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The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
AID FOR SUFFERERS.
Generous Responses to tho Needs of
Pennsylvania Flood Sufferers.

Generous Responses to the Needs of
Pennsylvania Flood Sufferers.
NEW YORK, June 4.-Reports from all
the large cities of the country show that
generous citizens are actively engaged
in gathering contributions to be sent to
the flood sufferers. Over 800, 900 were
raised in a few minutes after receipt of
the news of the great disaster. Benefit
performances will be given at all the
theatres. Governor Hill has issued a
proclamation calling for contributions.
The Pennsylvania railway voted $685.
600 to the relief of the sufferers.
Chicago raised 500, 900 and will I'M
doubtedly make it much more.
Pittsburg has sent several train loads
of supplies to the scene and is caring
there.
The American Express company has
instructed all their offices to receive
supplies or money and transport them
free. This is an important move, as it
opens in nearly every town in the coun-
try a subscription office for the sufferers.
An inpromptu benefit entertainment
was held at Minneapolis Tuesday even
ing, which melted $1l5 for the sufferers.
Both of the Twin Cities are doing noble
work in contributing.
Aid from Paris.
PARIS, June 6.-The Paris municipal
ity has voted 200 pounds for the relief Of
the Johns.own sufferers. Minister Reid
presided over a meeting of Americans at
whic speeches were made by A. S.
Hewitt, Gen. Lawton and Meredith
Read. y large sum was subscribed and
Buffalo Bill offered the proceeds of a
special show.
minneapolis Munifccnce.
MI%NNEApoLls. June Cat a meeting
last night the city of Minneapolis voted
to appropriate $4,000, to be invested in
flour and sent to the Johnstown suffer-
ers. The flour was purchased at once
and is now on its way.
Pittsburg's Handsome Donation.
PlTTsBURG, June 6.-Two hundred
thousand dollars in money and $4,000
in provisions and clothing has been
given by this city III aid of the sufferers
by the flood at Johnstown.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
WORK OF THE TORRENT.
Locomotives aud Rolling Mill Machinery
Carried Before the Rexistless Flood.

Locomotives aud Rolling Mill Machinery
Carried Before the Resistless Flood.
The awful torrent came down the mar
row defile between the mountains, a
distance Of nine miles, and with a fall
OF 800 feet in that distance, sweeping
away the villages of South Fork, Mineral
Point, Woodvale and Concmaugh, leav-
ing but n building standing, a wooden
mill, where but an hour before had stood
hundreds, and dashing on with the roar
of a cataract and with the speed of the
wind upon the fair city at the foothills.
The great Gautier steel works sat in this
plain and the city below it, railroad
tracks bounding it at the base of the
mountains on the north. Here is where
the trains were standing when the tide
OF water, like a catapult, came down
upon them with such resistless force that
the heavy trains, locomotives and Pull
mans all were overturned and
Swept Down the Torrent
and were lodged against the great stone
viaduct along with forty-one locomotives
from the Johnstown round house, the
heavy machinery and ponderous frame
work OF the Gautier mill, the
lated debris of more than a thousand
houses, furniture, bridges, lumber, drift
and human beings. The low arches of
the stone viaduct choked up immediately
and the water backedov the entire level
OF the valley upon which the city stood
to the depth of about thirty-eight feet at
the water works. In the great sea- thus
formed hundreds, perhaps thousands,
OF people were struggling for life. The
scene now is one of the most narrowing
possible for the imagination of man to
conceive. The accumulated drift gorged
up at the viaduct to a height of forty
feet
And Then Took Fire
from the upsetting of stoves or lamps.
Then were strong men made sick at
the sight. AS the flames cracked and
roared among the dry finder of the float
ing houses human bodies were seen
pinioned between the house roofs, loco.
motives, iron beams. freight, passenger
and Pullman and baggage cars, the
greedy flames licking with haste their
Diet of Human Flesh.
The scene was horrible beyond des.
cription. From infancy a few days old
to the wasted figure of age were burned
before the eyes of the beholders, and nc
rescue from such a fate was possible.
Strong men turned away with agonized
expressions and women shrieked at the
horror of the scene.
Even Greater Tha at Johnstown.
kernville has only a house or two as q
monument to its former respectable pro.
portions. Cambria City is not even q
ghost of its former self, while all along
the line of the torrent the isolated houses
of hundreds are without occupants The
relief provisions for Johnstown must be-
extended to these other places as rapidly
as railroad transportation facilities car
be furnished. The towns named all liz
between JohnBtown and South Forl
dam, whose bursting caused the disaster
At Woodvale the dead bodies of hun
dreds are lying in the debries relatively
as numerous as they are in Johnstown
At C%onemaugh the same condition O
things prevails. The scarcity of tn,
living at both places makes the recover,
OF bodies very slow work.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08

