Telegram-herald., 1889-06-03
CHOULS Al NORA AMONG TIE DEAD
A Sad Sundays Work Resculns
Bodies From the Debris.
sIsEVaH, THE CITY OF The DEAD"
Eleven Carloads or eonas Asd fhtrty
Caa-rt&ksFs-Iso fhsasaRa k~si-
aeae@s la a Confused barains
saysasts o. kssp the
SFosa BACK.

eIoTt Tor -yNrfAi tAFS 10 gam Al N44-
trance into the valley IN which was
located the city OF JOhnstOwn, accom-
plshed their purpose just as the light
Of this mornings sun broke over the
mountain tops surrounding the place
OF desolatl0n. The news received ia
this city during the day confirms ia
almost every detail all OF the gravest
fears, statements and eoniectures that
have been entertained. All reports re-
eeiyed agree that the city Is literally
ruin, the description Of which IS simply
impossible.
Prom JohnstOwn 20 Mineral Point
tower, the Pennsylvania road bed has
been completely swept away. For
distance OF One-fourth of mile the
road - uninJured, then comes another
complete wreck to a point above south
Fork. Twenty Pennsylvania
railroad locomotives and an unknown
number of both frcigh. ears and passen-
ger coaches are lying IN the river bed
under the debris of Johnstown at the
stone bridge The towns OF WOodvIlle
and Conemaugh borough, above Johns
town, are swept a. clearly OFT the face
ol the earth a if they had never had
an existence. OF woodville's popula-
ton OF 1900 souls barely half dozen
have besn accounted for. The Hun
garian colony at Cambria City are steal
ing and plundering everything they can
reach.
The work of exhuming the dead at
JOhnstOwn has only begun, bat already
more than one hundred bodies nave
been carried out of the ruins. Eleven
carloads of finished collins and thirty
undertakers arrived during the day,
and the work of interment, which be-
gan this afternoon, wall rapidly prog
ress under the direction of u specially
organized force OF men. Nineveh Will
hereafter be known as ''the city OF the
dead, - for at this point the COnemaugh
has gwen up a large portion of It's dead.
When the waters receded from
the fields and bottom lands over
which it had flowed stiff,
staring and naked, bruised and
mangled bodies of men, women and
children, from the aged to the infant,
lying on the soft mud was most hor
Tible scene, making heartsick those who
witnessed Il. Nunemacher' planning
mil was used rs temporary morgue,
aud L was there that the blood-stained,
swollen and dIshgured remains, of
whites and negroes, were first placed
for protection and Identification, if
such things We're possible. Some of the
faces were wreathcd IN dimpled smiles;
upon others death-stamped looks OF
agony and horror that spoke the IRE
prcss.ble language of the soul while
struggling with death Most of
the bodies recovered ut this place were
Catholics, and around their necks hung
emblcms of their religion. The attire
and features of majority showed
them to bc of the lowly class, yet there
were many bearing gevidence of culture,
refinement and prosperity.
Directly across the river IN Indiana
county there are 3l5 bodies reported
living m the open air unattended TO.
The officials Of Indiana county sent
word that they would attend to the re-
covery Of the bodies during the day.
The probabilities are tina: large ma
jority Of the victims viii never bc
identified and Will an namcless graves.
During the day several persons sue
ceeded in making tour OF
what If left of Johustovn. ON
the uppcr floor of the club house
tn best preserved building standing five
bodies are lying there. unidentified.
one VI them woman of fine appear
arce. Here and there bodies can be-
seen sticking n the ruins. There no
doubt but that Wild as the estimates of
the loss of life and damage to property
have been. it IS even larger than there
is vet any idea Of More than Zoo0 res
idences De I'M the confused mass Of
burning debris lodged above tte Stone
bridge az the lower CnJ of the toen.
The ruins are rCcAing with che ue.. VI
decsvnu ard burning bodies. Near
tle cize of tae RUNS the decay
rr body of stout co,oreJ woman
s .v.ur. Ikr tae mcaroi Cor r.n31s