The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-06-11

tomorrow morning. There are twenty-si
foremen here, all level-headed fellows. win
keep their unweildy and almost exhsuste,
forces under masteriul control. Althougl
they were shattered all oyer the vast
places to-day, the heavy work was done OIL
the Point district, where a couple hun
6red mansions lie in solid heaps of brick
stone and timbers. Here the labors of tn,
searchers were rewarded by the discover
of corpse about every FIVE minutes. A.
a general thing the bodies were mutilatst
and unacceptable unless by marks o.
letters on their persons. In every case de-
composition has set in, and the work Of
the searcherS is becoming one that viii
test their stomachs as we'll as their heart,
Wherever one turns. Pittsburgers of prom.
inence are encountered. They are busy
determined men, rendering valuable ser.
vice. Chief Evans, of the Pittsburg fire
department, was hustling around with a
force of twenty four fremen Just brought
up to relieve those who have been working
so heroicly since Saturday.
Morris NJ. Mead, superintendent of the
/ Bureau of Electricity, headed force of
sixteen sanitary inspectors from Pittsburg
who are doing great work among the dead
Supt. Kirk, OF the PittSburg Dynamite
Company, set a. rest the reports floating
about to-day that there were to be some
terrific upheavals by dynamite.
"We will not attempt to loosen the
wreckage by dynamite said he. at is
full of dead bodies and they would be ter
ribly Dlangled if dynamite were used. We
will employ small cartridges for SCATTERING
heavy t:mberS OCCASIONALLY, but that is all /"
But Mr.. Kirk has a scheme afoot that is
as momeutous as il is cheering to the
thousands below Jamestown who have been
exposed 10 the danger pestilance from
drinking Alles aney River water. A reeking
menance TO life and health lies in the bed
Of the Conemaugh for 800 yards above the
Pennsylvania Railroad bridge. When the
drift accumulated against this adam lntine
structure, hundreds-some say thousands
of bodies have been pinioned under the
debris. 1t extend across the river 400 feet
and twice that distance up stream.
The awful story of how it caught
fire and burned for three
days, roasting the pinioned victims and FL
ling the valley with the sickening odor of
bnrning flesh, has been related But the
flames tired OF their work too soon. They
had burned the top off the huge pile and
left the foul sediment to act as a sieve for |
the Conemaugh. Hundreds of half burned |
corpses were taken off the place, but every |
timber held others where the strongest ma
chinery would be required to reach and lib
crate them. Blasters have been at work |
MIR. Kirk has decided the bodies will rot
ln1F - 10, IL
manner, and hence his new plan.
When the waters surged against
he big stone bridge and were
-epelled, they formed e vent through
he embankment which had been shed
lway. The wreckage piled up against the
bridge and the flood was turned into the
lew channel it had made, thus leaving
be old bed receptacle for drift. The
Eater has been running through its new
hannel ever since. But the plan now is
D bJild wall along the old river course,
urn the wafer into the drift and thus
ush it out. This is a monster scheme, but
". Kirk thinks the earth wall can be
crown up by to-morr W evening. A large
orce Of men is to be put TO work upon If
[ once. r
Johnstown, Pa, June 5.-The gray mis.s r
al scarcely arisen from the hills this 7
Iorning until 1000 funerals were coursing 0
heir green sides. Their were no hearses. r
W mourners and as little solemnity as 4
'rmality' The majority of the collins i
ere rough pine. The pail bearers were s
rong farmers teams, and instead of six I,
Ill bearers TO one coffin there were gener- d
ly six collins 10 one team. Silently the Y
moved, and silently they un- D
AIDED their burdens in the lap of mother Il
nth. No minister of God was there TO a
onounce a last blessing as the clods rat
ID down, except a few faithful priests Ii
10 had followed some mangled represent Of
ives OF their faith to the grave.
A fact that has been heretofore over II
Oked in the awful strain is the soiled con- re
ton OF the corpses. Fully one-third of oil
Csc recovered have been so mangled. ca
used or chsrred that Identification was V
possible. In an ordinary food this cE
'uld not have been the case, but here hu- 81
IN bodies were but the fillins-in of a t
'untain-like mass of houses, railroad sc
Ieks, trains and other debris, which went he
inching and crashing through a valley hs
rec miles long. How any OF life's clay re
aimed form or semblance is enigmati- CO
!: ii
All day long corpses were being hurried VIC
ow ground. The unidentified bodies ne
re grouped on high hill west of the in,
omed city, where one epitaph must do Is
all, and that the word unknown"
ere are hundreds of these graves al Or
dy, and each day will in Dir
ase the number, The possibility ere
identification diainishes every siz