Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-06-17
LIGHT IS BREAKING.
Gen. Hastings Expects to Finish
His Labors in One Week.
\ SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING.

Twenty-Five CIcrgymen VIII DO RE-
questcd 70 Go to 5ohnstown Next sum
day 70 OHsr I'd Praise for Her Deiiv-
erancc-Residents WIN Vote ON the
constitutional Amendments.
JoHNsrowE, Pa, June 17.-Johns-
towns citizens have settled down to
their routine life again. There was al
most a total suspension Of work in the
Conemaugh valley yesterday, and the
day was spent very quietly. There was
no improvement IN the weather. The
mercury registered so degrees. Re
iigious services were held by all denom-
inations. Nearly all of the services
were, from necessity, conducted in the
open air. The sermons and addresses
counseled the people to be brave and
keep up heart.
The Dry or Wet Question.
II IL understood that polling places
will be open here on Tuesday to give the
residents a chance to vote on the con-
stitutional amendment.
About $50 men were working at the
gorge to make wider opening in the
debris. Seven hosting engines were
working all day, and as a result the
channel Is now over twenty feet wide.
A hundred other men were engaged in
searching for dead bodies and six were
recovered during the day. None were
identified.
Late last evening a large quantity of
oil was poured over the debris below the
stone railroad bridge and the torch APP
piled. At o'clock there was sheet of
flame twenty feet high and 200 yards in
length along both banks of the river.
A careful search for dead bodies was
made before the torches were applied,
Gen. Hastings having issued orders that
no human remains shall be burned when
it Is possible to avoid it,
The survivors Estimated at $4,000.
Col. Rogers, who Is in charge Of the
bureau OF investigation, reports to Gen.
Hastings that the average registration is
1850 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, refuse to register
as they think they are not legitimate
survivors. Col. Rogers estimates the
survivors at $4,000, and says: These
figures are presumably approximately
correct. Deducting these %, 900 survi-
vors from the total population, leave
Alps lives lost.
This estimate is as perfect as it will
probably 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.
1sncouragements to Build.
Gen. Hastings has determined that
where people desire to build Immediately
he win clear out their cellars and assist
them to put up their buildings. A Chi
cago firm has been furnished money by
the Chicago relief committee with which
10 send 100 houses here ready to place
upon their foundations. These will be-
gin 70 arrive in day or two.
TO facilitate building schemes the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad and the Penn
sylvania railroad will construct special
switches for the accommodation of the
lumber trains which are now arriving.
The state is TO furnish the. carpenter
tools, nails and oil the requisites for
prompt work in rebuilding.
A Week win Finish II.
Special orders were issued and ar
ranqements made for rushing the work
Of clearing away the debris with all
possible speed. If expectations are re-
allied and few days of favorable
weather intervenes there will be but lit
tie work left undone by next Saturday
night So confident is Gen. Hastings OF
this that he has expressed the determin.
attain of asking this week that twenty
tive ministers of various denominations
visit Johnstown next Sabbath and hold
special thanksgiving services for the
saved from the visitation.