Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 18??-????, 1889-06-09
SIGNS OF LIFE.
JohnstoWn will be Re-
built.
Banks All Right, and Epidemics
Few.

JoASsrows. Pa. June s-Johnstown
Chicaco Ike, Is preparing 90 rise from it
ruins Already preparations are being nad'
for permanent rebuildiug The civil engi
neers and draushtncn are already doing The
preliminary work and scores Of merchants
have already described iLe style Of then
newhuildinrs Mr. y : MalOy a pronl-
uent music dealer, whose brother was lost
said to-day that q number ofbuildings would
De started Is soon as the streets were in
shape to DO hauling y number Of Others
expressed similar intentions. Among the
buildings which Mr.. Malloy said would be
erected AT once was the Feun block on Main
street. the stores of John Thomas, the Luth-
er block. Mr Fronheiser's pslatial residence
J. q II. Swank. carriage manufacturers
J IIaist a Co., barb-wire company; the or
rel woolen-iactory. and all the large aud or
binary zed-industrial plants in the city and
suburbs
EDITOR SWANKs VIEW.
Editor Geo. T. Swank, OF the Johnstown
TrJaae a representative citizen, takes very
hopeful view Of the situation. "Johnstown
will be rebuilt, said he today, ~and on the
some spot it grew before The bursting Of
the dam does not remove the only danger,
however. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has narrowed the stream ofthe Cone
maugb river at least one-third and built an
iron bridge above the town, Thus forming a
blockade for a stream already confined to
less than its natural channels. The greatest
announcement that could be given Johns
towner- to rebuild would be the assurance
that the stream, above US would be unim-
peded forever Daring the food that pre-
ceded the break in the dam the water was
from five to eight feet higher in John,town
than il wolld have been bad not the iron
bridge caused a blockade.
THE CAMBRIA WILL soon START.
As for the Cambria Iron Company
have the personal assurance Of Nice-presi-
dent Powell Stackhouse, who came on from
Philadelphia yesterday that the company
will repair aud rebuild on The old site.
Their loss will not exceed $4,000 As Mr..
stackhouse said, the company has a dirty
face butt will soon wash it. The damage
is small. TO a company with a stock capital
offrom ten 20 twenty millions, aud which
pays T. per cent dividends.
As for the banks, the statement that they
are ali iuso!yent or likely 10 be 50 is O fool
ish error. There is one Natioua. bank, one
savings bank and possibly the private insti-
tuition OF John Diebert d Son, which will
open up as soon as they can get their affairs
Strengthened up little. They will have to
be favored a Hue at home. The savings
bank has no mortgages on Johnslown build
ings and those on the ground will hold
from one-half 10 lwo-thirds their original
value They have, besides. $4,000 in GOV
crlment bonds and state and county securi-
res. The best business men have signifed
their intention oftaking up the thread OF
business where the food snapped it off,
Experts from Philadelphia succeeded in
opening the vaults Of the FIRST National
BANK to-day. The sSo0JJ in cash therein
deuosited. and the $4,000 worth Of securi-
ties. and the books and papers were found to
h all right, save that they are damp from
wafer
Either the morgue records have been care
lessly Kept, or those who have been gather
ing statistics on the number of bodies recov-
cred are away wrong. In the Fourth ward
schoo. morgue, there are 3l6. Oftht,e -
were unknown and l93 identified. At tie
Presbyterian church 100 bodies have been
cared for. 100 at Prospect, and l9I at Kern
vile. The moTgue has been discontinued
at this place. Seventy We're taken from the
drift b,ockade 22s at Nineyeh and New
Florence y. In Morrellville 157 were cared
for. IN addition TO these s. were found al
Fast Conemaugh. South Fork and Mineral
Point which were shipped TO different
points = bodies have been taken from the
ruins at Woodyale which were not charged
10 any OF the morgues. This makes the
grand total of bodies found at all points be-
tween New Florence and South Fork, l.27I
JoHNsrowN. Pa. June S.--The body a
Rev. Alonzo p Diller, rector Of the Johns
town Episcopal church, and those of lis
wife and child, were recovered today und,
circumstances both sad and strange -Four
E.i-copal clergymen, who had been ordered
here by Bishop Whitehead, were working
about the ruins near Lincoln street when
they cameupon the body oftheir late broth.
ter: e.asped in nerigid arm was the body o.
his babe and in the other hi, wife, Whose
rms were about his neck. They were re-
L,ved in this position and will be buried
tomorrow, the Episcopal clelgyHen oiiiciat-
ing Rev. Diller was last seen at an upper
'-ont window Of his house. ne had his wifi,
az child in his arms and he seemed about
uec'''d to jump into tl,s angry food when
the hot,e melted from sight and the water
closed ove- them. TIE bodies were found
nan a mile away rom where the house
stood Rev. Dilld was rector here for five
years, and was most able man, His par
eats in lancaster, Pa
'ohssTowN, Pa, June s.-The pneumonia
Sconige Bows alarmiugly. Notwithstanding
s'aieineh's o. Dr. Croft Of the State Health
Board Dr. SAe,t. ofPhiladelphia. a prDni-
nent member OF Dr. uroa-s staff. came down
from the Cambria hospital last night with a
startling report. Dr. Sweet sad:
Prospect IIi1 is full Of pneumonia with
some measles. The hospital is full 10 oyer
flowing and today l attended iorty.two
cases on the outs ide Tb,y ,,sra ,,f,,,,. IN