Smyrna times., 1889-06-12
the proportion of the lost logs and
lumber that can be recovered vary
from 20 to 90 per cent.

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lumber that can be recovered vary
from 20 to 80 per cent.
THE FATAL RESERVOIR.
Among the details of the Johnstown
flood the truth about the dam which
was designed to hold the waters of
that mountain fish lake is coming out.
A reporter who visited the place found,
instead of massive masonry and tire
mendous exhibition of engineering
skill, simply a gigantic heap of earth
faced on either side with a layer of
heavy rough stone, loosely thrown
together and uncemented. This pile
of earth was about Is feet high, 30 feet
thick at the base, 20 feet at the top,
400 feet long, and built straight across
gap between two low hills, and
neither face nor back was curved !;
while the testimony of those who lived
near by is that for the past four or five
years, since the conversion of Cone
maugh lake into "a sportsman's par
adise" the waste gates had been per-
manently closed, "because whenever
they were opened the game fish with
which the lake was stocked would
escape"
SUPPLIES.
One hundred carloads Ofsupplies are
arriving daily, but the superintendents
of the relief work strenuously urge
that a still larger quantity of provis-
ions and clothing be pushed forward.
Because the voluntary registration Of
the living has not proved a success in
ascertaining the number of the dead
only $4,000 having enrolled theiI
names, instead of 10000, as enormously
reported-a canvass of the survivors
has been undertaken with the same
object in view. The latest valuable
estimate of the death-roll comes from
the chairman of the Altoona commit
tee, who, aft9r four days tour of the
COnemaugh district, makes it between
5000 and 10000.
INCIDENTS.
The sightseers are debarred al
together, and the town is inaccessible
except to newspaper men ann Othe
people who have business there
Every point is guarded and soldier
patrol the dividing lines.
A boy was found in the wreck q
Kernville who had been imprisone,
in debris six days. He was nearl
dead, but will recover.
A thief who represented himself as
doctor gained admission to the Bed
ford Street Hospital, and was detecte
, in the act of stealing finger rings frOi
bodies. The man was taken befor
General Hastings, who put a guar
over him, and set him to work anon
the laborers along with dozen fellow
f who were found drunk the nigl
before.
Only two out of twenty-five Chin
men who formerly lived there escape
, the food. The two survivors a
wandering around disconsolatel.
: hunting for the bodies of their coul
d trymen, as they want to send them
t China. They will not be able to {
t this even if the bodies are found, as Il
D authorities will not allow it.
The laborers began erecting stabl
Friday for the accommodation of 90
horses, that are being forwarded the
:. from Western Pennsylvania for use
e dragging out the debris.
g President d. B. Cummins of Il
y Girard Bank of Philadelphia, Genei
IS Solicitor Scott, Director Henry
e Welsh and ex-Vice-president Smith
II the Pennsylvania railroad, were tro
10 fishing at Anderson's cabin, IA mil
70 from Williamsport when the stol
1t came. They made their way there
m means of a hand-car, a carriage and
k tug boat. They left for Philadelpt
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