The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-06-13

were enacted during the entire day,
and will continue all tonight and to-
morrow and for weeks.
| lie HAD TWPNTY-NINE RELATIVES
DEAD.
One man, we'll known to every resi-
dent of Johnstown, William Huffman,
was drowned, and so were twenty-nine
| of his relatives. These were himself,
wife and ten children, his brother,
| Gottheb Huffman, wife and eight chill
dren, his sister.in-law, Mrs. H. Huff
man. and five children, Peter Huffman,
another brother; Mrs. G. H. Huffman's
little daughter, aged eight years, was
| absent from the house at the time of
the flood. This poor child was at the
Morgue to-day accompanied by two
ladies. Seeing the badge on The
Worlds correspondents coat lapel the
child thought he was an official of the
Morgue, and said:
"Oh, mister, do please tell me if my
mother is here. ! want to see her. lam
Lizzie Huffman, and all my brothers
and sister have gone down the river"
The body of poor little Lizzie's
mother has not yet been found and l
could not grant her request.
THE TRUTH BAD ENOUGH.
The stories Of misconduct and threat
ened violence on the part of the Sla-
vonians is greatly exaggerated. The
Huns behaved very badly in Cambria
City and elsewhere last night, but
few examples and club arguments by
members of the Citizens Committee
efectually. cowed them. They have
been as peaceable as lambs since the
police and militia got here. This may
be attributed to sheer cowardice but the
devil should be given his due even if
he has the form of an ignorant Italian
or slave and cannot speak English in
his own defense. Many Of them have
rendered aid and humane service.
Adjt-Gen. Hastings, in command
here, has advised Gov. Beaver in tele-
gram to Harrisburg that the number Of
dead at Johnstown is between twelve
and fifteen thousand. He also wired
that the rescuers are eXperiencingmuc
difficulty, the stencil from the dead
bodies having become a formidable
obstacle efforts,
THE GREAT LAKE DRAINED IN ONE
JoHNsTowS, Pa, June 3.-Messrs.
Harry Singer and R. Hussey Eims, of
Pittsburg, relatives of members of the
South Fork Fishing Club, have arrived
from the broken dam, They all had
friends or relatives at the lake and, be-
ing very anxious as to their fate, they
made daring break through the
flooded district.
ave left Pittshurg on the day ex-
press Sunday and got to Sang Hollow
about 1.20 O'clock" said Harry Singer.
awe walked up to Johnstown, but
could not get across there. We went
up Stony Creek couple of miles and
got man to ferry Us across and took
the Frankstown road around the hill
to the lake It is about ten miles from
Johnstown to the lake by this road.
We reached the clubhouse about $50
o'clock, worn out by the tramp. We
found that James Clark, soE Of Charles
J. Clark, two Shay boys and Lewis
Aaron had started from the lake Satury
day on horseback to 60 to South Fork
station to take tie train to Altoona.
They got no further than Altoona,
owing to washouts, and and are still
there. There was no one at the lake
when we arrived except the custodians
of the building and some workmen. A.
J. Heating and George Wilson arrived
last night about II o'clock. The lakeis
completely dried out. The dam broke
in the centre at o'clock Friday after
noon and at I o'clock it was dry. That
great body OF water passed out in one
hour. Messrs. Park and Van Buren,,
who are building new draining system
at the lake, tried to avert the disaster
by building sluiceway on one side to
ease the pressure on the dam. They
had about forty men at work and did
all they could without avail. The
water passed over the dam about a foot
above it's top, beginning at about 2.3O.
Whatever happened in the way of a
cloud-burst took place during the night.
There had been but little rain up to
dark. When workmen woke in the
morning the lake was very full and was
rising at the rate of a foot an hour. 1t
kept on rising until , O'Clock it first
began breaking oyer the dam and
undermining it. Men were sent three
or four times during the day to warn
people below of their danger.
THE LAKE Is NOW A MUD-PUDDLE.
"When the final break came, at
O'Clock there was sound like trelLen-
dous and continued peals Of thunder;
trees, rocks and earth were shot up
into the air in great columns, and then
the wave started down the ravine. A
farmer who escaped said that the water
jumped on his house and beat it to
fragments in an instant. He was safe
up on the hillside, but his wife and
two children were killed. At the pres
ent time the lake looks like a cross be-
tween the crater of Il volcano and a
huge mud-puddle with stumps of trees
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