Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-07
746 BURIED IN A DAY. That was the Dread Record Yesterday
 in Nineyah Alone. ONLY A FEW IDENTIFIED. Much Sickness About What is Left
 of Kernville. THE SAVED AND THE LOST. Clearing Away the Wreck at the
 Cambria Works.
ONLY A FEW IDENTIFIED.
THE SAVED AND THE LOST.



 wOODVALE'S BIG LOSS. Only Thirty y-Three Houses Now stand inG in that Place, Once the Prettiest
 Part or Johnstown How Thomas
 Excitement or the Grcat Disaster.
 Lawyer Fishers Suicide Over the
 Loss of His Wife and Five Children.
 "Big- -Hearted" Men who Only Want CIerkships on the Various Commit
 tees in the Stricken City - Women
 Fisnds Driven Out of Town - Esti-
 mated vaane of Property Lost.
 JoHNsTOwN. June 7.-Nineveh sees some woeful sights. During the period of daylight yesterday TAG bodies were consigned to the earth from the morgues about tho town. Father Doirn conducted religious services at the St. Columbia Catholic church in Cambria city. This army of the dead was placed in trenches. Less than 100 had been recognized by friends. None of them were claimed for private burial however, as in a majority of Instances the survivors were too poor t,stand the expense. These bodies were gathered from up and down the river be- ios Johnstown, and the commissioners of Westmoreland county furnished the plot of ground where they sleep.
 There Is an unusual amount of sickness aoout Kernville. The physicians claim that several hundred cases of pneumonia exist The children are also afflicted with measles and kindred complaints. The reaction, now that the great shock has passed in measure. has left hun- dreds of survivors with their nervous forces badly shattered and broken.
 Over 2,5OO bodies have been found i; 2,OO0 at least are in the burned debris in the river; 5000 arc in unsearched sand- banks around the Cambria works, down along the rives and in the lower part of Johnstown. From 1000 to 2,0O0 are scattered in the valley from Woodvale to the bridge, and 1000 or 2,OOO below the bridge between Johnstown and Bolivar. Hundreds were carried down to the broad rivers in the tremendous current and may never come into the hands of the living. Said Adjt.-Gen. Hastings:
 "In my opinion the loss is greater than we can now show figures for"
 A corps of clerks under the direction of the relief committee started out yes terday and will go to every house in this vicinity and secure the names of the living. Another corps will endeavor to find out who the missing arc. and in this manner it can be nearly definitely known just how many lives were lost in the food A revision of the registration list registered.
 JoHNsTowN, June 7.-Over in the yards of the Cambria Iron works the odor of dead bodies Is very strong
 MT. Charles S. Price, one of the super intendents who was giving orders to a large number of workmen said there were undoubtedly many corpses in the boiler-house.
 This house is next to the river and stood right in the track of the torrent. The dead boe6 of boy. so torn and bruised as to be unrecognizablc, was found in the rolling mill yesterday. His right hand clutched silver dollar. He was probably on his way to store when the flood overlook him.
 The body of girl of about 19 was found in peculiar position just outside of the blast furnace. She was pinned down under rail- It lay right across her bosom and had been pressed hall through her body.
 James McMillan, who, besides beins general superintendent of the Cambria Iron works, held the presidency of the Johnstown Manufacturing company which includes the flour and rolling mills and the Johnstown Passenger Railway company. the only street railroad ir town, was also in the Cambria yard. He Is CT years of age, but he was bright and cheerful.
 'The flood has made a poor man ol me, he said, but am happy because my family was saved"
 Thomas McGee, one of the cashiers 1T Wood, Morrell X Co.'s store, saved $12,0O by carrying 1t to the top of the store building when the water came down. It was in small bills and made ( big bundle. He hugged it closely al Friday night and handed 1t over to MT McMillan Saturday morning.
 .The men in the employ of the Cambri, company were to have received thei pay for two weeks on Saturday. Tn, fortnightly pay roll amounts to $125. .OO' and that sum had been sent down ol Friday and placed in the vaults of thu First National bank. Saturday morn