Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-08

the debris, but truth COmpeis the state
ment that the undertaking has not yet been
fairly started. Fires are burning up ana
down the valley as far as the eye can reach
The air is thick with smoke, and yet
people familiar with the situation are
aware that it will take
TEN THOUSAND MEN
For weeks to clear out the heaps of ruin
piled UP for miles between the hills up and
down the course Of the river.
An hour ago the writer completed tour
of the mighty wreck III ibis vicinity.
Dozens of human beings and animals were
TO be seen on the surface, chalred and
blackened by fire and in such state of
decomposition that the strongest man could
not more than glance st them.
Eighty-six men from Altoona, under
orders from the sanitary officials, are
SCATTERING DIsINFEcTANTs
Over acres OF the wreckage that the railroad
bridge stopped. Mr.. Kirk declares that
thousands of bodies will yet be found in
this territory. The great trouble thus eX-
perienced at the bridge has been caused bv
the masses of telegraph wire that reach
across the various spans through which the
water has passed. Line repair men are
badly needed to remove the wires. ana
Kirk says that as soon as they are gone ne
will
HUSTLE THE DEBRIS THROUGH
BY the acre.
The problem Of the hour is the disposal
of the debris about the Pennsylvania road
bridge. Unless it is soon got rid of, the
stencil will be so overpowering that no
human being can,wi:hstand il.
The pneumonia scourge grows alarm
ingly, Notwithstanding the statements of
DR.. Croft, Of the State Board Of Health
Dr.. Sweet a member of DR.. Groff's staff.
came down from Cambria Hospital to-
night with a startling report To an Asso-
Glazed Press correspondent Dr. Sweet said
Prospect Hill is full of pneumonia with
some diphtheria aud measles. The hos
pital is full to overiowing, and there are
forty-two cases on the outside. They were
almost all
SEVERE PNEUMONIA.
| There is every condition needed for the
spread Of the disease, and l fear an epi-
demic."
DR.. Darlington also reported several cases
of pneumonia, having found them on the
hill near Aorrellville.
4 pair of human feet were noticed stick
ing out of the sand on the river bank near
klrnville day, ard a gang of men soon
Unearthed the bodies of two men and one
girl in good state of preservation.
This community is in wild state of ex-
cltement as a result of the recent food.
The
BLAME OF THE ENTIRE AFFAIR
| Has been placed upon the South Fork
Hunting and Fishing Club, and so angry
are some of the people in this community
that trouble is feared for W. S. Boyer, the
| Superintendent.
| At the cottages on the lake already sew
eral OF the pretty villas have been broken
| into by marauders and the furniture de-
| molished. Boats owned by the club have
been stolen in broad daylight and reduced
| to kindllng wood by an infuriated crowd
Of liquor-crazed fellows.
The men who broke into the cottage
| have not been discovered. 1t was evident
! that robbery was not intended, for the mis-
chief was purely wanton.
| Affairs at present are assuming a serious
aspect The Coroner's jury that has been
in session all day at Nineveh,
TERMINATED ITS LABoRs
| This afternoon. The verdict has been
! fully prepared and only lacks the sigma
| lures of the jurors before being given pub
| iCity. II is understood that the Jury, after
reviewing at length the successive breaks
and careless repairs in the dam In past
| years, declares the Executive Committee
of the South Fork Fishing Club guilty of
gross, if not criminal negligence
FOUND ALIVE
Mrs. George Stautler, wife of local
| photographer, was rescued from under the
wreck of house near this point last night.
| The body was protected by beams. 1t is
not expected that she will live. She was
unconscious when found.
THE VERY LATEST.
JoHSsTowN, June Sth.-A M-Itis likely
now that the loss of life will not reach the
| extreme figures given earlier in the week.
! BY O. clock this morning $4,000 people
| had registered. Allowing that 10 per cent.
! of the survivors will not register. those in
| charge think that not more than 1000 ale
lost. Others allow 20 per cent. for non
registering survivors. This brings the es-
| innate down to 5000.
The remains OF William Bentley. Edith
Shoemaker and Mrs. Rev. Literberg were
| recovered at Kernville to-day Rev. DR..
Nichliter's body was recovered last night
as il was about to be dumped into a trench
along with a number of the unknown
dead. Accidentally friend discovered
whose body il was in the rough box and
had it raised from the grave, embalmed
and shipped to Philadelphia. Mr. Lichen.
burgers body was recovered last night
The body of DIR. Lee was taken from the
river at Wheeling. His wife was rescued.