AN informal business meeting of
the editors and publishers of North
Dakota is called to meet at Fargo. on
Saturday. June Is, 1889. ut the Column
bia Hotel for the purpose of discuss.
ing the organization of IL North Dalio
ta Press Association. All editors and
publishers fiv"ral'ly inclined are
earnestly requested to attend.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
QUADRuPLE

A Montana Station Agent and Telegraph
Operator Killed by Robbers. Who Are
in Turn Shot Down..
HELENA, Mont. June 6.-The greatest
tragedy of the year has occurred at
Silver, a station on the Montana Central
railroad about seventeen miles north of
Helena. Two men, Finlanders, and ap.
parently brothers, broke into the room
where Station Agent Jobst was sleeping
and one of them shot him dead with a
Winchester. The operator who was
sleeping in the same room, jumped out
of the window and started for assistance,
but had not gone far when he received a
fatal wound. The murderers went
through the cash drawer and secured
about $40. They then fled to the noun
tains. A posse is after them.
Tho Robbie Riddled.
HELENA, Mont, June 6.-The sherif's
posse which started in pursuit of the
Silver City depot robbers overlook them
after a hard ride. They refused to sur
render, firing on the sheriff's men. The
fire was returned and both robbers killed.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
LAueHEoAT THE WARNING.
No Loss of Life Would Have Resulted
Timely Notica Had l6een Haaaaa

No Loss of Life Would Have Resulted If
Timely Notice Had been Needed.
SOUTH FORK, Pa. June At was
John e.. Parke, an excellent civil engi-
neer of Philadelphia, who first saw the
danger that threatened the valley by the
bursting of the dam. Early Friday
morning he discovered that the waters
would have to have an additional outlet
or the dam would give way. Hastily Sc
curing a force of 30 Italians he set to
work to prepare another sluice. In half
an hour his purpose had been accom-
p!lished, but still the water continued to
rise. Giving orders to his men to cut
another outlet, MIR. Parke jumped on his
horse and started at a breakneck speed
toward the village below. AS he rode
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08

''OKLAnoMA has faded away us til,
land of promise and its place is takel
hy Dakota writes Editor Carl to TIN,
Pioneer Press. What is true of Okla.
hOma is also true of other regions
open for settlement in the Unite,
States. Washington territory, now
that it's true status has been deter.
mined by thousands who have locked
to the Pacific slope during the past
three years, has lost its charm for TIN,
settler and even now the tide of i'm.
migration from the west has set i'm
and it meets that from the east on,
Dakota virgin soil and i'm Montana $
beautiful valleys. Texas land is sold
by the government for So al acre.
Kansas is settled. The Cherokee
country is not and will not be availa.
BILE for some time. The good vacant
land in the southwest is nearly ;ll
gone. Even the Sioux reservation is
not yet opened in southwestern Da.
kota and when it is the terms offered
to settlers are not entirely satisfuctu.
ny. The only large tract of land left,
i'll short, the last of the public domain
is the great Bismarck and a portion
of the Devils Lake land districts. Take
your map and see what an empire
NyYnsfnvn hn1.Af, ,:,, VIII.
this region now and see what beauti.
full prairies, what stock ranges and
fat stock. what thrifty fields of grain.
corn and other crops are now growing,
the millions of acres of coal lands fur
nislling fuel without cost to the set.
tier. Northwestern Dakota delies the
world and challenges Inspection
Bismarck Tribune.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
Another Cut in Northwestern Rate.

