The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1889-06-07
THE DEAD.

| unjust Thousand Bodies Collected ct
'ohnstown and Vicinity While Thou
tsnds More Are burned or Buried IN the
Mud aud Debrls--Hungarians Caught
fobbing the Dead and Two Are Hanged,
smother shot and Several Driven Into
ne River and Drowned.
soHSsrowS, PA. June 8-To say that
snnstown Is wreck Is but stating the
fei<of the case. Nothing like 1t was ever
senin III, country. Where long rows OF
| urllng- houses and business blocks stood
iSyeight hours ago. ruin and desolation
ny reign supreme Probably fifteen hun
dIu bouses have been rwept from the face
OH earth as completely as II they had
nTsk been erected. Mshi street. from
~ end, is piled fifteen and twenty
- Ugh with debris, ami In some in
ufo IL Is as high es the -ocfs g tie
hbc This great mass Of wrsckags
1 ~ Ytbe street from curb TO curb,
! ~ 8e9uently has crushed the fronts OF
iialnes an aud filied the apsc- VITA re
I n4Sss Of the terrible calamity. II will
FF Aessvsrai days yes to form definite
idA as TO the loss Of life, but IL will GER
tsnlN reach thousands. Every hour
bring tresh evidences Of the fact that the
disastet eciipses anything OF the kind in
the histty OF the country and no one can
say Wild the final results will be. Every
hour or 10 the forces Of men working on
the varbus heaps OF debris find a
number pr bodies buried in the
mud AMI wreckage. IL /, believed
that whet the flames are extinguished
in the treckage at the bridge, and
the samelis removed, that hundreds and
hundreds lof victims will be discovered.
In fact, tbs seems certain as dozens Of
bodies babe already been found ON the
outsk irts a the huge mass OF broken tim
Der. Repdts from outside points are also
appalling. up 10 0 o'clock tonight $50
bodies havS been embilmed at Nineveh,
and there b report that 300 more have
been discovered half buried in the mud
on an island between New Florence and
the place named. At the Fourth
Ward school-house over 10I victims
have been laid out for identifca-
ton. In many cases they have been
recognized while in many more tho tabs
bear the simple word Unknown" Near
ly a thousand bodies so far have been coll
lected. Formsr reports have not been ex-
aggerated. The loss Of life is so frighiful
that II is feared 10 tell the truth about it
Fifteen thousand men, women and chill
dren have persisted in the food aud flames,
and several hundred more will die from
wounds aud exhaustion. The people here
are apprehensive of pestilential epidemic
as tho direct cause of the thousands OF
bodies purify ing in the river. The waters
Of the Conemaugh are literally choked with
masses Of putrescent humanity, tho stencil
OF which is so powerful that in places II is
impossib BILE to approach within a square Of
the river. just as the shadows began to
fall upon the earth last evening a party OF
thirteen Hungarians were noticed stealth
lily picking their way along the banks OF
Conemaugh toward, Sang Hollow. Sus-
picious OF their purpose, several farmers
armed themselves and started in pursuit
Soon their most horrible fears were real
lied. The Hungarians went out for plum.
der. Lying upon the shore they came upon
the dead and manglei body OF woman
upon vnote person there were a number oil
trmkets Of jewelry and two diamond rings.
In their eagerness to secure the pl under the
Hungarians got into a squabble, during
which one OF their number severed the
finger upon which were the ring and
started on a run with his fearful prize
The revolving nature Of the deed SC
wrought up the pursuing farmers, who by
this tins were close at hand, that they
gave immediate chase. Some Of the Hun.
gsrians showed fight, but being outnum-
bered were compelled to fee for their lives.
Mae Of the brutcs escaped, but four were
literally driven into the surging river and
to their death. The inhuman monster
whose atrocious act has been described
was among the number OF the involuntary
suicides Two other Hungarians were
caught robbng the dead and were hanged
from q tree; another was shot.