Telegram-herald., 1889-06-01
4 PENNSYLVANIA IOWS SUBMERGED
Ons Man Counts Eighty Seven
Bodies Floating IN . River.
FIRE ADDS TO The DESTRUCTION
Appalling scenes On the Line OF the W est
P~aasyissaia Railroad d-Wrsekass
Forty Feet Hfgh sad On firs-Ihs
strongest Bridge on the Road
s.spt Away with q Train OF
Carr pom AZ.

railroad all along the ryer, from
Johnstown 10 New Florence, : washed
away, and travel IS entirely suspended.
At Saug Hollow the operator IN one OF
tine railroad towers counted eighty
seven dead bodies floating down the
rver on the driftwood. The river rose
50 rapidly that AL the operators IN the
towers between Saug Hollow and New
Florence had 90 fee for their lives.
The bridges al New Florence, on the
Pennsylvania railroad, and CoketOwn,
on the West Pennsylvania, were carried
away. Houses, furniture, etc, are being
carried down the riyer. The latest
report = that Johnston is entirely sub
merged and the roofs OF nut two houses
are visible, while Il IS still raining and
the river rising at very rapid rate.
The cause of the food Is attributed to
the bursting OF water spout and the
breaking OF the South Fork reservoir,
which covers an area of one square
mile, and has had twenty feet of water
IN il.
The latest j. that JOhnstOwn is now
gone The wires are down and no tom
municatiOn can be had with JOhnstOwn
tonight. No trains are running east of
BlairsviIle, twenty-five miles west of
JOhnstOwn, and there viii be no trains
through 10 the east before tomorrow.
al JOhnstOwn report
PITrsBURG, Pa, May Sl.-Pennsyl-
wanna railroad officials in Pittsburg
state that they have advices that over
200 dead bodies have been counted
floating down stream at J JOhnstowna alone
while along the line many additional
lives have been lost. Johnstown is de-
scribed as wholly submerged, only two
houses being entirely above water line.
A special train has left Pittsburg with
Pennsylvania Railroad officials, news
paper men and telegraph operators on
board. A telegraph office will be
opened at the nearest available point to
Johnstown.
W. y. Hays, supervisor of the station
OF the Pennsylvania Railroad, covered
by the food, telegraphed at 10 o'clock
tenight 20 Superintendent Pitcairn "a
follows: "The destruction is terrible
The dump at Johustown is gone Be
tween the bridge and tower west of
JohnstOwn at some points the tracks
are euhTely carried away and
the r0ad-bed gone. The river
for three-quarters of mile
above the bridge is filled with
buildings and driftwood forty feethigh.
and Is on FIRE, burning furiously, and
is entirely beyond our control. I can
not estimate the amount of damage.
walked over tonight from Johnstown
% sang Hollow. JOhnstown Is entirely
wiped OUT
superintendent Pitcairn, who is at
New Florence, sixty-ive miles east OF
Itttsburg, tclegraphs that over one
hundred men, women and children
passed >aug Hollow cllnglug to debris
Seven We're rescued at Saug Hollow.
two at Conemaugh furnace, and two
at New Florence. Only fOrty-seven of
the one hundred and over passed New
Florence. The loss of life and property
viii be- terrible.
A Tsmcs special from Blarsville sta
ton, on the Pennsylvania railroad SAYS
"I0hn Barton, a freight engineer, says
that at p. M he saw three men and
woman struggling for their lives IN the
Conemaugh river Just below Johns
town. The Western Union office in
JonuStOTn Was swept away NJ O'Clock
Tins afternoon. The water I'm Cambria
City, where are located the Cambria
iron works, Is thirty-tve feet deep and
rising
Reports from along the Ki-kiminetas
rlvev. INTO which t0o t0uemaugh
smpties, are most distress ~. The
1ver near Salisbury is filled With
rrc1kage. and number If persons
were uoticed clugu- to such tmhers
IS would bear thcIr weight. At Blsirs-
vile men are stationed on the
bridge and banks .n the hope of
resCuuE some 0f those VINO were being
carried down the stream The volume
Of water IS Unprecedented. The iron
bridge connecting Bia.rsvilie with
Blarsvllle intersection has been carried
sway. and with lt q train of heavily
losded cars standing upon the bridge
O. hold % M place. This was the larE-
est and strongest bridge ON the West
Penusvlvan,a road. It u thought
railroad bridges uil share a smi-
lar fate. All of the towns in the
K5sk mInetss Valley are expected to be
submerged. among them are Liver
more. Sal scurv. Apollo, Leechburg
and Avcumore. having populations of
from $500 to 10000 each. The in
habiants along the river have been
warned bat are almost psulc-stricken
az she fdea If their great loss ~ pro-
pertv. which e inevitable.
Later rrportt from Coket0wn are e.
Che effect that the entire town IS s1b-
nerEet. and a number Of hives have
been lost ar that place.
BrABSvIIrF. Pa Ndnight-A reI-
able courier inst arrived states that
l5oo lives are lost nv the food st Johns
town.
Charleston. W. Va n Danger
tHtR-Fsrov. ". Va. Nav 2I.-The
big ksnswhs river = on a rampage.