The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-06-20
BURNING THE DEBRIS.
Work Of Clearing Up the Wreck
at Johnstown.
The Rsglstration Bureau Reports $4,000
Former Inhabitants Unaccounted
For Twelve Hundred and
Forty Bodies Have Been
Recovered.

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lighted up the valley and mountain sides
for miles around. The piles Of wreckage
removed from the debris during the day
was thus disposed Of, making agrand sight.
The horrors continue and there seems to be
no end Ever since the water receded into
| its channel, fathers, mothers sisters and
brothers seeking their lost, have wandered
up and down amid the ruins At each cry
'They have found another" these heart
broken searchers hasten forward and anx-
iously gaze upon the features Of the dead.
| Every now and then is heard o wall Of
distress, sometimes rising almost TO the
pitch Of o scream and again nothing but o
sob is heard as friend or relative is recog-
nized. Monday evening the body Of pretty
little Jennie Given, aged fifteen, was dis
covered A charge Of dynamite loosened
the jam of drift disclosing four bodies.
Under the floor Of wrecked building,
pinned down by the heavy sills lying across
her face and limbs, lay the body, crushed al
most beyond semblance to humanity. A
man elbowing his way through the crowd
stood gazing at the Undiscovered corpse.
His anguish-stricken countenance pro-
claimed him relative, even though he did
not speak. AS he turned away after the
| DOuy was TtIilONeu Ilc was SdShCu IL uc TctOR-
nized her. His look was as II he could not
understand and his only response was,
"Poor, poor Jennie"
A department for identification Of valua-
bles was established on Main street yester-
day, with Rev. Mr.. Baer in charge.
JouNsTowN, June 12.-Hundreds of the
laborers left here yesterday. This Is but
the beginning of the outpouring that will
setin to-day. The opinion is gaining strength
| that General Hastings has made a serious
mistake in Offering less TO the laborers than
has heretofore been paid, and the resultwill
be at least a temporary cessation Of work.
Under present management the wages have
been two dollars per day and food furnished.
Under the State management wages are to
be reduced to 81 l.50 per day with board fur
nished them. All of Booth & Flynn's men,
about 1000, will be paid of and discharged.
Transportation will be furnished for as
many as do not wish to remain and work
for the State at the reduced rate
At six o'clock last evening the new regu.
lations for the government of Johnstown
went into effect. The heads of departments
were announced as follows: Colonel j. L.
Spangler will have charge of all the supply
stations throughout the flooded district
The district will be divided into two post
commissaries No. 1 will be under command
Of Mayor w. H. Horn, whowill have charge
Of all supplies received over the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad. No. under tho direction Of
Mayor Singer, who will have charge Of all
supplies received from the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad. The county will be sub-di-
vided into eleven districts under the care Of
Quartermasters attached to the different
regiments of the National Guard Of the
State. Lieutenants Bean and Burnett Of
the regular army are associated with Colonel
Spangler in the work
Several stores were opened during the
day and were thronged with purchasers.
Many Of the things purchased were for
female wear, which they had deprived
themselves of rather than accept them for
nothing in crowd of scrambling men and
boys. There was asystem everywhere yes
terday and a great Improvement is mani.
fest There Is an excess Of clothing Money
and food is the present great need. Two car
loads Of fresh meat delayed ky the way,
were so badly spoiled when they arrived
yesterday that their precious contents had
to be burned. The donations Of provisions
can not be too extensive
The intention is TO solve the raft problem
with petroleum and the torch Yesterday
for the third time the drift was fired and is
burning fiercely, but II il Is not destroyed
fifty barrels of coal oil will be employed on
it to-day and the whole mass will 20 up in a
bonfire.
BELLEFoNTE, Pa, June 12.-Mr Wilmer
l.. Malin, superintendent for the Bell Tele
phone and Supply Company for Central
Pennsylvania, has just returned from
Williamsport, and describes the scenes at
tending the food through the Susquehanna
Valley as beyond description. There Is
hardly one building Of any kind that stood
in near proximity TO the river that now
stands on its original foundations, while he
estimates that as many as afty farms In
the distance Of twenty-six miles have been
entirely cleared Of buildings of any kind
Large barns were lifted and carried for
miles, and deposited in the middle Of wheat
fields without having sustained any per-
ceptible injury. '-tt
At one place about five miles below Lock
Haven there Is pile OF debris covering four
acres Of ground and consisting of every
thing mentionable-logs, trees, fences,
wagons, farm implements of all kinds,
household furniture sufficient to furnish q
score Of houses, dead animals, and at one
place was found silverware to the amount
Of $500. In LOCK Haven the work of clean
ing up Is being vigorously pushed forward
and the merchants are ridding their shelves
( destroyed goods, all Of which is COM
pletely covered by a coating of mud and is
sold for whatever any one may offer.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, June l3.-Wednesday
morning notices were posted all over the
city reading; "Wanted, 500 men at sl.5O
per day. Apply to Committeeman Flynn"
Very few are applying for work. At
nine o'clock the representatives Of the
Pittsburgh relief committee opened their
Office in the Baltimore &c Ohio depot and be-
gan the work of paying the men who have
been working here since the food. The
crowd was 80 great that company of the
Fourteenth regiment was called upon to
hold them in check. This process of paying
the men was found to be entirely too slow
and another paying station was opened in
the club house The crowd waiting in line
for their money numbered nearly 1900 men.
Trains on the Pennsylvania railroad now
arrive and depart from the regular passen.
ger station; the broken tracks over the
stone bridge have been fully repaired. Some
Of the bodies recovered now are so badly
decompo 'ed that the skin. breaks and hair