Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-06-02
5000 LIVES LOST.
Most Appalling Calamity in Ameri-
cas- History.
BURSTING OF A DAM.
seyen Million Dollars Worth Of Property
Destroyed.
A VALLEY DELUGED.
Towns Swept by The Raging
Waters.
TER RlBLE SCENES.
Fire and Flood Claim Their
Victime.
Populations Swallowed Up by tho Dsvouring
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS crowning
Eorror-Ths Story Yet Untold
Towns Swept by The Raging
Waters.
TERRIBLE SCENES.
Fire and Flood Claim Their
Victime.
ropulationsswallOwed Up by tho DsvouTing
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS crowning
Horror-Ths Story Yet Untold

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS crowning
Eorror-Ths Story Yet Untold
Nrv FLoRENcs, PA. June The gray morn
ing light does not seem 10 show either hope q
mitigation Of the swfui fears Of the night We
are whore va drove arross the mountains IN tho
darkness Of the early m0rning-st New Flo
renee. fourteen miles from the sceno Of DESC
iation AZ Johnstown. IL has been q hard night
% everybody. The weary, oycrWorked newsps
per-alen. who have been without rest and food
sinco yesterday afternoon. and the operators
who bnyo to handle tho messages arc even now
preparing for The work Of me day. There has
been long NrRngio over the possession Of the
special train for the press between Tho rival
inornins.Psper mon, and IL has delayed the
fncr Hast kNen here She horror IL in our midst.
Seven bodies have been found on tho shore near
this iosn. Two being IN q tres man and WO-
IlEa-Where tho udo had carried hom.
BRINGING IN The NEWS.
The country people are coming in 20 the news
eentr-. IN large nEmoor-. telling stories OF dis
Esfers along the riTor banks IN secluded places.
John Mccartney. carpeu ter who lives IN
falnsiowu. reached here about 4 o'clock lie
lsft Johustovn a. bali past yesterday, and saws
tho -re1c when De left was ndescrtable. Tho
people hei been warned carly an the morning 10
move 90 The highlands tut they ala not heed the
warning, although H. was repealed number ot
time up 20 O'Clock. when fhe water poured into
C.aier street several feet deep. Then the houses
lefsn rocking "a aud iro. and finally the forco OF
.ftc current carried buildings across streets and
vs. ant lois and ds'hed them against each other,
breaking them into fragments.
CtNGING TO BUILDINGS
These buildings were freiehted with the poor
wtetrles who 20 shortly before hai laughed at
sac cr, 81 danger. hcCartney says IN some cases
NM be- Ia FL rtf O.
hIi-inrs. Hclauuoy'a wife vas " q hm. she
Rad three sister who lived near her. They saT
Ile house 10 which these girls live carried away
sal thou they could stand Is no longer. 80 they
burned away.
Tho husband fesred his wife would 50 crazy
before hc could drag her away, aud lhey left tho
doomed district and wont INLAND along the coun-
frF roads lu 70 they rearhed hore. IL - said %
- next t1 impossible 60 get 20 John~tOwn proper
to-day IA any manor except by row-hoats. The
lUads are cut mp 90 that even he cOuntrymen re-
fuse 60 travel over ih0m iu their toughest vchi-
cl... The only hope is 10 get within about three
miles % J0hustown by special train or by
hAl1-csr. This VIII be done ny the Associated
Press agent WITHIN the next hour
WATERS EFCHpISG.
Tho waters are now receding here SO rapidly
o. they ro~o last night aud as the banks IN
cover the dead are showing 40 Already nine
dead bodies have been picked up within the
limits 0i This borough -in-e daylight None OF I
fh.rl lave Is vet been recognized. iIvo Of those
lcuad are women ono lGiy. probably thirty |
n,c years a. are nnl rather handsome, had /
ciAsp pei 10 her arms babe about six months I
old. Tho doai body Of young woman vas dis I
covered ia the branches Of a huge tree which /
hs1 been carried down che stream. All The /
orchards. crops. and fhruboery 1loug the banks |
OF fl9 rivcr have tcen destroyed.
Tho body of another woman has Just been dis /
covered Ia mo river here. Her foot was dscov- |
cred above tho surface ~ the water A rope WAS \
Fastened about i;, and Il Is ROW tied 70 a tree |
awaiting assistance 20 land It. John L. Weber |
and his wife IAN old cOJplc). Nike Astzgar, and |
John foruey we're rescued near here early this !
noruing-they bxi been carried from their home
"a Cambria CITY on the roof OF the house.
ALL DROwSED.
There we're seven others on the roof Of the
rouse when % was carried % by the angry va
t-rs. They wsro ali drowned.
