The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-06-06
INCIDENTS OF THE FLOOD.
Pictures of Wreck and Misery-Afd
Freely Offered.

Pictures of Wreck and Misery-Afd
Freely offered.
Great Indignation Is felt against the stock
holders o the South Fork lake. When the
dam was first made people. protested against
its construction. To continoa body of water
one mile wide, four miles long and 60 feet
deep is no easy task, and fe'rs have often
been expressed that such catastrophe would
happen some day 1t is even asserted that
an attempt will be made to compel the stock
holders to foot the damages, and, if this
should be done, they will be ruined fnan-
cially.
Relief committees are being organized
everywhere All the newspaper Offices the
post office and all the larger business estab-
lishments all over the untry have opened
up subscriptions for the sufferers, and thous-
ands of dollars are being gathered together.
The dead have been computed at not less
than 5000, and the number may even exec,
this estimate. his seems incredible, but not
until the waters will have abated and the
work of removing the dead from this ire
mendous mass begins it will be impossible
to tell how many lives have been lost.
The PRESIDENT has sent telegram to the
mayor of Johnstown, Pa, expressing his
sympathy for the people of that city in their
recent calamity, and saying that the secre-
tary of war is considering means for their
relief. He also made q contribution to the
relief fund
From New Bethlehem it was telegraphed
that the Dubois dam had been swept away,
and soon after the dam and boom at Brook
ville belonging to Wainwright & Bryant was
CARED off by the waters, and S,000,000 gal
Ions Of whiskey were destroyed Their loss
is calculated at $500, 900. At Lockhaven the
boom burst and 8, 900, OO) feet of logs were
swept away, causing loss of 1906, 900, and
in a stream above there were 100000 600 feet
of logs and nothing it is expected, will be
saved.
m the history of western Pennsylvania
journalism there has never been such diff
Guilty surrounding the gathering Of news as
in the present disaster.
The damage to mining property cannot be
estimated A number Of collieries are flooded
and many are completely wrecked. It will
be two weeks before the mines can resume.
The Reading Coal and Iron Company will be
the greatest sufferer.
Pittsburg is absolutely wild with excite
ment. Every hour brings fresh news Of dis
aster. The widest sort Of rumors are afoat
and the estimates now being made place the
loss Of life far up In the thousands
A house was seen floating down the Kis-
kimenetta today, near the intersection with
the Allegheny. In an upper window was
man quietly trusting to fate. The house
swept down and crashed against the railroad
bridge at the intersection, and no more was
seen of the man.
There were some ludicrous scenes which
at q less sorrowful time would have occa-
stoned much merriment. Two amphibians
saw a whiskey barrel coming down the Al
leghany river with stamps apparently in
good condition, and every indication that
the barrel contained some 40 or moro gal
Ions of liquor. But they found the bung out
and the disgust on their countenances was
visible at a distance Of 200 feet. Another
floating barrel that excited vehement desire
for its possession on the part of crowd Of
navisators was found to contain lard.
Some of the latest reports from Johnstown
say that seven houses are still standing. but
the chances are that hardly one is there.
1t is estimated that 10000 people are lost,
and that Jamestown, Conemaugb, Morrell-
town and other suburban towns have been
washed from the face OF the earth. The re-
eion above Johnstown is yet to be heard
from; but in the mountains the same scenes
of desolation are reported.
The Pennsylvania railroad has bought or
contracted for 300, 600 worth of lumber for
rebuilding uses on the lines affected. The
contracts were made by telegraph yesterday.
and were generally at the owners price
without demur. Lumber yards all over
western Pennsylvania have been drawn upon
for all the heavy timber in sight.
ultdsut co dio OOiHS tdhtu ull ONeT the
country by governors, mayors, Masonic
b, dies, etc, for the relief of t o sufferers Mt
Johnstown and vicinity. The movements
seem to be general
Wholesale robbery of the victims is re-
ported, and thieves are arriving by the
score. One unfeeling wretch was seen to
rifle the pockets of a deal man, and remove
his gold watch and chain, and then turn to
woman and take from her finger ring.
A drunken Hungarian with pick In
his hand, was discovered in partly
demolished residence in the act of break
ing open trunk, when a police officer
came up behind him and dealt him blow
with his club which rendered him uncon-
scious. The cash collected by the committee
here for the sufferers has reached 5000, and
It is probable that this will be doubled in a
day or two. A carload of provisions and
clothing was sent to Johnstown this morning
from here.
The commissioners and poor directors of
Indiana, Cambria and Westmoreland coun-
ties have met at Nineveh to decide upon a
plan for the burial of the dead. It is likely
that plot of ground will be selected Just
across the river in Cambria county, and the
same will be purchased By the three coun-