The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-06-13

JUNE ID, 1880.
scription, together with the morgue number
a. we'll q the place Of burial. The list WI
be posted Of different places throughout the
town for the information Of inquiriug
friends. Very few Of these, however, will
cards. The work Of digging out the corpsee
yet in the ruins scattered ali over the place
IL progressing somewhat slower. Az ten
O'Clock yesterday morning not one new body
had been recovered. The fifteen bodies
taken from the door Of Aims Hall were the
last recovered. II IL impossible to tell when
the other unfortunates will be dug out, II as
al, although large force Of men 10 at work
| at tho hall.
Five thousand men were at work ycster.
day clearing away the debris on the island.
! Superintendent Flynn says that 1t will
take 1000 men sixty days TO clear away the
wreck. At this rate It will require 81 ,5O0,-
600 to pay for the work. This does not In
clude the other expenses. Five million dol
lars will not be enough to put Johnstown In
shape for rebuilding.
, Late Wednesday afternoon . little boy
was taken from the ruins alive, and after
| considerable trouble resuscitated and given
over TO his father. It has since been learned
| that his name ID Eddie Schoefler
Yesterday morning the Altoona men who
have charge Of the wreclage above the
bridge loosened up debris by blast Of
twenty-five large dynamite cartridges, max
ing IL possible to open the mouth Of the old
channel. Tho day express which was swept
away ct C0nemaugh was also located. Ruins
Of the train lie about 100 feet from the
fourth buttress from the western end ofthe
stone bridge. IL 10 evident from the tracea
Of some Of the passengers which have been
found that more lives were lost from this
train than at hrst supposed. ~
Al noon yesterday the borough Of Johns-
town and the adjoining boroughs, or what's
left Of them, practically passed under mar.
tisl law. AdtutAnt General Hastings ssys
he has not declared martial law, YET the SOL
diery are on guard and no one 70 permitted
between the rivers unless he hae An order
from the Adjutant General. The sightseers
are debarred altogether, and tho town 10 in.
accessible except TO newspaper men and
other people who have business here. Il Il
probable that the Eighteenth Regiment viii
Be ordered. out, from the fact that II takes
% many soldiers 70 cover the ground. A
special guard will have TO be put at Kern-
Vile, Millvale and Cambria City and other
points. ' .lHst r1l-t .I,.-..
7:45 O'Clock yesterday morning the frat
blast Of gunpowder was fired at tho bridge.
It proved more effective than any Of the
charges Of dynamite heretofore used, and
hurled fragments Of debris two hundred
feet into the air. Mingled with 1t was .
round fragment, which looked like the
trunk Of human body. It fell back into
the water with splash and glided with the
swift current under the bridge before It
could be pulled in. Explosion after explo-
sion Of dynamite followed the blast Of gun
powder, the detonations coming so close to-
gether that they might almost be taken for
the continuous discharge of heavy guns
An opening four hundred feet long, which
runs back in some places fifty feet, was
made during the afternoon.
There will be no inquest held on the bodies
Of the thousands Of residents of the Cone
maugh valley who lost their lives in the
worlds unprecedented catastrophe. The
law Of the State does not require such an
investigation and the responsibility of the
disaster, which can be directly charged to
the insecure wall which held the wall Of the
Conemaugh lake, will never be legally de-
termined unless survivors should take inde-
pendent action. All reports that arrange
ments for an inquest had been commenced
are untrue.
When the Gautier steel mill Of the Cam
bria Iron Company closed down ut ten
o'clock last Friday morning nearly 1,400
men left the works. When the men yester-
day answered the notice that all should pre-
sent themselves ready for work, only 4S7 re-
ported.
PITTSBURGH, June 7.-The general relief
~, oil rrixr foIl
ing: "Hon. w. Flynn, in charge Of our la
borers at Johnstown, reports that it will re-
quire 10000 men for thirty days with all
modern appliances to clear the wrecks along
the ten miles of destruction, take out the
corpses and carcasses Of dead animals and
place the city in safe sanitary condition.
This will cost double the amount now in the
hands of the committee, which does not in
clude the relief for the suffering and desti-
tute, which is very great, all of which has
been carefully attended to. The destitute
are brought to this city, fed, clothed, housed
or sent free to friends all over the land. We
ask that the generous subscriptions which
are coming from all over tho country be
continued until sufficient funds are pro-
vided to complete the above work, Of which
due notice will be given through thepress."
Morris, Tioga County, is q total wreck.
The Dover mills and the Blackwell mills are
gone and many dwellings and other build
ings swept away. The Pine Creek railroad
track is torn away and large amount of
the embanhment washed away just west Of
this city At Saladaysburg houses andmills
were flooded and in some instances moved
and greatly injured. Many bridges were
carried away and great destruction caused
at every point All along the line Of the
Philadelphia & Reading track through the
city destruction meets the eye, many cars
having been lifted from the track and torn
in pieces. The number of houses toppled
into heaps of rubbish can not yet be stated,
but 1t is quite large. Along the entire river
front lumber and other drift are piled up as
high as the houses. A car load Of coal was
carried distance Of five miles and left
sticking on top Of piece Of the boom.
JoHNsTowN, June Stare the horrors OF
the flood to give way to the terrors Of the
plaguel" is the question that is now agitat-
ing the valley Of the Conemaugh. Friday
opened warm and sultry and the stencil that
assails ones senses as he wanders through
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