Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-06-07

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covered family OF five people in the
snoking and burned ruins above the
bridge. They took out father, mother
and three children, all terribly burned
and mutilated. The little girl had one
arm torn of.
RECOVERED 2,2oo BODIES.
And the Awful List VIII Mount Up TO
Over 5000, without Doubt.
JoHssTows, Pa, June &.-The devel-
opments Of every hour makv it more and
more apparent that the exact number OF
lives lost in the Johnstown horror will
never be kuown. "All indications point
to the fact that the death list will reach
over 5000 names, and in my opinion the
missing will reach $500 in number y
declared Gen. y. H. hastings last night.
At present there are said to be 2, 200 re-
covered bodies. The great difficulty az
perisnced In getting . correct list Is the
great number of morgues. There is no
central bureau of information. and TO
communicate with the different dead
houses is the work Of hours. At 9
o'clock in the evening the 630th body
had been received at the Cambria City
Depository for corpses.
Bodies Are as Plentiful as Logs,
only the swirl Of the waters put the
bodies under and logs and boards on top
In the general stacking up Of the animate
and inanimate. The risidity of arms,
standing out at right angles to the
boated and bruised bodies, shows that
death in 90 out Of 100 cases took place
amid the ruins, that is, after the wreck
Of houses had closed over them. DR..
d. q. Foster, who has been here all day,
u OF the opinion that most Of the victims
v>re killed by coming in violent contact
witt. objects in the river, and not by
drowLSns.
rhr~e Hundred More Discovered.
JoHssTuwN. Pa. June 4.-Three hum
lred bodies were discorared during the
afternoon in the sand at k.>rnvills, near
the mouth Of Sandy Creek. 1I.>re were
NO eoffins there at the time ant the
bodies had to be laid on the grounu.
Most Of the rescuing party have been up
for two days, yet they work with .
determination that is wonderful. Engine
Company No. Is, of Pittsburg. which is
playing q stream on the fire at the stone
bridge has il now almost extinguished,
and the task of getting at bodies under
the burning debris will soon be com
msnced in earnest. Undertaken rian-
merry states 'naI ooaies are S coming IN ae .ns
noIgue g a' '''e '"'e Vi 'H' e'e' 'e'
n1' Tn, y,.,a Of an Acre.
Ioussrowx pa Juns A corn
pateh Of about an acre in extent at
Nineysh was dug over By a volunteer
force and 1873 corpses were recovered.
The manner In winch the ghastiy nnd
was made wa, purely ac;usnta e;usnI a ,,mn
waix,ns over ns,,snad nw na !, unco..r.d I
.mo.nan,s To- This indicated a rich
6nd and the ,,eonle Around were called
in TO assist with the results above stated.
hi. incress., the list of dead in Nineyoh
70 sso. The nav dead were found under
about four feet of alluvial deposit.
LATEST LOSS ts s''mASss'
a. xv,, M. Nh, o, a nm
''-s @ o.,.. ,.,... a, M,.,, s,vh.r,
"' ,y.., =,
JoHNsTowS, "a, june o. mic .n<
total loss OF life At Johnstown ana the
surrounding boroughs of Cambria, Nor
reyills. Kernville and Conemaugh will
n.vsr he known. vet a fair attempt ID
80 r,aaa 70 ascertaip Il within !
no" osns a.u I...
reasonably fair limit. inis u oeln6 ecns
through bureau OF registration wnicf
has bssn established. Twenty eigh
agencies have been established within
the flood districts and all survivors hav,
haan not;Hsd to register Themselves and