davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-14
Measures for Relief.

From every part of the country, from the
National Government and from the Govern
ors of States have come offers of relief to
the people of the desolated region. In New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago. st. Louis
Boston, Atlanta, and other cities, subscrip-
lions were opened to aid the homeless and
helpless. Philadelphia sent the biggest re-
lief train ever forwarded over the line. A
relief train filed with clothing and ne
cessities of life was also sent out
from Pittsburg. The proclamations of the
Mayors of many towns brought a generous
response, and the movement to aid the peo-
pie who have suffered by the greatest disas
ter in our country's history, has been warm
hearted and widespread as the nations con-
fines.
A correspondent who was among the first
to reach JohnstOwn after the foods sub
sidence had permitted entrance into the city
estimated the number of dead at from 5000
to 10, 000 and the financial loss at $40 OO0 600.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-14
Recovering Dead Bodies.

All along the river between the Allegheny
River and Johnstown dead bodies were picked
up. In a ten-acre field at Ninevah seventv-fve
bodies were taken out within half mile of
each other. OF this number only five were
men. The rest were women and children.
Many beautiful young girls, refined in feat
ures and handsomely dressed, were found,
and women and young mothers with their
hair matted with roots and leaves are
constantly being removed. The wrecking
crew who took out these bodies were
confident that $50 bodies were buried
in the sand and under the de-
bris on these low-lying bottom lands.
Some of the bodies were horribly
mangled and the features twisted and dis
torted, as if they died in the most excruciating
agony, and others are found lying in stretched
out positions with calm faces Many a tear was
dropped by the men as they worked away re-
moving the bodies. An old lady with fine gray
hair was picked up alive, although nearly
every bone in her body was broken. Judg
ing from the number of women and children
found in the swamps of Nineveh the female
portion of the population suffered most.
Mr.. OConnor was at Sang Hollow,
a few miles west of Johnstown, when
the food began. He remained there
through the afternoon and night, and
he says that there was q fatal tree on
an island against which a number of per-
sons were dashed and instantly killed. Their
bodies were almost tied In a knot doubled over
the tree by the force of the current. Mr..
OConnor says that the first man who
came down had his brains knocked out
against this obstruction; in fact, all those who
hit the tree met the same fate and were in
stantly killed. He could give no estimate of
the number lost at this point, but he makes
the figures large. Mr.. OConnor says he
never saw such an awful spectacle. The
poor people in the raging food cried out
in terror for aid that never came. Gladly
would the brave men standing upon the banks
have helped them out but this was impossib le
More than one brave man risked his life in
trying to save those in the food.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-14

almost countless dead bodies rolled and tossed
by the ruthless water, some of them still
cGnging, with the grasp Of death, TO some
floating article but most OF them wrenched
from their holdings and CHASTITY in death.
All along the route of the food people
rushed TO the bridges to give aid to those
who might float down on the maddened sea,
how fruitIess would be their efforts and how
dangerous their attempt, and rushing from
the bridges would reach the shore just in
time to Sse the structure rent and torn as
sUnder, their ruins added to the floating
debris.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-14
BABY MCKEE CHRISTENED,
Harrison'SG randchiId Bap-
tised in the Blue Room.

The President had pleasant little surprise
i'll store for the members of his Cabinet the
other day. Shortly before the meeting adj
journed he announced that the infant of his
daughter, Mrs. Mckee, would be christened in
the blue room after the meeting. Secretary
Blaine had some business to attend to and
could not wait, but the other members pres
ent-Messrs. Tracy, Window, Noble, Wanna
maker and MiQer-remained for the cere-
mony. Besides these and the President aod
Mrs. Harrison, there were present Mr.. and
Mrs. Mckee, Private Secretary Halford,
Baby Mckee and few attendants.
DR.. Scott, the great grandfather of the
child, performed the ceremony. There were
four generations present, DR.. Scott, Mrs.
Harrison, Mrs. Mckee and her children
The christening was entirely informal, and
was not performed according to
any particular church ritual. The
baby was called after her mother, Mary
with the addition of LODGE family name
The ceremony was conducted quietly, and
the President and Mrs. Harrison expressed
the wish that as little attention as possible be
given to it.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-14
Robbers of the Dead Lynched.

