The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-06-13

plsce being saved. Al this place, where
the round house was, all that can Be seen u
Ave locomotives, tossed and battered and
sticking deep In the sand. Az WOodvale
nothing was left but . part Of the old woolen
mill. The Cambria barbed wire mill ct this
place IL completely wiped out. The Atlantic
express was carried up against the noun
tains, and the Johnstown express Is ct Bon.
man station. The New York and Chicago
express is laid up ct Wilmore station. The
special locomotive and car which left Cone
maugh are safe. Some Of the cars were
badly burned.
Tuesday was the day set aside by the cis.
zens' committee for the burying Of all the
unidentified dead that have been lying in
the morgue since Sunday. At ten o'clock
in the morning the men who were In charge
Of the burying started to work and were
busy all day. There were no pathetic scenes
at these burials. The men hired to do the
work seemed to do II just as o matter Of
business. The bodies were inferred In the
cemetery nearest the place where they
were found. At noon procession Of about
hfty cofins was seen going up thehill above
the railroad. There was not Q mourner
present, and the sight was ghsstly one TO
behold. II will take several days to bury
the bodiesl the different graveyards, as
there were fow graves dug until yesterday
morning and no implements to dig them
with. A large detachment Of men arrived
from Pittsburgh during the day and they
were Immediately put to work digging
graves. Altogether about 900 bodies were
taken TO the different cemeteries yesterday
morning. ..jafl.i 80.
Al 80 O'Clock Tuesday afternoon bodies
were being taken from the ruins at the rate
Of one every ave minutes. The supply Of
cof1ns on the west side Of the bridge run
out and the corpses had 70 be Laid on the
ground. An extra supply Of cofins 10 ex-
pected from Pittsburgh, and II they do not
srrive soon the work Of rescuing the bodies
from the burning ruins VIII have TO be
stopped, - the stencil arising from the place
II terrible.
and the surrounding boroushs Of Cambria,
Norrellsville, Kernvills and Conemaugh
viii never be known, yet . fair attempt Il
now being made 70 ascsrtain II within q
through bureau Of registration, which was
established Monday. Twenty.eight agencies
have been established within the flooded
districts, and all survivors have been noti-
fed to register themselves and their fami.
lies at once. At noon 1900 persons had reg
istered. There were 2o,600 people residing
In Johnstown and the boroughs named be-
fore the terrible catastrophe.
When the work Of registration Is finished,
which may be tonight, then II will be
known how many persons are missing. The
work is very carefully and thoroughly done,
special care being taken to prevent duplica
tions Superintendent Morgan, of the Cam
bria Iron Company, who IL regarded as an
exceptionally level headed man, returned
yesterday from tour of the entire flooded
district. He declared that only about 1900
persons are now alive where 90, 500 lived and
had their being before the food.
Adjutant General Hastings maintains that
the death list may not exceed 5000, and Of
this number he thinks 8, 600 bodies will never
be recovered. Mr.. McConnaughy, the chief
Of the bureau Of registration, says els con-
vinced that the number who perished is
fully 10000 or more.
SoUTH FORK, Pa, June Sit was John G..
Parke, an excellent civil engineer Of Phila-
delphia, who first saw the danger that
threatened the valley by the bursting Of tho
dam. Early Friday morning he discovered
that the waters would have to have an ad-
ditional outlet or the dam would give way.
Hastily securing force Of thirty Ital-
ians he set to work to prepare an
other sluice. In half % an hour his
purpose had been accomplished, but still the :
water continued to rise. Giving orders to
his men to cut another outlet, Mr.. Parke
jumped on his horse and started at break
neck speed to warn the village below. AS
he rode he warned the people on every hand
of their danger. Soon hundreds of families
were fleeing to the hills for safety. Reach
fne En, OF ba toll nh baJ ho
warning to Johnstown. Some needed the
warning; others laughed at it.
JoNHsTowN, Pa, June 6.--In the midst Of
this scene of death and desolation, a relent-
ing Providence seems to be exerting q sub
DUNG influence. Six days have elapsed
since the great disaster and the temperature
still remains low and chilly in the Cone
maugh valley. When tits remembered that
in the ordinary June weather Of this locali-
ty from two to three days are sufficient to
bring an unattended body to degree Of de-
cay and putrefaction that would render 1t
almost impossible to prevent the spread of
disease throughout the valley, the inestima.
bic benefits Of this cool weather are almost
beyond appreciation. The emanations from
the half mile of debris above the bridge are
but little more offensive than Tuesday, and
should this cool weather continue few
days longer it is possible that hundreds of
bodies may yet be recovered from the wreck
in such state Of preservation as to render
identification possible. Many hundreds of
victims, however, will be roasted and
charred into such shapeless masses as to
preclude all chance Of recognition by their
nearest relatives.
The work of clearing up the wreck and
recovering the bodies is now being con-
Quoted most systematically Over coo men
are at work in the various portions of tho
valley and each gang of twenty men Is di-
rectcd by foreman who is under orders
from general headquarters. As the rubbish
is gone over and the boxes and scattered ar
ticles of value recovered, the debris is piled
up in one high mass and the torch applied.
In this way the valley is rapidly assuming
less devastated condition. In twenty-four
hours more every mass of rubbish will
probably have been searched, and the in
vestigations will be confined to the smoking
wreck above Johnstown bridge.
The first body taken from the ruins yes
terday was that Of boy, who was found in
the debris near the bridge. He was badly
bruised and burned. The remains were
taken to the undertaking rooms Ut the Penn
sylvania railroad statiOn. Vhere thev vvarA