Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20
Homes That WithstOOd the Flood Now
Being Shaken.
The President Makes a Number OF
Consular Appointments.
The Curran-Haseltine Murder Case
Causes Excitement.

that from June to IL inclusive, 1882
people we're given free trans portation
out of Johnstown. The bureau of infor-
nation answered 287 kilograms and IS
letters, mostly inquiries from anxious
friends as to the safety of Johnstown.
Eight bodies were brought to
the morgue in the Presbyterian chufch
Oh Main street to dag. Some were taken
out of the ground Immediately surround
ing the church. party of men at work
in the debris came across the dead bodies
of Mrs. Myer and her daughter, locked in
each others arms. The total number of
bodies recovered to-day was 10, making
the grand total of bodies recovered 1899.
The mass at the stone bridge was fired
this afternoon and tonight is burning
furiously. With this all hope of recover
ing the bodies that are certainly there en-
tombed, has been destroyed.
PHILADELPHIA, June Is - Governor
Beaver announces he has abandoned the
idea of using $1,O0O,O00 out of the state
treasury under the proposed indemnity
bond scheme for the reason that such
action might establish a bad PRECEDENT.
He has decided instead to adopt the sug-
gestion that the money be loaned to the
governor by private corporations. The
governor stated he has been
offered a million dollars by the national
banks OF Philadelphia without security.
and without interest, the lOaners to be
reimbursed by the legislature a. its next
session, and he has accepted the offer.
This money will be used to clear streams
and place the highways in order and to
perform other necessary state work.
JoHNsTowN Pa, June III ohns town
is dripping tonight, and more dreary
place could scarcely be imagined. Eight
bodies were recovered from the ruins to-
day, three being identified. They were
Wm. B. Hess, a prominent merchant;
Capt. O'COnnell an old resident, and
Mary Holleman. his house
keeper. The bodies of and
elderly lady and a fair young girl
were found clasped in each others arms
reclining on sofa. Five others were SO
charred as TO be unrecOgnizable. The
first train through to Altoona went
through JohnstOwn at II O'clock this
morning. Several hundred more men
arrived tonight and hosting
engines are coming IN on every train.
Tonight the electric light plant is being
removed to the stone bridge. The
wreckage will be lighted up aud the work
pursued increasingly until the last rem
nant Is removed. Heavy charges of
dynamite have been put in the wreckage
all day, and several workmen were in
jured by the flying debris and one seri
Cusly.
New YORK, June 13.-In one hour this
morning over $4,000 was added to the
fund at the mayors office for the relief
of tina Conemaugh sufferers. In round
numbers 1924, 600 had passed through the
ID Of pIp IA oil al
of the food sufferers.
JoHNsTowN, June 15.-Maior Phillip:
5ynamiters have had Johnstown in
state of nervous terror all day and eve
ming. General Manager Fulton of the
Cambria Iron Company, dictated fore
IDLE protest to Gov. Beaver, stating that
The mills and offices of the company were
being ruined by the blasts; that Adjutant
General Hastings paid no attention &c
the two requests for discontinuance apd
that the state would be held responsible
for any further damage done
Before the message was sent
however, Adju'ant General Hastings had
issued an order to Major Phillips to dis
continue blasting. Major Phillips has
been engaged since Wednesday blowing
out wreckage in the channel of the Cone
maugh above the Pennsylvania railroad
stone bridge. He was anxious to have a
passage for water by this evening, and to
that end put in a five hundred pound blast
of dynamite at noon. The blast was
placed under two buildings, one OF
which was lying upon the other
and both of them covered with logs
The explosion wss terrific. The next
blast was not placed so deep and was q
four hundred FOUNDER, This one did all
the damage. The report was awful, and
the strongest houses in the city trembled
like leaves. All the glass was blown on;
OF the windows of the Odd Fellows hall
In the same neighborhood the rear wal
of the half wrecked Catholic church fell
upon the B. o. tracks, blockad-
ing them. Chimneys ratified down al
about the town and dishes were broken
in the houses in KernviIle, half a mile
away. When asked about the matter
Major Phillips said: 1--WE have used
only two thousand pounds of dynamite
today. The charges will not be so heavy
hereafter. l had no idea that we ,fere
doing any damage. So far as l know nc
persons have been injured"
Adjutant General Hastings today re
eeiyed a letter from vice p resident Nor
ton, saving that on his return to his
country home he found that his little
girls, from eight To fourteen years o.
age had been hard at work since the ter
rible disaster at Johnstown In making
articles of clothing for the homeless:
children who have survived the floods
that he forwards, today, 127 articles OF
wearing apparel made by their owr
hands, or purchased with their owl
money, with some of their dresses, anC
that his children will feel greatly obliged
if you will cause the clothing TO be dis
tributed among the little sufferers by the
recent calamity for whom they feel tn,
deepest sympathy.
JOHNSTON, Pa, June 15.-The opening
of the wedge-like raft above the ston,
bridge today, was an engineering feat
For ten days several hundred men hav,
been at work upon the Heterogeneous
mass, but only about sixty feet OF tn
channel had been done, when on Wed
nesday, VIM. Phillips, of Lewiston and
force of dynamiters were put at work
Six acres of solidly packed wreckag
wedged between the river banks by
hydraulic force that cannot b
estimated, have in the tire
days melted away. Large fran
houses, hundreds of logs and monste
trees were tangled up and bound rogethe
with wire and iron bars brought down IL
the flood. The scene this afternoon whe
the great mass moved down the river wa
remarkable one. Crowds that lined tn
shores and now famous stone bridge raise
shout that was.heard the length an
breadth of the valley. The west flank O
Conemaugh is again furnace of fire to
night, The wreckage torn up by d!
Mantle today ives piled up and the tore
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