Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-05

thing else are grave diggers. This morning
hundreds OF bodies we're lying around, and
there was no one TO dig graves. This morn
ing at least fifty funerals have passed the AS
sociated press Headquarters. II Is not an
unusual spectacle TO seetwo or three cofins
carried along, one after the other, followed
by number of mourners ali In the same
family.
The special train OF the Masonic Relief as
sociaton which left Pittsburg yesterday al
ternoon, did not reach here until just before
midnight, at which time it was impossible to
do anything. In addition to large quantity
OF cooked food, sandwiches, ETC., as well as
flour and provisions of every description, the
relief committee brought big supply OF
clothing.
TROOPS ASKED FOR.
The sheriff this morning made request OF
Adjutant General Hastings to, call out one
regiment of the national guard. He
stated that he did not want them
called out to suppress trouble, but to
guard against anything that might happen.
They will be stationed IN Johnstown
proper to guard buildings from thieves Gen
eral Hastings is hiring all the men possible
TO remove the debris, and is Offering 50 and
their food and shelter, The Cambria Iron
Works company Is already preparing to get
their works in operation. The men were at
work yesterday cleaning the dam out. This
morning the company has 600 men at work.
THE UNKNOWN DEAD.
This was the day set aside by the citizens
committee for ourying the unidentified dead
that have been lying in the morgue since
Sunday morning. This morning the men in
charge OF the work started in and have been
busy all day. Bodies are being inferred in
the cemetery nearest the place where found.
About noon procession Of about fifty cof-
fined bodies was seen going up the hill
above the railroad. There was not mourner
present. and the sight was o CHASTITY one
to behold. 1t will take several
days to bury the bodies now
In the different graveyards as there were
few graves dug until this morning and there
were no implements to dig them with. A
large detachment of men arrived from Pitts
burg this morning, and they are at work
digging graves.
BLOWING UP THE wREoKAeE.
The burned wreckage against the bridge
ut Johnstown is being dynamited to allow
the water to pass into the main channel.
We're found The opening of this channel
will take the overflow from the lower part
OF jamestown proper
PROSPECT HILL.
Up the rugged sides of Prospect Hill, the
same to which several hundred terrified
people fled to escape the flood, the Asso-
ciated Press correspondent scrambled this
afternoon. He came upon q pneumonia
scourage, which bids fair to do for num-
Der of the escaped victims what the flood
could not. Death has pursued them to their
highest places. and terror will not die.
Every little house on the hill, aud there are
hundred or two of them, had
thrown Its doors open to re-
ceive the bruised aud half-clad
fugitives on the dark day of the deluge, and
the women who had scaled the height were
so overcome with fright that they have been
bedridden ever since. There has been
pneumonia on the hill, but only few isolated
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developed among the flood fugitives, and a
local physician said the prospects for
scoURGE
are all too promising The enfeebled condi-
tion Of the patients, the unhealthy atmo
sphere prevailing the valley and the necess-
arlly, close quarters in n which which the
disease almost certain.
To-daya ray of light came in the nature
of a car load of provisions and another from
Columbus o., containing clean mattresses
and bedding ali specified for Prospect Hill
sufferers. On This eminence stands the
Cambria city hospital, and in this rambling
cottage--it resembles one in exterior and
comforts-a great work is being done through
the combined agencies of medical science
and brotherly love. The wards are full of
bruised and suffering ones who were dragged
from the flood. This evening the charred
body of a young woman was uncovered q
short distance above the stone bridge On
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which were engraved the initials 'K. j. b."
She wore a striped woolen dress and black
underskirt. The body was taken to the
Fourth ward school house. Several yellow
flags were noticed sticking up from the black
wreckage above the stone bridge. This was
a new plan adopted by the sanitary corps to
indicate at what point bodies had been To-
Gated. AS it grows dark the flags are still
up, and another day will dawn upon the i'm
prisoned remains. People who had lost
do inf
this fatal place peered down into the charred
mass in a vain endeavor to recognize beloved
features.
THE WATERS REcEDING.
The water has receded almost as rapidly
as it came, and behind il remains the sorriest
sight imaginable. Before the windows OF
the Associated Press headquarters lies the
great skeleton of dead Johnstown Great
ribs of rocky sand stretch across the chest,
SCARED and covered with abrasions. Acres
of mud, acres Of wreckage acres of un-
steady, tottering buildings, acres of unknown
dead, acres of CHASTITY objects, which have
| been eagerly sought for since Friday, acres of
smoking, streaming river, lie out there in
| the sunshine Hundreds OF bodies are lying
| along the river banks and under piles of big
| timber and trouble will come from them be-
| cause they are hard to find, and harder to
| dig out.
Out in the center of the river on the ex-
treme edge of the mass which rests against
| ing upon the wreckage. They are literally
| in the middle of the river putting out a fire.
| Bonfires are burning everywhere. Fire is
| the agent employed tohelp the committees to
| get rid of the refuse.
Crowds of strangers anxiously watch the
| wreck this morning from The railroad bridge
| and up the river on both sides as far as the
| eye car; reach At Johnstown proper the
| rescuers continue to bring in bodies by the
hundreds, and this morning the following
ADDITIONAL DEAD WE'RE IDENTIFIED:
Implications may occur. but considering
| the chaotic condition of affairs at the
| morgues, 1t is impossible to be perfectly ac-
! curate:
Mrs. Harry X. Smith, wife OF the cashier
| of the Johnstown company, and infant,
| Adolph Nathan, proprietor OF the Johns
| town company stores,
Oliver Ackcrs,
Harry p. Gather, Adams express clerk
| John s. Buchanan,
! DIR. w G. Bearn and wife,
| L. L. Smith,
| Mrs Thomas Williams,
| w. T. Hoops, secretary OF the Johnstown
| company.
| Charles Marshall,
| Squire Fisher and family.
| Miss Laura Hamilton.
| Mrs. Knorre.
! Elmer I'rinkey.
| A. Little, Pittsburg.
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