Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13
A BETTER SHOWING.
Registration Reduces the Supposed
Number Of Johnstown Victims.
Governor Beaver Objects to the Relief
Funds Being Used Up in State Work
Thrifty People Loading Up With
Provisions.


Provisions.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 10.-Ths work OF |
registering the survivors of the flood is |
going steadily on. Up to last evening |
there were about q, eco registered and the |
list is still increasing. The number of the |
lost is placed now at 5000 by those who
. held it would reach 10. 600 a week ago. A |
conservative estimate is between 8 500 and |
4. 600. Up to date there have been ], 500 |
bodies recovered.
Sunday was the tenth day since the dis
aster in the Conemaugh valley occurred,
and the extent of the fatality can be ap-
! preciated when it is stated that bodies are
still being found wherever men are at
work One of the morgue directors being
asked: How many bodies were recovered
yesterday?" replied: 20, not very many;
l believe there were about ffty-eight al
| together"
The loss of life has been so great that
forty bodies found in one day, even il it
was the tenth, was considered q light
showing
The remains thatiare now being removed
are far advanced in decomposition and
physicians in charge are advocating their
cremation as fast as found, as it is i'm
! possible to handle them safely.
/ OF the fifty eight bodies recovered yes
terday many were identified but not
claimed. Forty of them were buried i'm
mediately and the undertakers say that
| all bodies will be hereafter buried as soon
as found. Among those recovered were
! Charles Kimple, an undertaken of this
! city. He had a wallet in his pocket con-
Go M L i -
/ dertaker, John Henderson, of Henderson
| & Alexander, was also recovered. The
! body of Silas Schick, one of the best
/ known travelling men in the country, was
! found in the ruins of the Hurlbut House.
! He was in the employ of the Reading
Stove Company.
RELIEF MATTERS.
/ JoHNsrowN, Pa, June 10.-Governor
! Beaver Colonel Schoonmaker, William
/ McCreery, s. S. Marvin, H. j. Gourley,
/ w. r Ford, J. H. Scott, Thomas M. King,
! Mr.. Mccoy, Captain W. R. Jones, Adju-
tant- General Hastings, Reuben Miller and
: Sheriff McCandless held a consultation
! Yesterday over the situation. The Gov
ernor INDUCED in long talk, reviewing
the situation and making many sugges-
tions, and William McCreery, chairman OF
the relief committee, then made long
stater.ent and said he thought it was time
the relief committee were relieved of the
work of clearing away the debris by the
State
The Governor sail all the necessary
money could be raised. There were 200
men who would become responsible for
81. 900 each, and he would give his bond to
the State Treasurer for 81, 000,00 with
those 900 men as bondsmen and the State
! Treasurer would then pay out the s, ,OOO,-
600 for the necessary work. When the
| legislature met the money withdrawn
from The treasury could be appropriated.
He said that the money already SUBJ
! scribed should be used entirely for the re-
lief of the sufferers and the money from
| the State Treasurer be used for restoring
the vicinity to its condition before the
! food. All debts already contracted
for the removal of debris should he
paid but all money paid out for this pur-
pose from the relief fund should be re-
funded, so that every cent subscribed tor
relief of the stricken people should be
used for that purpose alone. The Gov
ernor has $3.50, 900 in his hands now for
the relief fund committee of sevsn
well known men of the State will be ap-
pointed to distribute the relief fund and
the work of relief till the commission is
appointed. After the commission has
been appointed, the future operations of
the Pittsburgh relief committee rests with
it.
In an interview last night Governor
Beaver said that he had been over the en-
tire flooded district and found the supply
iepots all well filled, but they would soon
have 10 be replenished The large
amounts" he continued, land from so
many quarters outside of the State and
which have been imposed upon me as
sacred trust, will be expended wholly and
absolutely for the benefit of individual
sufferers. No part of it will be expended
in work which is legitimaiely the domain
of the State under its police powers This
Iwfsh to emphasize so that all contribu-
tors to the fund may feel assured that
their money will be judiciously and eco
nom;cally expended for the benefit of suf-
fering humanity and not on the work
which should and will be undertaken by
the State OF municipal authorities"
vANDALS BUSY IN JoHNSToWN.
JoHNSTowN. Pa. June 10. - Severa.
cases of vandalism and robbery are re-
ported. Last night number of cars con-
tanning supplies were broken into and the
contents Oll. " ndS INC Sh'O'SS
could not steal they trampled and ruined.
The Masonic relief car was also entered
and robbed. Twelve men were arrested,
but were released upon returning the
goods. The military guards in Cambria
City were kept busy last night arresting
thieves. They were placed in the guard
house and this morning drummed out OF
town. When they reached the outskirts
of the town they were warned if they were
caught again they would be summarily
, dealt with.
! THE NINEvEH DEAD.
GREENsBURG, Pa, June 1O-The jury
impaneled by the coroner of Westmore-
land County to inquire into the cause OF
the death of the 2lS persons whose bodies
were picked up at Nineveh, has rendered
a verdict hat each of them came to his
death by violence due to the food caused
by the breaking of the dam of the South
Fork reservoir, and as well the aforesaid
. coroner as the jurors aforesaid do certain
ly under their oaths find that the deceased
died of violence caused by the action of
the food or there is such strong suspicion
of such violence or other unlawful acts as
to make an inquest necessary"
"A young couple were recently mar
ried in the highway in the town OF Har-
wintown, Litchfeld County, Conn, under
circumstances which show the genius Of