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

for hours before their turn came. and,
their little portion was allotted to them.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars must
pour into this stricken valley if suffering
and privation are to be avoided. Thou.
sands of people are homeless, and in
these devasted homes thousands also
lost their all. Labor and manufacturing
of nearly every kind is at standstili
in the valley, and weeks or months must
elapse before the Cambria Iron Works
and other industrial institutions can
possibly resume and give employment to
the thousands that depend upon them
for support.
FRENCH SYMPATHY.
The Mayor of Johnstown to-day re-
ceived by cable copy Of the resolutions
adopted at a public meeting to-day in
Paris, France. The warm-hearted Par
isians express their deep sympathy with
the homeless and afflicted of the Cone
maugh Valley, and state that subscrip--
tions have been opened for the relief of
their American neighbors.
THE CATALOGUE OF CoRPsEs.
Two hundred bodies were recovered
from the ruins to-day. Some were iden-
tilted, but the great majority were not.
This number included all the morgues,
the one at the Pennsylvania Railroad
station, the Fourth Ward school. Cam
bria City, Morrellville, Kernville, and
the Presbyterian Church. At The latter
place remarkable state of affairs exists.
The first floor has been washed out COM
merged, was badly damaged but not
ruined.
PNEUMONIA BREAKING OUT.
A house to house canvass was ordered
by the sanitary authorities today, and its
| revelations, as far as it went, were start
ling in the extreme. 1t was found
lilies were being crowded into
single house; that as high as fifty
slept in one room; that the doors and
windows were left closed to shut
out the stencil and dampness; and that
as result pneumonia, the existence
of which was first discovered
by the Associated Press correspondent
was gaining an alarming foothold. 1t is
estimated there are at least hundred
we'll defined cases of the disease in Johns
town to-day.
MORE DISSOLUTION WROUGHT.
HUNTINGTON, Pa, June 5.-Late news
from the suburban districts of this
/
destruction to property by the flood is
indefinitely greater than at first reported.
| The waters are receding and couriers
have arrived bearing news of an unpre-
cedented flood from Bedford to Hunt
ington, on the Roystown branch, and on
to Lewistown on the Juniata river. The
devastation is the greatest in CEN
trrl Pennsylvania, except, OF course,
at Jamestown. Not house is left that
stood within reach of the swollen stream
here. The damage to property will
reach $500, 900, while other towns in the
county have suffered correspondingly.
At Mapletown the immense tannery of
l.. A. Roberts was damaged to the ex-
tent OF 100000, and the loss to other
property will reach 100000 or more.
The Powell furnace at Saxton sustained
a loss of $500, 900, and, at that place,
both the railroad bridges are swept
away, leaving railroad communication
with Bedford cut off for distance of
three miles.
Below here four m lies of the Pennsyl-
/ vania tracks are destroyed, with bridges
gone at Manayunk and Lewistown, the
latter having gone down during the
, crops in the low lands were DESTROYED,
and Smiths Valley, in this county,
farming lands, comprising An area of II
by 2 miles, has been stripped of every
, vestige of soil. As far as known, 800
houses have been destroyed in this
county. Three families, comprising six
teen persons, living on the Roystown
=. branch, are missing, and it is feared that
they have been swept away with their
homes.
II WOEFUL NEWS FRGM wILLIAMsPoRT
Il WILIIAMsPoRT, Pa, June Sat Little
Trout Run ON Big Pine creek six men had
been employed peeling bark. Since the
! water subsidized search was made for the
men, and all were found in their cabin
drowned, The city continues in darkness.
This evening Lieutenant. Governor Stone
reached here with seven carloads of pro-
visions, which will be brought across the
river tomorrow and distributed. Five
additional cars will arrive during the
night.
SAMARITAN WORK.
PITTsBURG, June ga number of
flood sufferers arrived here during the
day. The homeless are being cared for
at the Second Presbyterian Church.
while the injured are taken to the hos
pitfalls.
TRIBUTE OF TEARS.
QUEENSTOWN, June 5.-The news of
the Youngstown disaster was read to
groups of the passengers on the steam
ship City of New York which arrived
here from New York to-day. Many of
the passengers wept.
| ORGANIZED AID.
PARIS, June Sat meeting of Amer.
leans held today at the United States
Legation to express the sympathy of
the Americans in Paris with the Johns
town sufferers, the rooms of the Legation
were densely packed, and many went
away unable to gain admittance. United
States Minister Reid presided. Among
the resolutions adopted, expressing syms
patty, was the following:
"That, as American citizens, we con-
graduate them upon, and thank them for,
the numerous acts of noble heroiem
displayed under circumstances calculated
to unnerve the bravest; especially do we
admire them for the capacity shown for
local self-government, upon which the
stability of Republican institutions
depends, the military organizations sent
from distant points to preserve order
during the chaos that supervened having
been returned to their homes as no longer
required within forty.eight hours of the
calamity: In these few hours, the civil
power recreated and asserted itself and
resumed sway without the aid of counsel
from distant auth0rity Init aoIelv hv onJ