The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-06-04

IdiHcu e'iccts directing the work OF
dragging ont the victims.
One would not suppose that two DAYS
and thee nights after the occurrence
Of so dire disaster people would be
taken from the ruins alive. yet two
persons have been rescued, one last
night ard one this morning. Both are
still living, but one will probably die.
Since 10 o'clock last night the fire
engines have constantly played on the
burning ruins. At times the ire seems
almost cXtinguished, but ftful flames
suddenly break out afresh in some new
quarter. The sensation Of the morning
has been the united Iemonstrauce Of
the physicians against the cxtinguish.
mcnt Of the burning wreck. They
maintain, with a philosophy to anxious
seafchers seems heartless, that hun
dscds, If not thousands, Of lfeess and
lccayiug bodies lie beneath the mass Of
ruins.
"It would be better they say. ito
permit natures greatest scavenger-
the iiames-to pursue ITS work uumo-
Tested than to further decay the horde
of purifying bodies that lie beneath
ihis debris. There can be but one re-
suit. Days will clapse before the de-
b7s can be Sufficiently removed to per
mit the recovery of tho bodies,
aud long ere that every corpse
will be pulrid mass yielding
forth those frightfal cmanatioas Of
decay ing human flesh that can give but
one Iesult-thcdreadf Ayphus. Every
battle field has demonstrated the neccss-
ity of hasty interment of decaying
bodies, and stencil that already rises is
@ forcrunuer of the impending danger.
Bum the wreck Burn the wreck
Loud cry Of Indignation arose
from the lips of the vast
multitude. ard the wainiugs of scieuc
were Jos. iu the eager demands of these
that sought the remains OF friends
Iac hose was ag lin turned on the hiss
.ng flames. and again the flames yielded
.o tha supremacy Of water. IL is
almost impossible to conceive the ex-
Ten, of these smoking ruins. An area Il
light or ten acres above lhe dam is cover
q ltoadep,h of forty feet with shattered
houses. borne from tine residences Of
IF Johrst9~n. I'm each Of Oh Sc houses
d is estimated thero were from five to
v,aiy-iye people. This is accepted
B. data upon which TO estimate the
number that peri-hed ON the spot, ana
{ the data bee correct tne bodies that
ie beneath these rains must number
uto tine hundreds, If not thousands.
TuE CENSUS OF THE CITY.
Just oae month ago the work Of tax
ug census Of the city for a new di- /
ccfory was completed. and showed /
Exactly 204oO people claiming resi- /
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