ILey are unknown TO Weber. they having drift
- o. % TIE roof from the floating d>5ris. NeOor
sll his wife wore thoroughly drenched and
were a most bel gless from exp 1srre. They Wero
unable 20 walk when taken from tns roof al this
gla-e. Thoy are now at the hotel here.
ONE HUNDRED BODIES RECOVERED.
Oae hundred bodies have been recovered at
Nln.vAu. Seventy persons are reposed burned
10 death "a ne IRE on JOhnstoWn bridge.
AMPLE WARNING GIVEN.
The calamity % yesterday was as singular "a |
:s..L 70 isysry evident many lives have been |
JOS. hY the loo'i-h incredibly of people who I
wore neol!eas of TIE warnings OF danger For |
moro than year thcre were feArs OF an accident
90 lust such character as the one that has hap |
,.-rrl. The foundations Of the dam were con- /
. 1erel D. he shsky early last spring and many |
8 c. >asing ieskages were reported from time 70 /
SINE according 20 the people Who 1.-Two ia Johns /
fren AMI other towns on the Inc Of the river. /
Ample time was given 70 the JohasioND people /
- 90 railroad on -iAls aud by oiher gentlemen /
eft -1udiuE and reputation. Ia do1ens-yes, I
llpfreds-Os cases this Warnipg was utter y 1
O. regarded, and those who he5d6d II early IA ]
ft Jay were lOcksd upon as coNards, and many 1
.eers were uttered by bps that nov arc cold |
al. -
1cr uaInelcss woman, VINO looked with sightle@s /
efe- az The gray clouds from Tho Sllmy bank OF /
meadow fellow New rloroAoo, wore emile
u4&, perhaps had iis birth IN that spirit OF /
Whose airait9r which has had such aEful
results
DAN,GE SUITS.
There has grown up q bitter feeling among
fhe Surviving sufferers against thuso who owned
the lakc and dam, ani damage suits will be
vleufifrl ny and by. The dams in stony creek.
uiOFe Jamestown. Uroks aDou; noon yesterday
and thousands Of feet VI lumber passed down
ila stream
bow can ANYBODY tell bow many are dead s"
raii n rsliro4d enGlaoer - me tbs morning; q
lavo nBcp az Sing hollow With my train since II
oriJcE Yesterday and havs seen i1ily 81 persons
%. ". srn. . brave railroad employees. saved
Eirieeu lives as Niuevah. Tho most awful Gull
mutation OF the aaful night Was tue roasting OF a
hundred or more persons IN mid-nOOd. The ruins
80 h1ueca OUT buildings, and other structures
~ apt acfinsi .he new railroad bridge a. Johns
Town, ana from an OVCrtNf ucu htDfe or 80 me- th'h
csuse The UPPER pGrt 81 the wrocssge caught Ere.
There we're crowds OF men, women. and children
on TIC wreck see aud thoir screams were soon
ado; y the awful chorus % horror They we're
literally roasted IN the food. SOon after the IRE
burned itseif cat other people were brown
G,alnst tine mas. There were some tity people
So sight whom mo ruins suddenly parted and
broke up ana ne unforfunatcs we're swept under
me bridge Into Iitchy darkncse. The latest n0ws
from Jlhustown f. NM but Two houses can he
sceu in 10 81 also said only three houses
Trmnla IL Cambria C4ty AZ 3 O'Clock two moro
bodies had tecr recovered from The wreck and
another sighted
FGCH THOUSAND LIVES LOST.
About 400 iives we're lost The loss Of pro-
perry Is 6tDut t!l00t14
4. Is. POppcustah. 81 East End, Pittsburgh,
cIst.ug uishod hifnson 10y his bravery yesterday
o .i rnoou4 tie was messenger on the mail
am wnicn hal 70 turn ~ sang Hollow. A. the
lrgin psssed point where The water WAS fun OF
s. lgglfEg pocplc q woman aud child nosted In
fesr tnc shore. The uGiu was stopped, and
Iopponsisll undrossed. jumped into the water,
Ald ia tWo trlps saved DDih Tho mother and
ctId.
Among TIE Identified dead werO James Nc
8 Min suDennJeudeut Of the Cambria Iron
Con rEuys store, his wife, four childrsn. AID
d44ghtcr-in. Law: joan r. Linton. lead
ilg ieeyer. hs wife. ana Eve chidron;
81. Thomas Kirlen 'aad two children.
Ar Nolan And family. Ma. Wissinger. Mrs
ttTah Palmer. Dr.. George Wagner. vile, and
tlfee children Frank =. Bowman. wife. and
TOO chiidssn, hra Ebhard honhington and
srle0 children, William POwoies. Mrs. Ann
d eel. Mrs John Reese. Cora. Lizzie, aud A. L.
Reese, Rachael Reese (m0lher Of John koeso'
t4f.On F.sbeT. wife, sad Elk children, and hrs. (
Aerkelein.