Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-17
Number Of The Dead.
The YOUNGSTOWN Death-RoIl al
Last Made Up
AS NEARLY AS IT WILL BE KNOWN.

Careful Canvass of tho Living Puts the
Dead at 4.1e5-Work on the Deadly
Drift Beginning To BE successful-wild
tive Business-A Town I'm Kansas Re.
ported Swept Away.
JoHNsTowN, PA, June 17.-Johnstown's
citizens have settled down to their routine
life again. There was almost total sus-
pension of work in the CoDemaugh valley
yesterday, and the day was spent very qui
city. There was no Improvement in the
weather. During the early morning hours a
heavy rain fell. About 9 o'clock the clouds
rolled away and the sun came out bright and
strong, and few moments later the mer-
curry registered so degrees Religious serv-
ices were held by all denominations. Nearly
all of the services were, from necessity, con-
Quoted in the open air. The sermons and ad.
dresses counseled the people to be brave and
keep up heart.
No Let Up on That Drift.
About $50 men were working at the gorge
to make a wider opening in the debris.
Seven hosting engines were working all day
and at a result the channel opening is now
over twenty feet wide. A hundred other
men were engaged in searching for dead bod
les and six were recovered during the day.
None were identified
The Debris Set on Fire.
Late last evening a large quantity of oil
was poured over the debris below the stone
railroad bridge and the torch applied At 8
o'clock there was sheet of flame twenty
feet high and 200 yard in length along both
banks of the river. A careful search for
dead bodies was made before the torches
were applied, Gen. Hastings having Used or
ers that no human remains shall be burned
where it is possible to avoid it,
The Death Roll Numbers Over 1000.
Col Rogers, who is in charge of the
bureau of registration, reports to Gen.
Hastings that the aggregate registration is
10, 569 names; $500 survivors have left the
locality without registering, and many others
are being entertained in the vicinity who,
because they were not affected by the food
refused to register, as they think they are
not legitimately survivors. Col. Rogers
estimates the survivors at % 900, and says:
"These figures are presumably approximately
correct Deducting these -, ZOO survivors
from the total population leaves 4, l25 lives
lost"
What the Estimate Is Based Upon.
This estimate is as positive as it will pro-
badly ever be possible to give as they are
made up from careful research house to
house canvass, and comparison with the
proof sheets of the Johnstown directory.
which was compiled just one month previous
to the disaster and is now in the hands of the
printer.
VIII Help Rebuild the Houses.
Gen Hasting has determined that where
people desire to build Immediately he will
clean out their cellars, and assist them to put
up their buildings A Chicago firm has been
furnished money by the Chicago relief com
mittee with which to send $50 houses here
ready to place upon their foundations These
will begin to arrive in day or two. To ia
cilitate building schemes the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad and the Pennsylvania railroad
will construct special switches for the accom-
mediation of the lumber trains, viii CHI are
now arriving. The state is to furnish the
carpenter tools, nails and all other requisites
for prompt work in rebuilding
The Work of Clearing Up to be Rushed.
Special orders We're issued Saturday and
arrangements made for rushing the work of
clearing away the debris with all possible
dispatch. Ii expectations are realized and a
few days of favorable weather intervene
there will be but little work left undone by
next Saturday night So confident is Gen
Hastings of this that he has expressed the
determination of asking, during the week,
that twenty-five ministers of various denom-
nations visit Johnstown next Sunday and
hold special thanksgiving services for the
saved from the late visitation