Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-06-08

b Only Ialrly begun. The latest estimates !: put the loss at between 10,0C0 to 12OO0. , JoHNsTowN, 1:20 a. m-Four gentle !, men have just returned from the lake.
 They report that the dam broke in the l center at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon and at 4 the lake was dry. The great body . of water passed out in an disaster by digging a sluice-way on one side to ease the pressure on the dam,
 but without avail as the water passed
 over the dam about foot above its top, beginning at half past two. Whatever happened in the way of a cloud burst took place during the night, there being but little rain up to dusk. In the morning when the workmen awole the
 water began pouring over the dam and
 undermining it. Men were sent three
 or four times during the day to warn
 the people below. A careful estimate puts the number of bodies recovered ev-
 anywhere at 700 to 800, while the total
 loss of life is certain to be from 5000 to
 5000.
 JoHNsTowN,-A cold wave has struck
 the town and people are badly in need
 was discovered in the act of blowing up
 the safe in the first National Bank. He
 was at once strung up to tree by the
 vigilence committe who riddled his body
 with bullets. The bodies of Patrick
 Hagan, wife and two children were
 found in the debris partly burned =
 JoHNsTowN.-One-hundreda and twen-
 ty-four bodies have been found with bull
 let holes in them as showing in their
 maddening fright suicide was resorted
 to by many.
 JoHNsTowN.-Thr hundred bodies
 have been discovered in the sand at Meri-
 vile near the mouth of Sandy Creek
 Only four lives were lost on the train
 that left Pittsburg Friday morning,
 JoHNsTowN.-The rain is now falling but it does not interfere much with the
 work. The fire at the bridges is almost
 extinguished.
 JOHNSTON thousand bodies have
 been taken from Kernville to-day. This is official. PITTsBURG, June 3-The masonic fra | ternity this morning telegraphed to President Harrison, asking him to send | out sanitary commission immediately. | and warning him that unless prompt ac- tion is taken to remove the dead bodies | of men and animals from the streams | the water will be polluted, and carry the | plague germ to the people from Pitts
 burg to New Orleans.
 BERLIN, June 4.-The Exected Proto- col drawn up by the Samoan Confer ence will be signed on the Sth inst. The | American Commissioners are making preparations to leave for home
 LONDON, ENGLAND, June 8 The daily News says the sympathy of the whole civilized world will be with thepeople of Pennsylvania in the saddest, most striking and most overwhelming misfortune that ever befell a people of the English race. The other morning dalies refer to the disaster in similar strains.
 WASHINGTON, June 3.-Gen. Hastings telsgraphed from Johnstown that the greatest disorder prevails. The place is infested with thieves who are robbing the dead and appropriating the provi- siOns sent to relieve the sufferers.
 SAN FRANCISCO, June 3.-At the meet ing of the citizens this afternoon to raise funds for the relief of the flood sufferers, a committee was appointed to receive subscriptions. Geo. w. Gibbs started the fund with thousands dollars and inside of an hour thirty six thousand dollars were raised. The French cele- bration committe has donated Ithe pro- ceeds of the ceiegration to be held next month. The indications are that large sum of money will be raised.
 HARRISBURG, June 3.-Gov. Beaver has ordered the Fourteenth regiment to be ready to march to Johnstown.
 ELMIRA, June 3.-The loss by flood will exceed one million dollars. Thir- teen bodies were found between Anso- mia and Stakesdule Junction.
 PHILADELPHIA. June IA dispatch that arrived at ) p. m. from Pittsburg states that the Pennsylvania railroad people have succeeded in getting tenn porary wire through from Sang Hollow to the western end of the railroad bridge which is west of Jonnstown. The debris lodged against the bridge and piled up to distance probably of forty feet, is stated to be still burning. Until the ( flames die out so as to admit of pas sage arross the bridge nothing can be done towards repairing the heavy wash out between the bridge and Johnstown. A station dispatch also states the Cam ( bia Iron Company's plant on the north side of Conemaugh river, at Johnstown, ( is complete wreck. Until this dispatch 1 was received it was not thought here that this portion of the plant had been ( injured. The plant is said to be valued at S5,000.OO0. A dispatch re- , ceived at the Pennsylvania railroad office this afternoon says that considerable [ l. L, L I~, | road property It is feared the bridge ; crossing the west branch of the Susque- hama at Lindsay will go. The bridge ' was previously reported as being heavily z ballasted with heavily loaded freight 7 train. Additional information from the , and Bree branch is that 2 four spans of the bridge across the Ju- niata river at Grantsville have been car ried away. The water is still rising in the Juniata river. Between Grantsville and f Tuscarora, distance of forty miles, f nothing is known of the condition of the I road bed. Of the twenty bridges south z of Ralston, on the Northern Central 7 branch, five are washed away, and all ! the rest badly damaged. The Cumber- ' land Valley Railroad lost their new iron I bridge crossing the Potomac river near ! and the bridge over the I creek is badly damaged, : and the railroad tracks at Emporium have been badly washed out. At Will f Transport the west branch of the Sus- | auehanna is said to be thirty feet high. I There is eight inches of water on the i floor of the railroad station there. This \ would indicate that nearly the whole I city is overhowed. At Harrisburg the river is still rising. At Sultan two and half feet of water is f over the Pennsylvania railroad track and the steel plant at that place is also I
 SANG HOLLOW, Pa.-The reports of V the loss of life were entirely too low It ] is believed that 5000 persons have per a ished. Of those 800 were burned in s fiery furnace in the viaduct. Two thou k sand cnffins have been ordered for the II