep out all intruders, and none
save those who are actually employed are
allowed to remain.
The officers are arresting men every
hour. Some of them on the slightest pro-
vocation. In all cases where the offense is
trivial the victims are pressed in to work
with the relief gangs. Notices were posted
in all the morgues to-day stating that after
to- day bodies would be held only twenty
four hours for Identification. If at the ex-
piration of that time they are not recog-
niZed
THEY ARE PHOTOGRAPHED
And the photograph bears the same
Der as the morgue number of the
corpse.
Recognition is difficult matter, as the
bodies are most terribly bruised and dis
colored when recovered. The work of
blasting the gorge at the Pennsylvania
bridge was prosecuted to-day with much
better success than on any previous day.
Several men armed with poles were busy
pushing the logs loosened by the blast out
into the stream so they would float away.
AN OLD SETTLERS OPINION.
Thomas Jacobs, of Morrellville, is one of
the Oldest inhabitants of Conemaugh val
ley. He said to-day the water OF the river
was much higher in 1887 than on last Fri
day, even after the break. The whole
trouble about this deplorable affair" he
continued, seems to be from the narrow
ing of the channel of the river and the de-
Election of its course. | remember well
when the channel ran down where the
mill below the bridge now stands.
ALWAYS A RAPID STREAM.
"The Conemaugh always has been a
shallow stream. After heavy rainfalls it
rises rapidly, as all mountain streams. Its
water. shed is largely hillsides, so con-
Y,
causing quick rises and turbulent currents
Primarily hold the Cambria Iron Com
pany responsible for the narrowing of the
channel. Secondly, the South Fork Club
for not having made the dam secure be-
yond all possibility of break, especially
when they caused the dam to be enlarged
by raising its breast, and third, the Penn
sylvania Railway for having constructed a
viaduct with such arches, low arches, and
with ribs calculated to catch pieces of DRIFT
wood if they happen to strike diagonally
on the piers. The dam made by George
Bridge is what engulfed the town."
NO 1NQUEsTs TO BE HELD.
There will be no inquest on the bodies
of those rescued from the floods. The law
of this State does not require it. The re-
sponsibility for the disaster, which can be
directly traced to the insecure condition of
the Conemangh Lake dam, will never be
legally fixed unless the survivors take indi-
vidual action.
The Committee on Supplies ask outside
cities not to relax their efforts in forward
ing provisions and clothing for the next
sixty days.
Company F of the Fourteenth Regiment
was ordered on duty to-day at Somerset to
prevent a train bearing 1,500 sightseers
from coming to Johnstown. No one will
be allowed to pass the picket lines except
of this place and those coming
looking for relatives or friends among the
dead.
APPEAL FOR AID.