The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1889-06-13

place being saved. AT this place, where
the round house was, all that can be seen is
five locomotives, tossed and battered and
sticking deep In the sand. At Woodyale
nothing was left but a part Of the old wooden
mill The Cambria barbed wire mill at this
place Il completely wiped out The Atlantic
express was carried up against the noun
tains, and the JOhnstOwn express Is at Son
man station. The New York and Chicago
express is laid up at Wilmore station. The
special locomotive and car which left CONF
maugh are safe. Some Of the cars we's
badly burned.
Tuesday was the day set aside By the cip
zens' committee for the burying Of all the
unidentified dead that have been lying in
the morgue since Sunday. At ten o'clock
In the morning the men who were In charge
Of the burying started 70 work and were
busy all day. There were no pathetic scenes
at these buriais. The men hired 10 do the
work seemed 20 do Il Just as a matter Of
business. The bodies were inferred in the
cemetery nearest the place where they
were found At noon a procession Of about
fifty collins was seen going up the hill above
the railroad There was not a mourner
present, and the sight was CHASTITY one 10
behold. II will take several days TO bury
the bodiesl the different grayeyards, as
there were few graves dug until yesterday
morning and no implements 20 dig them
with. A large detachment Of men arrived
from Pittsburgh during the day and they
were Immediately put 10 work digging
graves. Altogether about 800 bodies were
taken to the different cemeteries yesterday
morning,
Att 30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon bodies
were being taken from the ruins ut the rate
Of one every i've minutes. The supply Of
collins on the west side Of tho bridge run
out and the corpses had 70 be laid on the
ground. An extra supply Of collins Is ex-
pected from Pittsburgh, and IL they do not
arrive soon the work Of rcscuing the bodies
from the burning ruins will have TO be
stopped. as the stencil arising from the place
Is terrible.
While the total loss OF life at Johnstown
and the surrounding bOroughs Of Cambria,
MorreIlsville, Kernyilie ard Conemaugh
viii never be known. yet fair attempt is
now being made 20 ascertain II within a
reasonably fair limit. This Is being done
through a bureau Of registration, which was
established Monday. Twenty eight agencies
have been established within tho flooded
districts, ard all survivors have been ncti-
fed to register themselves and their fami-
lies at once. At noon 9,OOOpersons had reg
istered. There were q. 500 people residing
In Johnstown and the boroughs named be
fore the terrible catastrophe.
when the work Of registration is finished,
which may be tonight, then it will be
known how many persons are missing. The
work is very carefully and thoroughly done.
special care being taken TO prevent duplica
tons. Superintendent Morgan, Of the Cam
bris Iron Company, who is regarded as an
exceptionally level headed man, returned
yesterday from n tour of the entire flooded
district He declared that only about 1900
persons are now alive where 2. 900 lived and
had their being before the flood
Adiutant General Hastings maintains that
the death list may not exceed 5000. and OF
this number he thinks 3, 600 bodies will never
be recovered. Mr. McConnaughy, the chief
OF the bureau Of registration, says heis CON
WINGED that the number who perished is
fully 1000 or more
SOUTH FoRK, Pa, June SIT was john g.
Parke, an excellent civil engineer Of Phila-
dclphia, who first saw the danger that
threatened the valley by the bursting of the
dam. Early Friday morning he discovered
that the waters would have 10 have an ad-
ditional outlet or the dam would give way.
Hastily securing q force Of thirty Ital-
ians he set to work TO prepare an
other sluice. In half an hour his
purpose had been accomplished, but still the
water continued 10 rise. Giving orders to
his men to cut another outlet, Mr.. Parke
jumped on his horse and started at a break
neck speed TO warn the village below. As
he rode he warned the people on every hand
OF their danger. Soon hundreds Of families
We're fleeing TO the hills for safety. Reach
ing Sonih Fork station, he telegraphed the
warning to Johnstown- Some needed the
warning; others laughed atit-
JoNHsTowS, Pa, June 6.-In the midst OF
this scene Of death and desolation, a relent-
ing Providence seems to be exerting sub
DUNG influence. Six days have elapsed
since the great disaster and the temperature
still remains low and chilly in the Cone
maugh valley. When tits remembered that
in the ordinary June weather OF this locali-
" from two TO three days arc sufficient to
bring an unattended body to degree Of de
cay and putrefaction that would render il
almost impossible to prevent the spread Of
disease throughout the valley, the inestima-
bic benefits OF this cool weather are almost
beyond appreciation The cmanations from
the half mile Of debris above the bridge are
but little more offensive than Tuesday. and
should this cool weather continue a few
days longer it is possible that hundreds Of
bodies may yet be recovered from the wreck
in such a state Of preservation as TO render
Identification possible Many hundreds of
victims, however. viii be roasted and
charred into such shapeless masses as to
preclude all chance Of recognition by their
nearest relatives.
The work OF clearing up the wreck and
recovering the bodies is now being con
Quoted most systematically. Over coo men
are al work IL the various portions Of the
valley and each gang Of twenty men IS di-
rected by q foreman who is under orders
from general headquarters As the rubbish
is gone over and the boxes and scattered ar
ticles Of value recovered, the debris is piled
up in one high mass and the torch applied
In this way the valley is rapidly assuming
a less devastated condition. In twenty four
hours more every mass Of rubbish Will
probably have been searched. and the in
vcstigations will be confined TO the smoking
wreck above Johnstown bridge.
The first body taken from the ruins yes
tersiay was that Of boy. who was found in
the debris near the bridge He was badly
bruised and burned The remains were
taken to the undertaking rooms at the Penn
sylvania railroad station, where they were
identified as those Of Willie Davis The
boys mother has been making tour of the
different morgres for the past few DAYS and
was Just going through the undertaking
rooms when she saw the remains Of her boy
brought in. She ran up and demanded the
remains. and seemed to have lost her mind.
She stated that she had lost her husband
and six children in the flood and that tins
was the first one of the FAIRLY that had
been recovered She said she had not slept
a wink since Saturday, and had visited the
different morgues at least 100 times and was
almost crazy from the sights she had wit
messed.
During the work Of removing the rubbish
from the Methodist Episcopal church a man
and his wife were found clasped so tightly
in each others arms that II was found nee
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