The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-06-06

asu unnuren wae n9ne rapiug aioas,
going Al terrible gpesd 10 certain dsatl
hefoFe the eyes Of their teHoriasd and
frantic paIents II was said at tho depot
thai II was impossible 10 estimate the
number whose HIVES ware lost In ihs
food II viii Rimply be o matter OF pon'
lecture for several days an 10 who were
lost Or who escaped
Dispatcher Oulp received sov,ral tele
grams last night detailing the flood al
Johnstown Tho recent heavy rains had
swollen che old canal reseryDir al South
Fork, on the COnemAjgh nyer, and fear
were entertained ior ia safety.
Warned 60 No Parpose
The basin contained water measuring
two milea across by aye milsa In length
and was seventy ieet deep in tho deepest
place, The people OF Johnstown were
warned Of its possibility Of bursting dur
Ing tho morning, but very few II any oi
tlle inhabitanta took the warning seh'
Oualy, Shortly after noon the dam gave
way about ivo miles above Johnstown,
and sweeping everything hoiore II buni
upon tho town with terrible force
Everything waa carried before \, and
not an hstants time waH given 10 seeA
safety Houses were demolished, swopi
from their foundations and carried In
the food 10 q culyert near ~ L0wn
Here a mass Of all manner Of debris noon
lodged, and by eyerang II had damned
the water
nasl ISto tAs Gay,
over lhe tops Of many OF The Htil Iemain
ing ohimneya. A AdipAtoh 10 Dispatches
Oulp,reooved about II O'Clock last night,
mid the blockade at Me Johnhtown
bridge waa throsfOurth6 Oi a mile long
and forty feoi high, and war all on fra
Tho extent Of The damage
could not possibly b. tstimated
A. hiAhVfis,
BLAmGWiLH, Ia, june Tho hOod
In the Conemaugh Tivor Al thh point h
the heaviest ever known hore, AZ thk
hour tho railroad bridge hotvoen here
and Blairvilb intameotion has been
swept away, ako tho new iron bridge Al
Ookolon, hall a mile below II n nov
feared thc MON bridge at the lower end
Of thin town will 20, About 2 o'clock O
living woman and dead man, supposed
10 h. her husband, were som going un'
dor the railroad bridge. They were aoon
10 come from under ho bridge safely,
but shortly disappeared mad were seen
no more,
Agroai many families loao their house
hold goods The river n running full Of
,imber, houses, goods, etc, The loss win
bo heavy, The oxoltoment here h very
great The river IL Btill ridng. There
are some families below town In the
sooondStory of their houses and can't
get out. u is feared II the water goo
much higher iho loae Of life viii bo yory
great Tho raihoad company had four,
tOon oaTs o. coal ON their hidgo when II
went down and All was swept down thc
river,
The Town d south York wiped Dat
DEaRy Pa, juno Tho bwn d
South Fork, which CONTAINED about &, 9,0OO
inhabitniB, lay In The oouN Of the ilood
which swept down from the brokon dam
" John6town, and II b believed thai
four 6fths Of tho town wis carried
away -Four miles lower down ~ tho vii.
lage Of Mineral Point, with 500 lnhabi.
htt, 10 ncoms difficult 10 hope that any
OF them escaped, SIX miles further
down was Concmaugh, with 900 poo
pie, but in this ease the formation Of the
country afforded 0omo chance for os
cape. Tho town itself was devastated.
woodyaN, with 1000 people, lay llil |
further down, II suffered greatly