CHICAGO, June 5.-At. the Northwest
ern railload meeting the committee re-
ported that the st. Paul and Duluth and
the Manitoba refuse TO advance rates by
the lake route. Thereupon the Burling-
ton and Northern gave notice that, tax
ing effect June 10, it will put into effect
as its portion of through rates between
Chicago and st. Paul go, 2S, %, 12, 10
and 9 cents. This is a reduction of s
cents on first class.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
pccorah Keens tho Lutheran College

DEBORAH Keeps tho Lutheran college.
FERGUS FALLS, Mimi, June 6.-The
attendance at the meeting of the synod
still continues large. Great interest is
shown in the matter of rebuilding the
Lutheran college. The work of raising
money is still going on, and the synod
has raised nearly 5 6 5000 thus far. 1t is
almost certain that the college will be
rebuilt at DEBORAH.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
Where the Flood Came From.

GREESsBURa, Pa, June 3.-The reser-
voir was situated about eighteen miles
northeast of Johnstown, on the site of
the old reservoir that was one of the
feeders of the Pennsylvania canal. 1t is
the property or a number of wealthy
Pittsburg men, who constitute the South
Fork Fishing and Hunting club. The
sheet of water was formerly known as
Conelmaugh lake. 1t is from 200 to 300
feet above the level of Johnstown and is
three and a half miles long by one to one
and a quarter miles wide. and in some
Places is 100 feet deep. 1t is the largest
{ eservoir in the United States.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
Indians at Rosebud sten,nr

PIERRE, S. D., June Gan Indian
runner has lust arrived at Fort Pierre
direct from Rosebud agency on his
way to Cheyenne, having started yester-
day, and brought word that Indians at
the agency had commenced to sign, and
that the commission would get them all.
Fort Pierre is a hard days travel from
Rosebud and on the direct trail to Chey-
enne, AID runners were sent from Rose
bud as soon as the result was reasonably
known of the Indians action there to in
form all other agencies. This report is
considered in Pierre as reliable.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
DOOMED JACKSONVILLE.

Fire Creates Terrible Havoc in the For
ida Yellow Fever City.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, June GA fire,
which started in a building on Bridge
street, consumed everything for al area
OF five blocks, bounded by Hawk street
on the west, Adams on the north, Sclay
on the east and the creek on the south.
At least sixty buildings were burned, the
most of them being of wood and the
homes of colored people. Several of thu
burned buildings were occupied by bust
ness firms. The loss is estimated at
500. 900.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
ASK Help from the Leei,lature,

PITTsBURa, June "a message ask
ing for all extra session of the legisla-
ture, which was signed by every mem
Der of that body from Allegheny county,
was sent to Governor Beaver, but at this
writing no reply has been received.
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RECOVERED 3,11a BODIES.

