, 1889-06-13

endenvof tn fnd ou' who are missing. A
revision nf the registry list, shows that
only l2OOO people had registered up To
O'Clock this afternoon. by this. IL Is plain
~ apparent that large number Of the sur.
yivors will not take the trouble In register
The great number Of bodies not iden NJ fed
seems almost incredible. ZONE OF these
have lain in different norgups four days
A. Nineveh they are burying all unidenti-
n. d, but In the morgues OF this vic nity
no bodies have been buried unless identi.
nsd. A wall has besp thrown around
Johnstown and
NOBODY CAN ENTER
II unless II Is shown that he has business
IN 'he city. The P-nhsylvania raiirosd
has been making every eff ,rt to keep out
the Gro I'D, but the B. q o. opened yrster-
day amt brought in y flood OF people from
Somerset valley. This morning when
Gen. HaslinRs heard vi II, he had n con.
Terence with Scott and Naha OF the PITTS.
burg police and It "a DECIDED to send Q
company OF the Fourteenth regiment to
so'nerset for the purpose OF preventing any
further rush OF ~ ople this way A COM
niittee 81 citizens accompanied the mill
tnry. They will stop III Ht all stations
along the road and remon-trate With the
people aSsin>t coming 10 Johnstown. 7 he
crowds OF curious ones are constantly
growing to the hindrance OF the work Oi
removing bodies and clearing away the de
hris. On the pennsy lvania roadside
the gates are practically shut, and IL
is hoped that this move win have
some ELECT on the Is IL o. There Is but
one bridge across ths Conemaugh. and
nothing but pass from Adju,ant General
Hastings or scott will carry one over II.
Gloom settles over Jobnstown as the sun
goes down, the colored lanterns Of the
railroaders being about the only relief to
the darkness. superintendent Duncan. Of
the Allegheny County Light Company IN
still here awaiting the arrival his engine
ana dynamos which have been block AIDED
In the Pennsylvania freight yards w.st Of
town There are tons Of supplies In this
block ade. The state board vi healt h and
the Pennsylvania railway are to-day busy
operating in the work OF removing bodies
from the debris above the stone bridge
DIR. Gross OF the health board. says there
will be thousand men at work here to-
morrow. The sanitary qnes,ion In the
paramount one Of the hour and the state
board Of health Is looked on as q more
potent factor than the militia and civic
forces This afternoon the work of the
board was distributed. DR.. Lee taking a re-
lay to Pittsburg with the intention OF estab.
fishing headquarters in the city ball Their
force OF sanitary inspectors will he estab-
lshed, half OF which will go up the river
by boat aud the remainder will take con.
struction crew up the railroad. The latter
have adopted cremation as the cry, and to-
morrow night the desolate valley will be
liz up with bontres Of wreckage which
will be
THH FUNERAL PYRE
OF hundreds of dead bodies. DIR. Morrell,
deputy chief of the state board o, Lealth,
said to-day, "The point has come In this
horror, when sentiment must be laid
aside. To endanger the lives OF the living
that the dead may be identified is no
longer justitable. Besides ;be bodies are
all past being embalmed and the friends
cah scarcely rec 'enize the features any
longer. Identification IL possible by cloth
ing or jewellery on their persons" Dr..
Gron wno Is now in charge OF the Johns
town bureau of the state board Ut heslth
and the sanitary inspections, said TO the
Associated Press correspondent this after.
noon: "rhere is no Immediate danger OF
an epidemic In Pittsburg. The danger"
said he, rs that people will be scared into
being sick. We need thousands Of men
to work Un the debris aud to clear II oil
carcasses" An inspector Just arrived from
the Wooduale district reports great dssti-
tuition. There is nothing in town but -four
and bran. and very little OF that. About
noon to-day II was reported to Chief
Gageby, of the police committee, that u
body Of alleged rescuers at the loot of Main
street were removing jewellery from the
bodies they carried away. Gageby ordered
policeman to 90 aud pretend to superin.
tend the work for the purpose OF
APPREHESDINo THIEVES
Special police had to be selected to preveDa
stealing from the debris. The general re.
lief committee Is TO be made national in
its scope. Action to that effect WAS taken
at meeting OF the finance committee and
local relief organization this afternoon.