Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-02

graphic point to YOUNGSTOWN, and the de-
lay in getting off news dispatches has
been fairly msddening. The Associated
Press expedition was first in the field,
and was ready with thousands of words
of specials, but no wires could be had
from IL A. NJ. until almost p. M. No
special trains could be hired, no locomo-
tlves were to be bought, and the situa-
ton can be appreciated.
GOING TO VIEW THE SCENE.
SANG Hollow, Pa. June AT 8 80
the first train passed New Florence east,
crowded with people from Pittsburg and
places en- route. The people are going
to the scene of the disaster with little
hope of finding loved ones alive. 1t was
a heart-rending sight aud not dry eye
was in the train. Mothers mourned for
| their children. Husbands paced the
aisles and wrung their hands in mute
agony Fathers pressed their faces against
the windows in vain, in an endeavor to
see something, they knew not what. They
know, in measure, of the dreadful fate
their loved ones met with. All along the
the raging Conemaugh the train stopped
and bodies were taken on the express
car, carried by VILLAGERS out from along
the banks. Oh horror infinite, the pity
of it all.
sICKENING SIGHTS.
What q Journey was that of the last
half hour Swollen corpses Law here and
there on piles of crossties or on the river
| banks among the tangled greenery.
About 8 O'Clock the first passenger train
since Friday reached the New Florence
depot with load of eager passeD gers.
Men were staring out of the windows
, with red eyes, among them tough.look-
ing Hungarians and Italians who lost
friends near Niniveh, while many were
weeping on all sides.
SEARCHING FOR THEIR LOST ONES.
Two of the passengers on the train
were man and wife from Johnstown.
! The little woman said: "Ours is big
new brick house. 1t is three-story
: house, and l don't think there is any
. trouble, do you? There are my four
children in the house, their nurse, and 1
, guess father and mother will go over to
4 the house, don't your" In few mo-
/. ments all those in the car knew the story
of the pair, and many plying glance
was cast at them. Their house was one
of the first to go.
al HORRID SIGHT.
oil The scene to-day is one of the most
3 narrowing possible for the imagination
VI Uudu W COuCClNOs lnC dCCum llhtcA
( drift gorged up at the viaduct to height
/ of 40 feet and then took fire from the up
: setting of stoves or lamps. There were
strong men made sick at the sight, as
0 the flames cracked and roared among the
a dry timber of floating houses, and human
/ bodies were seen pinioned between house
| roofs, locomotives, iron beams, freight,
| passenger, Pullman and baggage cars,
: the greedy flame licking with haste their
diet of human flesh. The scene was
horrible beyond description. From
infancy, few days old, to wasted
, figures of age they were burned before
: the eyes of the beholders and no rescue
4 from such a fate was possible. Strong
men turned away with agonized ex-
pressions and women shrieked at the
horror of the scene. Dead bodies
i have been computed at not less
e than 5000, and the number may
d even 80 exceed this estimate. This
h seems incredible, but until the waters
Q will have abated and the work of remov-
:. is completed. it will be impossible to tell
il how many lives have been lost.
SOME INCIDENTS.
. On boards stretched along the top of
u pews were thirty bodies which had been
o Thomas Darlin and some of his parish
ouers whom he had pressed into service.
While in the awful presence of the dead,
the Associated Press representatives saw
8 Joseph Smith, a man of extraordinary size
n and strength, enter. He said not word,
8 but quietly went from corpse to corpse
lifting stained and mud-bespaterod COW
erings of the dead. At last he came to
Y the corpse of a child about nine years
old, his daughter. He looked at the
n swollen and blood-stsined features mo-
o ment, then with voice of agony cried,
f "My Maggie, my little Maggie!" at the
8 same time pressing her form to his
, bosom. The man took his child and
went with it to what had been his home.
q He placed it beside those of his wife and
q two other children, all of whom had been
e drowned. 1t is impossible to narrate the
many pathetic incidents that occurred
, on all sides. At Morrell forty-three
bodies were laid out waiting to be identi-
, fed. Eight of them were children, one
D that OF child which physician said
, had been born while the mother was
v gghting for her life in raging food. At
:. Ninevah, nine miles down the stream,
1O6 bodies, mostly women and children,
, were laid out in saw mill,
: and additions were being made by
: wagon-loads at the time, which we're
being picked up on the meadows, over
which the tide had surged with furious
force. Many were found with their
) hands clinging tenaciously to branches Of
trees and shrubs. In one case young
, couple were found locked in each others
) arms. In another case mother was
found with a child clasped with each
arm and held closely to her bosom.
; There is no possibility of telling just who
has been lost, as thousands are missing.
IN DEATH UNDIVIDED.
} CHICAGO, June Police Captain Fitz-
patrick received telegram from Sang
} Hollow to-day from his brother, saying
that Rose Brady, Captain Fitzpatrick's
sister, James Brady, the husband of FL
len Brady, her daughter, Mary Fitz-
patrick, and her three children were all
drowned in the Johnstown food. Also
some of the family of another brother,
} who has nine children.
GOVERNMENT AID IMPLoRED.
General Schofield, Acting Secretary of
War, asked Governor Beaver by tele-
graph what the War Department can do
to aid the food sufferers in Pennsyl-
vania. He says the Department has no
tanta all the extra ones having Deen