Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-06-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

JOHNsTOwN, June There are
over 10000 people here who must
be fed from the outside world. OF
these $4,000 are natives of the town
that week ago had 29,500 inhabi-
tants; all the others are dead CT have
gone away. Over 10000 people are
engaged in cleaning the streets,
burying the dead, attending the sick,
and feeding and sheltering the home
less; all these people have to be fed
at least three times day for days
are very long in YOUNGSTOWN just
now.
Lying along side of the South
Ward School is "a coffin partially
burned. At the time the water
reached Johnstown funeral was
being held IN the Catholic Church.
The mourners and the carriages
standing in front OF the church were
swept away. The church took fire
subsequently and the coffin and
corpse were partially consumed.
What was left of the body was
recognized and was buried. None
of those present in the church were
known to have been saved.
The search for the dead in the
Conemaugh Valley continues with
undated vigor. Many more bodies
have been found. but few have been
identified. 1t is now proposed to
burn the bodies, in order to prevent
the pollution of the water. Great
fears are entertained that many Of
the survivors will be mentally affect
ed when the excitement attending
the search for loved ones has passed
away. Johnstown has passed under
martial law, and the military now
has full control of tho flooded district.
There was smallsized riot, owing
to the objections of some of the labor
ers to the food, but this was soon
quelled. Women of questionable
character, who are supposed to be
progresses, have arrived in Johns
town. They will be watched and
driven out should the suspcitlons
prove to be well founded.
Editors of the Engineering NeicS
and experts in engineering have in
vestigated the broken dam at Johns,
town, Pa, and declare that the re.
constructed portion of the dam shows
great carelessness CT ignorance
Eight thousand laborers are now
employed in clearing away the
debris, and the work of removing
and burying the dead is continued.
VICTORIA cabled her sympathy.
Dublin cabled $1,000. As TO which
the flood sufferers prefer no argu
ment is necessary.
Maggie Fitzgerald was rescued
from the flood by Newfoundland
dog, floating down on bousetop.
He reached out and dragged her
aboard. She is the second person
saved at Johnstown by mans closest
and best of animal friends.
The list of dead in the Susquehan.
ma region numbers So. Under other
circumstances it would be the occa.
sion OF a sensation, but alongside of
the list from the Conemaugh region
it hardly rises to the rank OF an item.
The Baltimore relief party sent
out along the Potomac river
distributed money to those in need
at Point of Rocks and Berlin. They
found the people more i'll need OF
money to rebuild than provisions.
A little wooden building was dug
out intact from the debris of "a pile
Of freight cars at Johnstown and Il
contented COW found therein.
Matters at JohnstOwn are moving
very substantially now. Governor
Beavers decision in taking hold of
the clearing of the debris in the
name of the state has had the best
possible effect. Work is progressing
rapidly. Steam engines and electric
light add greatly to the facilities.
The Cambria works are going ahead
with laudable enterprise. The de-
structioa of the liqnor and the ban
ishment of drunkenness have had an
excellent effect.