The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-06-13
DEATHS HARVEST.

Thousands Of Collins for Groups Of
Nameless, Mutilated Dead at
J0hnstOwn.
YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, June 3.-The develop.
ments of every hour make it more and more
apparent that the exact num- Der Of lives lost
in the Johnstown horror will never be
known. sAn indications point to the fact
that the death list will reach over 5000
names, and In my opinion the missing will
reach 3, 900 in number" declared Gen. D.. II.
Hastings tonight. At present there are said
to be 1900 recovered bodies. The great
difficulty experienced in getting a correct
list is the great number of morgues. There
ia no central bureau of information, and to
communicate with the different dead houses
is the work of hours. At @ o'clock in The
evening the G3Oth body had been received
at the Cambria City depository for corpses.
K~ERNvILLE's LAT
KERNvnLE, Pa, June 3.-Kernville is in a
deplorable condition. The living are unable
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the inhabitants of the town were drowned.
A lean-to of boards has been erected on the
only street remaining in the town. This is
the headquarters for the committee which
controls the dead. As quickly as the dead
are brought to this point they are placed In
boxes, and then taken to the cemetery and
buried. A supply store has opened in the
town. The body OF the @Huns who was
l~-no nj -, mn orpbar ri loot nirht wa1 re-
moved by his friends during the night. There
is but one street left in the town; about one
hundred and ffty-five houses, where once
buildings in what was once q thriving little
borough have escaped. One thousand
people is q low estimate OF the
number of lives lost from this
town. But few of the bodies have
been recovered. It is directly above the
ruins, and the bodies have floated down into
them, where they burned. A walk through
the town revealed a desolate sight. Only
about twenty-five able-bodied men have sur
vived and are able to render any assistance.
Men and women can be seen with black eyes,
bruised faces and cut heads. The appear
ance of some OF the ladies is heartrending.
They were injured in the food, and since
then have not slept. Their faces have turned
q sickly yellow and dark rings surround
their eyes. Many have succumbed to nerv-
Gus prostitution. For two days but little as
~sistance could be rendered. No medical at
tention reached them. The wounded re-
NAMED uncared fer in some houses cut off
by the water and died from their injuries
alone. Some were alive on Sunday, and
their shouts could be heard by the people on
the shore. Services in the chapel from
which the bodies were buried consisted
merely of a prayer by one of the survivors.
No minister was present. Each coffin had a
descriptive care on it, n on the graves a
similar card was placed SO hat bodies can
be removed later by friends.
THE HOSPITALS FULL
YOUNGSTOWN, June 3.-A committee from
the citizens Of Altoona and Mountain Lodge
No. 2S2, F. and A. NJ, nave arrived in Johns
town and driven over the mountains. They
brought physicians and medicine, and both
were badly needed. The hospital in the up
per part Of Johnstown is full TO overlooking.
Many have been carried to the surrounding
houses. One of their patients died on their
hands, and several are very low. Hospitals
have been established at Conemaugh and
Mineral Point. but little could be learned of
how many patients they contained and how
they were faring. The Cambria hospital has
now 800 patients. DR.. Buck, with al eff
ctent corps of aides, is in charge. Two of
the patients died yesterday-Miss Hughes, a
young lady aged twenty, and Mrs. Teaters, a
lady aged elghty-tbree. She was suf-
fering from q compound fracture of
the arm. The remainder of the pa
TENTS are 6Sing well. Several injured
people have had operations performed upon
them. Bishop Phelan, who reached here on
Sunday evening, has returned to Pittsburg.
He has organized the Catholic forces in this
neighborhood and all are devoting them
selves to hard work a~ssiduously. What the
hospitals would have done without the Sis
tiers is q difficult question. There are nine
Charity, seven Franciscan and seven Bene-
dictine sisters. There was much comment
over the finding of the body of a u cut in
two. It was at first thought that she was a
resident of a Johnstown community, but as
none of them rave been reported missing
the supposltion is that she was travelling ut
the time of the accident on the day expr ess.
A broken-hearted couple are Thomas Ley
den and his wife, bard-working people of the
little town of Minersvllle. All day they have
been trudg;ng over the slippery ooxe in
Johnstown, asking every person for news OF
their daughter Mary. Mary was a dishwasher
in the Hurlbut house and the porter states
that he saw her pinned beneath failing tim
bers. Mr.. Leyden want the remains sent to
his house, No. 25l Company.
THE DEADLY ALARM.
YOUNGSTOWN, Pa. Jun 3.--About IL p. m,
Thursday, May 80, the storm burst upon the
city of Johnstown and continued until 1880
q. m. Friday. At 8 a. IN. the torrent began
to pour into the city from the creeks and
rivers. At 10 a. m. there was no outlet for
the people. The first message from the lake
at South Fork was received at 10 q. M. Fri
day that the dam was weakening. But the
people. or the few who heard the report,
laughed to scorn this message, saying they
had heard such news before, The second
came at l 1880 a. m. 1t was that the dam
was likely to burst at any moment.
At $50 the final message was re-
ceived, advising the people to fee to
the mountains for their lives, as the dam must
surely burst within the kour. There was no
such warning to the people as should have
been given. The messages were held by a
few officials about the railroad, who
neglected to sound the alarm until 1t was too
late. At that time the water had reached
the second stoly Of some of the dwellings in
the lower part Of the city. All bridges had
been swept away by the avalanche of water
then pouring through the city. The warm