A Hungarian laborer was lynched at Johns
town and six others were shot, as a lesson to
the ghouls who have been despoiI-
the dead and plundering the hv-
ing. The ghou1 who was lynched
was caught in the act of cutting off the finger
of dead woman to possess himself of the
ring. An Infatuated mob seized him and
promptly strung him up to telegraph pole.
The lesson had salutary effect.
The Hungarians got hold of a number of
barrels Of whisky, and the liquor was served
out to the mob in buckets. The result was
pandemonium let loose. The liquor quickly
told on empty stomachs and excited brains,
and every man of them was set crazy drunk
The drunken horde of Huns started out to
loot the houses and to plumber the dead. They
seized everything that came in their way, and
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-14

than 1900 people were lost. In the house
with me on Chestnut street were ten persons
besides myself, and | feel sure they were all
lost Up TO O'Clock the water, which was
about seven feet deep in the streets,
remained stationary. At about four
O'clock in the afternoon the great
rush came. In fifteen minutes the water rose
fully ten feet, and in five minutes more | am
sure fifty houses came floating down the
streets. There were people in every one OF
them, and God only knows how many were
lost As they were carried off the
houses were damned together and
against the houses still standing, and
in a very few minutes they were
all battered to pieces before they had been
carried very far. The house | was IN was
soon smashed to pieces, and l managed to
Jump on to a cellar door. In a few minutes
I was pushed off into the food, and when
looked back where Cambria City
stood there was nothing but
great lake of water. 1t looked TO me
as if every house had been raised or Gov
cred over The astsheet of water was full of
floating tiInbels. roofs of houses, RATS and
other articles. The scene was Edescribable.
were fearful. / passed Paddy Maddens wife,
my sons wife and man ciinging to the roof
of a house. I called to them and babe
them good-by. In short time -!
was caught by the water and
turned under. Every once in while got
into whirlpool and almost lost my grip on
the cellar door. / saw people in the water
ahead of me. Many of them were struck by
the crashing timbers and killed outright.
They were so badly hurt that they fell into
The water and drowned at once"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-14
Fires Added Horrors.

OF all the frightful occurrences the most
terrible was the fire. in which Supervisor
Hays of the Pennsylvania Railroad esti-
mated that from 1000 to 1000 unfortunate be-
ings were burned to death. The sight was SO
heartrending that the bravest turned pale and
sickened. Over three hundred frame houses
were damned together in a heap forty feet
high against the massive viaduct of the Penn
syIvania Railroad at Johnstown. All the
houses were destroyed and the ma jority of the
inmates crushed to death before the terrible
fire began. Men, women and children, with
their limbs pinioned between the timbers, their
life's blood slowly ebbing away, begged pite-
ously for relief. One unfortunate woman
asked man on the bank for Gods sake to
cut her legs off. A man was caught by the
arm and pleaded piteously for knife to sever
the member. Others were literally smashed
and squeezed to death beneath the grinding
timbers and surging waters. Some were
pressed deep into the water, and the food
soon ended their misery.
But to add to the horror of this scene fire
broke out in the mass of timbers, and nobody
escaped. The flames soon devOured the peO-
pie, and nothing remained but the charred
and scattered corpses floating about on the
water. Supervisor Hays stood on the bank
watching the fire, powerless to render the vic
Tins any assistance. The cries of suffering
and pain only doubled the horror of the great
disaster. Long after dark the flames of fire
shot high above the burning mass of lumber,
lighting up the vast flood Of rushing waters
on all sides.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-14
RIOTS IN RUSSIA.

