St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-02

ington streets have been swept clean
and bare of all buildings of whatever
character, and their inhabitants seem
to have fed into the streets at the first
warning of danger, and others
RUSHED TO THEIR DEATHS
for those who renamed in their houses
had an opportunity to flee to the upper
stories. When the houses were frame,
they were fiOated from their foundations
and many were saved. The Hotel HUI
bert, brick structure, had siXty-five
guests, and .sixty-three of these were
killed by the falling in of the floors and
walls. The Morell library, the school
house, Alma hall, general stores and Of
fees of the iron company, and one
other brick building are all of probably
1000 buildings that have hot been
fioated from their foundation or
caved in. The stone viaduct
is forty feet high from the river bed at
low water, and over this the water
rushed in resistless flood. On this or
the West side, ,are the Bessemer and rail
mills of the Cambria Iron company. Al
though warned to flee to the hillsides,
many of the men, resting in fancied
security, loitered about the mills
and were engulfed in an
instant. To-day their bodies are strewn
along the Conemaugh. Kiskimitas and
Allegheny rivers. and are being caught
as far down as the Ohio river at ROches-
ter. Below the mills is Cambria, a sub
borough in which district resides prob
ably 1000 people. Yhe scenes here
are but repetition of the
other parts Of the fiood-wasted
city. In st. Columbus church. a new
structure, which had been flooded to
depth of six feet in the auditorium, the
water had receded, and the floor was
covered with Shiny OOZe to the depth
of seven or eight inches. On boards
stretched along the top of the pews were
THIRTY BODIES
which had been snatched from the
stream by Father Thomas Darlin and
some of his parishioners whom he had
impressed into service. While in the
awful presence of the dead and amid
the solemn surroundings of desolated
fame, the representative saw Joseph
Smith, man of extraordinary size and
strength enter. He said not a word
but quietly went from corpse to corpse
lifting the stained and mud-cOvered
coverings of the decd. At last he came
to the corpse Of child about nine years
old-his daughter. He looked at the
swollen and blood-stained features
moment, and then with voice of
the most unutterable agony. cried:
''My Maggie; my little Maggier'
at the same time pressing the inani-
mate form to his bosom, and giving
expression to alternate caressings and
CALCULATIONS of grief. The man took
his child and went with it to what had
been his home. He placed it beside
those of his wife and two other chill
dren, all of whom had been drowned.
1t is impossible to narrate the pathetic
incidents that occurred on all sides. At
Morrell forty three bodies were laid out
waiting to be identified. Eight of them
were children, one that of child which
physician said had been born while
the mother was
FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE
in the raging flood. At Nineveh, nine
miles down the stream, 1O6 bodies,
mostly women and children, were laid
out in sawmill, and additions we're
being made by wagon loads at time,
which were being picked up on the
meadows, over which the great tide had
surged with the fury of demon. Many
were found with their hands clinging
tenaciOusly to branches of trees
and shrubs. In one case a young
couple were found locked in each others
arms. In another case mother was
found with child clasped in each arm
and held closely to her bosom. There
is no possibility of telling just who has
been lost, as thousands are missing.
The survivors. many of whom tell
of the most thrilling escapes from col
lections of debris, bouse roofs, car doors
and planks, seek the banks and gaze
with stupor, born of paralyzation of
their mental faculties from the fright
and horror they have been subjected to.
The number of people who are visible
from the banks are so few in
contrast with the population of
the various little bOroughs which con-
stitute the city that the question" where
are the people?" is asked on all sides.
The impression is gaining that the
disclosures yet to come where the
gorge collected and which is now
burning over an area of several
acres is yet more ghastly. The awful
ness of the scene defes language to de-
pict. as it does the Imagination to con-
ceive of. Without seeing the havoc
created no idea can be given, either of
the desolation or the extent of damage.
EARLIER REPORTS.
Story of the Disaster Before the
Worst Was Known.
New FLORENCE, June 1.-The calam-
ity of yesterday was as singular as it
was fatal. 1t is now very evident that
more lives have been lost because of