And the Awful List Will Mount Up to
over 5000, Without Doubt.
J%oHSsTowN, Pa, June 6.-Two hun
dred and forty-six more bodies were
found during the day, of which the ma
jority have been identified. This swells
the list to BIB bodies. Best estimates
now on the loss of life, based on the reg
istry of tine living, and the unofficial
poll, put it at from $4,000 to 5000.
Many of the bodies recovered were much
decomposed and discolored from being
so long in the water. Wherever posi-
bic they were embalmed, while others
were rapidly carried away to the ceme-
terry to fill nameless graves. This xpe.
dltion is necessary to prevent typhus,
which the physicians very much fear.
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 rightly of arms,
standing out at right angles to the
boated and bruised bodies, shows that
death in 80 out of 100 cases took place
amid the ruins, that is, after the wreck
of houses had closed over them. DR..
ID. &. Foster, who has been here all day,
is of the opinion that most of the victims
were killed by coming in violent contact
with objects in the river, and not by
drowning.
systematically Recovering Bodies.
The work of clearing up the wreck
and recovering the bodies is now being
conducted most Systematically. Over
5000 men are at work in the various
portions of the valley and each little
gang Of twenty men is directed by a
foreman who is under orders from gen
eral headquarters. AS the rubbish is
gone over and the boxes and scattered
articles of value recovered, the debris is
piled up in n high mass and the torch
applied. In this way the valley is rap
idly assuming a less devastated condi-
tion. In tw%enty-four hours more every
mass of rubbish will probably have been
searched and the Investigations will
be confined to the smoking wreck above
,JOhnStOWn bridge.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08

he warned the people on every hand of
their danger. Soon hundreds of families
were fleeing to the hills for safety.
Reaching South Fork station he tele
graphed the warning to J%ohnstown.
Some needed the warning; others laughed
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08

WE are pleased to see the Mandau
Times show such mnmistakahle signs
of prosperity us appeared III the last
issue which WAS enlarged, printed all
at home on IL new cylinder press and
much improved in every respect.
Gates gives the people of Mandan IL
newspaper above the average country
journal and they should reciprocate
by giving the Times hearty support.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
Saturday. Hon H. s. Parikin was chosen

Saturday. Hon H. s. Parikin was chosen
chairman.
A. g.. Hahn, wheat buyer at Ward
Station, six miles south Of Elktou. M
knocked down and robbed Of 500 in
cash one night last week.
The ladies Of a church society at Grand
Forks cornered all the Strawberries i IN
the market and then gave q festival.
h proceeds were way up.
The first annual convention of the Da.
kota Z. NJ: G. A. met at Mitchell Satur-
day. A hundred delegates from all
points in South Dakota attended.
Whiskey in a camp of Indians near
Mandan resulted in the fatal shooting of
one of the number. A warrant was is.
sued for the arrest of the murderer.
One hundred and twenty car loads of
stone were shipped from Rowena last
week. The president Of the company
guarantees to duplicate that amount
each week during the season.
The Yankton Fire Insurance company
has paid nearly forty losses occasioned
ny prairie fires on April 3, amounting in
all to $l5,OO0. This is greatest loss ever
paid by a home company within the
territory.
Jamestown has fixed its saloon license
at $500 for the coming year. The county
commissioners have named the same
sum as county license. Saloonkeepers
will therefore put up 81, 900 if they wish
to sell liquor in Jamestown.
A man named Chapman obtained a
REIMBURSEMENT of a claim from a
drunken man named Anderson near
Waverly, and moved on the land. At
night several neighbors broke into Chap
mans residence and forcibly elected him
from the premises. Several of the parties
have been arrested.
For the purpose of getting Fargo streets
sprinkled James Holes oiferes a team
free Of cost, and agrees to feed them, if
the city council will supply a tank and
driver. MIR. Holes doesn't say he will
board the driver, so The Republican
seems to think there is some doubt as to
whether the city council will accept the
offer.
Orders have been issued from the ad-
Jutant generals Office at Redtield max
ing the following appointments in the
chief of supply, Watertown; Eugene
Huntington, inspector general, Webster:
John A. Owens, Judge advocate general,
De Smet. w. F. Dunn, chief of ordnance,
Aberdeen; Aberdeen: William NJ. Kaull,
medical purveyor, Frankfort.
DR.. ]. P. Dun, of Bismarck, is said
to be the owner of valuable lands in st.
Paul, forty acres, distributed in Robert
sons and Van Etten's, Warren and
Rice's and Chambers additions, and that
he has a show of title to sixty acres more
in the neighborhood of the additions
named. The forty acres are said to still
stand in the name of MIR. Dun's father,
who paid $l.25 an acre for it. The
property is worth 100000 without the
Improvements on it.
Mr.. Plankinton, Of Milwaukee, and
Robert Yates, of Omaha, who have been
engaged in experimenting with chalk
rock found near Yankton, for the man
%ufacture of cement, have completed
their Investigations. Mr.. P%lankinuon,
who owns extensive cement works at
Milwaukee, has procured 1000 acres of
chalk-bearing land within a few miles of
Iankton, and has contracted for the
erection of a mill to employ 300 work.
men, and with a capacity for producing
5000 car loads of cement annually.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
Kansas City Live Stock.