Striking Miners Resort to Arson
Seven Victims in the Flames.
The silver miners in the Ural Mountains
Russia, have struck and have set on fire the
houses of the managers in Ekaterfngburg.
The factories adjoining were also set afre
and seven persons who were in the buildings
were burned to death. The military were
called out and restored order.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-14

SUPREME CHEF BARNES reported at Bos-
Ton TO the tenth annual session of the Su-
Preme Castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle
that there are 50, O0Omembers and 534 castles in
thirty States The total receipts were S14,-
81, and expenditures SIS. 43S.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-14
A Frightful Loss Of Life in
Pennsylvania.
The Bursting Of a huge Dam Suhmefgss
a POpuIOus District.
The Most Terrible Disaster in
the COuntry's History.

Men, Women and Children Engulfed
in Massive Wall Of Water-TOwns
and Villages Wiped OIt-Fire Adds
Its Horrors to the FIOod-The FL
: nanciaI Loss Estimated at $40, 900
OOO-Lynching Robbers ofthe Dead.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-14
A MURpEl. CRAZE.
Atrocities Are Actually Decon,ing Fash.
lOnAbie In EnglAnd.


Atrocities Are Actually DeGoming Fash.
louabls In EnglAnd.
LONDON, Jan. 12.-It lis sad to have to
say SO, but murder in It's most unattrac.
tive shape Is becoming positively fash
ionablC on this island. Stories OF wan
ton butchery come from every part Of
England to help the sale Of the dull
London papers and to increase tho grow
ing panic. The British maiden is fairly
hysterical, the mRtron is Chronically
faint, the steady Briton painfully wOr-
ried in his mind, while the citizen with
tendencies not toward law-abiding gives
daily evidence OF the spirit OF emulation
which fires him.
That pAt and favorite phrase OF Tory
ism, "crime.rldden Ireland" 1t may be
incidentally mentioned, is not quite as
popular as 1t was, for Ireland, unlike
England and Scotland, has yet to furn-
ish an instance OF d desire to outlo the
WhiteChapel fend. The Whitcchapel
murdGrer's exploits were promptly and
universally credited to some foreigner,
an American preferred, on the ground
that the slaughter OF defenseless women
was incompatible with the noble In
stinCts Of Englislllnen; but this charac-
teristically British theory has been dam
aged by the readiness which the Eng
lish mind has shown to initiate the
Whitechapel methods, and the Ameri-
can with the low.hat theory is being
gradually abandoned.
A review Of the list OF crimes appar-
entity founded on the Whitechapel series
would be useless. Though very imper-
feet limitations, these crimes all recall
those Of Whitechapel, through the un-
varying success displayed BY the MUIR
derers in Keeping clear Of the simple
minded English detectives.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-14
A nnppn Tnrn. pnbllshsr.

LONDON, Jan. 13.-Maria Henrietta,
Queen Of the Bclgians, has gone in for
editing, like Miss Cleveland and other
distinguished women before her. She
and her youngest daughter, Clomentine,
have Just started u magazine Of an inoi-
iensive type, which Is called La Jcunc
Filt. The Queen writes about tile way
10 keep house, and theatre criticisms,
while her daughter, who signs herself
Mart 10 D'0rey, does art and literature.
Carmen sylya,which Is the non do plume
OF the Queen OF Roumania, has been en-
gagged on the staff 10 write a poem ioi
every number, and II is expected that
Stophauie, the Grown Princess OF Aus.
tria, will do tho pictures.
II the ArChduChess Maria Valoya
comes into the scheme, us Is probable,
this paper will DO an altogether arlsto.
cratic affair. Their chance OF journalls-
tic success, however, would lave been
very much better had they started q 80.
ClOty paI,er and each engaged 10 write
all they know about her husband and
his friends, the King OF tho BelglanH
and the Crown Princes Of Austria being
among thu most notorious types Of Euro
pUat royalty.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-14
|GAIHQuCISM'S GROWTH.
The Remarkable Increase in
America During the
PAST ONE HUNDRED YEARS,
Some Interesting Church Statistics
From tho Centennial Year Hook
The Anniversary to be cclc.
brated November Next,

