River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-06-06

subordinate lodges to give what they can
spare.
Mayor Grant, of New York. has appealed
vania sufferers, as has also Governor Hill
Similar appeals have been issued all over
the country
Mayor Noonan. of st Louis, has issued
proclamation calling for contributions from
citizens
Mayor Mosby, of Cincinnati, in accordance
with the proclamation of Governor
Foraker, issued his proclamation TO the
people of Cincinnati calling for contribu-
lions TO aid sufferers
Columbus, o., forwarded her first INSTALL
ment of clothing TO the Johnsto wn sufferers
Sunday night Several Thousand dollars
has been raised and a meeting is called for
systematic work tits morning Surround
ing towns are sending in 500 donations
each in response to the Governors procla-
nation
Five hundred tents arrived from Ohio
| Sunday night In charge of Acknowledgement
Axline. sixty-five have been put up on the
hillside and are now occupied by families.
TALES OF DEATH BRIEFLY TOLD.
NEw FLORENCE, Pa, June 3.-Judging
from the number of women and children
found in the swanps OF Nineyeh the female
portion of the population suffered the most
Mr.. 0'Connor was at Sang Hollow when
the flood began. He remained there through
the afternoon and night and he says that
there was fatal tree ON an island. against
which a number of flOaters were dashed and
instantly killed. Their bodies were almost
tied in a knot doubled over the tree by the
force of the current Mr.. OConnor says
that the first man who came down had his
| yal . f- .,l.-k
ton. In fact. those who hit the tree met
the same fate and were instantly killed and
their bodies left under the I5le Of drift
wood collected there He could give no es-
innate of the number lost at this point, but
he makes the figures large.
More than one brave man risked his life
in trying to save those in the flood Every
hour details of some heroic action are
brought TO light In many instances the
fioaters displayed remarkable courage, and
gave their chances for rescue to friends
with them Sons stood back for mothers,
and were lost. while the parents were taken
out Many boy went down to a watery
grave that a sister or father might be saved
Such instances Of sef-sacrihce in the face
of fearful danger were numerous.
A young boy Just from school took a rope
and swan out into the stream at Johns
/
and her daughter. Twice he entered the
food with his rope and each time was re-
warded
J. q. Gill and thirty five men started in a
wagon to go up the mountain from Johns
town, and all were drowned by the torrent
which overlook them Gus McHugh, an
| engineer ON the PENNSYLVANIA railroad who
lived in Conemaugh, was asleep when the
| torrent rushed down the valley. His wife
was away from home at the time. Her
husband and four children were drowned.
Mrs. Ogle, the manager of the Western
| Union Telegraph office at Johnstown who
died at her post will go down in history as
heroine of the highest order. Notwith-
standing the requested notifications which
she received TO get out OF reach Of
| the approaching danger she stood by the
instrument with untiinching loyalty and I'M
daunted fearlessness sending words of
warning to those in danger in the valley
below. When every station in the path of
the coming torrent had been warned she
wired her companion at South Fork:
This is my last message" and as such IL
shall always be remembered as her last
words on earth, for at that very moment
the torrent engulfed her and bore her from
her post on earth to her post of honor In
the great beyond
A mother and her little son were fioated
past Sang Hollow A rope was thrown out
to them, but there was no chance for only
one of them TO be saved. The little boy
| grabbed the rope, but he turnd to his
mother and gave it to her. The woman
was pulled through the water to the banks
to see her son disappear around bend in
the river. Fortunately he, too, was res
cued at New Florence, and mother and son
| were reunited
TEMPORARY HOSPITALS.
| A dispensary under Drs Wakefield, OF
the Cambria Medical Society; Stewart, of
the Allegheny society, and Milligan, of the
Westmoreland society, is doing good
work. DIR. Milligan says that they
treated 800 patients Sunday. They
are at Napoleon street, in Kearns-
vile. No surgical instruments could
be procured in the city until o'clock Sun.
day afternoon. Among their 800 patients
the doctors have many with fractured
skulls, and nearly all have broken bones.
One man had heavy iron bar driven
through hts leg beneath the knee,
separating the two bones A thigh
amputation was made. A woman had her
knee and the lower part of her leg crushed
out of all shape. A thigh amputation was
necessary. DR.. Milligan reported at 0 p m.
that seventy-six bodies had been taken out
at Kearnsyille and eighty-five above the
silk works
TRAVELLED OVER THE ROOFS.
Miss Fulton, daughter of Manager John
Fulton, of the Cambria Iron Works, to.
gether with five or six others, had a
| thrilling experience. They were at the
First National Bank building and were
driven to the roof. At last the build
ing moved and the ladies' leaped to
another roof This was moving down
stream, and they leaped to another and
then another, avoiding all danger with the
rarest good Judgment and GOODNESS They
| travelled almost the entire length of Main
street on the top of roofs and finally landed
safely at Vine street
FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY
JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 3-The scenes at
supper-time shows that hunger is begin
ming to drive the sufferers to desperation.
They surrounded the freight cars
that had been fitted up to feed
the hungry and shouted for bread
At first those in charge tossed the pro-
visions into the crowd and an awful
scramble followed Children were trampled
under foot and women were unable to get
food, though they need it the worst
Finally the Allegheny and Pittsburgh police
stopped the throwing of food and forced
the crowd to pass III single file before the
car doors. Then there was no more trouble
though little children were crying for
bread
The Hungarians and negroes are causing
the most trouble. All day long they were
filling up with the whisky taken from the
river on Saturday, and they are in danger
Gus mood. The negroes in Johnstown
were selling hams, sacks of flour and dress
goods for whisky.
tJohnstown. until overtaKen by the saster,
was one of the most fiOurishing and prosperous
manufacturing towns in the State. 1t had not
been Incorporated city, but is still gov
prosperous suburbs, which are really q
part of the town, Johnstown has near
ly il not quite 5000 inhabitants. Its
site Is picturesque and beautiful IL is situated
at the confluence of the Conemaugh river and
Stony creek. It is well paved. has electric
lights, street-cars and fine water-worlxs sys
TEN. II contains many hand some business
blocks and stylish residences. Besides the
Pennsylvania railroad, which passes through
{, Johnstown is the terminus OF the Som
erset s. Cambria road. a branch OF the Balt
more & Onio. The greatest iron and steel
manufacturing company in the United States,
the Cambria Irou Company. has its works In
Johnstown. In its numerous blast furnaces,
Besserner steel works. rolling mills and mines
il employs a force OF from 10000 10 1900 per
sons. Its Johnstown works cover sixty acres,
with a netwo . Of forty miles of railroad track.
Its mineral product runs into the millions.
Half the populat on OF Johnstown is dependent,
directly or indirectly, upon these works. The
Cautier steel works, under the management
Of the Cambria COMPANY in the upper part OF