Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-06-08
The Broken Dam as Examined
by Experts
Shows Ignorance and CareleSSneSS Most
Criminal.
MoOdYale People Met Death from Un-
needing the Warning.


JoHSsrowS, Pa, June I.
Eight thousand men have been at work to-
day clearing the debris Fires are burning
up and dosn the valley today as far as eve
can reach and the air is thick with smoke
Eighty-si1 men under orders of sanitary Of
hcials are scattering disinfectants over acres
OF wreckage. Kirk declares that there are
thousands of bodies yet to be found in this
territory alone. Great trouble has thus far
been experienced at the bridge by the mass
OF telegraph Eires that reach across the va
rous spans through which the water has
passed. The Western Union has been asked
to send experienced men to help in the work
The pneumonia scOurge grows alaraiiugly
Notwithstanding the statements of Dr Groff
Of the State Board of health.
Only Is bodies were recovered in the Con
emaugh valley this afternoon. One poor
remnant of humanity was discovered BY a
teamster in the center OF the road over which
teams had been passing is hours. Ii was
quite impossible to identify the corpse. 1t
was taken to the morgue and orders issued
for burial after few hours exposure to the
gaze of those eagerly in search of missing
friends Only the hardest could enter the
morgue today, so overwhelming was the
dreadful stencil. The undertakers. after
bodies and preparing them for burial. re.
to the yard TO await the arrival of
the next CHASTITY find. Two additional cases
of typhoid fever are reported from Miners
dale making total of seven in that village
alone since yesterday morning.
Measles are becoming considerably preva-
lent on Prospect Hill where a refugees camp
is established. At the commissary station
of the Pennsylvania railroad depot today,
there is considerable activity About 1000
people gathered about the place after their
lays rations. The crowd became so great
that the soldiers had to be called upon to
guard the place until the relief committee
was ready to give out provisions. Several |
carloads of clothing arrived this morning to |
BE- disposed of as soon as possible
Four bodies were taken from the Cambria |
Club House and company's store house this |
morning. The first was "A girl about II years
)f age, who was found in the pantry and |
TO be servant in the house. She |
vas terribly bruised, her face being crushed |
nto Jelly. A boy about years Old was
aken from the same place. Two men and
y soman were taken from the front of a store |
On Main street. The remains were in ter
-ible condition and had to be embalmnd and |
buried Immediately unidentified The num-
Der missing from Woodvale is almost in
,redible. From present Indications only |
At out 80 people in the borough were saved
K l.. Peterson, a resident of Woodvale |
for number of years and a survivor. speak
ing Of the calamity, said The people of |
Wooivale had plenty of time to get out of
the town if 50 minded We received word |
shortly before 2 O'Clock that the flood |
was coming. The Pennsylvania railroad
conductor went through the town and mott |
fed the people. | stayed until $50 when
the water commenced to rise very rapidly,
and thought it best to get out of town. /
told a number of women they had better go to
the hills but they refused The cause of re
fusal that their husbands would not 90
and they refused to leave alone