Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-06-06

Auo ohhhulan nehWNyh have Teen badly
torn. 4 portion OF the wing wall OF the
dam has been torn off aud that structure
otherwise injured by tho floating timber.
AT Steeiton the water has subsidized CON
slderaoly. One track OF the Pennsyl.
vania railroad was opened 10 travel this
afternoon and passenger trains are being
run on almost schedule time both sast
and west. Nearly 600 feet of embank.
ment and culvert on the Reading
branch 10 washed away, The wreckjne
crew was put to work this morning end
day.
Ihis morning when come OF the in
haoltantS visited their homes they found
inc locks broken of the doors and iew-
eity, watches and silverware gone.
The bodies u Mrs, Holstine and her
babe were recovered this morning about
400 yards below where they fell In,
Work Is being resumed.
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J0HNsrO KN'S OHARNEL house.
Clearing up the Ruins aud SEARCH
ing for the Dead-.rLe Magnitude
OF the Calamity Not Vet ApprOxi-
mnted-Thc Hourly Developments.
/. YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, June 4.--Four DAYS
have elapsed SINCE the angel of death
swept down tho valley Of che Oonemaugh,
but 20 ray Of sunshinb has YET lightened
the scene OF horror OF Johnstown bridge,
The sky is still overcast with heavy
clouds and the sun rests behind men
acing pail as though reluctant to view
the handiwork wrought by his potent ele-
ments. For 30 hours without inter
mission the fire engines have played upon
the smoking ruins above the bridge, hnt
the flames that break out afsesh at fire.
quent intervals In the floating field OF
ruins seem to defy the subduing force
OF water. Nearly 1000 men are employed
10 different parts OF the valley clearing
up tbs ruins and prosecuting diligenf
search for the undiscovered dead. Their
Investigations are not without fruitful
results, for the bodies of the dead and
eharrad victims of food and fire ore dis
covered with uuaiminlshsd frequency,
TAKING CUT THE BODIES
1t becomes hourly more and more OPP
parent that not u single yeaiige will ever
oe recognized of hundreds that were
roasted IN the flames above the bridge.
since the last sentence was penned q
party OF aeercheTs unearthed charEsd
ani nnsightly mass from the smoulderIng
debris within 80 yards in front of the
Associated Press headquarters. Unused
70 sdch frightfnl discoveries the leader Of
the gang pronounced the remains 90 DO a
blackened log and 1t required the author.
ltatiVe verdict Of physician to demon
state that the ghastly discovery
was the cbarfed remains Of human
being. Only the trunk ramainel aud
that wgB roasted beyond oil temblance
10 hesh. Five minutes search revealed
fragments Of skull that az ono disin.
tegra.ed Of Its own weight when exposed
to air, no single pieoa being larger than
| bali dollar and the whole resembling
the remnants Of shattered charcoal. Within
the last hour half o dozen discoveries
In no way less horrifying than this hays
been made by ssarchers 60 they rake with
stlsbe and hooks In the smoking runs
80 difficult Is IL at times 10 dstGimine
whether the remains are those OF human
beings that 1t is apps<ent hundreds must
be fairly burned to ashes. Thus tho
number that have found last resting
place beneath these ruins osn at best
never be more than Appropriated.
EXPORTING MONEY ron SUPPLIES.
Some of the unforLunates vino could
not go to the relief trains endeavored to
obtain -four from the wrecked stores in
Johnstown. The dealer was charging
Sc sack for -four, and ives getting it in
some cases. Suddenly the crowd heard
OF tbs occurrence and several desperate
men went to the store and doled the fl9ur
gratuitously TO the homeless aud stricken
army. Another dealer was selling -four
at 81. so n sack. He refused to give any
away, but would sell it to am ons who
had the money. Otherwise he would not
allow any one to go near it, guarding his
store with shot gun.
THE WORK OF aHouLs.
Bodies are recovered in Johnstown to-
day that have been robbed by the ghouis
that flock TO the scene, IL was known
that one lady had several hundred dollars
In her possession just before the disaster,
but when the body was recovered there
was not q cent in her pocket. The Huns
attacked o supply wagon between Nor
rellyille and Cambria City today. The
drivers of the wagon repulsed them but
they again returned. A second tight en-
eued but after lively scrambli2g ne Huns
were again driven away. After that
drivers and guards OF supply wagons
were permitted to 60 armed
DELAwARBAN WILL HOLD SERVICES.
No effort was made TO hold religious
services in Morrellvils lest night by tho
Rev. John Fox OF pittsbnrg. Tho Rev.
Harvey Beale, formerly of the Freshly
terrain Church Of st. Georges, Del, is
making arrangements for services in
Covers school house tonight.
RAILROAD coMMuHIoATIoN RE.EsrABL1sHED.
At IL O'Clock the first relief train &ear-
ing thousands Of po1nds of provisions
for the suffering and collins for the dead
passed over Johnstown bridge ncross the
improyised trestle and tho track up the
incline to the JohnstuwD depot. For the
firat time railroad communication is re-.
established between the stricken city and
the outside world.
BODIES WILL lie LEFT TO BURN.
The hand OF Providence 10 10 it, The
suggestion made by the physicians yes
terday that tho bodies not buried be
allowed to be org mated in the interest OF
public health and which aroused such q
storm of indignation among the suryiv-
ing populace IL viewed with more calm
ness to-day and there is growing senti-
mens that Il Is after all the best solution
Of the problem.
Weeks, months, will be required to
move the stupendous mass by artificial
means. and meantime the rotting patri-
fyine remains of poor humanity buried
therein would be dealing pollution and
death to all the surrounding country.
dlhe awful dssolation OF the Ecene
has been described often enough |
already to render repetition OF
the attempt here unnecessary. These
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