The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-06-11
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JOnNsrOwN. PA. June lO "A nun
her Of bodies were recovered through
the efforts of one man at the Upper
! Pontoon bridge ON Stony creek This
lnouing. He is from Philadelphia.
land has his Owl staff.
when reporter asked him his name
he replied. 1T don't make any differ
ence about my name, ] am here for
business. and rOWed away.
lie has ropes aud hooks, and this
morning recovered four bodies from an
lold freight car. washed from the tracks
| at that point. There are number OF
old trees and roots washed ln 80 this
place. and his plan Of operation is to
stir the roots pretty lively. and tine
! bodies at once come 10 the'surtaCe. lls
then passes rope under the arms and
/ to,ys them To the lahk; pulls them out
of the water. and allows them 90 lay
there for the ambulance corps 10 take
them To- the morgue. He talks 10 no
one. and g0cs about his work with am
appareut knowledge OF what lac Is
doing. L. is thought that there are a
large number ot bodies yet among the
debris in stony creek.
The great raft is am endless, measute-
le,s graves ard. made IN night.
LIS tombst0nes are the shattered tim
lers sticking out OF the wreckage, the
tom. ragged fragments Cf walls mark
ING where the streams had been.
Though hundreds have already been
uncovered. the dead 10 day are coming
10 hght in surprising numbers If any
one here can be surprised. and there
arc some faces among them that had
never been missed.
People Just arriving in J0hnst0wn say
that the stencil is sickening and fearful
taintine the air Oi theyalley everywhere,
while those who have worked here
throughout the trying scenes have mo-
nced IL only at times. and ~ certain
place. showing that their senses are
numb an the waters are giving up
their dead. and the skills and grapplels
are i'm waiting for them.
The red shirted lumberman. standing
midway in the river. who Is called the
maf ker and color bearer. raised hisaXe
once 10 strike this forenoon, but the
blow never fell. IL it had IL would
have cut in twain the first of the bodies
taken from the point ON the morning OF
the 10Th day.
IL was the remains Of woman. En-
ma Roth. identified by her broken
hearted husband au hour later.
Others unknown were taken from the
raft at an hours of the day, among
them an old man with his little boy
cla.ped in his arms. With every hour
comes salute for the hundreds yet
buried there. IL is the blast Of dyna-
mite.
Five bodies were found under one
single heap of the town to-day. One
was Kate Nary. the millner and
modiste. One of the sad0est identiiica-
tiops was that of Miss Blanche iarnlsh.
of Dayton. o. She was a apls,enger on
the dav express. and her father had
searched for the past three days.
Some workmen found her body lyiog
under the trestle near the Pennsylvania
railroad station. George &. Humm was
"A we'll known insurance agent. No
body had given him a thought until
fbis afternoon. when his body was car
ried TO the Presbyterian church.
The day is past when the discovered .
dead can be- kept any time for identi- (
fcluon. Frightful scenes at morgnes
bear quick testimony Of this. The +
Keepers say that as soon as the ar F
strikes the cOrpses now IL becomes /
almost impossible To- handle them, and /
the sooner they are buried the better. /
There are over fifty lew faces on the /
slabs al the mOrgues tonight. ana /
record shows that up TO noon vester- I
dav. lust a week from the time morgues I
vas established. / ,i92 people were /
buried from them. who were dis /
covered rigat i'm this vicinity.