The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-07
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was sent TO Adjutant General lIasting
requesting detachment OF soldiers, IL
Immediately ordered ono OF tho com
panies OF tho Fourteenth Regiment Il
the place, but when they arrived ther,
they found there was little or no necess
ity for their services. Tho only trouble
Ut the place was between some drunker
Italians, who were making idle threatl
that did not amount TO anything.
The soldiers arc getting down 10 worl
and guards are posted ut the stone bridge
and It is impossible now to get into
Johnstown without u pass. Tho Four
teenth Regiment boys are being well fec
but they arc compelled to work and
work hard.
UNIDENTIFIED BoDIEs.
There are at present thirty unidentified
bodies at the Fourth ward school house
These bodies have been lying there iol
the past three days, and in that time al
least forty thousand people have viewed
them, but no one has identified them,
and they have nothing in their clothing
To Indicate who they are. During the
past twenty.ioHr hours sixty bodies were
embalmed and taken from this place.
This morning five bodies were brought
in. Their names are Henry Ludwlg,
Albert Very, Maggie Irwin, aud Oscar
Hennecap. The latter was Il well known
merchant OF Johnstown, and his relatives
have been looking for his body since the
flood, and offered large reward for the
recovery Of the body.
Even the undertakeEB Gere unable to
remain at work at the Fourth ward
morgue this morning owing to the
stencil. Forty bodies were in the small
school room. All the unkn0Hn dead
were taken from the room and placed In
the front yard. They will he Kept for a
day or two longer, but In tho hot sun
decomposition will set in very soon.
TERRIBLE DISCOVERIES.
Fonrbodies were found near the stone
bridge this morning, They are at the
Pennsylvania railroad station. Only
one was identified rs that OF John Nc
Kee, who had a slip Of paper In biz
pocket with his name on it, unquestlon'
ably written in case oi IN accident. The
other bodies were those OF young man
aud two very small children. The First
Presbyterian church contains nine "un
knownS." Burials will have to be madt
tomorrow. This morning, workmer
found three members OF NenjaWin Holt
mans family, which occupied laTR,
residence In tho rear OF LINCOLN street
1 BENJAMIN Hoffman, tho head OF thi
family, was found seated on the edge o
\ the beGstead. He was evidently pre-
pairing 10 retire when the Hood strlcA
Inc building. He had his socks in hi
4 pockets. His l0.year.old daughter wa
iound close by attired in n night dress
The youngest Mpmber OF the family,
S.year.oId infant, vas {. 80 found beside
the bed. TID body OF q woman Rup
posed 10 be Mrs. R6eRe was also brOqgl
In this morning. Tho only Identification
at the Presbyterian church was that Q
Mrs. William Rich.
THE uoDlEs TO lie BURNED.
The sanitary question is the para
mount one OF the hour. The State Boar
Of Health is looked up TO az o. NOR
potent factor than tho militia and Cigi
forces combined. This afternoon tn
work OF the Board was distributed, d
: leo taking @ relay to Pittsburgh wit
Tie intention oi establishing q heat
quarters In City Hall, There n force {
} sanitary inspeCtors will DO established
5 hali Of which will go up the river y
. boat and the remainder take . col
| struction crow up the railroad. ~
7 latter have adopted cremation ~ u
, cry, and tomorrow night the desolaI
: valley will be lit up with bontlres
wEOckAgc, which will be the pyre
5 hundreds OF dead bodies.
SENTIMENT HUsT W. LAID ASIDE.
! DR.. Morrell, Deputy Chief ot tho Stat
\ Board Of Health, said to-day; "Fl
I no,nt has come IN this horror, when sci
J. timent should bo laid aside. To endal
y cor lie lives OF the living that tho den
1 nav Io identified Is no longer justiIlabl
k Besides, tie bodies arc all past beir
Q enbalmed aud itiends Gap scarcely, re-
!. ognlze features any longer. ldcIup.e
n tor ls impossible only .by clothing
}. IeWeiY on the persons. Or, q. g. Gro
Il WHO Il new IN lh0rgG OF the Johnston
/. bureau OF tho State FiioSrd Of Health ar
o Sanitary inspectors, assured your 60
\ respondent this afternoon that the
n "a 40 Immediate danger OF an epidem
10 In ! fIltsbural. "TlG danger is
10 Raid he, "that people will
scared into being sidR. But Il
work looms up before us like q mou
,otthn, we need thousands oil men
70 work Oh lh1 Apbrls aud clear Off
a. carcAsses, by tlie way, l hear q gre
lp deal OF complaint against hRrbori
M pliCh A large body Of militia here In co.
M narrative ldlCnOsi. think one comp1l
Az oI militia can keep order and guard I
q. supplies. The others should 30 PVT
NJ work as sanitary crows. This 10 !
hS pressing need Of the hour. 4 day
.ra cfeasCs the danger hundred fold.
Cs A NRw MEASuEE.
70 "A new measure Of protection v
Y. adoplel tq,day, The eight OF ton The
ho aSnd men working llNye l,Bep dump
Of all thO refuse oi their tampy cR
ISf fiyeF bank. II llel there and r6is,
"A. have delegated Dr., Il, l., Nbbet, or
a. speCIor, 10 see that pits are blHk
gn boinls along the river banks, 10 bC d
no itiIeoled, and renewed each day"
IN Az Inspector jpBt arrived from