C~attle-Good to choice corn-fed, ss.9o@4.5l
common to medium, S3.a50s.75; stockers AMI
feeding steers, S2.S@3.4o; cows, Sl.750soo.
Hogs-Good to choice light, s4a7h@4.32M
heavy and mixed, 81. lOdL4.D.
S~heep-Good to choice muttons, S3.15I4.O0
common to medium. s. 5o@3sn
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
THE GREAT FUNERAL PYRE.

Nothing Has Ever H;Ymniled the Scene
Above the Pennsylvania Railroad
Bridge.
J%oIlNsTDwN, June 3.-The magnitude
of the horror increases with the hours.
1t is believed that not less than 1000 of
the drowned found Judgment beneath
the mass of debris in the triangle of
ground that the Conemaugh cut out of
the bank between the river proper and
the Pennsylvania railroad bridge.
There vas the greatest funeral pyre in
history. The victims were 0 upon it,
but were parts of its horrible constitu-
ton. Whole houses were washed into
theapex of the triangle. Hen coops,
pig stys, stables, the refuse of the gut
ter, the contents of sewers, whole lum-
Der yards. boom upon boom of logs, COM
posed the mass. When the upsetting of
Il cook stove ignited the mass and the
work of cremation began, it was a costly
sacrifice to the demon of the flood, be-
ing .
"a Literal Breast of Fire.
The smoke arose in a huge funnel.
shaped cloud, and at times it changed to
the form of an hour glass. At night the
flames would light up this misty rem
nant Of mortality. The effect upon the
living, ignorant and intelligent, was the
sau,e. That volume of smoke, with its
dual form. produced a feeling of awe in
many that was superior in most cases to
that in the awful moment of the storms
here on Friday afternoon. Hundreds
stood for hours regarding the smoke and
wondering ii it forbode another vista
ton direr than its predecessor.
The five Under Control.
The fire in the drift above the bridge
is under control and is being rapidly
smothered by the Pittsburg tiremen, in
charge of the work. About I o'clock
a. III. a crowd of Battery B boys dis
covered a family of five people in the
smoking and burned ruins above the
bridge. They took out a father, mother
and three children, all terribly burned
and mutilated. The little girl had one
arm torn off.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
LATEST MARKET PRICES,
St. Paul Union stock Yards,

Hogs-Steady, unchanged. Sales were mostly
at "a Esq 4!3O and a load or two at S4.35. Qualify
averaged fairly good.
Cattle-Good to choice ripe corn fed steers,
S3.!0aJ4.lO; good to choice fat natives, s3@4;
good to choice COWS. $22593.a; common COWS
and mixed, Sl.25@:.5O; bulls, sl.25Q2.5O. mich
cows, s2o935; stockers, >2@S IS; feeders, SEQ
63.as; calves, S2@4.
~Sheep-Good to choice shearing muttoas, s.. so
G4.5o; fair to good, Ss@3.7O; lambs, ss.5ol4 5O.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
Lot For Sale,

Lot number Z, block %. for sale
cheap. A good corner residence lot.
Also lot II, block IL, Sims STREE. Call
r...s Sings on N"A
NJ tnls OIlce: sic. Jolly has hired a..
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
New Hampshire,s Governor,

CONCORD, N. H., June Gin the joint
session of the legislature David c. Good
ell, Republican, was elected governor of
the state. receiving 16S votes to ia for
Charles H. Amesden, Democrat. The
Inauguration will take place to-day.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
PAPER 0FsTARK COUNTY
Saturd nv, June s, 1883.

