The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-06-20

luer1n8 out the E1ghteenth Regiment to act
- . relief to the Fourteenth Regiment, now
doing guard and police duty.
1t 10 reported here that number Of citi-
zens whose property was swept away by the
flood have been In Pittsburgh since Monday
! looking up the financial condition Of the
members Of the South Fork Fishing Club
| with view to bringing suits to recover for
their property destroyed. While In Pitts
burgh they will also consult attorneys as to
best manner OF procedure in case they de-
eide to take legal steps.
JonNsTowN, Pa, June 13.--General Hast
ings yesterday distributed the work to be
/ performed among number of contractors
who are already prepared with men, teams
and appliances to push the work with vigor
Colonel H. T. Douglass, chief Of the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad engineering corps, has
been placed In charge Of all the engineering
| features connected with the task the State
has undertaken.
To facilitate matters the valley has been
divided into districts. Division includes
Cambria City and all points below the rail.
road bridge down to Morrellsville. Five
hundred men In charge Of Contractor Ridge,
OF Pittsburgh, will work on this division.
The gorge at the viaduct will be known as
Division No. 2, and will be cleared up by
James Mcknight, of Pittsburgh. Mr..
Mcknight will use twenty hoisting engines,
twenty teams and 700 men to begin with.
Nearly all the city Of Johnstown is included
In Division No. 8, and will be taken care of
by Coburn & Mitchell, Of Altoona, with F.
Lafand as engineer, Division includes
Conemaugh, and will be taken care Of by
LcLain & johnson, of Pittsburgh Kern
VILE is the fifth district, and James
Mcknight has undertaken to clear IL UP.
| TOT oso -
civil engineer. Colonel Douglas, in charge
Of the work, says the cost of cleari ng the
valley won't be more than half o million
dollars. He could not estimate Just how
long it would take.
The bureau Of registration has completed
its work and handed the following report to
Director Scott: Remaining survivors, 49,
67S., 1dentifed-Fourth ward school house,
161; Millvale borough, 4S; Morrellville SO;
Presbyterian church, "a; Prospect, 43; Penn
sylvania railroad station, 80; Saint Colum-
bia church, Cambria City, 139; Kernville,
Fifth and Sixth wards 43; Grandview
chapel, 2. Total identified, 62s. Unidentified
Fourth ward school house, 81; Millvale
borough, 62; Morrellville, 2; Presbyterian
church, %; Prospect, IS; Pennsylvania rail-
road station, T3; Saint Columbia church,
Cambria City, 43; Kernville, Fifth ana
~.
Total unidentified, 1926. Nineveh, 1S9 bodies
recovered; also 80 recovered in Indiana
County, opposite Nineveh, making the total
number recovered 1,l92. Could not get ar
account from New Florence ON account of
its being in possession of the coroner, who
| is at Greensburg The last census of Johns
town reported $1,000 inhabitants The above
report shows that there are yet II, 73O unac-
counted for.
The 800 special policemen employed by
the county sheriff were discharged yester
day and the soldiers of the Fourteeth Regi-
ment put in their places. Owing to the con-
fict Of orders heretofore existing between
the sheriff and General Hastings the change
Is very gratifying
| JoHNsTowN, June H-Captain Sears, Of
the United States army engineer corps,
accompanied General Hastings on general
round of inspection yesterday morning. He
says that the mass Of wreckage embedded
in the river at the raft, covering several
acres, can not be burned and dynamite will
not do the work. The only way it can be
done Is to put 900 men on the mass pull IL
apart, cart 1t away and bury the bodies as
soon as they are found. 1t can be done In
| no other way. Five bodies were recovered
| yesterday morning. Two were identified,
Mrs. Alice Jones and Mrs. Layton. They
were found in the ruins at the Cambria Iron
Company's works and were in an advanced
| state Of decomposition and were buried i'm
mediately.
At 1890 o'clock yesterday a gang of
about 100 men were put at work on the
wreckage near the general Office of the
Cambria Iron Company. A large company
of laborers from Greensburg refused to 20
to work for 81 30 per day, claiming that they
hpA iaa tu 1ou
ira On hearing this General Hastings
ordered a company of militia to the camp Of
the strikers, who again refused to 60 to
work, whereupsn the soldiers were ordered
| to charge upon them, running them out Of
the camp at the point of the bayonet.
The weather Is very warm and the fumes
| and odors from decaying flesh is becoming
terrible. Two small stores were opened
| yesterday and were thr0nged with GUS
toners all day.
The citizens Of Cambria burough passed
resolutions last night asking General Hast
ings to furnish them lumber and nails to
enable them to put up temporary houses,
there being only 400 houses to shelter l 800
people now homeless.
| regular morgue corps Of six men fol-
lowed the workers In each district yester
day, and rs fast as bodies were uncovered,
| AOAAoNcu tucH W ulc ucbTOob uChu uOu66S
where they were quickly prepared for
burial.
| HARRISBURG, Pa, June l4.-The 81, ,000, 900
bond scheme Of Governor Beaver has fallen
Through entirely, owing to the constitutional
objections to 1t and because another way
has been found to raise the necessary sum
Of money to abate nuisances created by the
flood. The Governor received assurancesin
Philadelphia yesterday that the Peoples
and other banks would advance oil the
money needed for the purpose indicated,
without interest, The Governor met the
Philadelphia members of the commission
appointed by him to distribute the funds for
the relief of the food sufferers, and deci-
sion was reached to start ON tour of in
spection on Monday next and ascertain
where help is urgently needed.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, June l5.--Pouring rain
with intervals of scorching sunshine greatly
retarded the progress Of removal Of wreck
age yesterday The laborers generally re-