Telegram-herald., 1889-06-05

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enormous Tor such : small town
lhs special train " tie Masonic Relief
Association which left Pittsburgh II
o'clock Monday afternoon on the Baltimore
& Omo railroad cid act reach here unr.i
Just before l1idnigAt IL which IiHae il wss
Impossible l. 10 say thing The party IA
in charge OF " : Brown IL wac
met early II The morning by Charles
A Acfeely Who Is IN charge
OF the distribution OF relief here Ia ad
citloa 70 a large quantity OF cooked food,
sandwiches. etc, as we'll IS noUr and
provisions Of every description, the
Relief Committee brought up 100 out
tts OF clothing Tor women and siIai
lar number Tor girls. aud miseel-
laneous lot Tor men and boys The WON
ems outfits are complete and includes
underwear, stockings shoes, dresses
wraps and hats They are most aece ptable
ia tic present crisis, and much suffering
L&a already been relieved by them
SAD sIGHTs
William Gsffney, an insurance agent at
this place, had very pitiful daty IL per
form lie lost fourteen relatives, among
them his wife and family. Ho got "a man TO
take his deceased relatives 70 the grave
and ho had the mournful duty or
digging his wife's and ehildrens
graves and burying them in speaking OF
the matter lie said Il never thought that
could perform such IA sad duty, but had 10
do IL. and did it No one has any idea Of
the feelings OF man who acts as under
taker, grave-digger and pall-bcarer Tor his
own family
The saddest sight to be seen on the river
bank was the case OF Mr. Gilmore, who has
lost his wife and family Of ave children
Ever since the calamity this old man has
been seen on the river bank locking for
his family He insisted on the hre-
men playing stream of water
En
formerly stood and where he supposed the
bodies of his family lay The firemen. recog-
nizing his feelings, played the stream on
the place for several hours and at last
the rescuers got to the place where
the old gentleman said his house
formerly stood II know the
bodies are there and you must find them"
said he. On went the rescuers, when at last
one Of the men picked up human charred
skull. evidently that of a child This
stirred the old man up and he exclaimed:
That is my child Here lies my family.
Go on and get the rest OF them"
The wOrkmen continued and in a few
minutes they came TO the remains of the
mother and three other children The
heads were completely burned of but there
was enough OF their clothing left to recog-
nize them by. What was left was picked up
and placed In collins, the old gentleman
following closely the men who werc carry
ing the collins.
TROOPS CALLED FOR
General Hastings has telegraphed to
Pittsburgh for the Fourteenth regiment Of
State militia Speaking OF his action he
said:
There is no need OF troops 10 qucll any dis |
turbancc, but now there are at least 1900 |
men 1T work in Johnstown clearing up the |
debris aud think that IL VIII not hurt 10 /
have the Fourteenth regiment here, as /
they can guard the banks and gil |
valusbles. TIE sheriff consulted me In the
matter. lie stated that his men were about
worn out and he thought that we had better
have some soldiers, ordered them"
DANGER OF AN EPIDEMIC
CAMBRIA CITY, june 4.-The health OF the
people is now calling for attention from
the physicians and the Relief Committee in
general The bodies ia the water are be-
ginning 10 dccompose, and refuse of all
kinds sends up an injurious stencil. 1t has
been intimatcd all along that the valley
would suffer from some terrible epidemic as
soon as decomposition began, but in the ex-
element no attention was paid 10 the ad-
monition On Monday the physicians OBJ
iected TO the fire above the bridge being
put out on sanitary grounds. There was
furor in a moment
There are bodies there" cried man.
ave want to recover them"
Let them burn" said the physician.
'"Thev arc beyond recognition now, and il
Is tho greatest sanitary measure you can
take"
No attention was paid to the protest
The suggestion made by the physi-
Clans Monday that the bodies not
buried be allowed TO be cremated.
IN the interest OF public health.
and which reused such n storm of indigna-
ton among the surviving pOpulace. 10
viewed with more calIaneEs now, and there
h a growing sentiment that IL is. after all,
the best solution Of the problem
NEABLY ALL ARE NOURNKRs
There is hardly family in all Cambria
CITY that does not mourn Tor some one and
many il the family that was swept entirely
pat of existence Below it is equally "a
bad At MOrrellville people sit on the
.ters Of the houses back little on the
bin and talk OF the lost ones Occasion
nlly CRY is heard. but II is quickly hEshed
bv some comforter One OF the most
noticeable things in the whole affair Is
the number Of people. especially women,
y ho forget their own griefs in trying 20
comfort others. The picture presented is
Dften sublime.
Many Of the people, both men and women,
seemed 20 he fairly Crazy. They could not
control themselves and seemed a. though
hey we're iust beginning 20 realize what an
ufuI calamity bad hefallen them Before
hey had been stunned, unconscious q All
ne horror II the misfortune. but t. dsy
they seemed 20 be beginning 70 grasp Il al
TEANE HATTOS SAFE
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