The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-12

preclude the nope OF recognition pS
their nearest relatives.
CLEARING UP THE DEBRIS.
The work Of clearing up the wreck
and recovering the bodies is now beng
conducted more Systematically. Over
six thousand men are at work at various
portions of the valley, and each little
gang of twenty men is directed by a
foreman, who is under orders from gen
eral headquarters. AS the rubbish IS
gone over and bodies and scattered artl-
cles of value recovered, the debris is
piled up in one high mass and the torch
applied In this way the valley IS as
suming a less devastated condition. In
twenty-four hours more every mass OF
rubbish will probably have been searched,
and Investigations will be confined to
the smoking wreck above Johnstown
bridge
MILITARY ON GUARD.
|. Pittsburgers are now in sole charge
of everything at this place. The Four
teenth Regiment has not yet been as
signed to any duty by Adiutant General
Hastings. In an interview this morn
ing he said: The regiment was ordered
here to do guard work and take charge
of the place. We will not declare mar
tial law, for the reason that there is no
necessity for it. The local police and
the citizens, who have been doing yeo-
man service, are about tired out, and
will assign the regiment to guard work
this afternoon and relieve the police
General Hastings sent the following
telegram to Governor Beaver this morn
ing: THE Chief of Police of Johns
town informs me that there were no de
predations last night, and everything is
quiet this morning. Stories about riots
and lynchings are untrue, and are sent
out by people who are desirous OF making
sensations"
FEEDING THE HUNGRY.
At Johnstown station, on the East
side of the river, everything was quiet,
vet considerable work is being done.
This is the chief commissary station, and
this morning by , o'clock $4,000 people
were fed, and about COO families fur
nished with provisions. Five carloads
Of clothing were distributed, and now al
most every one is provided with clothing.
At the different registration places
$4,000 residents of the devastated dis
trict had registered as alive and well.
The total population of this district was
between 10000 and $4,000. There We're
hundreds of people waiting around the
offices to have their names placed on the
list of saved. It is thought that By night
at least S5 per cent Of the survivors
Will be registered.
Roger O'Meara, Superintendent of the
Police of PittSburg, who has been here
| for two days looking for crooks and
pickpocketS, said that the reports about
robberies and thieving were very greatly
exaggerated.
THE LOSS OF LIFE.
Conservative men are of opinion that
the number Of people destroyed will
reach from 10000 to $4,000. This view
of it is based on many fragments of evl-
dence obtained from over one hundred
citizens carefully selected from as in
tellgent men and women as could be
al. .ies =
different occupa} is possible, and
from as many socY asses.
They were asked t. estimate the per-
centage of loss to total population, to
tell how many people of their acquaint-
ance have disappeared, how gatherings
cf residents on the streets and in public
places compare with the same in former
times. Their statements of fact and es-
Inmates were proved as fair as could be,
and the calculation shows list of from
-, 900 to Is, 900. 1t must be remembered
that very large proportion of this loss
is made up of children. How strkingly
frequent is reference made in the death
list to Mrs. Jones and six children, "
Mrs. Smith and five children In the
morgue
LITTLE ONES LIE IN DOZENS
where adults are in half dozens. There
is and has been great difficulty in recov-
ering the bodies of children. Being
lighter and smaller, they have often
been swept into out-of-the-way recesSeS
that are almost inaccessible and are
more easily carried away. \ very great
proportion of children have been swept
down the river, and their bodies driven
in under the overhanging banks, under
thickets and in other places where there
is only a sparse population and where
search is not carried on in careful and
organized manner. AS an illustration
of this, just above New Florence some
fragments of clothing were in full view
of party on the river bank. Hundreds
of people passed the place for three
days, looking for bodies, but thought It
was only shreds of worthless clothing
they were looking at. Finally some
body pokcd at the rags with stick and
the swirl in the current brought a two
vear-old babe to the surface.
The drift of opinion among intelligent
men. physicians, engineers and railroad
men, is that from 1000 to 1900 of the
bodies will never be found.
Recovering the Dead.
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diminished vigor, and as the Workmen