Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-08
RuRIEp JOHNsrOWN.

Fifty Thieves Jailed Yeeterday-An-
 other Thrilling Story of the Disaster
 How Nineteen People Were Saved.
 JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 7.-Thomas Magee, the cashier of the Cambria Iron company's general stores, tells thrilling story ot the manner in which he and his fellow clerks es- caped from the waters themselves, how they saved the money drawer and rescued the lives of nineteen people during the progress ct the flood. He says: ''It was 4:15 o'clock when the flood struck our building with crash. It seemed to pour in from every door and window. in all sides, as well as from the floors above. was standing by the safe, which was open at the time, and snatehed the tin box, which contained over $12, 900 in cash, and with the other clerks at my heels flew up the stairs to the second floor. In about three minutes we were up to our stomachs in water and started to climb to l the third floor of the building. Here we re- mained with the money until Saturday morning, when we were taken out In boats Besides myself there were in the building Michael Maley, Frank Balsineer, Chris Mentzmeyer, Joseph Berlin and Frank Bur- OCT. all of whom escaped. All Friday night and Saturday morning we divided our time between guarding the money, providing for our own safety and rescuing and feeding the poor people who were floating by. We threw out ropes and gathered logs and tim bers until we had enough to build raft, which we bound together with ropes and used in rescuing people. Before this we cut large pieces of capvas and oil cloth and wrapped it around bread, meat and other eatables and threw it or foated it out to those who went by on housetops rafts, etc., whom we could not rescue without getting c~ AL 1-sc s,Sv 1a must have fed 160 people in this way alone.
 "When we were rescued ourselves we took the money over to Prospect Hill and sent for the justice of the peace, who swore us all in to keep guard over our own money and that taken by Paymaster Barry from the amounting to $4, LOGO, under precisely the same circumstances that marked our escape. We remained on guard until Monday nig ght, when the soldiers came over and escorted us back to the office of the Cambria Iron com- pany. where we placed the money in the company's vault"
 FIFTY THIEVES.
 Fifty men have been arrested for loafing about Booth & Films tent and stealing the provisions from the working men.
 TYPHOID FEVER
 Dr. Lee says that one case of presumabl typhoid fever had been reported from some distance out of town. The doctors say there is not case in town yet. Large quantities of sulphate of iron have been placed in vari- ous parts of the ruined city as disinfec- tant.
 4S7 OUT OF i, 400.
 When the Gautier steel mill of the Cam bria Iron company closed down at 10 o'clock last Friday morning, nearly fourteen hun- dred men left the works. When the men yesterday answered the notice that all should present themselves ready to work, only 467 reported.
 LOOKING FOR RELATIVES.
 Gilbert Blair, Herman Wilson and c. H. Waterman, the frat a professor of music, and three young men from Johnstown who have located in Minneapolis, arrived in the city yesterday to ascertain information of their parents and relatives. The parents and four brothers and sisters of Blair were found to have been lost. Dr. Wilson, the father, and the entire family of Wilson were also drowned. Waterman was the only one of the party who had not suffered the loss of near relatives.
 VIGOROUS WORK AMONG THE RUINS.
 The first effort, aside from that being made upon the gorge at the bridge, is in the upper part of the city and in the Stony Creek gap, where there are many houses with great heaps of debris covering and surrounding them. Three or four hundred men were set at work with ropes, chains and axes upon each of these heaps, tearing it to pieces as rapidly as possible. Where there are only smashed houses and furniture in the heap the work is easy, but when, as in most in- stances, there are long logs and tree trunks reaching in every direction through the mass, the task of getting them ous is slow and difficult one. The lighter parts of the wreck are tossed into heaps in the nearest clear space and set on fire. Horses haul the logs and heavier pieces off to add them to other blazing piles Everything of any value is carefully laid aside, but there is little of it. Even the strongest furniture is generally in little bits when found, but in one heap this morning were found two mirrors. one, about six feet by eight in size, without a crack in it, and with its frame little damaged; the other one, about two feet by three in size, had little crack at the bottom, but was otherwise all right.
 ANOTHER TALE OF MISERY.
 Wandering about near the ruins of Wood. Morrell 6 Co., .'s store a messenger from Mer- rellville found a man who looked like the pictures of the Tennessee mountaineers in the Century Magazine, with an addition of woe and misery upon hls Raunt, hairy tace that no picture could ever indicate. He was tall and thin and bent, and, from his ap- pearance, abjeetly poor. He was telling two strangers how he had lived right across from the store, with his wife and eight children. When the high water came and word was brought that the dam was in danger, he told \ his wife to get the children together and come with him. The water was deep in the streets and the passage to the bluff would have been difficult. She laughed at him and told him the dam was all right. He urged her, ordered her, and did everything else but pick her up boldly and carry her out, but she would not come. Finally he set the example and dashed out himself through the water, calling to his wife to follow. As his feet began to touch rising ground, he saw the wall of water coming down the valley. He climbed in blind terror up the bank, helped by the rising water, and reaching solid ground, turned just in time to see the water strike his house.
 "When turned my back" he said, "I couldn't look any longer" Tears ran down his face as he spoke. Just then messenger arrived and seeing the man told him that the dead body of his wife had just been extri- cated from the wreck. The stoutest heart would have melted in sympathy at the old