The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-06
Men Fired Upon by Soldiers While
Rssuelng the Bodies.
Three Men Killed in an Idaho Mine
By SuffoCatlOn.
A Man and Wife Found Dead in a
Barn at Plttsburg. Kas.
An Extensive FIre-Other Items of
Interest.

this morning on loss of life
based on registry of living and unofi-
cial poll puts it from l 900 to $1,000.
In the midst of this scene of death
and desolation, a relenting providence
seems to be exerting subduing intu-
ence. Six days have elapsed since the
great disaster, and the temperature
still nremains low and chilly in the
Conemaugh valley. When it is re-
membered that in this ordinary June
weather of this locality from two to
three days are sufficient to bring an
unattended body to degree of decay
and putrefaction that would render it
almost impossible to prevent the
spread of disease. throughout the val
ley the inestimable benefits of this cool
weather are almost beyond apprecia-
ton. The emanationS from the half
mile debris above the bridge are but
little more offensive than yesterday,
and should this cool weather continue
few days longer it is possible hum
dreds of bodies may yet be recovered
from the wreck in such a state of pre-
servation, as to render identification
possible. Many hundreds of victims.
however, will be roasted and charred
into such ShapelesS masses as to
to preclude hope of recognition by
their nearest relations. The work of
clearing up the wreck and recovering
the bodies is now being conducted
most Systematically. Over
SIX THOUSAND MEN.
are at work in the different portions OF
the valley, and each little gang OF
! twenty men is directed by a foreman
who is under orders from the gener.
al headquarters. AS the rubbish is
gone over, and the bodies and scat
tered articles of value recovered, the
debris is piled up in one high mass
and the torch applied, In this way
the valley is assuming less devastat
ed condition. In tWenty-fOur hours o.
more every mass of rubbish will prob
ably have been searched, and the in
vestigations with be confined to thu
smoking wreck above the JohnstowI
bridge.
OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT.
JoHNsTowN, June 5.-Some oyer
jealous militiamen caused some eX
element near the MOrrell Institute il
JOhnstown proper by their OutrageOu
conduct. Some men employed by
5. Brown, a carpenter, were put t
work rescuing bodies shortly after day
light. Two local soldiers were patrol
| ling the place, and when they saw tn
men at work, they told them the
would have to stop operations. Thi
the men refused to do saying they ha
been employed by the citizens commit
tee to do the work. The soldiers CAV
them one minute to get away from tn
place, and as they were in no hurry t
obey, the guards fired two shots bu
did not succeed in hitting the workman
who started on a run to General Hast
mgs' headquarters. No one was ther
at the time but the matter was re
ported to the general, and he state
that the shooters would be court-mal
tailed Immediately if caught. at tn
JohnstOwn station on the east side G
theriver everything was quiet, yet cor
siderable work is being done.
This is the chief commissary STATIC
and this morning by O'Clock tw
thousand people were fed, and abOu
six hundred families were furnishe
with provisions. Five car loads G
clothing were distributed and now a
most every one is provided with cloth
ing. At the registration offices
1000 RESIDENTS
of the devastated district had register
ed as alive and well. The total popJ
lation of the district was between 40
900 and so 600. There were hundred
of people waiting around the Office
have their names placed on the list G
saved. It is thought that by to-mol
row night at least eighty-five per cen
OF the survivors will be registered