The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1889-06-05

at this time it IS evident
that something III the nature Of
cloud burst must have been the cul-
of the struggle Of water
against the embanklnent
JOHNsTowN LITERALLY WIPED OUT
Pittsburg, Pa, May 31.-N. Fl.
Hays, supervisor Of the section Of
the Pennsylvania railroad covered
by the food, telegraphed at 10
O'Clock tonight to Superintendent
Pitcairn as follows: The Gas:fuc-
ton Is terrible. The duup at
Johnstown is gone between the
bridge and tower. West OF JonDs-
town at some points the tracks are
entirely carried away and road bed
gone. The river for three quarters
Of a mile above the bridge IS 1llled
with buildings and lriftwood forty
feet high, and is Oh fire, burning
furiously, and is entirely beyond
our control. l cannot estimate the
amount of damage l walked over
tonight from Johnstown to Sang
Hollow, four miles. Johnstown is
literally wiped out"
Superintendent Pitcairn, who is
at New Florence, sixty five miles
east Of Pittsburg, telegraphs that
over one hundred men, women and
children passed Sang Hollow cling
ing to debris Seven were rescued
at Sang Hollow, two at Conemaugh
Furnace and two at New Flor
ence. Only forty-seven Of the hun
dred and over passed New Florence.
The loss of life and property will be
terrible.
4 Times special from Blairsyille
station on the Pennsylvania railroad
says: John Barton, freight ell
gineer, says that at 2 p. m. he saw
three men and woman struggling
for their lives in the Conemaugh
river just below Johnstown. The
Western Union office in Johnstown
was swept away at 4 O'Clock this
afternoon. The water in Cambria
City, where are located the Cambria
iron works, is 35 feet deep and rising
AN ADDED HORROR.
Pittsburg, Pa, June 1t is esti
mated by reliable railroad men ant
others engaged in the work of taking
out dead bodies that not less thai
5000 people perished in the series
of disasters along the Conemaugl
river Of all the fearful occurrence
the most terrible vas fire in whicl
Supervisor Hayes of the Pennsyva
mia railroad estimated that from
1000 to 1000 unfortunate being
We're burned to death. The sigh
was so heartrending that the braves
men turned pale and sickened. Owe
800 frame houses were jammed to
gether in a heap 40 feet high agains
the massive viaduct of the Pennsy
, vania railroad at Johnstown. Al
the houses We're wrecked and th
majority of females crushed to deaf
, before the terrible fire began. Me1
} women and children, with their limb
pinioned between the timbers, the
t life-blood slowly ebbing away, beg
$ ged piteously for relief. One unto
4 tunate woman asked man On tt
s bank for Gods sake to cut her Les
1 off. 4 man was caught by the ar.
:, and pleaded piteously for knife
l sever the member. Others wel
4 smashed and squeezed to death b
meath the grinding timbers, al
0 some We're pressed deep into Il
q water and the flood soon ended the
D miseries.
r THE HORRIBLE FIRE.
To add to the horror of this seen
b fire broke out in the mass of wrec
e ed buildings at the bridge and n
: body escaped. Flames soon devou
a ed the people. and soon nothing W
i left but the charred and scatter,
IS remains floating somewhere on t
d water. Supervisor Hayes stood