Nav YoRE, Jan, lS,-The Catholic
Directory for 1880, Just issued, is more
than usually interesting, from the fact
that this is the centennial year OF tho es,
tablishment Of the Roman Catholic hier.
archy in the United States, The figures
have been furnished by the Diocesan
Chancellors, so that the statement that
the Catholic population numbers $751;
65B souls must pass without question.
The number Of priests is placed ut S,Ils
zoos regulars and Clio seculars, They
attend 1858 churches, 9,77O stations and
l,4SO chapels. There are 100 orphan
asylams, caring for 1t is estimated, 90,
600 orphans, There are 50 theological
seminaries, with 1870 students, 1875 col
leges and $40 academies; and 200 pa
roChIal schools, with 507, 100 scholars,
Chicago has the largest number OF schol-
ors In It's paroChial scools-42, ,0S7-more
than twice as many proportionately to
population as New York. Brooklyn has
the largest number Of orphan asylums,
excepting Boston and Baltlmore-eash
exceeding 1t by one-but Brooklyn in
It's nine asyluIns cares for nearly twice
as many orphans US both, the number
being 2,357.
There are thirteen archdiocese in the
United States with sixty suiI'ragens ees,
seven vlcarates and one prefecture apos.
tolic, These are governed by thirteen
archbisAOps and seventy.three bishops,
u few ofthe latter being coadjuros, who,
with the Wears apostolic, have their
titular secs In inlidel countries. Admin
lstrators rule in the vacant sees OF
Natchez, Miss, and Richmond, Va, md
eight mltered abbots have sway over that
number Of religious communities.
A CRSTURY's GROWTH.
TheseAgures show remarkable growth
compared with those OF 100 years ago,
when, at the establishment OF hierarchy,
the Catholic population Of the United
States numbered but N, 500. The figures
OF that time were collected for the Holy
SEQ, and the division was announced as
follows: "There ARE in New England
about 600; New York aud New Jersey,
LOO; PGnnsylvaniaaud Delaware, 200;
Maryland-freemen, 1900, slaves, 5000
10000; at the Illinois, at Kaskaskia
and several other establishments, purely
French, on the Mississippi, 1900" II
will be seen from this that the Catholic
Centennial, which will DO observed on
November q, 1850, will look back upon
progress that not every denomination
can pride itself on. The dedication OF
the new Catholic University on this oc-
Casion will appropriately conclude the
ceremonies attending the Inauguration
OF another century whose promise is
proportionate to the expectations OF
hiernrch,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-14
G.AR AND TlIG INAUGURATION
There viii be a Place in Line for tho Posts
DeSlrlngt to Participate.

There Will be Place In Line for tho Posts
DeSlrlng to Participate.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Gen. William
Warner, Commander,in. Chief Of the G.
A. R. having been urged by Gen. Rose.
Grams and Charles p. Lincoln, Com.
mander Of the G. A. II. OF the Depart
rnent Of the Potomac, to take official nc.
tion looking to the G. A. R. taking part
in the Inauguration ceremonies and
parade, has written q letter In which be
says; "ThBt II Is proper Tor members Of
the G. A, H., either as individuals, posts,
or departments, 70 participate in the in.
auguration ceremonies, none will ques-
ton"
at Is u time" lie says, "when the
partisan and the seCtarian disappear; q
time when the citizens Of the Republic
meet on u common plain, having but one
country, one flag, and one destiny"
The Commander.in.Ch Chief will secure
place in the line Of march for all g. A.
Il. posts that attend the inauguration.
He says IL Is left to tho determination oil
the comrades whether or NOT they will
take part In the ceremonies.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-14
uEnMAN VIEWS.
The Liberal Press CSnSuring tile uaSOtts-
symnAtly for Prof. (iOiTckeu, 40.

