The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-12
THE RUINS OF JoHNsTowN.
Pennsylvania To-day Takes Charge of she
Work of Clearing Them.

! JoHNsTowX, June 1.-THE impending
change III the control Of the town, the exc
6us of workmen and the food of survivors
and steady rain have combined to make
JOhnstown quiet to-day. At all the head
quarters work has been narrowed down to
the finest possible character and good
many faithful men are getting the rest
they needed long ago.
Tomorrow Mr. Scott throws down the
reins OF government and Adlutant-General
Hastings takes hold. At least S1O0,OOO will
be paid out to WOrkmen tomorrow morn
ing, and the majority OF it will leave town
with the men who earned II. The new
leaders claim to have d number Of plans to
introduce by which the work of clearing
up the wreckago and caring Tor the sur
viyors VIII be greatly systemat;zed and sim
pited. Ire military will be retained
Good progress was made IL clearing ont
the channel of Conemaugh above the
bridge To-Day a uumuet of suduIunary
engines ana long cables are being USED to
pull out the heavy tlmbers The morgues
are about TO be abandoned on account of
the Tad condition Of the bodies now being
recovered. identification is almost impos-
sible, unless by personal effects found upon
the bodies.
The suaue board of health still issues en-
couraglng bulletins, although Isolated cases
OF pneumonia and measles are reported
generally from suburbs.
spirit OF recovery took firm hold on
Johnstown's citizens today. Everywhere
the owners OF property We're hard at work
cleaning out cellars. drying carpets and
bedding and inaGgurating Il general reno
walton.
Gtl.eral Hastings this evening said: The
WORK OF cleaulns up the city VIII be done
oy contract, and negotiations will be
opened at once with leading contractors
Several may be employed, but can't say
who will get the work at this time. Until
a commission is appointed. Scott has voluD-
UeereG MS services and will render all the
assistance in his power
QIartermaster Baker started out to-day
to canvass Johnstown proper, in order 10
classify those VINO nted provisions. To-
night the men turned in !, lS7 names, and
the city was not nearly all visited. Bake l.
says IL Is surprising the amount of need
that was unearthed. a great many ladies'
were found whose families were really suf-
ferIng, ana had tailed through sense OF
delicacy 10 apply for aid. The humiliation
OF seeking renet is removed by the system
NOW beng introduced. The expectation IS
that the food and clothing when have been
will now 90 to the more respectable and re
firing class.
L. d. Uuver, of Philadelphia, who is in
charge of the stOrehOuSe established in
the German Catholic church, said :
Twenty carloads of provisions and cloth
lug were unloaded there to-day. Enough
clothing IS arriving in JohnstOwn to supply
the city for two years.
Thirty bodies were recovered to-day, all
being in an advanced state of decompOsi-
ton. In one or two instances maggots
were at work on them, and the flesh was so
sO1u that extreme care was necessary or
thelinbs would be torn from the trunks.
This afternoon the body of Miss G.. A
Christman, the foreign missionary from
New Orleans, who was on the fated day
express, was found Her body was en-
balmed and placed in handsome casket
TO await the disposition of friends. She
was a woman of tinC appearance, and was
finely dressed III Il light brown dress with
braided front. On her person was found a
draft for $40, valuable gold watch and a
small amount of money.