Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-06-06

HcOrn-Attecttng scenes as the Dead I
are RecOvered-Onc Hundred Dead |
Eodics at Sineveh.
PITrsBURa, May 81. "A sudden freshet is !
reported In the North Fork river, east OF
Johnsrown. Pa, In the Allegheny noun !
tains. The food has resulted In an awful |
catastrophe. The North Fork reservoir,
above the town, broke at about O'Clock
tAia evening, and the immense volume of
water rushed down to the city, carrying
with II death and destruction. -
Houses with their occupants were swept
away and hundreds OF people we're drowned.
There is no Communication with John
stown, but Telegraph operator In the
Pennsylvapia railroad tower az Sang
Hollow, "a miles this side OF Johnatown,
Gays 1t least rs dead bodies have aoated
past. The wires are all down. and no
trains are running east OF Balrsville, which
Is about rs miles west Of Johnstown
Johnstown Is the most populors town In
Cambria county. II is on the Conemaugh
river and on thu Pennsylvania railroad. SO
miles from Altoona and rs miles from Pitts
burg, and Ia the eastern terminus OF the
western division OF she Pennsylvania canal.
The extensive works of the Cambria Iron
Company, which employ abou. 1000 men
in the manufacture OF iron ami steel rails
for railroads. are located In the town,
special from Greenshurg Pa, says:
JohnBtown Is completely submerged and
the loss OF life Is inestlmable. Houses are
going down the river by the duzeu. and
people can be seen clingiug to the roofs. AT
Caketown, q village OF several hundred In.
habitants the houses are almost entirely
covered, aud a great many dwellings at
Dlairsvllle are submerged. Scarcely
dwelling In the Vicinity OF Sang Hollow can
be seen.
The bridges at Bolivar and Nlneva, II Is
reported, have given way,and that ut Salts
burg. 1t ts feared, will be carried away.
People hero who have friends In the flooded
district are eagerly waiting for news at the
telegraph ONCE. Great uneasiness prevails.
Tha river ut Livermore Is rising, and great
obstruction .g.ill follow.
Alta point near New Florence. IS persons
have been seen floating down the river on
! arittwood. One report comes that only
'wo roofs of the houses IN JohnstoWn can.
% seen. the UoVetoWn ann tne new .oteuee
ridRes have been washed away, and all
We buildings along the Conenaugh river
.st,geen New Florence and Johnstown have
been carried away. The railroad towers
ave been abandoned by the operators.
The latest Information received from
ohnstown corlss through Pennsylvanla
abroad officials, who aver that over 2OU
lend bodies have been counted floating
down stream at Jamestown alone. while
along the line many additional lives nave
been lost. II IL asserted that there are only
TWO houses In Johnstown proper entireiy
above the water line.
A gpecial train bearing Pennsylvania road
officials aud large number OF newspaper
zen has left this city for the scene. Tele-
raphlc eomm lnication Is entirely cut on,
nd until Telegraph repai.men and opera
lIs, with necessary Instruments, open al
lie nearest point, but little trustworthy In
ormation eau be obtained.
A dispatch from Latrobe says that the
De able to run nearer than six to eight miles
OF rnat part Of Johnstown where the hooa
was wofst. . ~. %
sne OF disaster. The telegraph wires
eng down absolutely for six or seven
niles below the Immediate SCENE vi .uo
dtsaster, and being IN unworEaoie SNAPS
for three or four miles distance, II was W
least n d. m. before an accurate outllhe
of the effect OF the disaster could De
learned. The chief officials Of the PITTS
burg end OF the main lie OF me tehhsyl-
vaDia road received most OF lneiL n.s So "a
formation from the signal tower az sang
Hollow, six miles west OF YOUNGSTOWN, Az
IN O'Clock boy was rescued by men II
the signal tower OF the railroad company.
His name Is unknown, but ne shlu lnae
with his father, mother, broihor ana IVY
sisters. be was swept away IN tho liRnt
s,ama honss which was their home. He
WAC washed away from the building, Dut
va ne other members OF tile family were
In II when II was swept over the pr5as' y
he new stone raj road bridge az JOINS
Town that 1t eapsiz9d rev seconus latSL
and they were all drowned 80 H'f as n7
could tell.
The railroad operator officially reports
that before dark they were able TO couh'
li9 PERSONS cllng!ng TO buildings, Wreck
age, or drowned and floating ia the CUT,
rent. Ifthls information ia TO be creplV !,
~ k,.aN ru Mr.
the nature OF clean sweep. as carry hs :
O'Clock the alarm was sent 70 JohlstoWn
that there was danger from the dam
The railroad officials we're notified, ahd
In q very short time began to carry peoplt
from She town to places oil salety On Eehu
lar trains and hastily improvised rescuint
trains superlntendent Pitcairn OF INT
vgestern division OF the Pennsylyanla ran
rcad was on his way to South FORK ant
Was notified OF the impendinH trouple'
TaE pFNSsYLvANIA RAILROAD CUT II ivy
PHILADELPHIA, May 3l.--At the oniue ~
the general manager OF the LIE, Iii n,
wires OF the company west OF Miiinoie,
statIon on the Plttsburg division, 70 nut
west nf Altoona had been down Slice o.. . :
m. and that consequently the inioiI inaa /,
40 regard 10 the break west OF that p laco !
very meagre Enough has been leaEn '.e
harovar. 10 Indicate that tire rush OF waite
n The worst ever known IN that section,
Rroad street ststion the following bnlletl
for the information OF travellers was posto
about 8 O'Clock: .,or,a, storr
son account OF the unprecedented s.o ~. y
prevailing In the western part OF this sun ~ y,
the lines west OF Altoona have oeen ats1
aged. but to what extent caDnot oe asee es
tanned until the water subsidies, me stoLt
Is still raging. and It is thought no train
Will be passed until Sunday" -. III
m Tine Chicago limited express winch y! y.
New York at O'Clock this morning, M
st line, leaving there at the same y .. nIu
nd the train leaving that city a. oeioI
1t might, are ell laid up al Atoonu
80 To- night dispatch was reee s,is1s y
General Manager Pugh, dated Wlini MI,
srom The conductor OF the east,Dounu nc
York and limited, WHOA left PlttsDu,g ~
O'Clock this morning, saying the tts'n NJ N
safe ana that all were well on boaru, ,,i az
Pugh inferred from this thai tne hin .it,'
vas laid up somewhere west OF tn, hlas,
he conductor reported that the prlase
outn Fork was washed away ana ~
essed the opinion that all the priag,
5etween South Fork and Jamestown WS ~
mi