THE people of the Red river valley
want rain. If they will just move up
this way their wants can he supnlird.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
Minneapolis

W1eat-No. 1 hard, June. SOC: July, soc; on
trac !, SOC; No. ! Northern, June. sll4c, July,
BIC; on track, size; No. 3 Northern, June,
&c. July, 7s1<c; on nack, 7aA7A:.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
THE GRAIN
ChicaCo

CHICAGO.
WheataHigher: cash, 7Tlsc; July, ;7Ac: De.
Corn-steady; cash, $3.50; July, 81 3-lGc: Sep.
TENDER, 351sc.
o~ats-steady: cash. alzsc; July, 2a5lec: Sep.
TENDER, 2a5sc.
Rye-Cash, 3sAc.
Barley-Nothing doing.
Prime Timo:hy-Sl.25.
Flax Seed-Sl.51.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
ST. Paul.

wheat-No. ! hard. ssGsoc: No. / Northern,
Sl6Sc: No. 9 Northern. 1087ac.
Corn-Fo.2, Sic; sample, Sic.
oats-No. . white, 2GHc; No. 8 white, q
02sc.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
Chicago Live Stock

Hogs-Light, $4.55@455: rough packing. s4.as
G4.3O. mixed. S4.sO94.4o; heavy packing and
shipping. S4'3O@4.4O.
Cattle-Beeves. ss.7O@4.Go; COWS, s1.aoas 40;
stockers and feeders, .a4o@3.GO; Texas steers,
S26OG365.
sheep-Natives, &4@47o; westerns. $1,000
40; Texans, $3.2o93.t5; lambs, s4sa5@5oO Der
head.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08

John Rice and Maggie Barnes, both
full blooded Indians. living at Detroit,
Mich, took out IL marriage license. Rice
is Il scenic artist of considerable ability.
regularly employed 1t Whitney's opera
house. Detroit.
President Harrison devotes about an
hour a day to newspapers. He reads the
editorial comments cut out for him by
Elijah Halford, spends a few moments
on the Geographic news, and always
looks over the base ball scores.
Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, has
signed the orphan schools commission
bill, the revenue commission bill, the
soldiers orphan schools appropriation
bill and many other appropriation and
general bills, but vetoing the bills max
ing appropriations to scctarian institu-
tons.
The Manitoba governments Ontario
emigration agent has been instructed by
the premier of Manitoba, to visit Michi-
gan and Wisconsin and report on the
condition of the farmers in those states,
with a view to commencing a vigorous
emigration campaign there. 1t is said
that a great many are anxious to move
out to Manitoba.
Foreign Facts.
The strikes in Bohemia are spreading.
Upwards of 1900 men are out.
The Marquis of Londonderry will
retire from the Irish viceroyship Aug. 5.
The Kreutz- Zeitung states that a Ger
man Protestant %bishopric will soon be
founded in Jerusalem.
Strong evidence was given at the in
quest in Liverpool, in support of the
charge that Mrs. Nkaybrick, a niece of
Jeff Davis, poisoned her husband.
All the members of the committee ap-
pointed to represent the striking miners
at Bochum, Westphalia, have been ar
rested and their papers seized.
Perrin, the man who fired a blank
cartridge at President Carnot on the eve
of the opening of the exposition, has
been sentenced to four months impris.
onlnent.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
JACK THE RIPPER ONCE MORE.

Tho London Fiend Has Resumed His
Atrocities.
LONDON, June S. The mutilated trunk
of a woman was found in the Thames at
horseley Down. The Whitechapel cx.
element revived. 1t is believed that
Jack the Ripper has resumed his atroci-
fiao