The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-06-15
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
THE GREAT CALAMITY.

discussion, and has covered tn
country with great sorrow. Nor
than that, it has reused the cour
try's unlimited sympathy. Fund
for the relief of the suffering an
destitute are pouring in to the relic
committees from all directions, am
are not confined even to our owl
country, for contributions have beef
sent from Paris, Dublin and Lon
don. Already there is talk of tn
Iron Company resuming operation!
and of Johnstown being rebuilt
The president of the Cambria Iror
and Steel Company says that "the
rolling mills are crippled but prob
ably not entirely destroyed, owing
to the heaviness of the machinery
The company has no debt of any
kind, bonded or floating, either fol
material or labor, except the cur.
rent daily expenses which, no doubt
were on the eve of being paid when
the disaster came. Whatever the
loss at Johnstown may have been
rs soon as the moment comes to
deal with it the structures will rise
again either at that place or else
where. The great loss which the
Cambria Iron Company suffers is
Ill the loss of officers, men and
women, who have devoted their lives
to the prosperity of the concern.
The officers and stockholders of the
company are greatly concerned
about the personal peril of their
employees and friends, and the loss
Of their property is a secondary
matter to them" The president of
the company subscribed $4,000 to
the relief fund and number of the
stockholders contributed $1,000
each. 1t is probable that the town
will be rebuilt, even if the Cambria
company move their plant nearer
the natural gas fields near Pittsburg,
IS people who own lots there will
want to rebuild rather than sacri-
Office the interest which they have
in real estate.
OTHER FLOODS.
We're not all minor caIanities
overshadowed by the unprecedented
disaster at Johnstown, where, as
late estimates show, from 10000 to |
$1,000 human beings met sudden |
death, the country would be lament
ing over the loss of life and property
resulting from floods in the Poto-
mac and Appomatox rivers, and
other smaller rivers in the South.
The loss ofproperty by the flood in
the Potomac is fully 81 100000, and
the loss of life will probably run up
into the hundreds of individuals in
different places. In Washington
river rushed through the center of
the city. Along a good part of Penn
eylvania avenue, and in the ada
cent streets to the southwark, there
was q dreary waste of turbid mud
dy water that washed five or six
feet deep the sides of the houses
filing cellars and causing great loss
of property. Boats piled along the
avenue, near the Pennsylvania rail-
road station and through the streets
of South Washington, and things
wore an aspect family resembling
descriptions of scenes in cities built
Oh canals. The city was shut off
from all communication with the
west and south for over two days.
At noon of June I'd, the water reach
ed its maximum height, which was
three feet six inches above high
water mark of 1877, which was the
highest on record. A deep stream I
ran through the Smithsonian and i
Agricultural department grounds, {
and the Washington monument was {
surrounded on all sides with water, I
shich stretched far up into the i
White Lot. The loss to the bust
aess interests of West Washington |
and Georgetown are incalculable.
4 number of families, especially of
he poorer classes, have lost every c
hing. The history of the misery c
md ruin wrought by the rushing I
waters can never be told. A fire i
vas strrted in a singular way on I
Iwenty-ninth street, Washington. (
The high water from Rock creek !
packed into lime house and caus- t
ID the lime to slack so that it was
necessary to call out the fire de- a
,artment to prevent a serious con- c
lagration. The lower portions OF
ne Washington Monument grounds f
we're covered with water for two n
lays, and it is feared that much Y
amage will result from such a long v
as this portion of the a
rounds have only recently been t
He'd in. 1t is feared the founda- n
ION OF the monument may be I
ieakened on account of the ground t
eng saturated. Between 10Th and n
9th streets and running along B {
treet, Washington, were situated c
be fish ponds Of the Fish Commits il
ION. Here were the hatcheries of n
ne shad and carp, and, as q gen. T
raj thing, the water was kept n
bout two feet below the level of t,
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