The Liberal Press CehsuFing tile OaVotle-'
sympathy for Prof. dOHeksu, 40.
BERLiS, Jau. l9-It 10 stated that III
the colonial debate in the ROlchStau
l'finCc Hismark will especially refer Ia
the Cordialand friendly relations between
Germany aud Great Britain.
Tho whole Liberal press protests
against tho action Of tho North gertnnu
Gdttis In utilizing tho letter wtllten BY
the lato Emperor Frederick 10 PrinGC
Bismarck on tho occasion Of tho Jubilee
OF the latleta entering the army, The
Nosdschs EsllunO says; "Ihis persona
mark Of attention 10 tho Chancellor, GO
peCIally when taken ID connection VIII
The BollCltude OF the Com
mander.ln.Chiui for the atmy y
anything hut Il reiutallon Of the pollll
cal creed laid down by Frederick In hiI
diary and In Ills governmental actions
Tic East African bill, which will ~
submitted 10 tho ROlchstag this week
ptovIdel ior ah appropriation ol $500,
Prof, oelTtken Ia sick with CholarlnO
He refuses 10 be interviewed regarding
hla connection with the publication Q
Emperor FpdOflCk's diary. Ho Ia Btll
IN daily receipt Of letters aud telegram
and iIowUfs from friends and sym
pAtlllGefB,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-14
A MYSTERIOUS ASSASSINATION.
A Beaver Falls Contractor Shot by Ua-
known Men While Catering Ills House.

a Beaver Falls Contractor Shot by UH
known Men While Catering Ills House.
BEAVER FALLS, Pa, Jan, 13.-Last
night MS John Kelly, a well known con.
tractor, was entering the gate at his resi-.
dence, accompanied by Ills brother, two
sharp reports Of a pistol were heard, and
Kelly, with groan, fell buck into his
brothers. arms shot through the right
breast. He was taken into the house
and physicians sent for. The doctors
have failed TO find the bail, and at this
writing Kelly's condition Is very precar'
ious. Who shot him is not publicly
known. 1t Is said that Kelly knows, but
will say nothing, After the shots were
fired two men were seen TO run hastily
down a side street and disappear in the
darkness, One was bareheaded.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-14

prohibition to prohibit the Circuit
Court OF Kanawha county from proceed.
ing by manddNuS against the Secretary
Of State to compel him 10 return the
certificate Of election as to Governor,
the Court would grant a writ prohibit
ing said court from proceeding In such
manner. But inasmuch as this petition
fails to set out any right in Judge Elem,
ing except that he Is plaintiff in a bill OF
injunction, the petition is insufficient,
and therefore the motion to quRsh the
rule must be entertained and the petit
tion dismissed,
This relegates the matter to the Legis,
lature, and 1t il understood that the Sec
retary OF State will tomorrow transmit
the kanawha returns. II he should fail
after the intimatlon from the Court, the
Legislature could not hesitate To compel
him to do It, The decision did not sur.
prise good Democratic lawyers, II is
regarded US helping Republican Con,
gressman,elect MCGinnis, for 1t dIsposes
Of all pretext based on the certificate Of
the KanaWhR returns,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-14

DUBLIN, Jan. 13.-A party Of raiders
today visited the house Of a Nationalist
farmer on the Kenmate e1Late and aitel
administering q severe beating, extoled
trom him a promise 10 abjure the plan
Of campaign, which Is very unpopular
among portion OF the people.
Members OF the National League col.
lcCted clothing, etc., in Londonderry TO
day for the Falcarragh tenants who %ert
arrested for resisting eyiCtions. To
morrow the prisoners will DO driven IL
cars from Londonderry to Ealcarragh
where they will be tried oil Tuesday,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-14

sr. LOUIS, Jan. iO.--At an early hour
this morning a main distributing pipe
Of tho city water works on FlorlsSant
avenue, In the western section Of the
city, gavo way and ior several hours 4
flood ol water poured out on the stree.
and nearly llled Perkins quarry aud
Grand and Florlssant avenues, The
flow is estimated al 5000 gallons per
minute. Hut iorthe quarry great damage
would have been entalled upon SUR
rounding property,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-14

BiXultAMmoS, N, Y, Jan. 49, Genera
Master Workman rowderly, Of the
Knights Of Labor, addressed q public
meeting Of District sssembly 1862
in this .Gily last evening. Among
other things, hc said that ont
OF the alleged founders Of tht
Knights OF Labor, who arc trying TO Us,
tablish q new order Ia Philadelphia, 10
Gently offered 10 sell out the new OrdGl
10 him for 500, and he had satisfactory
proof that the same person had pre-
vlously oiIeredto sell out to John Wana
ttaknf