The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-06
NO sURCgAsB OF HORRORS.
Tho Work Of Recovering Bodies and
RobulIdIng tho CITY nm IIercuIcnn Task,

Tho Work ef Recovering Bodies and of
Rebuilding tho City nm IIerculean Task.
JoHNsTowN, June 5.-There is no sur
cease Of horrors hero to-day, buttApsitua.
ton is isresolying itself into sonethiuglikO
order. The relief work has bOen SO sys'
tematized that there Is no danger and
confusion about 1t. At the several dis.
tributing depots hundreds assemble
morning, noon and night, and forming
In line, are supplied with provisions.
Men and women with families are given
bread; butter anil cheese, ham and
canned meats, tea or coffee, and sugar,
and unmarried applicants with sliced
bread and butter, or sandwiches. Some.
thing like accuracy Is being reachOd, too,
in the estimates Of loss OF lie, the most
conservative estimates now putting the
number at 10000. The 900 army tents
brought on by Adjutant General Axline,
OF Ohio, have been divided and two
white walled Villages now afford shelter
10 nearly G,000 homeless people. These
villages are poliCed and under charge oil
General AxIine.
The action OF the authorities yesterday
in consolidating all authority and rest
ing II In Mr.. j. D. Scott, OF Pittsburgh,
as dictator, Ia received with favor on all
hands. Dictator Scott has taken hold OF
the stupendous task imposed upon him
with characteristic energy, and already
has mapped out his work and assigned
the direction OF various portions OF 1t to
men equally as jealous and energetic
with himself. Already hC has $500 men
at work, and has $3.50 more, to whom
he promises steady work for siEy days
at So per day and board. Dictator Scott,
In an interview this morning, said that
proposed 10 clear thc.town OF all wreck
aged and debris of oil descri ptions, and
turn the site over 70 tho citizens, when
he has completed his wof%, cleap and
| free from distractions Of all kinds. in
conversation to-day, superintendent
Duncan, Of the JohnRtowtl street rail.
way, and one of the leading citizens Of
the place, declared that as soon as tho
people recovered 10 a measure from the
dazed condition In which they have
been since the catastrophe, immediate
measures will DO taken In the direction
OF rebuilding. 4l
cosrLG aoRR.
This will be a gigantic and costly
work, but Mr.. Duncan expects, he says,
10 see.a new city spring from the ruins
OF stricken Johnstown. The work oiFe,
constructing the road bed and tolaylng
the tracks Of the Pennsylvania railroad
Is being pushed forward vigorously and
Is in charge OF Engineer OF Maintenance
OF Way KiLtredge, OF the Panhandle
railroad, and already trains are running
clear down to tho passenger station
while construction trains are able 10 "a
considerable further. BY night II Ii
expected that the elnbAnkment at the
biz bend oil the river, which diverted
the river from It's course on tho fatal
Fiday, and which was finally washed
away iLseli, will be reconstructed.
| Although The loss OF the Cambria Iron
Company will foot up into the millions
the destruction Of thelr plant is moi
total, hB nppfehcnueu RnN feppEteu "
fltst, and officers Of tho company nov
say that they expect 10 resume opera
tions within Thirty days. A civil en-
Rineer Of the company who made
careful survey Of the promises YESTERDAY
asserted TO the writer this morning tha
although the greater portion Of tho val
/ liable buildings had their still more val
! liable contents In the way Of improved
,, machinery damaged beyond repair
there Ia ono complete set Of inaChiner.
In tho BesseileF hill pninjured and th
manufacture oi steel talls may he rC
sutned within two weeks. lfhhdtedq g
Cambria employees are at work to.dnj
. clearing away the wreckage and there !
much complaint among tho citizens u
day clearing away tho wreCkage, an
there 10 much complaint among the cit
!, sens to-day oyer The contract oi III
/. Iron Coinpany's oiilciala 10 cutting theI
!, men OF tie general work % ulelF ow
promises, The officers pi Tie Cotnpaln
\ Justify their action on lha grppnl, thI
Z the sooner they can get tltiI N9rke !
\ operation The better II will 10 toF W
!. community,