Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-06-04

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patrolinp the city. The people who have
been properly in the limits are permitted
to enter the city if they are known, but
otherwise its impossible to get into the
town. This regulation seams harsh, but
it is necessary. The relief committee
from Ohio are pitching their canvas tents
on the hillside. They have 900 of these
canvas tents, and they are being rapidly
utilized 80 inst rs erected
Searching for the Dead
For the first time since the flood men
bsve been put 10 work on the debris at the
bridge aud are hunting for the bodies that
have not been burned beyond recognition.
This morning man, woman and child
were taken from the ruins. The child wss
clasped in the arms of the woman, and the
trio were evidently husband, wife and
child.
1t ia a most distressing sight to see, the
relatives of people who ara supposed to be
lost standing around watching every body
as it is pulled out, and acting in an almost
distracted manner.
Up to this morning people living here
who lost whole family and parts Of fam
lily hardly seemed to realize what dread
fol calamity had bsfallen them. How
ever, this morning people are getting h
understand the situation aud agony
Is stamped on the faces Of
every one, and it is truly a
city of mourning. Ten bodies were taken
ont of the debris at 9:2O this morning.
There was nothing to identify them, as
they were burned almost to q crisp. 1t is
thought, however that seven of them be-
long to one family, as they we're all found
under the roof of a house partly burned.
AHero's Ride to Death.
A nameless Paul Revere lie somewhere
among the unknown dead. Mounted on q
bic bay hOre, he came dashing down the
pike, which passes through Conemaugh t.
JohnstOwn, shouting his p1rlentious warn
ing:
"Run for your lives TO the hills ="
''Run to the hillsp ~
The people crowded out of their houses
along the thickly settled streets, awe
struck and wondering. Nobody kue
the man, aud some thought he was n
maniac and laughed
Ga at a deadly pace he rode snd shrilly
rang out his awtul cry. In few moments
however, there came flow of ruin down
the brosd streets, down the narrow alleys,
forty feet high, some say, thirty, accord
irg 10 others, was this sea, and 1t travelled
with terrible swiitness.
On and on raced the rider, and on and
on rushed the wave. Dozens of people
took heed of the warning AID ran up to She
hills Poor, faithful rider, IT WAS an un-
equal contest. just ss he turned across
the railroad bridge the mighty wave fell
upon him. and horse rider and bridge all
went ont INTO chaos together, and the
hero persisted.
They Saw the Broken Dam.
Messrs. II Singer, George Singer, Louis
Clark and Russey Binus, OF Ptt7burg, rel
atives of members of the South Fork Fish
ing Olub, have just returned from the
broken dam. They AL had friends or rel
stives at the lake, aud being very
anxious ~ - their fate. they made p
daring track through the flooded district,
aud after a careful examination. returned
this morning Mr.. Harry Singer. IN
speaking OF the trip said 1--WE left Pitts
burr IN he day express ard got to Sang
Hollow gbou' l 20 O'Clock. We wen
up to JonnsjoWA nut could no.
yet acros, there We then went
up Stony Creek = couple of miles and got
a msn 20 fsrry us across, and took The
/ Fcank-town road around me hill 10 ths
lake. Il ia about tel mies rom Johns
town 10 the lake by this road. We
reached the Club H0usa at 6:3O, worn ont
| Sy the tramp. We found that Mr. James
| Clark. SON Of G J Clark, and the two
| Shay bows and Mr.. Lewis Hsron had
started from the lake on Saturday on
horseback to South Fork Station 10 take
tbs train 10 Altoona. They got NO further
than Aloous owing 10 wnshOuts, and
thev are shll there There was no one at
the lake when we arrived except the GUS
todisna of the building and some work
men. A J. Heating and George wilson
arrived last night about II o'clock.
'The lake IS completely dried out. The
dam broke in the centre At three o'clock
on Friday afternoon aud at four o'clock It
was dry. Tbet great body Of water pass ed
ont in an hour. Messrs. Park and Van
Burep. no ore building "a new draining
system a! the lake, tried to avest the di5-
aster. and 90 dig sluice wsy on one side
10 ease the pressure on the dam. 1hey
had ahont 400 men ut work, and did all
ev could but without avail. The water
nassei over the dam about foot above It's
ton. beginning at about halt-psst two.
People Repeatedly Warned
whatever happened in the way OF
cloud burst took place during the night
There had been but little rain up to dark
When the workmen awOke in the morning
the lake was verv full and was rising at
the rate of foot an hour. It kept on
rising until at two o'clock it first began
breaking over the dam and uudermininglt.
ttNIen were cent three or four times to
warn people below of their danger. When
the final break came at 3 o'clock there
was p sound like tremendous aud continued
meals of thunder trees, rocks ard earth
we're shot up into mid-air in great columns
ard then the wave started down the
ravine. -
A farmer who escaped said thet the
water did not come DOVE ike a wave. but
iumped on his house and beat it TO trag-
ments in an instast He was safe upon
the hillside, but his wife and two children
were killed.
How the Lake Looks
At the present time the lake looks ike
a cross between the crater of volcano and
huge mud puddle, with stumps of trees
md rocks sc ittered over it, Thee Is
mall stream of muddy water running
tbrouph the center Of the lake site. The
d,m was 70 feet high and the break Ia
abont 2Og feet wide in the river. There Is
but small part of the dam left on either
side No damage was done TO any Of the
buildings belonging to the club or mem
bers.
The whole South Fork is swept out as
clean IS a river bed with not tree stand
inc There are but one or two small
streams showing here and there in the lake.
A great many Of the workmen are carrying
off baskets full of fish which they caught
in the mud.
A smsll-sized cold wave mas struck the
town and the people are badly 10 need OF
clothing The newspaper men are amonS
the sufferers. II is almost an impossibil-
ity to get aoything TO eat, there ia nothing
10 smoke and only water to drink.
LyncheTs at work.
The Citizens Committee are making
desperate tf')rts to preserve peace and
Hungarians at Cambria City are being
KENT in their houses by men with clubs,
who will not permit them to go outside,
There seems to be considerable race prelu-
dice al Cambria CITY and trouble may fol-
low ae both tine English and Huugarians