Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-11
Publication by Fire.
The Torch Applied to the Drift
at YOUNGSTOWN.
HUNDREDS OF BODIES WILL BURN.

The Sickening Odor of the Horrible jam
Filled the vailey-A Few More Terribly
Decomposed Bodies Recovered Prog
full Reunion and Wedding at Pittsburg-
-Four OF the Sufferers Lose Their Reason
Clara Barton's Report: 'The Destitu-
ton Acknowledging Money Held
Back for Awhile.
JoHNsrowN, Pa, June 1.-THE debris of
the raft ON the eastern side, near the bridge,
was fired late last night This means that
number of bodies must be burned to ashes
with it The fire is burning slowly and no
authority is given for the measure. Gen.
Hastings didn't care to talk of it.
1t Was a Great Graveyard.
The great raft is an endless, measureless
graveyard, made in one night Its tomb
stones are shattered timbers sticking out of
the wreckage. Though hundreds had al
ready been uncovered, the dead yesterday
came to light in surprising numbers--if any
one here can be surprised-and there were
some faces among them that had never been
missed. The stencil of the raft filled the
whole valley, although those here did not
notice It.
Would Have Been CHASTITY Blow.
An axman standing top of the wreck
raised his axe once to strike yesterday fore
noon, but the blow never fell. If it had it
would have cut in twain the first of the bod
les taken from the point on the morning of
the tenth day. 1t was the remains Of a
woman, Emma Roth by name, identified by
hsr broken-hearted husband an hour later.
DIR. G. C. Brinkley, one of Johustown's
brightest and most promising physicians,
was found at last in the raft near where that
of the woman lay. Although but 80 years
OF aga, his appearance when the remains
were rescued was that of man IS years old.
Other Bodies Removed.
Others, unknown, were taken from the
raft at all hours of the day. Among them
an old mau with his little boy clasped in his
arms. Five bodies were found under one
single heap of the wreckage in the town yes
terday. One of them was Kate Neary, the
milliner and modesto
One of the saddest identifcations was that
OF Miss Blanche Harnish, of Dayton, o. She
was passenger on the day express and her
father had searched for her for the past
three days. Some workmen found her body
lying under the trestle near the Pennsylvania
railroad station.
George c. Humm was a well known in
surance agent Nobody had given him q
| thought until yesterday afternoon, when his
body was carried TO the Presbyterian church
morgue.
Horrible Condition of the Dead.
The keepers of the morgue say that as
soon as the air strikes the corpses now it
becomes almost impossible to handle them,
and the sooner they are buried the better.
There were over fifty new faces on the slabs
| at the morgues last night, and a reosrd shows
that up to noon Sunday, which was Just a
week from the time morgues were estab-
lished. l. 49, people were buried from them
who were discovered right in this vicinity.
This has nothing to do with the valley or the
dead of Nineveh at Florence and elsewhere
A great many were also buried who were
not taken to these morgues.
The Iron Company at Work.
Great credit is due the Cambria Iron COM
pany for promptly setting the stricken peo-
pie Of this city to work, thereby diverting
their minds from their many sorrows. Yes
terday the machine shop employing LOO men,
was in operation. The boiler shop was
changing with the hammers of full force of
workmen; the blacksmith shop running full,
and what is still more wonderful, the six
blast furnaces with their small army of work
men were started up yesterday morning
The Number of workmen Lost.
About two-thirds of the whole number of
the company's employees were left alive by
the food. Nearly 700, or not quite one half
of the Gautier company's men have re-
ported for work The loss Of men in the
lower works is from 1000 to 1900 Most of
the survivors were householders, but the
dam burst made them paupers for the time
being They will, with the company's as
sistance, being rebuilding their homes at
once.