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

friends. very IeW Oh Ae5e,, however, Will
ever be identified from these descriptive
cards. The work Of digging out the corpsss
yet in the ruins scattered all over the place
is progressing somewhat slower. At ten
O'Clock yesterday morning not one new body
had been recovered. The fifteen bodies
taken from the door Of Alma Hall were the
last recovered 1t is impossible TO tell when
the other unfortunates will be dug out, II at
all, although large force Of men is at work
at the hall.
Five thousand men were at work yester-
day clearing away the debris on the island.
Superintendent Flynn says that it will
take 10000 men sixty days TO clear away the
wreck At this rate It will require 81 ,5OO,-
600 10 pay for the work. This does not in
clude the other expenses. Five million dol
lars will not be enough TO put Joknstown in
shape for rebuilding.
Late Wednesday afternoon . little boy
was taken from the ruins alive, and after
considerable trouble resuscltated and given
over 10 his father. 1t has since been learned
that his name is Eddie Schoeier
Yesterday morning the Altoona men who
have charge of the wreckage above the
bridge loosened up debris by a blast Of
twenty-five large dynamite cartridges, max
ing it possible to open the mouth of the old
channel. The day express which was swept
away at Conemaugh was alsolocated. Ruins
Of the train lie about 100 feet from the
fourth buttress from the western end ofthe
stone bridge. 1t is evident from the traces
of some Of the passengers which have been
found that more lives were lost from this
train than at first supposed.
At noon yesterday the borough Of Johns
town and the adjoining boroughs, or what's
left Of them, practically passed under mar
tial law. Adjutant General Hastings says
he has not declared martial law, yet the sol
diers are on guard and no one is permitted
between the rivers unless he has an order
from the Adiutant General. The sightseers
are debarred altogether, and the town Is in
accessible except 70 newspaper men and
other people who have business here. 1t is
probable that the Eighteenth Regiment will
be ordered out, from the fact that it takes
so many soldiers to cover the ground. A
special guard viii have TO be put at Kern
vile, Millvale and Cambria City and other
points.
AT 7:45 o'clock yesterday morning the first
blast OF gunpowder was fired at the bridge.
1t proved more effective than any Of the
charges OF dynamite heretofore used, and
hurled fragments of debris two hundred
feet into the air. Mingled with it was a
round fragment, which looked like the
trunk Of human body. 1t fell back into
the water with a splash and glided with the
swift current under the bridge before it
could be pulled in Explosion after explo-
sion Of dynamite followed the blast Of gun
powder, the detonations coming so close TO-
gether that they might almost be taken for
the continuous discharge Of heavy guns.
An opening four hundred feet long, which
runs back in some places fifty feet, was
made during the afternoon.
There will be no inquest held on the bodies
of the thousands Of residents of the Cone
maugh valley who lost their lives in the
worlds unprecedented catastrophe. The
law Of the State does not require such an
investigation and the responsibility Of the
disaster, which can be directly charged to
the insecure wall which held the wall Of the
Conemaugh lake, viii never be legally de-
termined unless survivors should take indie
pendent action. All reports that arrange
ments for an inquest had been commenced
are untrue.
When the Gautier steel mill Of the Cam
bria Iron Company closed down at ten
O'Clock last Friday morning nearly 400
men left the works. When the men yester-
day answered the notice that all should pre-
sent themselves ready for work, only 4S7 re-
ported
PITTsBURGH, June THE general relief
committee in this city gives out the follow
ing: Hon. w. Flynn, in charge of our la
borers at Johnstown, reports that it will re-
quire 10000 men for thirty days with all
modern appliances to clear the wrecks along
the ten miles of destruction, take out the
corpses and carcasses of dead animals and
place the city in safe sanitary condition
This will cost double the amount now in the
hands of the committee, which does not in
clude the relief for the suffering and desti-
tute, which is very great, all of which has
been carefully attended TO. The destitute
are brought to this city, fed, clothed, housed
or sent free to friends all over the land. We
ask that the generous subscriptions which
are coming from all over the country be
continued until sufficient funds are pro
vided to complete the above work, of which
due notice will be given through thepress.r
Morris, Tioga County, is total wreck.
The Dover mills and the Blackwell mills are
gone and many dwellings and other build
ings swept away. The Pine Creek railroad
track is torn away and large amount of
the embankment washed away Just west Of
this city. At Saladaysburg houses and mills
were flooded and in some instances moved
anu ETcdIl lDluIcu- 1ldul OTAuECo NCEC
carried away and great destruction caused
at every point All along the line of the
Philadelphia & Reading track through the
city destruction meets the eye, many cars
having been lifted from the track and torn
in pieces. The number Of houses toppled
into heaps Of rubbish can not yet be stated,
but it is quite large. Along the entire river
front lumber and other drift are piled up as
high as the houses A car load Of coal vas
carried distance of five miles and left
sticking on top of piece Of the boom.
JoHxsrowN, June S.-s'Are the horrors of
the food to give way 10 the terrors Of the
plaguei'' is the question that is now agitat-
ing the valley OF the Conemaugh- Friday
opened warm and sultry and the stencil that
assails ones senses as he wanders through
Johnstown is almost overpowering. Sick
ness. in spite of the precautions and hercu-
lean labors Of the sanitary authorities, is on
the increase and the fears of epidemic grow
with the hour.
at is our impression said DIR. 7. L.
White, assistant 10 the State Board of
Health, yesterday morning, that there is
going to be great sickness here within the
next week. Five cases OF malignant diph-
liberia have been located on Bedford street,
and as they are in different houses they
mean five starting points for disease. All
this talk about the dangers Of epidemic is
not exaggerated, as many suppose, but is
founded upon all experience. There will be
plenty of typhoid fever and kindred diseases
here within a week or ten days The only
thing that has saved us thus far has been
the cold weather That has now given place
to summer weather, and no one knows what
the next few days may bring forth. Even
among the worlmen and attendants thereis
already discernable a great tendency to
diarrhma and dysentery. The men are liv-
ing principally upon salt meat and there is
a lack of Vegetables
Governor Beaver win call special ses-
sion OF the Legislature. Adiutant General
ID. H. Hastings sent a telegram TO the Gov
ernor AT Hnrrisburr declaring that an extra